Gay State Conservative wrote: “My parents,both children of the Depression (both grew up in slums),talked about their early years of marriage and how difficult they were. My Dad used to say “we didn’t have a pot to pi$$ in or a window to throw it out of”.”
My parents too. Mom started housekeeping with a single cast iron skillet. I used it to make cornbread last night.
My parents planned to run off and get married on a friday night. That afternoon, my Dad’s boss called him in along with another man and told them he was letting them go, not because of their work. He had to cut two men and they were the only two in the work gang that weren’t married. My Dad’s boss was his father.
Dad hadn’t told him of their wedding plans. I asked him if he told his Dad he was getting married that night and he said he didn’t want to tell his Dad because of how that would sound. And, he said, I knew I’d find work. Which he did a couple of days later.
Yup...The Greatest Generation.Boys and girls growing up in very hard,frightening,times only to find at age 20 that they had to fight to save civilization. And then they went on to build “Western Society”...a society that only 50 years earlier nobody would have even dreamed of seeing.
Life in the depression was much easier “When the ghost walked.”