[Chi-townChief]

My father was 21 in 1937 - he did find work and actually saved enough to go to college starting in ‘39 only to be drafted a couple of years later and shipped off to Europe. He never went back to school. And he still counts himself one of the luckiest guys of that age and era.

[poobear]

May God bless your father. 91?

My parents were born in the mid 30’s.

[Leisler]

In my day we lived off lint.
Walked uphill 30 miles to school, both ways, often in blizzards.
One shirt for the whole family.

1930’s? Somebody was buying and driving Cords, Packards, Lincolns, Cadillacs. Hoover vacuums started. TV was being looked into, also jet engines, helicopters, penicillin and air conditioning.

Old people like to tell young how hard it was. That shows been around since fire and Homer.