[Nepeta]

If poverty caused crime, then the Depression years should have been Cutthroat City. They were not.

My mother told me Depression stories about people taking their bedding to parks--whole families--in the summer to sleep, because the parks were cooler than the buildings. They did so without fear of being robbed or murdered.

[Mears]

“My mother told me Depression stories about people taking their bedding to parks—whole families—in the summer to sleep, because the parks were cooler than the buildings. They did so without fear of being robbed or murdered.”

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I was born in 1932——no one had much money when I grew up.

There was virtually no street crime and living in a city we used public transportation any time of night.

Different times.

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