Life in the 30s

Life in the 30s : 

Life in the 30s 25% unemployment Hoovervilles Grapes of Wrath Isolationism in foreign policy

Food : 

Food Breadlines and soup lines- soup kitchens Run by charities- NOT the federal gov’t Inexpensive meals – ex’s? Meatloaf is a FAV! Ritz crackers SPAM!

Movies : 

Movies Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind (book/movie) Used as an ESCAPE The Marx brothers Laurel and Hardy Abbott and Costello Mae West

Radio : 

Radio Soap opera on radio- Guiding Light Comedy shows Jack Benny George Burns Gracie Allen WESTERNS- Lone Ranger SCI-FI- H.G. Wells- “War of the Worlds”- Aliens here? FDR and his “FIRESIDE CHATS”

Fashion : 

Fashion Most women made their own clothes Flapper gone; simple shirtdresses Zippers popular- less expensive Men and hats!

Music : 

Music Swing and big bands Benny Goodman Duke Ellington Glenn Miller Woody Guthrie- BLUES “Star Spangled Banner” national athem-1931

“ Brother, can you spare a dime?” : 

“ Brother, can you spare a dime?” Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime; Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum, Half a million boots went slogging through Hell, And I was the kid with the drum! Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Life is Just a bowl of Cherries : 

Life is Just a bowl of Cherries Life is just a bowl of cherries. Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious. You work, you save, you worry so, But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go. So keep repeating it's the berries, The strongest oak must fall, The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you've never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries, So live and laugh at it all.

“We’re in the Money” : 

“We’re in the Money” We're in the money, we're in the money; We've got a lot of what it takes to get along! We're in the money, that sky is sunny, Old Man Depression you are through, you done us wrong. We never see a headline about breadlines today. And when we see the landlord we can look that guy right in the eye We're in the money, come on, my honey, Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!

Games/Fads : 

Games/Fads Monopoly- 1935 Card games Marathon Dancing

Books : 

Books Dick and Jane Books Gone with the Wind- 1936 Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck- 1939 About OKIES escaping the DUST BOWL and HOBOS- the average citizen The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway Dr. Seuss

Art/ Architecture : 

Art/ Architecture Grant Wood- “American Gothic” Empire State Building Rockefeller Center Art Deco style of architecture

Art Deco Architecture : 

Art Deco Architecture Rockefeller Center

World Headlines : 

World Headlines 1932- Charles Lindbergh’s baby is kidnapped and murdered 1933- Hitler and the Nazi Party come to power in Germany 1936- King of England (Edward VIII) resigns to marry an American divorcee 1937- the Hindenberg, a dirigible, crashed in NJ