DEPRESSION DISTRACTIONS 1930s CULTURE

EUGENIA LANGANMATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA

GOLDENAGE OFRADIO

ESCAPISM, JUST LIKE TV TODAY: LISTENING TO OR WATCHING EXCITING STORIES, COMEDIES, DISTRACTS FROM (USUALLY MISERABLE) EVERYDAY LIFE

WOODY GUTHRIE -- AN "OKIE" RADIO STAR – AND A COMMUNIST

EVEN IN HOOVERVILLES, SOME PEOPLE HAD RADIOS -- IN THE '30s RURAL MUSIC SHOWS (GRAND OL' OPRY, BARN DANCE, AND LOCAL VARIATIONS WERE COMMON)

PEOPLE WENT TO ESCAPIST MOVIES

PEOPLE DANCED TO FORGET THEIR PROBLEMS

SWING MUSIC: DANCE MUSIC

(VIDEO OF GLEN MILLER BAND, "CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO UPLOADED SEPARATELY)

PLAYED GAMES

AND DRANK! THE 21st AMENDMENT, REPEALING THE 18th (PROHIBITION), WAS RATIFIED IN RECORD TIME, BY DECEMBER 5, 1933 (FDR CAMPAIGN PROMISE)

DEPRESSION ARTS

MARGARETBOURKE-WHITE

DOROTHEALANGE

PHOTOJOURNALISM

LANGE PHOTOS – WPA ARTS PROJECT

Farm Foreclosure Sale

George WashingtonBridge

MOUNT RUSHMORE, 1935-39 (BY GUTZON AND LINCOLN BORGLUM)

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, COMPLETED 1931

TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD UNTIL WORLD TRADE CENTER WAS BUILT IN 1972

(BUT NOW ARAB AND ASIAN COUNTIES HAVE TALLER ONES)

ROCKEFELLER CENTER, 1929 - 40

GRANT WOOD, AMERICAN GOTHIC, 1930. OIL ON BEAVERBOARD, 29 ¼" X 25 ½ ". ART INSTITURE OF CHICAGO

DEPRESSION LITERATURE

1939 1932