When Bad Meets Worst- Hoover.
Herbert Hoover was our President at that time. Personally I disliked him a whole lot. When the worst would come, his thoughts of 'helping' would fly out the window, which frustrates me very much. All his ideas would never work, and people were not expecting anything from him anymore. Everyone literally gave up on him, he had lost respect to many. July 1932, Veterans were rage, they went out and set up 'Hooverville camps' around the white house, because they were being promise to be given money after WW1. Congress were refusing to grant them the money they wanted. President Hoover forced the veterans to leave and for sake, they lost total respect.
Hobo's On the Run.
Summer breeze of, Aug 1931. Thousands and thousands of people were leaving their hometown to find a job, that's how desperate everyone was becoming. People started leaving because of the Dust Bowl too. Killing their farmlands and plants, and others were getting real ill because of that. Therefore I felt I needed to do the same.. but I couldn't leave my mother out here and my younger siblings alone. I had a tough decision too make at that point, but if I stayed nothing would ever change, it felt like a do or die moment. I didn't know much about leaving and becoming a hobo, all I eve knew was jumping from train to train, town to town and hitch hike. Sounded scary since I was gonna be with people I don't know, but to be able to give my mom and my siblings a better life, I had to man up. Other people from the plains were consider Okies. They're were somewhat apart of the hobo's too. Hobo's were always getting into trouble because they didn't belong anywhere near the trains, they would fight for food and steal too. So that would mean I would have to act like a guy, and look like one, so no one would under estimate me.. Maybe its time to go bald, and leave everything behind to give my mother the life she never had.
Americans Face Hard Times;
Unemployment was extremely high! It rise to 25% nation wide. Part time jobs were hard too find too, only 25% would find it. On March 17, 1931, My two brothers and I was standing in line, waiting for food... which was only bread and soup. The line was super long and the wait took forever and a day, it stretched for many many blocks; which was a big pain. This was the first time I ever stood in this kind of line. Everyone in town had no income and especially no money for food. So the breadlines and soup lines turned into a charity for everyone. Millions lost their homes because of all this commotion, so they were homeless. Hoovervilles was a homeless camp, and I, unfortunately had to witness and lived in that cruel, filthy place. Hoovervilles is named after President Hoover, whom my mother passionately hated. Hoover was an awful President, he lost control of everything in that time. Hoovervilles was all nation wide and most common in California. Foreclosure went big, businesses were going down the drain..
Black Tuesday!
On October 29, 1929 was my 17th birthday, the worst birthDAY of my entire life. Stock Market Crash big time that day. I could still remember all the people running back and fourth, trying to get their money out the bank, and prepare a saving. I thought the world was ending that day, because of all the commotion. From what I recalled 16 billion shares were being sold and the stock market collapsed all the way down to the ground. Investors panicked because their business was about to go down hills. Countless of dollars were lost within a few hours. So I ran to the bank, & grabbed all money that we had left, which was $19.75. This was all we had left... And I knew, everything was about to change, big time.
Depression Hits Us Rock Bottom
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