Monday, September 8, 2014

DEPRESSION ERA PHOTOS SHOW ECONOMIC IMPACT HERE

(Ed.'s Note: One of our three readers contributed these unique photos of the 1930s and the effect of the Depression on South Texas. While some could still affords to pay to go see a movie in Pharr in 1939, the majority were like the poor children living in the barrios of San Juan. Notice the braided grass used to cover their roofs and the barefoot children. The rare photo below is a Depression-era family harvesting beans somewhere near Brownsville. We thank our contributor for sharing these rare photos with us.)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

We were lucky. My grand-dad lived on a four acre spread with a fairly large house. Further back he had 2 vacas lecheras, 2 hogs. Tons of gallinas, roosters, goats, etc. I remember helping my grandmother chase down the pol los for caldo and fried chicken. I boiled the water to despelucar the feathers. My grandmother finished the job. My grandfather was a diligent person with farsight vision.
He mentioned to his 4 sons , 2 daughters, things don't look too good in Europe; so be prepared. My grandmother had a small flag with 4 Stars hanging on the main window. In 1945 they all made it back. This is just one of many experiences of our people inSouthTexas.

Anonymous said...

What??????????? You have 3 readers!!!! When did you get the 3rd one? Bobby Whitman is going to call you a liar and a con artist. He will say these pictures is of him and his dad in Nicaragua. That his dad had 18 women and married 2 sisters at the same time before Bobby was born to a Cuban woman of Mexican decent that came from Chile but was raised in Nicaragua before arriving in the USA.

You are liar Juanito...you can't help yourself says none other than BWC

Anonymous said...

Not much has changed here in Browntown it looks like.

Anonymous said...

That could be about a third of today's population is Southern Mexico, especially Chiapas and Oaxaca.

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