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Gallery Walk Images . Bank Run Image: Worried people running into banks to take out their money. Cars: Wall Street Banker sells his car after he loses everything in the stock market. Dust Bowl: A once productive farm is covered in feet of dust.
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Bank Run Image: Worried people running into banks to take out their money.
Cars: Wall Street Banker sells his car after he loses everything in the stock market.
Dust Bowl: A once productive farm is covered in feet of dust.
Dust Bowl: a severe dust storm that they call “Black Blizzards”
Great Depression Family: Florence Owens, or the migrant mother, with her children. (Photograph by Dorothea Lange)
Unemployment: Billboard by Chamber of Commerce telling men looking for jobs to leave town.
Black Friday: On Friday October 24th, 1929 the stock market crashed. Prices of stock were the lowest they had been and many people lost their investments.
Debt: Many people lost their jobs and were evicted from their homes They created “Hoovervilles” of small shanty homes
BING CROSBY- “BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME” They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob When there was earth to plow or guns to bear I was always there, right on the job They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead Why should I be standing in line Just waiting for bread? 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 Say buddy, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, ah, 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 Oh, say, don't you remember? They called me 'Al' It was 'Al' all the time Say, don't you remember? I'm your pal Buddy, can you spare a dime? Read more: Bing Crosby - Brother Can You Spare A Dime Lyrics |