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DEPRESSION DISTRACTIONS 1930s CULTURE

DEPRESSION DISTRACTIONS 1930s CULTURE. EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA. Golden Age of Radio ESCAPISM, JUST LIKE TV TODAY: LISTENING TO OR WATCHING EXCITING STORIES, COMEDIES, DISTRACTS FROM (USUALLY MISERABLE) EVERYDAY LIFE.

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DEPRESSION DISTRACTIONS 1930s CULTURE

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  1. DEPRESSION DISTRACTIONS 1930s CULTURE EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA

  2. Golden Age of Radio ESCAPISM, JUST LIKE TV TODAY: LISTENING TO OR WATCHING EXCITING STORIES, COMEDIES, DISTRACTS FROM (USUALLY MISERABLE) EVERYDAY LIFE

  3. 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)

  4. PEOPLE WENT TO ESCAPIST MOVIES

  5. PEOPLE DANCED TO FORGET THEIR PROBLEMS

  6. SWING MUSIC: DANCE MUSIC (VIDEO OF GLEN MILLER BAND, "CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO UPLOADED SEPARATELY)

  7. PLAYED GAMES

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

  9. What Depression?

  10. DEPRESSION ARTS

  11. PHOTOJOURNALISM Margaret Bourke-White Dorothea Lange

  12. LANGE PHOTOS – WPA ARTS PROJECT

  13. Farm Foreclosure Sale

  14. George Washington Bridge

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

  16. 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)

  17. ROCKEFELLER CENTER, 1929 - 40

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

  19. DEPRESSION LITERATURE 1939 1932

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