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Jan, you can buy a never issued 1925 Tech Yearbook for $20. They have them
back to 1900's. You have to call the school at 317-693-5300 and ask for
the Alumni Directors phone no. and the days and hours she will be in. I
don't have it anymore. Tech has a great alumni website here:
http://www.athsalumni.org/index.html Bob
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From: inmarion-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:inmarion-bounces@rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of Jan Wall-Buker
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 2:34 PM
To: inmarion(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
Marian, my grandfather attended Tech and graduated in 1925, I am lucky
enough to have his graduation pin. I am wondering if you have the 1925
Yearbook. I would be interested in any articles that might have included
him. His name was Arthur Edward Foerster.
Thank you,
Jan B.
Since I moved from Indy in 1937 when I was in the fifth grade, I have no
yearbooks from any Indy high schools. (I returned to attend Butler in
1945...)
I am forwarding a copy of your letter to a cousin whose father graduated
from Tech and who might have information about your father from the
yearbooks.
Sorry, I couldn't help...
Marian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Wall-Buker" <wall.buker(a)gmail.com>
To: <inmarion(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
> Marian, my grandfather attended Tech and graduated in 1925, I am lucky
> enough to have his graduation pin. I am wondering if you have the 1925
> Yearbook. I would be interested in any articles that might have included
> him. His name was Arthur Edward Foerster.
> Thank you,
> Jan B.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marian M." <MarianMM(a)cfl.rr.com>
> To: <inmarion(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 7:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
>
>
>> I'm one of those ol' timers who lived through those "lean" years and can
>> remember for myself how things were. My father and his brothers owned a
>> gravel business but sold out when the depression hit and jobs were hard
>> to
>> get so we moved to Cincinnati but, when he lost his job in Cincinnati and
>> couldn't find another, we had to move back to Indianapolis in 1931 where
>> we
>> lived with my grandmother--my grandfather had passed away in 1926. Three
>> of
>> her children were still at home and in high school (Tech).
>>
>> In 1932, during the height of the depression, she ran for public office
>> and
>> was elected Trustee of Washington Township. She turned a room of her
>> large
>> house into her office. Her many duties included running the elementary
>> schools which included Nora, John Strange and Crooked Creek. And, she
>> was
>> responsible for giving our what was then the equivalent of today's food
>> stamps, coal, etc., to those in need.
>>
>> While I was very young, I can still remember the long lines waiting
>> outside
>> the office to get their allowance of basic supplies for their families.
>> These were people I knew: friends and neighbors, all in dire need of
>> assistance because of the hard times.
>>
>> I can also remember that my father couldn't find another job so he worked
>> odd jobs. Finally, in 1932, he was hired by the state police and worked
>> for
>> the Alcoholic Beverage Commission where his main job involved hunting
>> down
>> and destroying the stills where they made liquor and confiscating slot
>> machines, all illegal at that time. The stories he could tell about
>> those
>> raids!
>>
>> Those were, indeed, very hard times. We were more fortunate than a lot
>> of
>> people but, with seven mouths to feed, there was never money for any
>> extras.
>> We worked to have food on the table, clothes on our backs, fire in
>> furnace
>> or fireplace, and everything was stretched to the very maximum possible.
>>
>> Hopefully, things won't reach the lows of the Great Depression but these
>> are, indeed, very dark times. And "hard times" grocery shelves sound
>> like
>> a
>> very good idea!!!
>>
>> Marian
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Cece, I don't know how the mom and pop stores faired during the depression,
but some stores here in Indy are still hanging on. If you wanted meat on the
table, someone better go out and shoot a rabbit. Churches had pot-lucks
which brought the community together, and the Old Settler's Day pitch-ins
went well until the middle of the depression. The worst weather appeared in
the 30's with cold winters and very hot summers. The soup kitchens. People
were selling apples but most of the fruit trees were fair game and nothing
fully ripened on them as everything was in high demand.
I read somewhere during the height of the depression, in 1933, 70 percent
of people in Indiana were share-croppers. Then just a short time later, WWII
and the Ration cards. More lean times.
Found some good websites:
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_04.htmlhttp://ingrimayne.com/econ/EconomicCatastrophe/GreatDepression.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Cece [mailto:mawcee@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:58 AM
To: ralloway(a)earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
Hi Bob------------
Is there a place to go to on the internet to find out what businesses did ok
during the depression? I often wondered and assumed it would be anything to
do with the food industry, because everyone had to eat. My great
grandfather ran a grocery/butcher shop store in Indy and was run out of
business not because of the depression, but the new supermarkets were coming
in town, and people liked them better.
Cece
my dad and his brother drove an old truck down to Fla and got a load of
melons and drove it back to Pa and sold them off the back of the truck for
cheaper than the stores which didn't always have them.
They went up to New York and cut ice off the lake for an uncle and sold it
for the "iceboxes".
Their family lost everything at that time so they were on the road lots of
times just doing whatever needed doing, jumping on trains to get from here
to there. My dad had a ton of stories and always loved to tell them. Roslyn
My mother told me that during the depression her parents rented out their
home and moved in with my grandparents to help with finances. I wonder if
other families did this also?
Jan B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Alloway" <ralloway(a)earthlink.net>
To: <inmarion(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:16 AM
Subject: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
>
> Cece, I don't know how the mom and pop stores faired during the
> depression,
> but some stores here in Indy are still hanging on. If you wanted meat on
> the
> table, someone better go out and shoot a rabbit. Churches had pot-lucks
> which brought the community together, and the Old Settler's Day pitch-ins
> went well until the middle of the depression. The worst weather appeared
> in
> the 30's with cold winters and very hot summers. The soup kitchens.
> People
> were selling apples but most of the fruit trees were fair game and nothing
> fully ripened on them as everything was in high demand.
> I read somewhere during the height of the depression, in 1933, 70 percent
> of people in Indiana were share-croppers. Then just a short time later,
> WWII
> and the Ration cards. More lean times.
>
> Found some good websites:
> http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_04.html
>
> http://ingrimayne.com/econ/EconomicCatastrophe/GreatDepression.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cece [mailto:mawcee@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:58 AM
> To: ralloway(a)earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
>
> Hi Bob------------
>
> Is there a place to go to on the internet to find out what businesses did
> ok
>
> during the depression? I often wondered and assumed it would be anything
> to
>
> do with the food industry, because everyone had to eat. My great
> grandfather ran a grocery/butcher shop store in Indy and was run out of
> business not because of the depression, but the new supermarkets were
> coming
>
> in town, and people liked them better.
>
> Cece
>
>
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Marian, those memories are etched for life, and the younger generation has
never known hunger, or not knowing where their next meal is coming from.
My grandmother living in Broad Ripple and raising three children during the
depression, had to leave her kids with her mom who ran a boarding house on
Broad Ripple Av. She would go and assist the doctor with a new birth in the
village, and stay with that family for two and three weeks while the new
mother was recuperating. A standard practice then. She would wash their
laundry and cook for everyone and see the kids off to school. Everyone
helped everyone. A close knit community.
My grandfather would board a trolley and go to his job at Capitol Dairy, and
always come home with day old milk and pass it out to families without much
food. Everyone tried to give their neighbor a helping hand and it made the
community that much stronger. Most had a garden, and all the kids learned
where their food came from.
We don't help out as much today. We sometimes buy food for an elderly
couple who never went to school, and are facing hard times and the food
pantries are giving little. Your grandmother held a very important position
in the community in a time so much help was needed. Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: inmarion-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:inmarion-bounces@rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of Marian M.
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:13 AM
To: inmarion(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INMARION] HARD TIMES Grocery Shelf
I'm one of those ol' timers who lived through those "lean" years and can
remember for myself how things were. My father and his brothers owned a
gravel business but sold out when the depression hit and jobs were hard to
get so we moved to Cincinnati but, when he lost his job in Cincinnati and
couldn't find another, we had to move back to Indianapolis in 1931 where we
lived with my grandmother--my grandfather had passed away in 1926. Three of
her children were still at home and in high school (Tech).
In 1932, during the height of the depression, she ran for public office and
was elected Trustee of Washington Township. She turned a room of her large
house into her office. Her many duties included running the elementary
schools which included Nora, John Strange and Crooked Creek. And, she was
responsible for giving our what was then the equivalent of today's food
stamps, coal, etc., to those in need.
While I was very young, I can still remember the long lines waiting outside
the office to get their allowance of basic supplies for their families.
These were people I knew: friends and neighbors, all in dire need of
assistance because of the hard times.
I can also remember that my father couldn't find another job so he worked
odd jobs. Finally, in 1932, he was hired by the state police and worked for
the Alcoholic Beverage Commission where his main job involved hunting down
and destroying the stills where they made liquor and confiscating slot
machines, all illegal at that time. The stories he could tell about those
raids!
Those were, indeed, very hard times. We were more fortunate than a lot of
people but, with seven mouths to feed, there was never money for any extras.
We worked to have food on the table, clothes on our backs, fire in furnace
or fireplace, and everything was stretched to the very maximum possible.
Hopefully, things won't reach the lows of the Great Depression but these
are, indeed, very dark times. And "hard times" grocery shelves sound like a
very good idea!!!
Marian
During the Depression years, as a young man, my Father in Law sold eggs in
Indianapolis. He then worked for the W.P.A. installing railroad tracks.
Later he got a job with Chevrolet where he worked 37 years till retirement,
never taking a vacation and working overtime whenever it was offered.
It was common for him, during the good times, to accumulate groceries on
his "Hard Time shelf", as he called it, to see his family through the lean
times if the union picked them to strike. Because of the size of Chevy, it
was the usual place to pick for the strike and during the early years,
sometimes they were laid off for 2-3 months at a time.
The shelf was always full and his family always fed!
How many people prepare for the hard times? It has been almost 80 years and
times are getting tough again, and I see that bulging shelf in my mind. It
is sad to see our great nation in such a similar fix.
Anyone have stories to share about how their parents, grandparents got
through the Great Depression? Bob
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When Benjamin Harrison moved into the White House with his 11 family members
there was only one bathroom.!
John Quincy Adams swam naked in the Potomac everyday!
Nixon's mother wanted him to be a Quaker missionary! And more!
Good story about Presidential oddities with Marion County connections.
Go here: http://www.indyspotlight.com/
I wrote my cousins in Indianapolis to see if they had any memories. Still
waiting to hear from 2 of the 4 I wrote.
One said he remembered it and it was very tragic. My other cousin Sherrie,
had this to say:
"I remember it very well. Mother gave me my choice - going trick-or-treat
or going to the coliseum. We could have been at the coliseum that night.
Thank goodness, all my life food has meant more to me than anything! My
dermatologist was at the coliseum that night. He survived, but lost his
wife. I've been to many, many things in the coliseum since then, but every
time I go through those doors, I think about 2 things - the day I saw the
Beatles and the day of the explosion."
Cece