Posted on 05/18/2011 8:08:53 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
Nice.....note how the children are fully dressed? Well, except for maybe shoes....
What happened to Mr. Whinery? That’s what a lot of people might ask. The photos are from 1940, before WWII was started up. Did Mr. Whinery get drafted, or volunteer- leaving his two little sons, wife and daughters to fend for themselves in a “homestead”. The food shown, looks to be home grown (Karo syrup in a can—wow). And exemplary of the best of that time. Contrast that with “dust bowl” photos of ten years earlier.
FDR’s plans were abject failures, and many of them came from Mr. Hoover. The end result was the ultimate govt. make work project— a world wide war. Everybody went to work for the gubmint, to “save democracy”. Much like under Wilson. And all of it under the management of “progressives” and their fellow travelers- socialists and outright communists.
What was the consequence of all these machinations on the “real people” like Mr. Whinery. What happened to the family?
And, how much pressure was needed to stop the Rockefellers from doing business with Hitler’s statist buddies?
An excellent source to go with these stunning photos, is a book and PBS series— “The Prize”.
Does any of this ring a bell— with our current oh so proper marxist in chief and his leftist fascist corporate buddies at GE and BP? Today you have ridiculous posturing from liberals to “punish” oil companies who could provide our country with US owned resources and tell the rest of the world to go to hell. Liberals who continue to steal the taxes they get out of these producers to line their pockets and hand out to the “poor”, whom they help to maintain in place.
The social upheaval was enormous, as was the effect when the menfolk returned and wanted to start a family and have a house. Eisenhower days.
The people in these photos don’t look like the kind to be fooled by Obama and the RAT party.
The Great Depression is somehow less depressing in color.
And I assume that's Napoleon Dynamite's future mother in the last picture.
Wow thanks for sharing! This is my mother’s early life in color in two respects. Her family left Oklahoma during the depression and made it as far as Alamogordo, NM where her dad got a job as a millwright in a sawmill there. So the photos of Pie Town are pretty close. But more important during the war she took a job in the Southern Pacific railroad yards in Northern California (the real Northern California, like Dunsmuir and Redding) replacing the oily rags/string in railroad car junction boxes located on the outside end of the running gear (called trucks). That would have been her sitting there in the break room having lunch. The whole crew was female except the supervisor who was a man. As the women were bent over he would come along and pat them on the rear and tell them what a good job they were doing…and no one said a word because it was accepted.
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Thanks for posting.
Your Mom was born the same year I was. I lived in the deep
South where the depression was harder due to the fact that we had not yet recovered from the Civil War. WWII is what finally drug us out of poverty. Before that we lived pretty much like the family in the picture. Share-cropper’s cabin, water “toted” from a spring, outhouse, wood cook stove and fireplace heat. No screens on the windows or doors, goats, chickens, flies all has free entry during warm months. Fishing & swimming in the crick with the water moccasins. Roaming the hills with the wildlife. Oh, and the bedbugs.... It was a wonderful life.
You will notice that the pictures of the women working are from 1942. WWII started in 41 and all able bodied men were called up to the military. The women stepped up and took over the jobs that were needed to keep the war effort going. My mother worked at Redstone near Huntsville, AL after we moved there from rural TN. She packed Howitzer shells. Dangerous work. Her building blew up and she was one of three that survived as I recall. Women worked throughout the war. Then when the soldiers came home the women went back home to raise families. The next generation did not recall or didn’t know how many women worked during the war. The Boomer generation has always thought that the world began with them.
Didn’t those boy’s Mom know that they were playing where the Alligators and water Moccasins roamed? Gasp, what if they had encountered one of those deadly monsters? Maybe CPS would have taken those neglected children away from their parents.
Mr. Whinery had five children. He would have been exempt from the draft, but would have been assigned to work at some sort of war-work, perhaps raising food to help supple the military. My father had five children when the war broke out. He was exempt from the draft, but he was “drafted” to work in a chemical plant in Huntsville, AL because he had a Chemistry degree. He was a school teacher. Like most families, the Whinery family probably saw better times due to the war.
Corrections noted. Though my point remains valid. Women of the pre “women’s lib” era were much stronger, equal and liberated than today’s women
Agreed. Even those that stayed home had to work hard. Gardens, etc.
More pictures at this link: http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/boundforglory/Pages/SlObjectList.aspx
Thanks!
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