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The Great Depression
Personal Interview
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Mrs. Polly Taylor
• Where were you when the Great Depression began?
• Well, I was a wife and mother in my early thirties. We were living in Cinncinnati, Ohio. We (my husband and I) had four children, three sons and one daughter.
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What was your husband’s job?
• He was an executive for a large company based in the Cinncinnati area.
• His salary was large.• We could afford a lot of nice things.
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Did you have a house?
• Yes, we owned a large four bedroom house.
• Our oldest son and daughter had their own bedrooms
• The two younger sons shared a bedroom.• There were nine rooms in the house.• This was considered a very large house
during for the 20’s and 30’s.
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What did you do in your spare time?
• We belonged to a country club.• My husband and sons played golf.• My daughter and I plaed card games and
tennis at the country club.• We all swam and ate dinners and lunches
in the restaurant at the club.
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Would you say you had a good life?
• Yes, we were very priveleged.• My husband’s job made it possible for us
to have a lot of things• We traveled out of the country, too.
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How did the Great Depression first begin to affect your life?
• My husband took a decrease in salary.• We dropped our country club membership.• Our oldest son got a job as a caddy at the
country club where he had played golf.• The children had fewer clothes.• The “cleaning lady” had to be let go.
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What happened next?• We lost all the money we had in stocks
first.• The money we had in the bank was not
enough to live on.• The children and I went to live with my
family in Kentucky. They owned a large farm.
• We lost our house after my husband lost his job.
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How did this end?
• We learned to live on less money, and be thankful we were together and healthy.
• My husband moved to Kentucky with us and worked on my parent’s farm.
• He got another job. It paid less. We were able to move out and rent a house on our own.
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What was the result of the Depression for your family?
• We learned that we could live without a lot of things.
• We learned that being together with your family was important.
• Good health is important.