My paternal grandparents were the "wealthiest" in their neighborhood during the Great Depression since they owned their home which was hand built by my great grandfather. Also my grandfather kept his job as a butcher at Armours Meat Co. allowing him to bring home any cast off meat and bones. My grandmother kept a kettle of stew on the stove for anyone who was hungry. Homeless people were allowed to come in, wash up, nap in a real bed, eat and move on. My dad said he would come home from school and find total strangers in his bed and others at the kitchen table. He grew up to become part of the next Great Generation. Oh if only we could practise such great morals and manners again.

This series needs to be broadcasted in times square in a continuous run.

And here we are in 2019/20 and it looks/sounds eerily the same as then... It's like history's shouting out "Are you getting it this time ?!!"

My grandmother, who lived during The Great Depression, buried quart-sized, glass Mason jars full of peaches in her back yard.
I found those peaches after I purchased the house.

The too big to fail keep us too small to succeed

Almost forgot this was about the great depression.

My grandparents had a small20 acre farm during the depression and with the help of some neighbors fed many families during the depression.

It is year 2019 and it looks like history repeats itself. Something bigger than this crash
is coming. And most of the public is clueless about it. All they care about is that if they have new type of Iphone. God bless everyone who is awake!

Pay close attention as we're about to go thru it again only much worse

This was the world my parents grew up in.  One thing I know, you could not get my parents to put a nickel in the Wall Street casino.  I grew up hearing about these horrific times and I never forgot.  WWII is what it took to pull America out of the Great Depression.  Sad history.  I hope others heed this lesson that history will never forget.  :(

I had to laugh when i heard the lyrics “prosparity is just aroung the corner”
“What we’d like to know is which corner, we’ve turned so many corners now we’re dizzy” ab
On a serious note, watching this in 2020 when every one keeps saying everything is “better than expected” with the economy and the V shaped recovery on stocks, have we learned nothing

I was born in 1932. My grandfather who raised me, lost his job in the bank, his money, his home. everything. He was very intelligent. He made bargains with those who owned vacant city lots and planted vegetables, sharecropping with the owners. I remember when I was six years old working in those gardens picking up stones for a penny a bucket, learning my first lesson about work and reward. I was raised that way. Yes! I was also sometimes lazy and did not work, but I had learned that it was necessary  to work if one wanted money. I always worked with my grand father in his vegetable gardens and later he became a landscape gardener and I worked at that also. During winter, we got upat4AM and shoveled the driveways and walkways of the rich people before I went to school. When I was not needed by grandpa I would hike a ride  20 miles to a golf course and caddy all day til evening and hitch a ride back home, I mowed seven lawns each week for a dollar each. Our house never went hungry. Thank GOD!

Wow.. who's watching this in 2020.. same scenario.. different era. X

The beginning of this movie reminds me of the homeless camps that I see around the cities today. Especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Its amazingly how history is repeating

Thank you for uploading this.  It's one of the better and more helpful documentaries I've seen.  It's always nice to learn  something new and see things from some different perspectives.

Coronavirus worries brought me here... 17 march 2020.
Happy St Paddy's day everyone! <3

Could not be any worse. The market crash + The Great Depression +The Dust Bowl.

We still don’t treat our vets well. The government doesn’t uphold it’s side of the soldier’s contract and the public forgets once the war is “over.” Yesterday Nov. 11 was Veterans Day for the public. For vets, everyday is a tsunami of memories, physical/emotional/psychological, their own personal hell of endless “veterans days.”

I’m watching this in 2026 I fear this is going to happen again