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grapes of wrath..............

hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,456 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
couldn't sleep, sitting here watching it for the umpteenth time, it must have been a rough life, hard to imagine that many people, and life that rough. we got it easy today....
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    One of the hardest times to hit an area was the dust bowl coinciding with the great depression!

    What I found interesting about that movie was how just plain regular family folks were treated (or mis-treated) and taken advantage of by the localities they went to seeking refuge.

    Fellow "American's" may as well have been illegal alien's.
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wherever there is a Democrap is beating up a guy, i'll be there.

    T.J.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Ever get a chance, read "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan. It's non-fiction about the dust bowl, not a novel. That was a bad time.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/books/review/the-antijoads.html?_r=0

    Peace

    Dan
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My parents lived through that time.....but my Dad was a strong hard worker....cut timber in swamps to make a living....ate greens and taters.to survive....one pair of pants....sad stories...
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I only watched it once about thirty five years ago. Hell, I cannot even remember the movie or book.

    When you get a chance, PM your number. I wanted to chat, when you have time. Oakie
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  • TangoSierraTangoSierra Member Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found this out from my Dad once when was in a sentimental mood about his early life. His Father, my grandfather, share cropped on any small acreage he could find during the early 1930's in the delta. One year they lived so far out from town that it was too far to walk into town to school as they had no other transportation. However, they had no money for shoes or clothes to go to school and barely enough clothes to cover themselves. In the end it didn't matter about school anyway as the county did not have the money to operate schools that year. So, there was no school to go to.

    When Dad talked, it was worth listening.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My dad lived in South Dakota. He had to endure not just the Dust Bowl but also the Depression. He told me it didn't rain, or snow, for 3 years.

    What tough times.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Story is told to be true.

    Fella put his plow upside down on his barn roof. Neighbor asked him why he did that. He replied, "So I can plow my ground as it blows over the barn"

    Peace

    Dan
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My mom and dad lived through that era and some of the things they had to do,,Food was very scarce, mom recalling many times one potato in a hot kettle cut up and that was it.[B)]
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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember noticing how many "little" old ladies there were when I was young.

    They were about the right age that their growth would have been stunted by the poor nutrition of the period.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,365 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    terrible times for many , I know mine and my wife's family suffered thru as many others ,

    as for the movie a couple people stood out helping along the way like the truck driver paying extra to cover the cost at the diner and the waitress lying about the cost of the candy .
    just a thought
    could you imagine the welfare freeloaders now having to go thru that fending for them self now they riot when the AC stops working [:(!]
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now I want grapes.[:p]
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the book The Grapes of Wrath, one of my favorite parts was on used cars.

    XXXXXX
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,456 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ditch-Runner
    terrible times for many , I know mine and my wife's family suffered thru as many others ,

    as for the movie a couple people stood out helping along the way like the truck driver paying extra to cover the cost at the diner and the waitress lying about the cost of the candy .
    just a thought
    could you imagine the welfare freeloaders now having to go thru that fending for them self now they riot when the AC stops working [:(!]








    todays welfare freeloaders, couldn't make it, not sure how many of the so called middle class could either....
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