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Washing dishes wasn’t for sissies

on February 2, 2012

When I was a girl in the 1930s and ’40s, washing dishes for our family ...

1930s Featured-Image-Maple-SYrup

The struggle to make homemade maple syrup

on October 28, 2011

There were quite a few sugar maple trees on our grandparents’ farm in 1937, so ...

1930s DutchGirl

What’s so tricky about a Halloween tweak?

on September 30, 2011

My folks loved to entertain, even though we lived in a four-room apartment in Chicago. ...

1930s MitchellRadio

Dad taught a lesson as her sidekick on the radio range

on September 21, 2011

I had to wash the dishes every night, and with our family of eight, that ...

1930s WALKATHON WATCHER. Dick Schmitter (on left above with brother Ralph) collected the program below, which included photos of the contestants (click on images to view larger).

I saw New Jersey’s last Depression-era Walkathon

on September 8, 2011

If there was one event in my early life that opened the door to the ...

1930s pocketknife

Grandpa’s old pocketknife honed some sharp memories

on September 8, 2011

When I was 5 years old during the mid-1930s, our family lived in a little ...

1930s Benny Benough crop

I organized a big league of my own in the 1930s

on August 25, 2011

I began collecting baseball cards one memorable day back in 1933. I had a nickel ...

1930s School-Days

1930s school days

on August 10, 2011

This picture was taken during the 1931-’32 school year at Loyalty School, 2½ miles south ...

1930s Depression Memories

Remembering the Great Depression

on July 6, 2011

During a flight to attend my 62nd high school reunion, honoring the class of 1938, ...

1930s

Pictures From the Past — YWCA Camp Brochure

on June 30, 2011

This 1937 brochure (at right and below) from the Detroit YWCA is for Camp Talahi, ...

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