1937 work ethic

well since we sharing a few pic's hope ya dont mind me adding a few to your thread wyld.i think yall will enjoy them.

heres my grandfather in the 30's working in the CCC camp.he is working on road going into Hungary Mother State Park in va.i think it is such a cool picture of him.



this one is about 1949 or 1950 and you can tell i get survival stuff from him...lol..kill the deer and haul it how ever it takes.



here is a picture of my great grandfather who was native american it was taken pre-1920.

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cool Elkhound! PLease highjack away!!!

A relative worked in a CCC camp in MN, heven't read those letters yet. My hub worked in it too in the 70's for a while, but at that time it was full of stoners

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this is my greatgrandfather and his sons.i was able to hunt with some of these fellows.my great uncles had a great influence on me as they were famous houndsman in this area.they all are gone now...sure wished i could drive over and hang out with them.

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Since Elkhound was brave enough to hijack first, here's a photo of my Nannie that I love. Notice the nail polish AND the gun - she was a tough little thing, but she liked her hair fixed and her nails groomed. This was taken in the early 50s.

cool cool cool! and her shoes are so WHITE! (how do some people do that???)

where are all these pix from?

ha, Elkhound I always wanted a bunch of boys like that(as my kids I mean), I got two that's what we could afford

You know it's funny, reading the letters and people's comment about how much stuff costs--for instance one person says he works for a dollar an hour(1937), that sounds cheap, BUT my grandpa was able to lease a farm for 15$ a month--two days work and you've got your rent covered for the month, hard to do that these days! (even accounting for dollar values etc.)

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Keep sharing - this history is what makes each of you YOU.

Thanks for putting it in this forum.

Angie

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Awesome pics!





I too just found a box of really old (and huge) negatives marked in the 40's... I need to get them developed again or scanned.

I can't really tell who is all on them but some of them look, uh , REALLY interesting from what I can see holding them up.

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thanks Angie, I wasn't sure abot posting it here, but I knew you all would get something out of it, and also I believe survival is more than beans n bullets, it's knowing where you come from and how really everyone thru history is very much alike, and if they can do it we can too! (especially because most of them lived thru times much tougher than we've been tested with).

Also in that thought is that skills used to be handed down through the generations, and no time like the present to learn and do it and keep on tradition!

K Freya, get crackin!

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This is my great grandmother in front of her corn field. I never met her since she passed away when my mom was a little girl. My grandfather talks about what a hard worker she was.

Nannie was a fanatic about cleaning, after living through the Dust Bowl.

My family is all from Oklahoma - some were Cherokee, and some got their land on the Cherokee Strip land runs. Below are my maternal great grandparents. He was half Cherokee and for a short time attended the BIA school in Oologah (with Will Rogers, a cousin). She was a laundress and took in laundry all through the Depression to make ends meet. Washboard and clothes line, and iron heated on the stove. I don't think she had more than a year or two of schooling. They had 9 children and barely kept them fed, but they never owed anyone a dime. She lived to be 90. This picture is from 1935.

Love the stories and pics, hope you put these in a book form. Your family would love it. We have neighbors that put their mothers writings in a book and are selling them. I bought one and love it. Remember everyone has a story, take time to tell it.Thanks Marc.

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Awesome! GREAT pics and letters. Thanks for sharing with us.

NeHi

MO4, what interesting faces! love the pose too, with the hands.

Here is a letter my grandpa received(after the loan and farm plans fell through) from a friend working on Grand Coulee Dam. My grandpa went up and joined him a few months or so after this(I think he was looking for work again)My grandma gives my grandpa a tongue lashing in a letter for going to "filthy shows" with this guy. Ah, the drama! My grandpa ran a crew pouring concrete. (again I kept all the spelling mistakes, and I did have to fix a few words)

Mason City, WA
May 9, 1937

Hiye Pal(Norman),
Damed if you didn’t surprise me with a letter the other day. I just now got over the shock enough to write back. Thanks anyhow.

Seeing as you’re a cripple I’ll let you off this time.

Cripes u must have almost worked up a sweat. Ha you should be more careful remember your heart me lad.

Darn you will have that old place good as new yet if you keep going at that rat.

What (ha) haven’t you go that arm out of the cast yet, cripes are you getting insurence on it or something. Ha Shore I wish u lots of luck in getting it off --- pronto.

You should have both arms in shape when Moe comes out you know. Heh. What te-ell do you mean to say something went wrong with the Rolls Royce already. Dam! And almost a new car. Cripes if you could stop running in to trees and coasting down hills with it maby you it would last. Wear out those hydraulic brakes ect. Ha.

I suppose when u had that loan guy in to those beans and rice he got to thinking how terrible they were and his little tender heart got the best of him, ha. Can’t blame him Ive eat em here to shore Ive get spinach every now + then also. Get three lbs for 8 or 9 cents.

By gosh Pionteks shore do treat you nice don’t they. I’ll just have to write to them one of these days. If I get time. Here I am working for four bits per hr. Cant get rich that way. Though I hope I can get something better soon.

Seems funny to get up at ten at night get something to eat and be ready to go to work at twelve. Ha more dam fun. I shore ketched me an a** of a boss too. Reckon I’ll have to kill him one of these days. Ha.

They do kill or hurt about one or two men every night it seems. Got about four last week anyway. One guy let one of these half ton skiff full of dirt slide down on him I was working about four ft from him at the time. Guess he got too scared to move. I helped carry him out on a stretcher.

Thurs night a big slab of clay slid down on top of a man, that was working down in a deep pit.

We had to climb at least a 20 ft ladder to get him and got him out of there.

Guess they don’t espect him to live either. Then Friday one guy run a steel thru his foot. He worked on a jackhammer t*t I guess(I think he meant “tip”, ha or maybe not).

I’m going to see can I get on something that pays more this week. A jackhammer or some dam thing. Ha. I heard they are starting another big dam north of Seattle. May try that later on, better country ect.

Hasn’t rained scince Ive been out here.

Everything is so dam high up here it costs like hell to live.

About all Ive do is sleep, eat, and work seven hrs a day, 40 hrs a week.

Well Windy go easy on the beans and rice and take care of yourself. Tell Moe hello for me when she gets there will you, and Kreppers and Pionteks ect.

I’ve got to get some sleep now as I got to work at twelve sharp.

What I mean work, oh yes and much work

Your Pal
Pop Eye

PS, what do you mean writing all over the outside of my letter ye crumby, ha. Later love my darlink XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ect far into the night.

Hey you should see what leans out of the windows above this wild place in ------ on these warm days. Wow. Oh No I don’t go up there. So far, ha

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Haha, what a character!

I just love these stories and pics. I have such an appetite for, and appreciation of history. While I don't have any pics to share, my "historical" project right now is restoring an old quilt to its former glory. My mother in law's mother made it many years ago and it's in tatters.

I don't know the age of the quilt, but some of the squares are from the 60's and 70's and some before that. It's just a patchwork quilt made from scraps of clothing they had worn back then. There's so much history in that quilt.

Great reading, thanks for the letters. Keep the original spelling variants coming, they are funny.

Life was certainly hard back then, don't think I would have done to well, being as I am so lazy. Ha!

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I am absolutely loving all the pictures and stories. Thank you all for sharing them with us!

The big joke with grand coulee was dam this and dam that, my aunt is kind of a prude to the world, but she enjoys saying she was a "dam baby". I just got another album of pix from living there at Grand COulee dam. In all these pix people look like they're having so much (dam)fun!!!

Ha, Thanksgiving Eve I had a dream I was making TG dinner for my grandparents, and their families from back then, they all came, way cool

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boy, dont' you wish you could tag along one day in her life with her and see if you could keep up?

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I would say that little lady would run me into the ground! She just looks like she's full of fire! I hope I might have a little of that fire in me!