Does anyone remember any personal experiences during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s?

Question

Does anyone remember any personal experiences during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s? Specifically about the Great Depression and World War 2.

I just wondered what people's personal experiences and feelings were like compared to the general feeling in America.

Answer 1

I remember the day I realized my husband wasn't coming home from the War.

Answer 2

i'm 70 years previous ( Born July 1940 interior the midst of an air raid ) and that i does no longer go with to have been born later. even nevertheless the conflict circumstances have been risky, each physique enjoyed the entertainment and freedom of the 50s / 60s and 70s. by using great sort of the music which replaced into made by ability of musicians with out using digital contraptions . I in no way observed an amplifier until eventually i replaced into 18 . basically the great dance halls had sound structures. while i replaced right into a youthful guy, there have been evening golf equipment, Social golf equipment, Dance Halls and stay overall performance Halls on especially much each street end the place the musicians ought to income their journey ( We did have expertise exhibits yet maximum bands became common by ability of enjoying in interior sight golf equipment then shifting up into the great city venues like the Beatles / Stones / The Animals / Lindisfarne and maximum different universal bands did ) i began enjoying interior the interior sight church corridor then took training and slowly began to play in greater effective bands until eventually I became sturdy sufficient to connect a huge Swing Band. over the years I even have performed in many styles of bands ( Swing / Jazz / Rock / Orchestral / Dance Band / Latin American / Scottish / Irish / 40s, 50s, 60,s 70,s Pop communities. and others. you need to no longer do this on the instant ! whilst I performed contained in quite a few bands, I have been given to ensure the variations of trend. The Teddy Boys with their purple and black velvet collared suits and the ladies in amazing 'A' line outfits that have been lots greater appealing than on the instant. The Rockers, The Mods, the long Hair of the Beetles era ( mine replaced into all the way down to my shoulders and blow waved ! ) i think of on the instant's pop scene, the music and the outfits is particularly bland and monotonous in assessment and the mechanical digital noise produced has no soul or rhythm. even nevertheless i'm 70, I nonetheless play drums with a band and luxuriate in all of the music from the previous 60 years. additionally for the period of my musical lifetime I hardly witnessed violence, drugs, binge eating or foul language.

Answer 3

I was a bit young but have vivid memories of living in Japan, seeing the destruction as to blocks of rubble, and all. My Dad was attached to the Embassy and we also visited Nagasaki
a few years after the atomic bomb. That memory, that day and more in the area still "haunts" me. Saw many people who were scarred, burned, maimed and it did make an impression on me as a 4th grader. It was perhaps the fifth anniversary of the bomb. I suspect my father was "ordered" to attend some ceremony really cannot recall. There was a
parade, procession of many of the survivors and all sorts of Monks and religious activities, recall seeing many Catholic Nuns in the city.

The Japanese were very polite and friendly to us, even though my father was a Naval officer, we had some good times near Sasebo and such. Japan was well, most folks used hand carts to push, pull stuff with, rare to see a car
unless in was military.

But any person from the south of England can relate the destruction from the Blitz. My mother came out out of that
and also saw what we saw that day.

edit:
Left out: never saw my father, or do not recall him until I was in kindergarden or so: he was away for WWII. So a "memory" that is of his absence is my WWII memory.

Answer 4

The Great Depression started in October 1929, and WWII ended in 1945...

I am too young, but I had uncles at Pearl Harbor and in the Battle of the Bulge... I also have my parents' letters to each other during WWII...

What did you want to know?

ADDED LATER:
Here is a personal story of my parents... My mom was working at Grumman Aircraft out on Long Island while my dad was in Naval Training... and he was lucky enough to get assigned to be stateside instaed of in the war zone. Well he let my mom know, and she was so so happy that he wouldn't be at risk... but she wrote in her letters that she didn't say anything to her co-workers because she knew they had boyfriends & husbands "over there" and she thought it would be cruel, disrespectful and selfish to celebrate and act all happy about......

I think people pulled together more back then...

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Answer 5

Dad coming home with our first TV Set. It was a little 9 inch Bush, Black and White, 425 lines. We had never seen anything like it before, and all the neighbours came around to our parlour to watch the Queen's coronation.

Answer 6

I was a young boy in the 50's and only knew my father & mother, uncle & aunt had been to war, but knew little about the war itself until I was older