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What My Grandfather Did in the GREAT DEPRESSION . . . and How It Saved His House




What my Grandfather Did in the Great Depression . . . and How It Saved his House!
This is a photo I have in my heirlooms.  It's a photo taken before my Mother was born, when my Grandpa was "courting" my Grandma.
I guess they "courted" in wheelbarrows in those days . . .
My Great-Grandmother sits on her front porch, and the two "kids" are having fun.  I think my Great-Grandfather snapped the photo.
My Grandpa was born in 1888.  Not sure about Grandma, I didn't know her, she passed away when my Mother was only 11-years old.
My Grandfather married my Grandmother and they bought a house, in Massachusetts, on Surrey Road, in Arlington.  I remember, for some reason.
The GREAT DEPRESSION hit when my Mother was about 2 or 3.  My Grandfather was about 42 or 43 at that time . . . and had saved and saved to buy a home.  But, when my Grandfather became unemployed, everything that he had ever worked for . . . was about to be lost.  A proud, hardworking man, he had to muster the strength and do the only thing he could do.  He had to go into the bank and tell them he ... more

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