Great Depression

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Befera, Victor Early Life
Victor Befera was born April 1926 in Hibbing, Minnesota. He grew up in the small iron mining town near Canada with his...
Rosenzweig, Abraham Early Life
Abraham Rosenzweig was born in Chicago, Illinois in January 1924 and grew up there. He had three sisters named Shirley...
Del Monte, Jack Early Life
Jack Albert Del Monte was born in May 1921 in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five...
Latiolats, Walter Early Life
Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. was born in January 1927. His home was in the Atchafalaya Basin [Annotator's Note: also...
Epperson, William Early Life
William Epperson was born in Trinity, Texas in 1923. The population of the city of his birth had not grown over a 50...
Shawn, Gilbert Early Life
Gilbert S. Shawn was born in 1921 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He grew up in Manhattan [...
Walker, Mort Early Life
Mort Walker was born in 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas. His father was an architect who built towns in locations where oil...
Shown, Donald Early Life
[Annotator’s Note: the interview start is preceded by a brief discussion by Donald Herbert Shown of his five years...
Newsom, James Early Life
James "Jimmy" Elam Newsom was born in Oakland, Louisiana in 1921. He grew up and lived in Louisiana until the war...
McLaurine, Luke Early Life
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was born February 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was in the bakery and restaurant...
McKay, Wallace Early Life
Wallace McKay was born in May 1925 on a snowy morning in Brainerd, Minnesota. He grew up on a farm outside the city as...
Daniel, Randolph Early Life
Randolph Daniel was born in Marshall County, Alabama in September 1926. He saw hard times in the Depression [Annotator'...
LaNier, Joseph Early Life
Joseph Conklin LaNier, II was born in Columbus, Mississippi on 25 March 1926. He personally adapted the spelling of his...
Sterrie, Norman Early Life
Norman Sterrie was born and raised in the small town of St. James, Minnesota. After high school graduation, he worked...
Littig, Charles Ross Early Life
Charles Littig was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. When he was two years old, his family moved to Evanston which is...
Strunk, Chester Early Life
Chester Lee Strunk was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in December 1922. His father was a foundry worker. It was tough...
Cyr, Zeno Early Life
Zeno St. Cyr was born in 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri. Although his family was from New Orleans, at the time of St. Cyr'...
Lux, Gerald Early Life
Gerald Wayne Lux served in the United States Navy in the Pacific and made it to Australia and Japan. He volunteered for...
Pugh, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Edward Pugh was born in June 1924 in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in Denton [Annotator's Note: Denton, Texas]. His...
Arrow, Kenneth Early Life
Dr. Kenneth Arrow was born in the United States of ancestry which had emigrated from Rumania. He was born in New York...
Biernacki, Chester Early Life
Chester Biernacki was born in 1922 of immigrant parents. He had an older brother. His family lived in a neighborhood of...
Geraci, Dominic Early Life
Dominic Geraci was born 5 August 1923 in Chicago [Annotator’s Note: Illinois]. He and his two sisters grew up in the...
Burnett, Marshall Early Life
Marshall Burnett was born in Meridian, Mississippi in November 1925. He attended Marion Park Elementary School, Kate...
Burton, Windom Early Life
Windom Joseph Burton was born in Brittany, Louisiana in February 1921 . He had six brothers and two sisters. His father...
Stovroff, Irwin Early Life
Irwin Stovroff was born in Buffalo, New York in August 1922 and remained in Buffalo until he went to college. It was a...
Trim, Carl Early Life
Carl Trim was born in Greenville, Mississippi in September 1926. His parents divorced soon after and Trim and his...
Rinas, Bruno Early Life
Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...
Spera, George Early Life
George Spera was born in 1924 in Mays Landing, New Jersey. He had no siblings. His father was a bricklayer and cement...
Villarrubia, Forrest Early Life
Forrest Villarrubia was born in 1925 in Lacombe, Louisiana. Lacombe is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just...
Amoss, Walter "Jimmy" Early Life
Walter Amoss was born in 1924 in Lake Charles [Annotator's Note: Lake Charles, Louisiana] and grew up in New Orleans [...
Viani, Bruno Early Life
Bruno Viani was born in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1921. He grew up on a crowded street that was primarily...
Johnson, John Early Life
John S. Johnson was born in Midco, Missouri in December 1921 and grew up during the Great Depression. His father had to...
Grapes, Opal Early LIfe
Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...
Fristoe, Claud Early Life
Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. was born in December 1923 in Hoxie, Arkansas. His mother was a telephone operator and his...
Gackenbach, Russell Early Life
Russell Gackenbach was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His family was Pennsylvania Dutch. His father was...
Ratcliff, Henry Early Life
Henry Ratcliff was born in January 1923 in Columbia, Louisiana. He had five brothers. He grew up in the area of...

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