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How the Crash Will Reshape America
Architecture News - Feb 16, 2009 - 11:42 9716 views
My father was achild of the Great Depression. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1921 toItalian immigrant parents, he experienced the economic crisis head-on.He took a job working in an eyeglass factory in the city’s Ironboundsection in 1934, at age 13, combining his wages with those of hisfather, mother, and six siblings to make a single-family income.
www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography
www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography