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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

1938: AREA UNEMPLOYED HOLD THEIR ANNUAL PICNIC

The Glover family wasn't the only area family devastated the Great Depression. Like today, unemployment was rampant and the country was still battling back from the 1929 financial disaster that ruined America financially. Here's a Times photo of those who attended the picnic at the Italian American Sportsmen's Club. The print dress and apron as seen by the ladies was the daily "uniform of the day" for Mom Glover and many other mothers and grandmothers from that era.

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