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Hard Times
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Dr. Winslow Hartford

Born:June 1, 1910

Well, because it should be obvious from my accent, I'm not a native. I was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1910....I think I came out of the Depression with a much different impression of it than we see put forward to people today. It was a time of great economic hardship - but I think the, in all probability, the morals and the sense of service among individual people at the time of the depression was higher than it's ever been, at any time in my life time, certainly. It was an area where you're one of many young people growing up in the depression with very little opportunity to earn any of the money that we needed to earn to, to work our way through college. It was - uh, we made out somehow or another. But young people have got to have their social activities and so on. And rather obviously we could not rely on, on commercial activities at the time because the - even the, the price of a movie, which was twenty five cents, was something we didn't have - most of us had maybe two or three dollars at the very outside to spend on recreation for a month.

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		Dr. Winslow Hartford
		Born:June 1, 1910
		Well, because it should be obvious from my accent, I'm not a native. I was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1910....I think I came out of the Depression with a much different impression of it than we see put forward to people today. It was a time of great economic hardship - but I think the, in all probability, the morals and the sense of service among individual people at the time of the depression was higher than it's ever been, at any time in my life time, certainly. It was an area where you're one of many young people growing up in the depression with very little opportunity to earn any of the money that we needed to earn to, to work our way through college. It was - uh, we made out somehow or another. But young people have got to have their social activities and so on. And rather obviously we could not rely on, on commercial activities at the time because the - even the, the price of a movie, which was twenty five cents, was something we didn't have - most of us had maybe two or three dollars at the very outside to spend on recreation for a month.
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