06-07-2010, 12:34 AM
$1 a day went a LOT farther back in the 30's than it does now. I heard out of $30 a month, $25 was automatically sent home. Talk about a stimulus package! Those meals the workers ate had to come from somewhere. The money sent home was spent in local economies, not some multinational corporations. Plus, when WWII rolled around, we were ready to mobilize with an army of healthy young men accustomed to taking orders and ready to serve a country they had literally worked to rebuild.
Sorry to stray off topic too far, but while so many of us model the period of the American High, the post-war diesel to transition era, I prefer the grittier 20's & 30's with a little residual deco styling and depression-era grime. With nearly a full historic cycle passed since then, we can even romanticize such a dark and turbulent time in our history between the wars. At least on my RR I can!
Galen
Sorry to stray off topic too far, but while so many of us model the period of the American High, the post-war diesel to transition era, I prefer the grittier 20's & 30's with a little residual deco styling and depression-era grime. With nearly a full historic cycle passed since then, we can even romanticize such a dark and turbulent time in our history between the wars. At least on my RR I can!
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!