Source C: LeRoy Hankel - Interview https://livinghistoryfarm.org/
"When the stock market went down to nothing there was people jumping out of two-story, three-
story buildings in New York. That's what we heard anyway. Just jumping out! That was probably quite
a bit of a shock. I was quite young at that time, but I still remember the Crash. I think probably word
of mouth as much as reading it. Everything went to pieces, just right now! That's the way I remember
it anyway. We just didn't have no money. It was, we were just living off of the chickens and cows was
what we was doing."
"We was living on it [a dollar a day wages]. We was giving $10 a month rent on the house and we was
still living on that $20. I tell you, you could buy a lot of groceries for a dollar. I remember telling her,
after we got married, I said, 'Now when we buy groceries and stuff whatever money you got, that's all
we're going to spend. We're not going to spend - not going to charge it or anything. We're just not
going to buy it.' And so that's the way we lived.
"I can remember going to Bereuter [gas station] buying 25-cents worth of gas. That seems crazy
now, don't it? But that would usually buy me two gallons of gas. Get me home and get me back to
town.
"We just lived from day to day, is what we done. We always had - as a rule we never had over 25,
30-cents in the house. And then we'd - Our eggs and cream we'd take to town and that would buy
the groceries and buy the gas to go home with. That's the way we worked. And whatever - she just
bought what she - I'll tell you, we lived on eggs and bread an awful lot."
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