Old photo with kerosen lantern

[Wolffarmer]

I found the whole series of photos that Dorthia Lange made in 1936 of Migrant Mother.



the photo that is the most well known does not show the lantern but most of the others do.

Hard camping

Guess I don't have it so bad after all. There is a bit written there about the photos, family and such

Happy thanks giving

Randy

[Shadow Catcher]

It would be interesting to do a modern equivalence study. There are many whose only home is their RV, I have friends, both engineers who lost their home in Northern Michigan and are now living in their 5th wheel down in Virginia. My understanding is that there are virtual communities on BLM land (boondocking) of otherwise homeless living in their RV's.

This differs from those who are truly homeless that you see at the shelters in record numbers in the Toledo Ohio area, or animals left at the SPCA shelter because the owners can no longer care for them.
I will restrain myself and say the seeds of this recession/depression came from the same place as the previous depression, deregulation of wall street and greed, with the addition of two unpaid for wars and tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest the most.

[Wolffarmer]

No need to restrain yourself around me with those ideas.

Randy

[DragonFire]

Don't forget that plenty of folks lived on credit and fell for those adjustable rate home loans...I had patients come in all the time and brag about the huge house they just got for themselves and 2 kids..all for next to nothing. People used to encourage me to do the same, but not liking to live on credit, I said 'what happens when it adjusts up to make up for the good rate now?? How do you know you can afford it?'...and, well, thousands couldn't.

I'm in CA...and was in the San Francisco area. It was bad when the dot com bubble burst and now it's even worse. There is no free lunch. Folks need to take a look at their grandparents and see how many of them bought everything but the house outright.

OK, off my soapbox. I just saw too many people ruined financially because they fell for the hype. Hope it hasn't happened to anyone here, or their loved ones. It's just so sad to see folks hit the hard times like that.

Now..back to camping!!! Teardroppers are good at the minimalist living thing...it's an exercise in doing a whole lot with very little!

[Wolffarmer]

A teardrop is a whole lot better than that canvas lean to they was living in.

Randy

[DragonFire]

My Grandmother was a migrant farm worker as a child. Traveled around northern CA and once to San Antonio for awhile..following crops. She and her brother would go to school and then come back to work. Cardboard in their shoes where the soles had worn through. The family would travel with another relative...a Ford carried their stuff, the older family members would ride, everyone else walked behind. From Holister to Chico. That's a few hundred miles.

Grandma got behind in school due to the traveling, but still had good grades. They lived in tents like above until they could build something or rent something.