Favorite Celebrations ~  Great Depression Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

"That was the year when our family ate the piano." ~ James C Wright Jr, on his childhood during the Depression

When the stock market collapsed on Thursday, October 24, 1929, it set off a spiral of falling production and unemployment. The Great Depression would linger until 1941, with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs providing economic relief and recovery.

ARTISTS
Georgia O'Keeffe
Norman Rockwell

LEADERS
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas J. Watson

LIFE!

MUSICIANS
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday

PIONEERS
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Charles B. Darrow
Walt Disney

mickey mouse

Amelia Earhart
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

PLACES
Blue Ridge Parkway
Golden Gate Bridge

SCREEN STARS
Fred Astaire
James Cagney
Charlie Chaplin
W.C. Fields

Bob Hope
Emmett Kelly
Spencer Tracy

SPORTS STARS
Dizzy Dean
Babe Didrikson
Lou Gehrig
Connie Mack
Knute Rockne
Babe Ruth

WRITERS
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
A.A. Milne
Watty Piper
John Steinbeck
Thomas Wolfe

TIMELINES
B.C.
12th-15th Century
16th-18th Century
Wild West
Jazz Age
1950s
1960s