This was me as a child

This is the house that i grew up in. It was me, my parents, and later on my cousins would move in with us as well

This is a picture from 1927 of my father who worked for ford on the assembly line

My mother on the other hand was a maid for various different families.

In 1925 my family was able to buy our first car. This was a major purchase in my family's history and was my father's prized possession.

In 1927 my father was fortunate enough to get a promotion to manager at Ford and life was looking up.

Me and my neighbor and my best friend todd playing as kids. Todd and i did everything together.

I didn't know how great i had until everything changed Oct. 29th 1929 when the stock market crashed.

The stock market crash struck panic into the people of the U.S. when they couldn't withdraw their money and the economy hit rock bottom this led to a huge decrease in consumerism and millions of people losing their jobs.

With unemployment and poverty rates skyrocketing, nobody had the money to afford the luxury of having a maid and she becomes unemployed.

Luckily, although my father took a huge pay cut, he was able to retain his job and remain employed. This allowed my family to barely scrape enough to keep the house although my dad had to sell his car.