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Showing posts with label great depression effect on US auto industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great depression effect on US auto industry. Show all posts
Saturday, October 18, 2025
the ingenuity utilized during “The Depression”, to keep tires in use once they had blown. Kids would use oats or cottonseed in bicycle tires because they couldn't afford inner tubes during the depression too, and soak them in water to swell the material
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Saturday, September 30, 2023
house numbers painted on the curb, an innovation in the early 1930s to put vets to work during the depression
“Portland House Numbers to Go on Curb-stones, Placing of Figures to Be Done by Unemployed Veterans.”
“Portland residence will wear their numbers on the curb stones if they conform to the new fashion which already has been launched. A crew of 40 men, armed with credentials from the City Council, which recently approved a special ordinance endorsing the plan, began the curb decorating enterprise 3 days ago.”
“The house number, blazoned on the curbstone in three-inch, orange-colored numbers is placed on the vertical side of the curbing, where automobile lights will pick them up at night.”
“The work is being done entirely by unemployed veterans. Stencils for the numbering have been prepared and the same color and quality of paint will be used in all of the work.”
“The work began on the east side and will be underway on the west side today. Each of the men making the canvass is equipped with proper credentials, and the work will not be done without permission of the persons residing at the residence.”
Morning Oregonian, August 25th 1933, page 12
The numbers are painted on the curbs where the property owners consent, and where they are willing to pay a small charge for the work. The men pointed out that they numbers are not compulsory, but are placed as an added convenience in finding an address.”
Morning Oregonian, September 13th 1933, page 9
but the outstanding visual appeal of Arenas Curb Appeal in Orange County is something cooler, a father daughter duo.
Found on https://www.tumblr.com/armengoldira/729774018853519360?source=share which has a cooler video
Monday, December 17, 2018
there once was a baker during the great depression, who had to collect on the bills due
His wife decided that she was fed up with unpaid bills of $100 for bread and rolls, and wishing to preserve domestic peace, he went out and confronted one customer with a demand for settlement.
The guy had no cash, and offererd anything in the house that might compensate, but there was nothing to satisfy the baker.
How about a car? There were several in the garage. The baker picked out a sedan, and replied, "I gotta car," and made his frustrated departure.
The guy had no cash, and offererd anything in the house that might compensate, but there was nothing to satisfy the baker.
How about a car? There were several in the garage. The baker picked out a sedan, and replied, "I gotta car," and made his frustrated departure.
The baker's wife was not satisfied, so he set out and tried again. Soon convinced that cash was not forthcoming and with no other alternative in prospect, he became the grumbling owner of a 1912 Locke-bodied Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost!
http://www.peterhelck.com/memoirs/memoirs.html
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Interesting thoughts on automobiles
Like the carriage industry, however, the bicycle industry contributed people, components, capital, and ideas to automotive transportation. In addition, the bicycle created demand for the automobile.
All-in-all as much as two-thirds of the total automotive production in the late 1920's was displacing horse and rail transportation.
1895 was a historical year, the reason why we did not build road vehicles before was because the bicycle had not yet come in numbers and had not directed men's minds to the possibilities of independent long-distance travel over the ordinary highway.
We thought the railroad was good enough.
The bicycle created a new demand which was beyond the ability of the railroad to supply. Then it came about that the bicycle could not satisfy the demand which it had created.
A mechanically propelled vehicle was wanted instead of a foot-propelled one, and we know now that the automobile was the answer.
Auto sales were blazing while the car replaced the horse, bicycle, and train transportation; then became stagnant when the replacement was complete. Stagnation occurred at the point of one car per family. After WW2 auto sales re-established by an increased need for personal transportation, and the interstate system brought about as a great depression public works program to decrease unemployment while improving the infrastructure.
Another spike in car sales occurred when in 1973 the baby boomer generation reached car buying age.
By 1925, the average auto accumulated over 25,000 miles before it headed to the junk yard, by 1930 about 40,000.
Common rules of the road and associated symbols like the octagonal stop sign were also developed during the first growth phase.
The roads themselves were paved.
Installment financing became popular even though most banks opposed it at the time.
Independent auto dealers became the main distribution channel and service stations began popping up.
The primary objective of most affiliated innovations was to make the automobile easier to own and operate. As vehicles were produced which had the capabilities, and the low price, required to replace other means of transportation, people began to buy them for everyday use.
The sales of refrigerators rose sharply from 1925 to 1935, from practically none to 2 million, allowing groceries to be bought in bulk that would stay fresh longer, requiring a means of transportation for the loads of groceries... at a time when buying in bulk quantities became cheaper than an equal number of single unit sales. Buying groceries in large quantities spawned the supermarket, which killed the corner store, necessitating a vehicle to travel farther to get to the supermarket.
Increasing numbers of suburbs after the civil war were made possible by cable cars, via electricity... suburbs outstripped the availability of public transportation... which increased the demand for a car as a necessity and ended the concept of the car as a luxury.
http://www.klhess.com/car_essy.html
All-in-all as much as two-thirds of the total automotive production in the late 1920's was displacing horse and rail transportation.
1895 was a historical year, the reason why we did not build road vehicles before was because the bicycle had not yet come in numbers and had not directed men's minds to the possibilities of independent long-distance travel over the ordinary highway.
We thought the railroad was good enough.
The bicycle created a new demand which was beyond the ability of the railroad to supply. Then it came about that the bicycle could not satisfy the demand which it had created.
A mechanically propelled vehicle was wanted instead of a foot-propelled one, and we know now that the automobile was the answer.
Auto sales were blazing while the car replaced the horse, bicycle, and train transportation; then became stagnant when the replacement was complete. Stagnation occurred at the point of one car per family. After WW2 auto sales re-established by an increased need for personal transportation, and the interstate system brought about as a great depression public works program to decrease unemployment while improving the infrastructure.
Another spike in car sales occurred when in 1973 the baby boomer generation reached car buying age.
By 1925, the average auto accumulated over 25,000 miles before it headed to the junk yard, by 1930 about 40,000.
Common rules of the road and associated symbols like the octagonal stop sign were also developed during the first growth phase.
The roads themselves were paved.
Installment financing became popular even though most banks opposed it at the time.
Independent auto dealers became the main distribution channel and service stations began popping up.
The primary objective of most affiliated innovations was to make the automobile easier to own and operate. As vehicles were produced which had the capabilities, and the low price, required to replace other means of transportation, people began to buy them for everyday use.
The sales of refrigerators rose sharply from 1925 to 1935, from practically none to 2 million, allowing groceries to be bought in bulk that would stay fresh longer, requiring a means of transportation for the loads of groceries... at a time when buying in bulk quantities became cheaper than an equal number of single unit sales. Buying groceries in large quantities spawned the supermarket, which killed the corner store, necessitating a vehicle to travel farther to get to the supermarket.
Increasing numbers of suburbs after the civil war were made possible by cable cars, via electricity... suburbs outstripped the availability of public transportation... which increased the demand for a car as a necessity and ended the concept of the car as a luxury.
http://www.klhess.com/car_essy.html
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