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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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10233927740107755&set=a.1590567076712
Saturday, September 30, 2023

house numbers painted on the curb, an innovation in the early 1930s to put vets to work during the depression

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In 1933, Portland passed an ordinance to rename streets and renumber buildings in the city. Here we see a city employee numbering the curb o...
Monday, December 17, 2018

there once was a baker during the great depression, who had to collect on the bills due

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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 an...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

There were about 85 different car manufacturers, mostly between 1895 and 1925, from Minnesota... ain't that somehting!

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http://www.mnregionaaca.org/mncars.htm via http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/12/11/quick-quiz/
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Interesting thoughts on automobiles

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Like the carriage industry, however, the bicycle industry contributed people, components, capital, and ideas to automotive transportation. I...