Jobs

Finding a good, steady, well-paying job in the city was the favorite fantasy or daydream entertained by most working-class persons from 1925 to the mid-1950s. This was a condition that low-skilled immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds shared, a community of near-desperate, hungry laborers.

It would take many old-fashioned inkwells of ink to describe the fear and anxiety that my relatives experienced in that time period. The times were already rough before The Wall Street crash, which was followed by the Great Depression and World War II. There was little joy in Spindle City for scruffy, under-educated immigrants and their children.

More later.