When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.
“At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.”
“I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.”