Meanwhile, here's a wistful reminder of the building's better days, a death announcement for its onetime longtime retail tenant:
There's a lot packed in there worthy of comment. But I'd rather share another vintage clipping. I came upon it while looking for more info on Morris Kashdin and his 205 Parkside stationery store...a letter to the editor he wrote about what could easily pass as a very modern issue - budget deficits and bond issues. Then I read all the letters on that page, and I was stunned by their similarity to issues being volleyed about these days. Note the date: September, 1932 - roughly three years after the original Black Friday and the beginning of a lost decade for America economically.
Holy Moses Fried! It doesn't take a PhD in Astro-Economics to see that America has been down this path before, almost fit to a t. Here's the whole page of letters to the ed, with articles about Ivan Krueger (1932's Bernie Madoff), the Constitution and taxes (today's Tea Party), the evils of national deficits (seemingly everyone but Paul Krugman), the pain of unemployment at mid-life, the unwieldy size of drivers licenses (well, we fixed THAT problem) and of course - Pod Dismuke and Dink Botts - (??? and ????).
Enjoy.
2 comments:
Keep it up. Something needs to be done at that location. It is a hazard.
Mr. Kashdin's economic preferences (in his 1932 letter)seem positively tea bagger like. Of course when he wrote his letter he hadn't completely seen just how well Hoover's policies "fixed" the depression, so I guess we shouldn't criticize him too harshly.
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