Extraordinary color photos of the late depresson era

[freshwest]

34. The strange thing is, that in such areas people can find some freedom due to the space.

People know how to make do in these situations. In the city, because of their 'low standard of living,' they'd be fined, harrassed or run out with no place to lay their head.

People can reorganize their lives in the country as well as the city, but it will be done differently. Both are hard roads to go down, but this is where the ties of family and friends pay off handsomely. Not in terms of dollars or possessions, but acceptance and a feeling of belonging.

Of course it's not idyllic and things were not just, on the small scale or the large scale. Many people kept the faith with each other. It eventually led to prosperity for their descendants.

In looking at the photographs here, we see the rough cudgeling together of a future society, always. There is change and renewal. Just not in the 'proper' way some think life is made, or the way they like it to be.