25 Years Ago Today
25 Years Ago Today
One of a series of glimpses into a time not so long ago but already shrouded with memory and nostalgia. F.D.R.'S Inauguration - The Bank Holiday and depression barter - Legal 3.2 Beer - Omens Of The Sack Dress - Only 25 Years Ago. The White House. Herbert Hoover leaving the White House for the last time as President, sharing a car with FDR. Franklin D Roosevelt: "First of all. Let me assert my firm belief - That the only thing we have to fear. Is fear itself". MS - The Bank Holiday and traffic on the streets. Mass of people walking on the streets of New York. CUS - A man making Depression Dollars out of rubber. i.e. - Rubber Check $1.00. CUS - A sign reading; "You don't need Money. What Have You Got? We will take Anything". A man give a guitar for a sack full of food. CUS - Beer getting bottled. Barrels rolling down a shoot. Two bartenders setting up mugs of beer. MS - Inside a bar. MS - A bank that went bust is turned into a bar. Legal beer. MS - Ladies walking down the streets of New York wearing Sack Dresses.