![]() He was younger had had no family to support. My father lived through that and remembers people going through garbage to find food. Newspapers were called Hoover blankets b/c people were so poor they used them to warm themselves. Hoover presided over the Great Depression where people stood in breadlines, banks failed, men were so ashamed of losing their jobs many just walked away from their families. Regina from Nh The comments have me roaring.When women and queers and jews and the assorted colored folks knew their place. William Bugg from AlhambraDoes anyone know where I can find the notes to the melody of this song? I am wanting to play it on my guitar. ![]() ![]() Really an intriguing song if you think of it this way. Maybe she became a Rosie the Riveter while waiting for his safe return. Archie would have signed up, Edith would not have, cause "you knew who you were then" and her post was the home front. The phrase "girls were girls and men were men?" Young men, barely passed being boys, were expected to sign up with one of the services after Pearl Harbor. 7, 1941 - maybe our lovely couple heard the news in the car on one of those drives. The longer version of the song specifically references Sunday - which as ithappens was the day of the week on Dec. I imagine also that this lovely period in their lives ended with news about the attack on Pearl Harbor. So the elder Bunkers probably were okay even during the worst of the Depression, and Archie would have heard from them the sentiment that "we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again." (No jazz for our young couple! - that was for the "coloured folk.") My guess is that if the elder Bunkers could afford to let their boy tool around town on Sundays with his girl in their LaSalle they must have been well off - BETTER off than the Bunkers circa 1970 were, anyway. It begins with a reference to the favorite white peoples' music of the period, the Big Band sound characterized by Glenn Miller. They must have been "courtin'" in the period 1939-41, when the rest of the world was at war but the US was at peace and the economy had finally recovered from the Depression and the LaSalle was the hot new car. It makes me imagine Edith and Archie as young people, thirty years before we first made their acquaintance. If you sympathize with him you're media illiterate.
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