CHRISTMAS MORNING 1932

[Steve Cambria]

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MERRY CHRISTMAS from the AHFCA!!

PS---We can count on one hand the number of J-Grade SBT's sold that year.
It makes you wonder: A stock market and banking system still reeling. Rampant unemployment (north of 25%) GDP on ice, the manufacturing sector approaching its nader. An economy plunging into the abyss. Who had the luxury of buying a dedicated trap gun? (The short sellers???)

[Phillip Carr]

Wonderful picture.

[Dave Noreen]

The same folks who bought SJ Duesenberg and V-16 Cadillac autos in 1932.

[Garry L Gordon]

Great photo of a great gun. (And there will always be rich and poor in the good ole U.S. of A.—just in varying proportions.)

[allen newell]

I've experienced both conditions

[Drew Hause]

One of my Kernan favorites from 1932

https://photos.smugmug.com/Vintage-Sporting-Ads/Christmas/i-2qfPxXG/0/MkXJ2qRCWScgWtX6b8Js93jTfHQTBPLRfxvgZ7Z42/X2/Kernan%20Christmas-X2.jpg (https://drewhause.smugmug.com/Vintage-Sporting-Ads/Christmas/i-2qfPxXG/A)

[Paul Ehlers]

On the lower end of the spectrum.

My mother was two years old in '32 and her parents were able to buy their first home that year for $1400.00 and they had no idea if they would be able to make the mortgage payments on it with my grandfathers salary working as a cobbler. They made though by grandpa hiring in at a Chevrolet dealership as mechanic. That career path ended up being a 34-year journey and the house got paid off.

Mom is still with us & I just wished her Merry Christmas a few minutes ago. This is her 95th Christmas & counting.

The blessings are many!!

[Dave Noreen]

My father always said he voted for Al Smith against Hoover, so The Great Depression wasn't his fault.