30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Trista - December 22, 2018

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression
Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley, 1939. Dorothea Lange/History In Photos.

20. You Rode on Railway Cars

Hobos were migrant workers who frequently did not have the money or means to find transportation from one place to the next. As such, they often jumped cars on the railroad. Tens of thousands of people were injured or killed in accidents related to jumping cars.

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