Sports Table Topics Table Topics questions are meant to stimulate family and classroom discussion. Some Seattleites were prosperous before The Crash, and others aspired to be through stock investments. That sense of unlimited potential in a wildly speculative market turned out to be deadly. People lost their assets and their hope. Some got involved with Communists and crackpots.
Bad times can bring out the best in people.
In the early '30s, charity was mostly private and personal. Even government aid was organized at the local or county level. Homeless men were the main occupants of Hooverville shantytowns. Recently, an encampment of homeless people was razed by the city. The Seattle Times seemed unwilling at first to accept the extent of economic disaster, even though advertising revenues must have dropped off precipitously.