Great depression entertainment

Entertainment, people can’t live without it.  No matter if you are young, old or some were in-between, entertainment is always a round us. During the Great Depression the same was then is it is now. They may not have had all the different ways to get entertainment as we do now but it was everywhere. During the 1930’s they had movies, radios, dances as their main source of entertainment. The first radio came out in 1927 but did not become popular until 1930.  One of the songs that was popular during the time was “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land.” When you listen to the song or read the lyrics you see just how much it described that time in history. People that had moved to California just wanted to have a small piece of land to raise their kids on. When they arrived, they did not get the welcome party they may have wanted.

“Now the cars of the guests began to arrive, small farmers and their families, migrants from other camps.” When word got around that there was going to be a dance no matter how big or small everyone from everywhere showed up. It was a way for people to forget about their troubles even if it was only for a few hours. “Ma and Rose of Sharron sat on a bench and watched. And as each boy asked Rose of Sharron as partner, Ma said, ‘No she ain’t well.” Even when people weren’t able to dance the music and being around people that were having fun made life just a little bit easier for them.

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