Topic: The Depression Era in the US in an automotive sense

[thorax]

thanky you Bill!

[Ray B.]

Regarding Sweden, I have done a little research on the emigration of Swedes to the upper midwest area of the US.

Peru saw an influx of Brits, Italians and Swiss at the end of the 19th and early 20th Century and I have looked a bit at that.

The story of migrations is really interesting. Even in Europe we're all immigrants one way or the other.
I may be French, but one of my great grandmothers was Spanish. One of my great grandfathers was a German who settled in France. So his son, my grandpa, was drafted in the french army when WWI erupted, wounded and detained in Switzerland, a neutral country. There he met my swiss grandmother, who was born and had lived all her childhood in Argentina, where her family had emigrated before coming back to Switzerland when their farm went bankrupt.

[Bill Murray]

Ahhh Ray, the stories we could tell......

My Sister is in charge of our family genealogy and I will email her today to get some details.  Scotch/Irish I think on my Dad's side 3 generations back.  German I think on my Mother's side also 3 generations back, I being of the 4th generation.

My Wife Pat's genealogy is a bit more interesting in that she is 1/8 Cherokee Indian.  I don't know much else.

In my case, I was born in China and as my mother could not make milk, I was nursed by one of our Chinese employees. That plus the fact that I was physically born there means that as far as the Chinese Government is concerned I am Chinese no ifs ands or buts even though I renounced my Chinese citizenship when I turned 18 years old.  This made my various trips to China quite interesting when going through the Immigration checks later in my life as my Passport lists China as my birth country.

Interesting your comment that "we're all immigrants".  National Geographic Magazine published a study just last month on the origins of Native American Indians.  Probably 90% of today's Americans assume they were always here but they weren't.
Earlier evidence showed they migrated here from Siberia over a land bridge that existed many thousands of years ago.
New DNA evidence suggests they also came from roughly the Middle East as well as Siberia.

Isn't science wonderful.

Well, we stray from the subject again.  I did get a new Scanner and am getting to know how to make it work and will be posting automotive "stuff" here and in other threads from my hard copy photo collection as I get the time.

Bill

[Ray B.]

Okies, 15 years later. The caption says:

1952. "Photographs show families who migrated to California during the Dust Bowl years. People pictured include Mr. & Mrs. Dinwiddie with daughter Ruth and grandchildren Margaret and Bobby." From photos by Earl Theisen for the Look magazine assignment "What's Become of the Okies?"

[Ray B.]

Here are the tunes that go with it.