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Message:: [QUOTE="masterswimmer, post: 25224640, member: 102022"]Since we've entered into the whole depression era, I guess I should divulge my grandma and grandpa's foray into some of the most difficult financial times of most Americans. My grandpa, husband of the same grandma who got me started on coin collecting, was a somewhat well to do entrepreneur in the roaring 20's. He owned his own factory in the garment district of NYC. He employed about 100 designers, pattern cutters, seamstresses, and salespeople. My grandpa financially helped most of his brothers get into their own businesses. When the depression hit things got tough for everyone. My grandfather was not shielded from the same tough times as the rest of the country. He lost his business. Went broke like so many millions of others. Some of his brothers escaped total ruin due to the businesses they were involved in. When things began to return to post WWII normalcy my grandfather was looking to restart his business. His brothers, the ones he helped get started, all looked the other way. None of them helped him get back on his feet. Did they HAVE to? Certainly not. This led to severing of all contact with his 11 brothers and sisters, and his parents. Just as a visual to help see the extent of the family size, here's a picture of them. My Dad, his brother (my uncle), my grandparents, and my great parents (circled). Both of my great grandparents were alive when I was born, well into my youth. I never met them, or any other brothers, sisters, their spouses, or children, or anyone else in this picture. The only people in the pic that I ever knew were the four people with labels. My grandpa knew how to hold a grudge, till his dying day. The Great Depression destroyed many families, in more ways than one. [ATTACH=full]1607267[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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