1930s: December 2008 Archives

Some of my recent posts have covered motion pictures and other forms of entertainment around York County in 1938. For a few hours local people could be distracted from the toll taken by the depression, which had dragged on for nine long years.

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Movies.
And more movies.
Music and dancing.

One Warrington Township farmer evidently found another way to forget the dark days. The September 15, 1938 York Gazette reports:

I had such a good time researching what movies local people were watching while they were just coming out of the Great Depression in 1938 that I neglected to check on the other forms of public entertainment available to them.

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So I went back to the newspaper microfilm to check see what kind of live shows were happening on Labor Day weekend in 1938. Music of all kinds was a draw, whether for listening or dancing. You could fill the weekend and more.