Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of all, people were talking about the Depression. In a poignant cartoon, the Dixon Evening Telegraph memorialized dejected workers leaving a steel and wire company carrying their lunch buckets home after being laid off. In Davenport the Union Bank failed, a year after the American Savings Bank and Trust Co., and the John Deere Co. shut down six plants, throwing 716 men out of work. In surrounding Scott County a monthly average of 7,000 persons -10% of the population-were on relief, getting beans, flour and potatoes. People were understandably riled that Iowa farmers, angered...
...tryout at WOC that took him by bus weekly from Illinois to Iowa through the football season, he considered seeking a $12.50 a week post at Montgomery Ward, where his father Jack sold shoes. In those days, $12.50 was a good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon dentists would pull a tooth by the "painless method," or so said their...
Hard times, the wet-dry fuss, national politics-these things obsessed Americans all year, but not to the exclusion of all else. In Dixon, Davenport and all over, people avidly followed sports. Baseball was the game, Babe Ruth the hero-and one who alone would have made the year memorable: flamboyantly gesturing toward the centerfield bleachers where he intended to hit the home run that would, and did, help the Yankees sweep the Cubs in the World Series...
Everybody followed the action on radio-which everybody was talking about more and more. The infant NBC-Red Radio Network delivered Amos n' Andy into Dixon living rooms at 6 every weekday night. Radio was such a captivating novelty that even Reagan's maiden effort as sportscaster rated a review in the Davenport Democrat and Leader. He narrated-for $5-Iowa's loss to Minnesota, 21-6, before some 10,000 spectators who had paid $2 to $3 and got rained on. Gushed the critic of Reagan's play-by-play: "His crisp account...
...despite the many problems, existence was not all grim. The luckless lined up for bread and coffee at Newman's garage in Dixon, and yet the truth of many a young man's mood was as remembered by Lawrence Grove, who hustled popcorn at the park where Reagan was a lifeguard. Recalls Grove: "We really had little sense of the Depression. We always had a good time." Such a time, in Dixon, usually meant a day at the park, socializing at Fluf's Confectionary, an 8? ice cream cone at the Prince Ice Cream Castle, roller skating...