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* "For a lot of the people I interviewed, the core of their lives were in the 1930s, '40s and '50s," said [Barry Chad]. "The Great Depression and World War Il were life-changing events for them - when you don't have a lot of money, when you have to rely on your family and friends, when your boyfriend or husband is overseas and you have to cling to religious faith ..."
* Chad's favorite story is from VN. (For privacy, each interviewee is identified only by initials.) VN told Chad how, in the '40s, she got paid the "magnificent" sum of $22 a week to work at Gimbel's Downtown in the music department, where they sold sheet music. Customers came in and asked what the music sounded like, and VN played it for them on the piano: Every lunchtime there'd be a whole bunch of people there. Every day they'd come in, and we'd sing, and have a wonderful time. It was like a party every day ... And I thought I had the world by the tail.See the full content of this document
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Talking Pittsburgh
It may be hard to imagine a time when an education at Pitt cost $75 a semester, or when ballpoint pens were called "revolutionary," or even - for some of us -...
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