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The Great Depression In Hampton Roads: Marvin W. Wschlegel
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Norfolk’s military ties made the Depression especially hard at home.
The Great Depression struck everywhere, but in Norfolk its impact carried a unique weight. Dependent on the Army and Navy, the city faced empty homes, shrinking population, and economic uncertainty when military forces pulled out—revealing how fragile a one-industry town could be.
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WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media
WHRO Time Machine Video
The Great Depression In Hampton Roads: Marvin W. Wschlegel
Special | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
The Great Depression struck everywhere, but in Norfolk its impact carried a unique weight. Dependent on the Army and Navy, the city faced empty homes, shrinking population, and economic uncertainty when military forces pulled out—revealing how fragile a one-industry town could be.
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- We are in the money.
We're in the money we've got a lot.
And nor was there was hit I think as bad as any of the places in the depression of 1929.
It hit everywhere.
And perhaps it didn't hit quite as hard in Norfolk as it did elsewhere because Norfolk didn't have so far to fall.
And because the pressure hit the hit the well to do worse, worse than the poor.
The poor were poor before and they were poor afterwards.
When the Army Navy pulled out, the place was almost a ghost town.
They had all these empty houses that they got for the people that were moving in during the war, and the population shrank and the city had an awful time going, trying to go for it.
And they, so there was a, the depression was, was very bad as far as the city was concerned, probably worse than it would've been elsewhere because it was so dependent on the Army and the Navy.
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WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media