Growing Up 100 Years Ago

What was it like to be a child in the 1920s and 1930s? Many homes had no electricity, no telephone and no hot water. Children walked miles to school or rode there on horseback.

Then came the Depression. Julia says it taught her never to waste anything. Arthur moved between foster homes and boys' homes, and Phoebe grew up in an orphanage. Others remember piano music at home, picnics on the back of a farm truck and long summers at the beach.

These are memories of childhood a century ago, from the people who lived it.