Life+During+the+Depression-+sm

People without jobs often without jobs often went hungry. Many of these people stood in bread lines whenever possible for free food or they lined up outside of soup kitchens. Those that couldn't pay their rent or mortgage lost their home. Throughout the country, homeless people put up shacks on unused or public lands. They referred these places as Hoovervilles named after the blame of President Hoover. Through these hard times Americans escaped through entertainment. Which made movies and radio plays and even comic book even more popular. During the 1930's more than 60 million Americans went to the movies each week. With movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs one of the first feature- length animated film produced by Walt Disney in 1937, and a personal favorite of mine The Wizard of Oz produced by MGM in 1939.