Going to the Schenectady Savings Bank in 1939
It's March 15, 1939 at 10:27 am, and in this imaginary journey I'm going to the Schenectady Savings Bank in Schenectady, New York to do something that I haven't done since the crash, deposit my money in a bank. We're on State Street looking west towards Clinton Street. By the way, before I do that, I want to say thank you to my top history adventurer (who prefers to remain anonymous) for finding out the exact location of this photo, which was scanned by the nice people at Duke University for their website ROAD (Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions). They did all the hard work, and now I'm gonna have some fun. Come on along! It's been ten years since the stock market crash, and I'm ready to display my confidence in the economy by taking my life savings out from under my mattress, and taking it over to Schenectady Savings. I figure that I have almost seventeen dollars, although there may be some wooden nickels, and maybe even some Confederate money. I...