I lived the ‘29 panic
My name is Jarvis Stapleton, originally from North Puyallup, outside Tacoma, but now a resident of the big red apple. Father was a pig farmer, but that wasn’t in the cards for me. I pulled up stakes and high-tailed it to New York City—spent half my fortune to get there, too. When I arrived, I got straight into the markets, trading in pork bellies. I guess you could say I had entered the family business HA! Well, everything was ring-a-ding-ding when it all went from easy street to hooverville. I ended up losing the other half working in corn husks. Barely have a sawbuck and a Lincoln to my name now, and I’m always the first in the breadline every morning, togged to the bricks though it won’t get you soup any faster! HA!
