Hi, Love these stories. I think my husband said that he lived in Hooverville. Betty in St. Louis Co. Spaghettitree@aol.com wrote: Shanty town? Was this on the levee? Same as Hooverville? $1 an hour was big bucks - I worked part time at Woolworth's after school for 55� an hour and was ecstatic at my first paycheck, about $2.50 for the week. I proudly showed it to my father, 2 weeks before he died. Better than 25� an hour babysitting, or 10� a quart for those dewberries I had to pick and sell on Manchester Lane. We certainly learned the value of earning money. Maureen ==== GERMANS-STLOUIS Mailing List ==== LATIN-WORDS-L is a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in deciphering and interpreting written documents in Latin from earliest to most recent 20th Century times, and discussing old Latin words, phrases, names, abbreviations and antique jargon. To subscribe, send subscribe to mailto:LATIN-WORDS-L-request@rootsweb.com (Mail Mode) or mailto:LATIN-WORDS-D-request@rootsweb.com (Digest Mode) ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237