Mr Monkey at the Museum of History and Industry, 29th January

"It's a shame they needed a war to improve the economy"

Mr Monkey looking at a replica Hooverville shack Mr Monkey looking at a picture of a woman war-worker walking homelooking at a picture of a woman war-worker walking home

At the other end of the Boom Times, Hard Times gallery Mr Monkey found the hard times section. Seattle was hit hard during the Depression and many unemployed men lived in a shanty town that they called Hooverville*. Mr Monkey examined displays about Hooverville, then went into the Homefront gallery where he saw this picture of a woman war-worker on her way home after a day at the Boeing plant.

* After President Hoover who said that poverty had been eliminated from the USA just before the Wall Street Crash.

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