In reality people during the great depression looked for ways to have fun without spending much money. people danced with music from the radio, played cards and most importantly played sports such as football. Young children also read comics.
During the Great Depression, comedies, dramas, and serial programs were very popular.
Entertainment
Board games, movies like musicals and escapist fare
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
Migration rose during the Great Depression.
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During the Great Depression, comedies, dramas, and serial programs were very popular.
Entertainment
The music industry was almost destroyed by the Great Depression. But the popular music business was able to quickly rebound and became the second most popular form of entertainment during the Depression behind the movies. Both were popular because they were cheap entertainment and they helped take people's minds off their poor economic situation. The radio, which broadcast big band "gigs," news, comedy and drama, were as cheap as $10 and became depression-era Americans' favorite form of home entertainment. Movies were as cheap as 10 cents.
The music industry was almost destroyed by the Great Depression. But the popular music business was able to quickly rebound and became the second most popular form of entertainment during the Depression behind the movies. Both were popular because they were cheap entertainment and they helped take people's minds off their poor economic situation. The radio, which broadcast big band "gigs," news, comedy and drama, were as cheap as $10 and became depression-era Americans' favorite form of home entertainment. Movies were as cheap as 10 cents.
In the United States, Baseball was the most popular sport in the years of the great depression (1929-194?).
jazz music
Board games, movies like musicals and escapist fare
monopoly
The most popular sport during the Great Depression was probably baseball because almost everyone knew how to play it, it was very popular in America, almost everyone had a baseball bat and baseball because it was cheap, and in was fun and entertaining.
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
Migration rose during the Great Depression.