Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

The Good Times had lasted a decade

Some People thought

they would never end

But there had been signs

Many people didn’t have a job or sufficient income

Family Farms were failing

But on Wall Street...

Record profits followed record profits

Prices had never been so high

...and brokers thought that it would continue

But it couldn’t last

Stocks had more than tripled since the war

Efforts to stop the crash failed

Thomas Lamont, Albert Wiggins, Robert Whitney

Panic spread into the streets

People lost their life savings, businesses failed, banks closed.

The Looooong Fall

Recovery didn’t begin until 1937

This was the REAL Recovery

Until then....

Bennett Buggies, Coming Soon...

THE END