Today They're Called Squatter Camps.

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:47 am

A Hoovertown in Seattle, Washington, sometime in the early 1930s. Hoovervilles were shanty towns set up during the Great Depression, and were comprised of several hundred homeless people living in a makeshift camp. The “houses” were built from a variety of cheap objects, from wooden crates to cardboard. These hopeless communities were named after President Herbert Hoover, who many blamed for the financial crisis.

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Post by **jones jones** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:48 am

Scrat · Post by **Scrat** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:28 pm

That's roughly where Starbucks HQ is today and the stadiums. The homeless have been moved to the area under I-5 and along the side of Boeing field. This place was bulldozed to make a pier in 1941.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:40 am

How are these events seen in the United States nowadays? Great struggles for freedom and equality or communist disturbances that were out to destroy the united states? Not being facetious or anything. I had relatives involved in the labour movement and who voted for Labour after the war and turfed out Churchill who thought things should go on as before. The right seem to have won in the states - so far anyway. Working class heroes anyone

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:43 am

jones jones;1384910 wrote: A Hoovertown in Seattle, Washington, sometime in the early 1930s. Hoovervilles were shanty towns set up during the Great Depression, and were comprised of several hundred homeless people living in a makeshift camp. The “houses” were built from a variety of cheap objects, from wooden crates to cardboard. These hopeless communities were named after President Herbert Hoover, who many blamed for the financial crisis.
Too bad Harding wasn't still president at the time. His depression of 1920 doesn't even make it into the history books because he didn't muck things up and stretch it into a "Great" depression. Presidents never get credit unless they take a long time to take care of something.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:42 am

Now days those people would probably be arrested. Whoever owned the land would not allow such trash.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:21 pm

YZGI;1385027 wrote: Now days those people would probably be arrested. Whoever owned the land would not allow such trash.

They'd call 'em Occupiers! :yh_rotfl

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:58 pm

Accountable;1385045 wrote: They'd call 'em Occupiers! :yh_rotfl

Ypu, no doubt.