The W.P.A. saves the day
On April 8, 1935, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D....
Quarantined
When the Ohio River receded, residents of the West End of Louisville were not immediately allowed to return to their homes. An absolute...
Uncle Sam's buried treasure
The 1937 Flood disrupted many lives and events, and one of those events was the transfer of $5.52 billion dollars worth of gold from the...
Cross that bridge
Louisvillians have never let the Ohio River keep them from crossing over to Indiana, whether by boat or bridge or even by swimming....
Old-time radio
In 1937, Louisvillians had a choice of four stations they could pick up on their radios. Two local, WHAS and WAVE, and two out-of-town,...
The Old Reliable
Louisvillians depended on The Old Reliable -- the Louisville & Nashville Railroad -- for more than a century. The railroad provided...
Stop
We've all heard of Western Union but, in 1937, Postal Telegraph had more local offices serving Louisville. If you needed to send a...
Maybe we're a little spoiled...
Imagine graduating from high school in 1930. The economy has crashed. Crashed. Not just a dip in the stock market that slows things down....
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Released by Bob Dylan in 1964, the song, The Times They Are A-Changin', came out three years after Louisville had already made a time...
It wasn't just a white person's flood
We may not like to think about it, but segregation was the norm in Louisville in the 1930s. And so it follows that, during the 1937...
