TSINTELISSOPHIA

Interview with Sophia M. Tsintelis, 1973

 

1973-10-15

 

Interviewer: Dakis, James H., Jr.

Mrs. Tsintelis was born in San Francisco on October 18, 1918. She lived there until she was 18 years old, at which point she moved to San Diego. Her father was a cook who managed to keep two part-time jobs to support the family, thus lessening the impact of the Great Depression on her family. Later on, he worked for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) digging ditches and working on buildings. Tsintelis discusses the following subjects: the effects of the Depression in San Francisco, and in San Diego known through friends; eating vegetables that her family grew before her father got a job with the WPA; filling up on food and clothing at the WPA commissary; the extent of suffering in San Francisco; her brother who committed suicide when the stock market crashed; the effect on the immigrant population and ability to adjust; Herbert Hoover's policies and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Works Projects Administration; WPA; Oral histories; Interviews; Suicides; Stock market crash; Herbert Hoover; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Immigrants; Sophia M. Tsintelis; James H. Dakis, Jr.

 

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