The Great American Hot Dog: Memories of the Great Depression

by Chopman, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781585971428
• ISBN10: 1585971421
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Leathers Pub

Summary

The "crash" of '29 introduced New Yorkers to a social problem they never had before, "How to exist in a money oriented society without a damned cent to their names. That it came about overnight didn't help.

Author Biography

Tom Chapman was born in Boston in 1917 and raised in New York, this humor writer's first memories take us to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, midtown Manhattan and Riverside Drive when the Great Depression hit. Following a tour as Air Force navigator during World War Two, Tom went into teaching ballroom, eventually becoming a legend in the industry. After thirty five years with the Arthur Murray Organization this now international businessman, in addition to his U.S. holdings, had six major companies operating in England and was Regional Director for the A.M. schools in the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa. In 1983, while in London he founded T.C. Dance Club International, now headquartered at his school in Kansas City, the largest and most luxurious of its kind.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prologue: The Fat Cat
First Light	p. 1
Marion and Charlie	p. 11
Rhapsody	p. 19
The Mad Camper	p. 25
Before the Storm	p. 31
The Great Depression	p. 35
The GAHD	p. 39
Green Salted Hides	p. 49
Brother	p. 57
The Stadium	p. 63
'Les Ecoles Miserables'	p. 69
Ms. English	p. 77
The Exchange	p. 81
Wheels	p. 87
Forest Hills	p. 93
What's Almost Over?	p. 97
A Special Summer	p. 101
Nancy	p. 105
The Refugee	p. 109
"F" is for Funk	p. 113
Back In Business	p. 117
Bridge Anyone	p. 123
Boston	p. 127
Tea Bag Religion	p. 131
The Enemy	p. 137
Pursuit	p. 141
Artie	p. 145
Whitehall	p. 151
Rites	p. 157
California Here I Went	p. 161
Epilogue: Answers Anyone	p. 163
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