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[SoCalDem]

I watch a lot of documentaries on PBS, and there was a great one a few years back, about this.. It made a lot of sense..

Also back then, there were very few college graduates, and not even "most" people had high school diplomas.. these were the grown up immigrant children..who had probably worked as children, prior to laws forbidding it.. they went to the movies all the time, and their ideas , in turn shaped their children..

My maternal grandfather used to BRAG about achieving a 6th grade education..my maternal grandmother only made it to 4th grade..My husband's mother taught school with a 10th grade achievment of her own..

People did not buy books..there was no "extra" moeny for stuff like that.. If they lived near a library, and had time to read, they might have checked out books, but with limited time, educations and an abundance of chores to do, movies were their "educations"..