SATURDAY AFTERNOON — Saturday used to a be a busy day in Perryton and here is a Saturday afternoon crowd jamming the streets in 1931. Sometimes there was a parking problem, even in those days.
The decade of the 1930s was one that will long be remembered by those who lived through it, and the most vivid memory of all is that of dust storms and depression.
The decade didn’t start out so gloomy.
There was a bumper wheat crop in 1929, and money was plentiful in the Perryton area. People bought new cars, new clothes, built new homes and business buildings and took nice trips.
