re: #226 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Uncle John did pretty well anyway, selling the hotel in the 1920s before the Crash. I think he kept an interest in it, because his brother lived at the hotel for a time in the 1940s. John was able to retire in his early 50s, bought some property in the Catskills for a country home, and lived in a variety of Upper East Side apartments. He and his wife traveled a bit, too, sailing to Europe at least twice a year.

But if he had held on a little longer, he could have made even more dough. Weathering the Depression would have been a problem, though.

Interesting. Funny you bring up the depression, since in the family history group I set up on Facebook, my relatives were wondering how my family weathered it. I think they did pretty good as my grandfather was a college graduate as was his older brother who also was a law school grad too so they did alright. They do seemed to have live a good life though. My great aunts and uncle’s parents had a house on Lake Erie I think that they went to in the summers.