Waking up one day, Lin Jianshan became a college student in New York in 1929.
Fourteen dollars in my pocket, two months left on my basement lease, and a bull market of jazz, Fords, and national revelry outside my window. Everyone told him: Prosperity has no end and life is wonderful.
He knows nothing.
I didn't know that Wall Street would collapse in two months, I didn't know that milk would be poured into the river, I didn't know that tens of millions of people would line up waiting for a piece of bread. He was just a college student washing dishes, earning six yuan a week, trying to survive in a strange city.
Then the day came.
The male voice on the radio suddenly changed its tone, the crowd rushed to the bank, and the apple stall owner on the corner could no longer laugh. He stood in the crowd and watched a city fall from the clouds into the mud little by little——
Witness the most extraordinary page with the most ordinary eyes.
Purpose: Come and experience the Great Depression