By Michelle Chance | InMaricopa
His story begins less than a month after Black Tuesday, America’s economic disaster that incited the Great Depression.
Oliver Anderson, 88, was born a Phoenician on his family’s farm near Southern and 19th avenues in 1929. Life for all Americans then was a challenge. But the effects of the Wall Street crash were less noticeable to those who worked the ground.
“We grew our own food, and what you didn’t grow, you traded with your neighbors,” Anderson said.
From farm to island, Anderson later spent two years in Japan on a U.S. Air Force base.
