Promise City

Duration: 0:30:00

Genre: Documentary | Educational

Year Published: [197

Creator: Des Moines

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Explores the slow economic death of Promise City, an Iowa farming community, where the small farmer can no longer make a living. Observes that 50% of the town's diminishing population is over the age of 55 and that they are without a physician or fire department. Records the resident's reflections upon the town's past history and notes that some believe current economic conditions are worse than those which existed during the depression., Explores the slow economic death of Promise City, an Iowa farming community, where the small farmer can no longer make a living. Observes that 50% of the town's diminishing population is over the age of 55 and that they are without a physician or fire department. Records the resident's reflections upon the town's past history and notes that some believe current economic conditions are worse than those which existed during the depression.

Complete Record: , Explores the slow economic death of Promise City, an Iowa farming community, where the small farmer can no longer make a living. Observes that 50% of the town's diminishing population is over the age of 55 and that they are without a physician or fire department. Records the resident's reflections upon the town's past history and notes that some believe current economic conditions are worse than those which existed during the depression.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.