Tenino Wooden Money

Speaking to the local news agency president of Teninos chamber of commerce Tyler Whitworth said The city could have given out debit cards or cash but we dont know where the money is going to go.

Tenino wooden money. Residents like Laurie Mahlenbrei an out-of-work schoolbus driver have been struggling. 1932 Teninos currency in particular captured the zeitgeist. He wanted them as souvenirs for himself and family members.

The rural settlement was hit hard by the Depression and saw a huge rise in unemployment and poverty. News of the wooden currency spread first across the country then the world. COVID-19 has revitalised the debate over how best to encourage economic activity mitigate the effects of recession and return the economy to normal.

Franc Sawatzki 55 from Whidbey Island traveled to Tenino on Friday June 26 to see if you could buy three scrips of Tenino wooden money. Tenino resident Kathryn Moses poses with wooden currency in 1932 World Wide Photo Los Angeles Times. In an effort to help residents and local merchants alike get through the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic the small town has issued wooden currency for residents to spend at local businesses decades after it created a similar program during the Great Depression.

Teninos Wooden Money The story of a small town in the US that created its own currency. Loren Ackerman prints wooden money on an 1890s-era press in Tenino Washington The current Tenino Wooden Dollars are printed with the same newspaper press from the 1890s that was used in the 1930s. Wooden money Like a lot of small towns Tenino Washington was hit hard economically by the COVID shutdown.

In December 1931 the towns only bank closed down leaving hundreds with no means of financial support. Some of those original pieces of are now displayed in the Tenino Depot Museum. The wooden money was produced in a variety of small denominations.

The wooden money was accepted in Tenino at its face value but today Tenino residents were asking 1 in United States silver or currency for their wooden fifty-cent pieces and getting it because of the great demand for the money from coin collectors The New York Times. Wooden money During the Great Depression when cash was hard to come by the city of Tenino Washington printed its own scrip on bits of wood. In this May 21 2020 photo Loren Ackerman prints wooden money on an 1890s-era press in the town of Tenino.