 During the Great Depression, the unemployed Jaffee ended up on bread lines and was forced to pawn his Olympic and other medals for $3500.He obtained a job on Wall Street, he tried to redeem his medals, but the pawn shop went out of business, meaning that he never saw the medals again.In 1934, he worked as Winter Sports Director at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, and set a world record there by skating 25 miles in 1