Soup Kitchen Line Great Depression. Economy plummeted into the great depression, thousands of the windy city’s jobless huddled three times a day in a long line snaking away from a newly opened soup kitchen. Nara during the economic boom of the roaring twenties, the traditional values of rural america were challenged by the jazz age.
For a couple of years during the great depression, people in chicago could find a free meal at a soup kitchen run by notorious gang boss al capone. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are. The rest must wait for generous passersby.
Great depression breadline at mccauley water street mission under brooklyn bridge, new york.
The drought continued, hitting eight southern states the worst. By 1932, nearly one in four americans were out of a job, and by 1933, unemployment levels reached an estimated 25%. A bread line forms outside the rescue society in doyers street new york city during the great depression 1929. I witnessed firsthand how a city handles profound adversity:
