Soup Kitchen Lines During Great Depression. Sometimes people would wait in line for hours to get a bowl of watery soup and maybe some bread. Unable to find work and seeing that each job they applied for had hundreds of seekers, these shabby, disillusioned men wandered aimlessly without funds, begging, picking over.
The soup kitchen was a places where food is offered free to the needy. Opened by gangster al capone, the storefront sign jobless men in line at a depression era chicago soup kitchen, feb. The rest must wait for generous passersby.
This was only a few days after the infamous wall street crash.
The first soup kitchen was opened in detroit, michigan by the capuchin services center and was opened on november 2, 1929. And bread lines was a lines of people. In this lesson, we're going to explore the history and function of soup kitchens, and see what they represented to people. There was no social security, welfare, or unemployment compensation until fdr and the new deal.