Chronicling the Motor City's days gone past through vintage and historical photos and other Detroit related ephemera
Plowing a Detroit thrift garden during the depression.  May 4, 1934. W. Chicago and Birwood St.
More about Detroit thrift gardens and Mayor Frank Murphy and his unemployment committee (MUC-Mayor’s Unemployment Committee) at City Farmer News.
Here’s how the the the garden site looks today in Google Street View.

Plowing a Detroit thrift garden during the depression.  May 4, 1934. W. Chicago and Birwood St.

More about Detroit thrift gardens and Mayor Frank Murphy and his unemployment committee (MUC-Mayor’s Unemployment Committee) at City Farmer News.

Here’s how the the the garden site looks today in Google Street View.

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