The soup kitchen at the St. Bonaventure Monastery in 1938. Despite the gyrations on Wall Street the previous month, the region feels financially secure.
Brokerage firms buy full-page newspaper ads to assure Detroit clients that the markets are stable.
And the city can boast several new housing developments. These exciting days would end with the Great Depression. At the Ford Rouge plant, workers making 92 cents an hour in 1929 were collecting 59 cents an hour in 1933. It would be temporary, they say. It has never closed.