Since the Depression brought suffering and hardship to Americans the economy times ruined lives. People lost there jobs and some went hungry or became homeless. People who could not make there house...
The soup and bread lines were lines, that people living through The Great Depression, had to wait in, in order to get food from the givers on the street.
The SOUP KITCHEN was a places where food is offered free to the needy. And BREAD LINES was a lines of people waiting to receive fodd provided by charitable organizations or public agencies..
I believe that there soup kitchens. Although they were few and far between. Here is some trivia...Did you know that Al Capone (yes the gangster) started the Chicago soup kitchen's. He did not start...