Depression-era shanties in Central Park, NYC, 1930. Photo credit, Culver Images. This is what the Great Lawn looked like then, an empty reservoir. It was one of the Hoovervilles. A Hooverville is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee .[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville Map: https://google.co.uk/maps/place/Belvedere+Castle/@40.7818591,-73.9699799,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x88efe22fb72978b5 NY Times article about this: nytimes/1993/08/29/realestate/streetscapes-central-park-s-hooverville-life-along-depression-street.html More about the Central Park Hooverville on the Great Lawn: legendsofamerica/20th-hoovervilles2.html
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:38:06 +0000
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