Gapers Block has ceased publication.

Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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The Denver Post has unearthed an incredible collection of color slides from the Great Depression. The photos are from all across America and really emphasize the poor and poorer (rich people, mercifully, are left out). Heartwarming and heartbreaking each image tells a tale of the brutal life in the real Depression. Look out for the exhilarating shots of Chicago's great railyards and the northward looking PBR sign that shows what, in that day and age, was Chicago's glorious skyline pre-Sears or Aon or Hancock.

 
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