The following photos show Brookline Boulevard in 1933. The image above shows the Boulevard near the intersection of Glenarm Avenue, near the cannon. There's a Kroger grocery store occupying the building where Chuong's Dry Cleaners is located today. Although the businesses are different, the storefronts and buildings still have the same look today.

This shows the storefronts from near the intersection of Flatbush Avenue. Again, the store's have changed but the look of the block remains similar today.

At the time these photos were taken, the country was in the grips of The Great Depression and no one escaped the hardships, including the residents of Brookline. Although the steel and other industrial enterprises that fueled the Pittsburgh economy kept much of the local citizenry employed, the wages weren't quite as lucrative as today. Everyone struggled to get by.

Despite the problems, Brookliner's kept their chins up and waited patiently for the New Deal of recently elected president Franklin Delano Roosevelt to bring the country out of the economic decline and into a new age of prosperity. An interesting local development that resulted directly from the New Deal is visible today in the Allegheny County Parks (South and North). The park layout, as well as the roadways and bridges, were built by the CCC (Civilian Conseration Corps), one of President Roosevelt's initiatives to put the unemployed back to work.