Here is Brookline Boulevard, in 1933, near the intersection of Flatbush Avenue. The Great Depression was upon the country and escaped no-one, not even 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 dust bowl era and into a new age of prosperity. One interesting thing I remember from history classes is that the roads and developments in the County Parks (South and North) were built by the CCC, one of Roosevelt's New Deal initiatives. As for the picture above, note the familiar firehouse steeple in the distance.