The Great Depression in Pictures

Caution Was Thrown Out the Window

With their money gone, job prospects bleak, and survival the only thing on the menu, people seemed to throw caution to the winds with reckless abandon.

Though this could be seen as a metaphor for debtors coming to call, this was actually some girls having lunch on an alligator farm.

Caution Was Thrown Out the Window

It isn’t clear what brought them to the point that they are ok eating with alligators deciding if their lunch of the girls is a tastier snack, with only a guy with a stick to protect them.