Flashback - Denver

Explore Denver from the sky in 1933! Discover your home and other popular landmarks as they looked during the Great Depression!

"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4th, 1933

Imagery acquired from the City of Denver Open Data Catalog under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (CC BY 3.0).