Bankling » photos http://bankling.com Finance Tips, Savings Calculators, Highest CD Rates and More Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 It Won’t Get This Bad, Will It? Eerie Photos of the Great Depression http://bankling.com/2009/it-wont-get-this-bad-will-it-eerie-photos-of-the-great-depression/ http://bankling.com/2009/it-wont-get-this-bad-will-it-eerie-photos-of-the-great-depression/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:17:48 +0000 Jimmy A http://bankling.com/?p=163 If you think this recession is bad, imagine what life was like during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Presented below are my favorite five photos from that era. Hopefully, our current economic situation won’t get this bad. But if it does, at least it will be in color. :)

Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, 1936 (source)

March of the Unemployed in Camden, NJ (source)

Cattle Skull, Badlands, 1936 (source)

No Way Like the American Way (source)

Free Coffee & Donuts for the Unemployed (source)

All pictures were found on Flickr under the 2.0 Creative Commons License, and each links back to the source. Copyright belongs to the original photographer.

]]> http://bankling.com/2009/it-wont-get-this-bad-will-it-eerie-photos-of-the-great-depression/feed/ 1 Dancing in the Motor City Graveyard: Beautiful Photos of Detroit’s Abandoned Buildings http://bankling.com/2009/dancing-in-the-motor-city-graveyard-beautiful-photos-of-detroits-abandoned-buildings/ http://bankling.com/2009/dancing-in-the-motor-city-graveyard-beautiful-photos-of-detroits-abandoned-buildings/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:50:06 +0000 Andy H http://bankling.com/?p=77 People are finally getting the message: the economy is bad right now. Still, you can still hear the doubters on occasion; “Ford didn’t need the bailout, even if GM did;” “the whole mortgage crisis and foreclosure stuff is blown out of proportion;” “our infrastructure isn’t crumbling–that’s just the alarmists and media talking.” This is one of those times where a picture is worth a thousand words. Let’s go right to the heart of the current economic crisis, to the city that’s been hit worse than any other–Detroit, Michigan–and see what kind of picture a down economy can paint.

Abandoned Aquarium on Belle Isle (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitderek/2062755237/

Michican Central Station (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitderek/2062755237/

Fall Out [on a school building] (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jermz01/3176796921/

Detroit Yacht Club (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seejanesphotos/2868325992/

Hotel Roosevelt (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitderek/1505054247/

The innards of the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitderek/1479529593/
Blown Out Stairwell [Michigan Central Station collection] (source)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanegorski/2331298543/

All pictures were found on Flickr under the 2.0 Creative Commons License, and each links back to the source. Copyright belongs to the original photographer.

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