(1688) Poverty Scenes, Michigan Ave., Detroit, 1950s

Patrons line the bar as a woman dances and waives at the photographer inside an undisclosed bar on Michigan Ave., Detroit, Michigan.

NOTE: Part of an expose series on Detroit’s “Skid Row” along Michigan Ave. between Washington Blvd. and Fifth Street. Spina spent ten days living on the Row to document the way people lived.

(1688) Poverty Scenes, Michigan Ave., Detroit, 1950s
Date: 
Circa 1950s
Physdesc: 
Photograph
Photographer: 
Tony Spina