(1686) Poverty Scenes, Michigan Ave., Detroit, 1950s

Homeless men drink from a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag and rest on newspapers in a vacant lot on Michigan Ave’s “Skid Row”, 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.