These double-decker canvas beds host homeless men and "the wanderers, the hoboes, the bums, the beggars, the lost and the strayed." Men sleep at the Shelter for Homeless Men on 220 N. 12th Street, and the Sunday Breakfast Mission gives free meals to…
A Philadelphia Record caption reads: "The Sunday Breakfast Association opened its new headquarters yesterday [January 1, 1943] at 6th and Vine sts., with [church] services and breakfast for nearly a thousand men."