The Breadline & Soup Kitchen was a Pioneer Square restaurant owned by Jack Fecker, Steve Darland, and Bill Keegan. Located at Second Avenue South and Jackson Street, the eatery was themed on the Great Depression, specifically the 1929 stock-market crash that led to breadlines and soup kitchens. The menu of soups, stews and homemade bread advertised "1929 prices and atmosphere" with lunches at $1.35 and dinner at $3.25. Its senior citizen staff, costumed in Depression-era clothing, served customers at the restaurant's mismatched tables and chairs, and a relic of a Mobil gas pump stood at the entrance to the bar.

In this photo Les Slead, reported to be the restaurant's youngest waiter, talks to a Breadline customer at a table lit by a bare bulb inside an upturned metal tub.

Caption information source: Seattle Times, November 28, 1974, p. 90.