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An unemployed veteran earned money on Wells Street selling apples for a nickel in December 1930. That year, the International Apple Shippers Association had an oversupply of fruit and decided to empty their warehouses by selling apples on credit to the unemployed. Vendors with a crates of apples on city street corners became common during The Great Depression.
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