1909: The Hogs That Were Hunted by the Health Squad on Brooklyn’s Barren Island » BarrenIslandCars
Although residents continued to live in run-down shacks, each family owned at least one car in the 1930s. Many of the women wore jewels and diamond-studded combs and had other valuable souvenirs that they found when the island was used as a garbage dump.
Barren Island cars on beach, 1930s
