Cubs historical sleuthing: Back to the 1930s again

You never know what you’re going to find when you’re cleaning out a closet.

In this case, I found this photo, which was on an 11x16 card which was part of a “Vintage photo series” promo giveaway at Wrigley Field in 1997. Yesterday’s post on the pre-1937 scoreboard was about another similar giveaway.

On the back, it says the photo is from the George Brace collection and dates from the “early 1930s.”

Well, you know that’s not good enough for me. I wanted to know the exact date of this photo, and it wasn’t all that hard to find.

There’s a large crowd shown in the old bleachers, and on the field as well. It was common in the 1930s for teams to allow overflow crowds to actually sit on the field,…