I would love to spend some time researching the WPA in Salt Lake City. I'm assuming that this is where the building in this photo was/is located, and that Grandpa worked at some time on a project sponsored by the WPA (otherwise they probably would not have posed in front of the building).
Without going into a lot of detail at this point, WPA stood for Work Projects Aministration and was a work-based (not just handout) government program to give people jobs during the Great Depression.
This is such a great photo. It shows the hope that people had at that time, including our grandparents!
Note: Grandma explains in an interview I had with her in 1989 a little about the circumstances in the world when they were dating and the first years of their marriage. "Well, in those days we just didn't have too much money. [Clyde] was working and making pretty good money for Rio Grande—oh about thirty-five dollars which was wonderful in those days." So, somewhere around 1930-34 Grandpa worked for the railroad, and then he went to McGill, Nevada in the smelter there in 1939.
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