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Jack Black (1871–1932) was a Canadian and American hobo and burglar. Black is best known for his autobiography You Can't Win (Macmillan, 1926), describing his days on the road and life as an outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight, but it is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons ...
You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926.It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century.
Carmen Filpi as Hobo Jack, whom Pee-wee meets on a train. Jan Hooks as Tina, the Alamo tour guide. Luis Contreras as Biker No. 2; Cassandra Peterson as Biker Mama, of Satan's Helpers. Jason Hervey as Kevin Morton, a bratty child star. John Paragon as Movie Lot Actor; Lynne Stewart as Mother Superior, in Kevin Morton's film. Phil Hartman as Reporter
Some called him the Highbrow Hobo, others a curbstone orator, a walking encyclopedia, or a human history book. To most he was known simply as “Railroad Jack, History Expert.”
Immediately after Harry McClintock record, in November 1928, Ernie Hare recorded the song as Hobo Jack Turner. Vernon Dalhart and Company recorded this as The Big Rock Candy Mountains, on Edison Diamond Disc No. 52472-L, in February 1929. This version is now available on cylinder record, released in November 2016 by the Vulcan Cylinder Record ...
Edison Records "Diamond Disc" label (early 1920s) with Jones and Hare singing "That's a Lot of Bunk" Ernie Hare with Billy Jones Thomas Ernest Hare (March 16, 1883 – March 9, 1939) was an American singer who recorded prolifically during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on the Happiness Boys radio program.
The guys make a return visit to fan favorite Hobo Jack's sprawling forest sanctuary in Illinois. But wading through his "junkalanche" proves easier than making a deal. In Chicago, the guys search for a big-ticket item as they scour a mammoth warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with stuff.
The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907.It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. [1]