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Two hoboes, one carrying a bindle, walking along railroad tracks after being put off a train (c. 1880s –1930s). A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. [1] [2] Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works.
Only a pot and a fire are required. The hobo who put it together was known as the "mulligan mixer." During the Great Depression, homeless men would sleep in a "hobo jungle" (a campsite used by the homeless near a railway). Traditionally, the jungle would have a large campfire and a pot into which each person would put in a portion of their food ...
Born to a broken home in Ohio, he was shunted from father to mother to aunt to married siblings. In 1931, at the age of 14, Graham began riding the rails as a hobo during the Great Depression. He settled in Toledo, Ohio, with his wife Wanda in the late 1930s, where he worked as a cement mason and founded a trade school for masons. During World ...
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression: Routledge. ISBN 0415945755 The Great Depression - The Story of 250,000 Teenagers Who Left Home and Ride the Rails "Riding the Rails", American Experience PBS series. Conover, Ted (2001). Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. Vintage.
A Hooverville in Seattle, 1933. Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it.
This original title is a homage to the historic joke among Great Depression-era hobos that the world's best hobo was "Emperor of the North Pole", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation, implying that somebody ruling over the North Pole would reign over nothing but a vast, barren, cold, empty, and stark wasteland. The film depicts ...
A year later, the hobo character that had first been created on a drawing board in Kansas City came to life. Ragged homeless men were commonplace during the Depression, and on April 21, 1933, the tramp clown made his first appearance during a performance at the Chicago Coliseum. [9] In early 1934 a second child, Patrick, was born.
Examining the causes of the Great Depression raises multiple issues: what factors set off the first downturn in 1929; what structural weaknesses and specific events turned it into a major depression; how the downturn spread from country to country; and why the economic recovery was so prolonged.