HOBO drawings - Help!
Jim Hill
hoboes used to leave behind for the edification of their brethren to follow.
The drawings were symbolic messages, having meanings like "police are tough
here" or "This house is a good place to get a meal" or "no work in this town"
or similar sentiments. Sometimes they'd be drawn on fences near the tracks,
the backs of buildings & etc.
Somewhere, I know I've seen compilations of these drawings, with notes
indicating what the individual pictographs mean, but I can't remember where.
Anyone know where to find pictures or a compilation of these drawings? Please
feel free to reply off list . . . any information you can supply would be very
much appreciated.
I know this request is a bit off-topic, but I'm hoping that those who remember
the songs of the Depression era will remember the hobo legacy as well :-)
Jim Hill
Madison WI
Ed Potter
The curent issue of our magazine, The Hobo Times, has a whole page of
'hobo Signs'. Get me your land address and I'll drop a complimentary
copy in the mail for you (or anybody else for that matter).
Buzz Potter, President
National Hobo Association
PO Box 706
Nisswa, Minnesota 56468
Abby Sale
>Jim,
>
>The curent issue of our magazine, The Hobo Times, has a whole page of
>'hobo Signs'. Get me your land address and I'll drop a complimentary
>copy in the mail for you (or anybody else for that matter).
>
Me! Me! I want one.
Jim Hill
>>Jim,
>>
>>The curent issue of our magazine, The Hobo Times, has a whole page of
>>'hobo Signs'. Get me your land address and I'll drop a complimentary
>>copy in the mail for you (or anybody else for that matter).
And Abby Sale wrote:
>Me! Me! I want one.
If you'll just agree to write even an "occasional" Happy! post, I'll send you
my free issue (after I copy the hobo signs page, of course).
I still look for your Happy! posts every day . . . but in vain.
Jim Hill
Madison WI