About this title: From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an extraordinary cultural/political ferment. It was home to Bughouse Square (the nation's most renowned outdoor free-speech center), Ben Reitman's Hobo College, and the fabulous Dil Pickle club, a highly unorthodox institution of higher learning that doubled as the craziest nightclub in the world. It was something like New York's Greenwich Village, but - thanks to the prominence of the Chicago-based IWW - much ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Charles H Kerr
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780882862514ISBN:0882862510
Description: Brand new paperback. A vivid account of a colorful, dynamic, creative and radical community of hoboes which flourished in Chicago from the 1910s through the Depression 30s. It chronicles Chicago's wild Near North Side: Bughouse Square, the nation's most renowned outdoor free-speech center. The Hobo College, the fabulous Dill Pickle Club are described, as well as the anarchists, Wobblies, feminists, poets, artists and others who frequented them. This reprint of the 1956 edition includes a new ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Richard R. Smith Publisher, Inc., Rindge, N.H.
Date Published: 1956
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Dustjacket very lightly rubbed, Else Fine. Title of book on jacket and title page set in Hobo Type. "...memoirs in miniature of his contacts with and impressions of Chicago's fabulous radical personalities, with their supporting cast of Skid Row types...in the days before WW One. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Charles H Kerr
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780882862514ISBN:0882862510
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Charles H Kerr
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780882862514ISBN:0882862510
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
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