And that awesome cardboard sign? As often as not, hes up there with the younger bos, the newer riders, answering questions and giving tips. And one time my brother was out hitchhiking in California, and some tramps got a hold of him and told him ride the trains instead of hitchhiking, and so he rode trains. A hobo's occupation depends upon his elemental alignment. There are events in Britt all week, beginning, ceremonially anyway, with the lighting of the jungle campfire, in which the hobos call down the blessings and benedictions of the Four Winds. WebBurberry is a British luxury fashion house, was founded in 1856 by tailor Thomas Burberry, and became popular during the Edwardian era. Then its time to elect a new king and queen. These warnings could be a well-meaning public service announcement, although scholars say they can also be read as Livingston's attempt to enhance the danger of the lifestyle to create even more intrigue about his exploits (and sell more books). And now we babysit the kids while they do a little bit more of the activities. In 1906, Professor Layal Shafee, after an exhaustive study, put the number of tramps in the United States at about 500,000 (about 0.6% of the US population at the time). Dutch is one of the motive forces of the Bo-lympics, an 80-proof skills and athletic competition among newly minted hobos. I had a buddy named Dusty, and me and Dusty used to sneak out there in the field and watch the hobos. Livingston's Central American exploits include anecdotes about the working conditions in the British mahogany camps, his repeated (but failed) attempts to desert his employers and head home on their dime, feasting on "roasted baboon," and his near-fatal run-in with something he called Black Swamp Fever (which could be a reference to malaria). Over at the Hobo Art Gallery, theyve unveiled the portrait of Tuck and Minnesota Jewel, last years king and queen. Houston, Texas, U.S. Leon Ray Livingston (18721944) was a famous hobo and author, travelling under the name A-No. Harry recalls his last conversation with Queen Liz. Black Pearl (English origin) from the movie Pirates Of The Caribbean, one of the most famous names for a boat. The Normal hobo occupation "of the Hill People" is a reference to the Saturday Night Live skit "Lothar of the Hill People". Bound for Glory is the story of singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, and thats where the mythology of the American hobo will likely live forever, in music. 32. That is to say, any attempt at an exhaustive enumeration of hobo ethics is bound to be foiled at least to some extent by the diversity of hoboes and their ideas of the world. Youre kind of generalizing all tramps into this group when thats not at all true. WebThe only thing missing from the Hobo Johnson backlash is A-No.1. And promptly the hobo to whom I gave the information lit out after his pal. Folks come and go, but one man hovers a few feet away for a while and watches it all with interest. Fascinating Pics Missing from Your History Books, Inspiring Photos of Historical Record Setters, Surprising Pictures Of American Hobos Riding The Rails. Maybe 2,000 souls. Famous Whiteface clowns include Frosty Little, Bozo the Clown and Ronald Burberry handbags are really classy and fashionable. Tidy lawns and houses. Bertha Thompson, a.k.a. No two characters are the same: Some save the day by sniffing out crime (Dog Man! [Title] [First Name] ["Nickname"] [Last Name], [Occupation]. Theres whatever youre chasing and whatevers chasing you. British poet W. H. Davies, author of The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, lost a foot when he fell under the wheels when trying to jump aboard a train. You have an email address!? Charlie Chaplin took the American hobo global. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL! Alaskan natives said McCandless was foolish and unprepared. Utah Phillips Utah was a legendary hobo singer, avid train hopper and poet as well as a strong union supporter and member of the Wobblies. No alcohol or drugs were involved in the creation of this list. We caught a train going the other way, and by sheer luck, it went right back to the same place we were at. 1' in everything you had to do, and, Kid, take my advice, if you have to be anything in life, even if a tramp, try to be 'A-No. The Adventures of a Female Tramp is social history, presenting vagabond underground culture with humor, excitement and a flare for the dramatic. Time and again newspapers do this phony expose articles that sensationalize trainhopping and then piously intone the death of hoboing, as if people catching out from some jungle give a flip about the opinion of some news editor. So monikers it is. That impulse travels all the way up the line to Jack Kerouac and the Beats. McCandless hitchhiked to Fairbanks and hiked into the wilderness near Mount Denali with a 10 pound bag of rice, a rifle with 400 rounds of ammunition and some books. This man was christened "Smilin Jack Cisco, The Hobo Prince of Arizona.". His later years were spent working various jobsincluding at electric and steel companies around Erie, though one source places him in real estate. He was riding the rails, and stowing away on ships starting at the age of 11 and then he began to write about his journeys. So our kids are now grown and they come back to Britt with their kids. [citation needed] The town first hosted the Convention in 1900, but there followed a hiatus of thirty-three years. Hoboes were noted for, among other things, the distinctive lingo that arose among them. Nevertheless, his story touched the hearts of many. Dont romanticize it. Boho chic has done pretty well. The carnies are all parked in their campers over on East Center Street, just up the block from the Toilet Bowl Racesa timed, point-to-point-to-point event involving teams of three pushing toilet bowls on wheels, the rapid consumption of popular snacks, a great deal of toilet paper and many teeny-weeny toilet trophies. And in the same way coffeehouses were indispensable to the American Revolution, railroads and hobos become an integral part of the modern U.S. labor movement, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Everything he owns fits in a knapsack. Its radical labor politics and spirit are then widely and passionately distributed by rail, by hobos coming and going around the country, like an injection into the national bloodstream. Leon Ray Livingston Houston, Texas, U.S. Leon Ray Livingston (18721944) was a famous hobo and author, travelling under the name A-No. During Hobo Days, the mayor himself works at the counter. Millie Opitz remembers hoboes coming to her neighborhood. Taking pride in his exploits, he carried a scrapbook of his journeys around with him, which included personalized letters and autographs from notable figures such as Thomas Edison, George Dewey, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft. Some of them fit the profile youve described, but several dont. That was very exciting, but theyve been a family to me, and so has Britt. These hobos were soon a familiar sight coast to coast. But I wouldnt trade it for anything. She was a well-loved family dog that found adventure and saved the day most of the time. Today we would merely refer to such folks as homeless. Along with the County Fair and the Draft Horse Show, the Hobo Convention is the biggest thing on the Britt calendar. Moon, Gypsy: "Done and Been", p. 198. Half Tracks daughter Crash is running for queen. He penned regular columns for newspapers like Industrial Solidarity, Industrial Worker and Industrialisti. Thats pretty much everyone in Britt. WebFor example, the name James, ranked as the most popular male name over the last 100 years, has been ranked as low as number 19. Theres been a railroad in and out of here since about 1870. Theres even a group of students down from South Dakota State University. Most these days have a semipermanent address somewhere for the winter. A few, the ones trying to outrun something, wont even talk to me. Cleats Onionpocket Balloonpopper Chillingsworth Saves-Receipts Dave Canadian Football Pete From there, his life became an odyssey of riding the rails, hopping on steamers, and taking on odd jobs as he traversed a country in the midst of an industrial revolution. When I decided to run for queen, I had no idea what my speech was going to be, so I decided to speak from the heart. Mainly freight lines, carrying mostly grain. Connecticut Shorty and Jeff the Czech, Minnesota Jim and Mystic Will, Slim Tim and Jumpoff John, Sassy and Crash and Sunrise, Dutch and Half Track and IoWeGian, Tuck the King and Queen Minnesota Jewel, Gypsy Moon and 4 Winds and Honeypot Heather, Ricardo and K-Bar and New York Maggie Malone. This piece of advice gave the legend of Livingston more longevity than he could ever imagine: In the 21st century, people are still finding "A-No. This 1911 story is a more light-hearted tale from O. Henry, and a pastiche of the popular Sherlock Holmes stories. And we seek to showcase the unique story behind every panhandler who they are; how they got there; and where are they going? To the amateur hobo-spotter, these names can seem to follow no rhyme nor reason; however, years of research and in-depth examination of hobokind have uncovered the closely-guarded secret method of hobo naming. His influence among the community was far-reaching, even capturing the imagination of a young Jack London, author of White Fang and The Call of the Wild, during his formative years. We got down there, and were like, Were 60 miles from home, how are we going to get back?, Maybe half an hour later, there was a train going the other way, rolling real slow. Dutch and Crash both look surprised and sheepish, but happy, in their robes and crowns. For example, the jungle is just the communal hobo camp, usually near the railroad yard. Privacy Statement His given name is Leon Ray Livingstonand he was born in 1872 and he was a lifelong wanderer. The most notable is the National Hobo Convention held in Britt, Iowa. Indiana University Press, 1996. Unique girl names that strike the right style note now include Una, Vita, Persephone, and True. The old-timers set up their lawn chairs on the sidewalk, and lots of folks from out of town stand lining the streets and spooning up free stew. Almost from the beginning of the existence of hoboes, as early as the 1870s,[18] it was reported that they communicated with each other by way of a system of cryptic "hobo signs", which would be chalked in prominent or relevant places to clandestinely alert future hoboes about important local information. From their identity sprung an entirely new culture complete with symbols and slang unique to their experience. I cant have it. To die is to catch the westbound. And understand this, above all else: A hobo is an itinerant worker; someone who travels and finds work. There were several movies as well, but the TV show is where Lassie found her fame. He created the character Weary Willie, the sad hobo clown, dressed in tattered clothes. Always respect nature; do not leave garbage where you are jungling. There are scores of old cars and trucks, vintage and not, some of them carrying politicians, like the mayor, others carrying signs for politicians, Vote for Schleusner for Supervisor, and one carrying a cardboard cutout of the pope. The little park is packed shoulder to shoulder. He then finished, saying this "pitiful existence" would likely end with any would-be tramp in a "pauper's grave." Emmett Leo Kelly was a circus performer and one of the greatest American circus clowns of the 20th century. Heaviest thing he carries are his memories. 1. Local. Then he would sing one, and hed tell me one of his adventure stories. Among these wandering folk figures was a man with a sense of showmanship and a keen eye for branding: Leon Ray Livingstona writer, lecturer, and transient who would go on to dub himself "King of the Hobos.". That symbiosis held until trucks took over so much of the nations shipping. I wander with the winds. With the rise of all things woodsy and rugged, former "hillbilly names" like Abner and Jasper, Cal and Gus, Wyatt and Waylon have been rapidly making their way back from that cartoony pigeonholing. The 1970s delivered Emperor of the North Pole and Bound for Glory, two of the best, and last, movies of the genre. Then the dark horse, the Dutchman, who no one gives much of a chance. I know that a lot of people wish they could do the same. It's not completely clear if Livingston played a role in creating this hobo code, but he is credited with preserving these symbols and bringing them to the attention of a curious American public. Fascinating, beautiful, and enlightening photographs from history, in their original black-and-white forms, colorized, or even in sepia. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. You hear the old stories, everyones reminiscing. He was a member of the famous socialist group, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies and worked as a reporter for a radical Finnish newspaper in Duluth called the Industriallisti. Oats. 1" and "Palm Tree Herby" rode trains as tramps or hoboes. [citation needed], Most non-mainstream conventions are held at current or historical railroad stops. They even looked acceptable back when stylist Rachel Zoe was dressing the rich and famous (and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were still actually young). I agree, a lot of it is a fashion statement and fuck-the-world mentality. [22] Displays on hobo signs have been exhibited in the Steamtown National Historic Site at Scranton, Pennsylvania, operated by the National Park Service, and in the National Cryptologic Museum in Annapolis Junction, Maryland,[23][24] and Webster's Third New International Dictionary supplies a listing of hobo signs under the entry for "hobo".[25]. Jeff MacGregor is the award-winning Writer-at-Large for Smithsonian. The hobos have come here every year since 1900. In a society of citizen consumers, to have nothing, to own nothing, by choice, might be the most radical politics of all. Across the street at the Hobo Museumthe old Chief movie theatertheyve got case after case of memorabilia donated by the hobos themselves going back generations. WebWho was the most famous hobo? 2. Because here we are. John Muir (18381914) was a mechanical wizard who probably could have made a great living designing machinery for the growing factories of the 19th century, but he literally walked away from it to live, as he put it himself, "as a tramp." She is 85. I did it all on my own. Those holy men want you to get rid of things to free yourself from wanting. With the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, many discharged veterans returning home began hopping freight trains. Especially the older hoppers. The same year, Coxeys Army of the unemployed makes its protest march on Washington. The best description of Jack Dempsey, hobo and heavyweight champion of the world, was written by Jim Murray, one of the greatest sportswriters who ever lived: Whenever I hear the name Jack Dempsey, I think of an America that is one big roaring camp of miners, drifters, bunkhouse hands, con men, hard cases, men who lived by their fists and their shooting irons and by the cards they drew.. You get to choose one song, and Ill choose one. I always chose Cocaine Jubilee, because he learned it out in the opium dens and it was a funny song. The country is growing in booms and busts, and transient work like lumbering and mining and seasonal fruit picking are moving west into parts of the country without much population, so the hobo follows. One of the players rolled up a hobo character (who wields a machete and once a day may go into a drunken bum Rage), and so it could not be stopped. Bailey: Bailey is a friendly and open name that can be used for both the genders. This article is a selection from the May issue of Smithsonian magazine. Van Ronk, Dave. Each of the cross-country adventures are told by "the famous hobo" A. If the farmer was generous, the hobo would mark the lane so that later hoboes would know this was a good place to beg. WebExamples of characters based on hoboes include: Charlie Chaplin 's "Little Tramp" Emmett Kelly 's "Weary Willy" Red Skelton 's "Freddy the Freeloader" "Bagdad, WebCepilln Mexican clown Cha-U-Kao - French clown, performer at the Moulin Rouge Charlie Bell American clown, Ringling Bros. circus Charlie Cairoli Italian-born British clown Pinto Colvig - American clown who later became famous as the voice of Goofy. The Mayor of MacDougal Street. A bum neither travels nor works. 9. One of this countrys 20th-century greats, modernist composer Harry Partch, was a hobo. The Industrial Workers of the World, its members known as the Wobblies, is founded in Chicago in 1905. ), the Temperature at which Revenge is Best Served, the Guy Who Likes Corpses a Little Too Much, If You Know What I Mean, the Guy With Little Mouths Where His Eyes Should Be, Who Sings Nursery Rhymes in a High-Pitched Voice While Delicately Caressing a Straight Razor, Whose Clothes Are Made out of Suspiciously Pale Leather, the Guy Made Entirely Out of Onions Or At Least That's How He Smells, the Guy Who Chain-Smokes in a Poorly Ventilated Room, the Guy Who Eats Nothing But Limburger Cheese, the Hobo Who Doesn't Have the Sense to Disregard His Own Feces, the Man Who Should Probably Change His Socks, the Man Who Should Probably Change His Underwear, Like, Now, the Man Who Uses a Rotting Fish for Aftershave, the Smelliest Hobo In the World, Probably, Who Is Extremely Funky But Not In a Good Way, the Guy Who Casually Brushes Up Against You Way Too Often for It to Be a Coincidence, the Guy Who Does Not Have a Pencil in His Pocket, the Guy Who Was Kicked Out of the Frat House for Misogynistic Behavior, the Guy Who Works the Ferris Wheel at the County Fair, the Guy Your Parents Were Specifically Referring To When They Said Not To Talk To Strangers, the Ubiquitous Music that Grates on your Ears after Two Minutes, Who Is As Frightful As the Weather Outside, Many of these names are based on the 700 hobo names featured in, The Spooky hobo nickname "gives you the jibblies" is a reference to. He was riding the rails, and stowing away on ships starting at the age of 11 and then he began to write about his journeys. The big fire sits at the center of it all, and the whole jungle, maybe an acre, is ringed by tents and cars and vans and little motor homes. WebGreatest Generation (before 1946) Baby Boomer (1946-1964) Generation X (1965-1984) Millennial (1982-2004) Generation Alpha (2005 till now) This is a user-written post. Start Saturday in the little park by the gazebo, but start earlythe big pots of mulligan stew went on the boil long before sunrise. [7] Bill Bryson suggests in Made in America (1998) that it could either come from the railroad greeting, "Ho, beau!" Other Great Reads: Dealing with grief after an accidental Who was a No 1? "Around the Jungle Fire I, II & III". Its dusk in farm country, coming up on twilight, but theres something of eternity in it. Its had a hobo jungle there for a long, long time. The odds-on favorite for king this year is Slim Tim. (You see this in how those well-meaning SDSU students costume themselves. Rum Take no personal chances. The Cold hobo occupation "The Guy For Whom the Eskimos Have One Hundred Different Words" refers to the popular belief that eskimos have one hundred different words that mean 'snow'. Drifters, bums, tramps and the like are often buried in potters fields without anyone taking notice, but several American hobos have earned great fame and even inspired books and movies that glamorize their lives, and deaths. I started painting them, and I painted six the first year, eight the second year. Eventually that mobile surplus labor force became less necessary to the national economy. Everyone in town is either in the parade or watching the parade, or in it then watching it, or watching it then running around to get back in it. A lot of them will share stories of riding with some of those steam-era hobos who used to come to Britt and arent here anymore, so its finding that common connection and theyre so welcoming to people from the community and they love sharing their stories. An ethical code was created by Tourist Union #63 (a hobo union created in the mid-1800s to dodge anti-vagrancy laws, which did not apply to union members)[30] during its 1889 National Hobo Convention:[31], There are numerous hobo conventions throughout the United States each year. Today, its owned by LVMH. Not long ago out in Britt, Iowa, they were watching that big sun hang behind the grain elevators while the orange light from the campfire flickered up in the hobo jungle. 7. Not every hobo wants to share his or her real name with the straights and the Square Johns, of which, with my notebook and recorder and wingtip shoes, I am decidedly one. There's a kind of late summer Midwestern sunset, maybe youve seen one, so beautiful and so strange its dislocating. It is most famous for its distinctive beige camel check pattern. The whole place hums to life as day drains into darkness. Here are the most popular characters that parents and their kids love. By 1930, when John Dos Passos writes The 42nd Parallel, the first novel of his towering U.S.A. Trilogy, the hobo is no longer just a foil or a cautionary tale, but the protagonist, often driven away from home and into the world by injustice. The posers you speak of like a friend told me, are 2-year-turnarounds. Youll see lists in books and online of famous hobos. Popular names for births in 1922-2021 Nonetheless, the ethics of hobo culture can be regarded as fairly coherent and internally consistent, at least to the extent that any culture's various individual people maintain the same ethical standards. 6. This is by the railroad tracks off Diagonal Street, just over from the cemetery and a couple of blocks down Main Avenue from the center of town. According to Charles W. Carey, Jr.: Kellys creation of Weary Willie revolutionized professional clowning and made The Spooky hobo occupation "the Guy With Little Mouths Where His Eyes Should Be" refers to the character, The Hot hobo occupation "Who Is Hot Because He's Fly" refers to, The Hot hobo occupation "Who Is Hot, Hot, So Hot, Sticky Sweet" refers to. Despite an apparently strong record of authentication, however, there is doubt as to whether hobo signs were ever actually in practical use by hoboes. As you read this, hes as likely to be in California as he is in Indiana. His article "What Tramps Cost Nation" was published by The New York Telegraph in 1911, when he estimated the number had surged to 700,000.[10]. WebOnce you've got a hobo name, you can put it to good use by picking up a copy of Hobomancer! In 1914, Livingston married a woman named Mary Trohoske (sometimes spelled Trohoski), and he settled downas best a tramp couldin a house in Erie, Pennsylvania. The boy didn't show his father the note that night, and when he spotted his teacher heading toward his house the next morning, Livingston snuck out of the house and kept moving. His work later inspired the American surrealist movement as well as the Civil Rights Movement. He's only re-emerged in the mainstream a few times, most notably when Lee Marvin played A-No. "Bagdad, Hobo Detective," featured in the, Many animated cartoons depict hoboes as main or secondary characters, hobo-related activities such as traveling by train, with a, "Hobo's Meditation" by Jimmie Rodgers, recorded by, "Way Out There" by Bob Nolan, recorded by the Sons of the Pioneers, Johnson, L. Anderson. It is a fair accounting of the day to say there were 2,500 attendeesand 2,500 participants. My dad Connecticut Slim was crown prince of the Hobos for life. Hes smart and forthright and there is no menace to him, but the clarity of his purpose and the rigor of his personal philosophy can be unnerving to the citizens and the straights. All Rights Reserved, Famous Hobos and their Sad Deaths, from Alexander Supertramp to T Bone Slim, Dealing with grief after an accidental death, Poor people not wanted in cemeteries says Illinois, an award-winning movie directed by Sean Penn. WebLeon Ray Livingston (1872 - 1944) Leon Ray Livingston was a famous hobo and author, traveling under the name "A-No.1" and often referred to as "The Rambler." I also will help to make the old State Bank into a hotel, which Britt really needs. Similarly, the most popular female name in the table, Mary, ranked as low as 133. Ryan Arndorfer, mayor, Britt, Iowa. In 1970, when I first caught out, there were very few people riding freight trains, but the railroad employees (even the bulls) were much more accommodating. Canada's free healthcare system at work. Tramps are the penultimate survivors, and like coyotes, they adapt to whatever environment in which they find themselves. A surge of young men after World War I, another in the Great Depression. Digital Dying examined a few examples.. T Bone Slim T bone was perhaps the twentieth centurys most famous hobo writer. Don't take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hoboes. 30. It was easy to find work there in the slaughterhouses to make a buck before you caught out again; easy to go west and build a dam or go east and take a job in a new steel mill. Inspired by the rugged wilderness and spectacular isolation he planned an even grander trip, to Alaska. I wish I were kidding.) Terms of Use Hundred on a plate is a can of beans, and the jungle kitchen is run by the Crumb Boss. The bulls are the railroad police. And so my older brother.There was 11 of us gone out of St. The following names have been found on hobos in the wild. Theres only what you carry on your back. Now its the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. With the country in the throes of the Great Depression, the warnings Livingston wrote about the hobo lifestyle in each of his books had transformed into full-on speeches against tramping. HIPPIE GIRL NAMES AND BOHO GIRL NAMES A Aelia Aelia is such a pretty Earthy girl name of Roman, Greek, and Latin origin meaning sunlight, sunshine or In the late 1980s, my LASD surveillance team was requested by the Sheriff's Homicide to assist in staking out the turf of a gang known as the FTRA or Freight Train Riders of America. Leon Ray Livingston, America's Most Famous Hobo | Mental Floss Your Privacy Rights I remember when hed leave every night, Id think, I cant wait until Im old enough to do that. I started hitchhiking right out of high school and eventually was a student at Indiana University. Back in the day, plenty of American families had a brother or an uncle or a cousin who had ridden the rails, demobilized veterans, unemployed workers looking for a new start. Other Great Reads: Poor people not wanted in cemeteries says Illinois. Its given me something special in life. Sixty now, hes been on the road 50 years. 1: America's Most Celebrated Tramp. Jack London gathers his own hobo stories first as a series of magazine pieces, then as a mashup of fiction and nonfiction in 1907s The Road. The Iowa State Fair starts the day before, so everyone comes home. Starts right after the Civil War and the building of Americas great railroads. After the war theres an expanding displaced population available to rideand help builda transportation network running from coast to coast. The Evergreen Cemetery in Britt is bigger than you expect and this morning its all sunshine and fine blue sky. He was riding the rails, and stowing away on ships starting at the age of 11 and then he began to write about his journeys. Tags: celebration, famous, famous hobos, hobo, hobos, launch, panhandler, vagabond, wanderer, whino. He was riding the rails, and stowing away on ships starting at the age of 11 and then he began to write about his journeys. Its very dangerous. But there are children and grandchildren running around here, too, and a few young hobos, gutter punks and dirty kids, and tourists and fans and citizens. A martyr to corporate violence and the solidarity of labor, he remains Americas best-known hobo. Louis Vuitton Theres no doubt that Louis Vuitton is the most recognizable name on this list. Empty your heart. 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