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Skid Row: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/01/2017 - 2:04pm.
"Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean -- an ever-changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road."
-- Jack London, The RoadNovember 1938. "Lower Douglas Street, Omaha, is one of the hobo centers of the West." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
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