Difference between revisions of "Formulae Relating to Tramps and Hobos"

Latest revision as of 18:15, 10 June 2009

Economic Potential + Room to Roam = North America

Freight Train + Work = Hobo

Freight Train + Dream = Tramp

Freight Train + Alcohol = Bum

Person + Willingness to Roam in Pursuit of Economic Potential = American

Person + Need to Roam, Not Necessarily for Economic Reasons = Tramp

Tramp + Freight Train + Work = Hobo

U.S. Economic Depression, 1870s + Railroads and the Open Road = Tens of Thousands of Tramps

Tens of Thousands of Tramps + Harper's Weekly et al. + Party Politics of the 1860s-1900s = Tramp Menace

Tramp - Ability to Travel = Bum

Bum + Contemporary Perspective = Homeless

Homelessness - Perspective = Bums

Tramp + Automobile = Rubber Tramp

Talking About Hobos = Nostalgia

Freight Trains - Hobos = Photos by Hans Hansen

Young People Who Will Not Fit In = Nothing New and No Problem

Young People Who Cannot Fit In = A Problem

Young People Who Cannot or Will Not Fit In + Freight Trains/Hitch Hiking/Greyhound = Travelin' Kids

Travelin' Kid + Overwhelming Personal Problems = Tragedy

Travelin' Kid - Overwhelming Personal Problems = Tramp

Hobo - Freight Train = Migrant Laborer

If it had not been the law of the road, it would still have been Bill's law – to spend all and break even to the last.

– Jim Tully, Beggars of Life, 1924

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 Talking About Hobos = '''Nostalgia'''
-Freight Trains - Hobos = Photos by [[Hans Hansen]]
+Freight Trains - Hobos = '''Photos by [[Hans Hansen]]'''
 Young People Who Will Not Fit In = '''Nothing New''' and '''No Problem'''
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 Hobo - Freight Train = '''Migrant Laborer'''
+===[[The Law of the Road]]===
+<blockquote>If it had not been the law of the road, it would still have been Bill's law – to spend all and break even to the last.</blockquote>
+– Jim Tully, ''Beggars of Life,'' 1924
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