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The Hobohemians

By AAN Staff
july 29, 2002  08:32 pm
The Hobohemians
A century ago, working-class men hopped freights to get around. Today, a new breed of train-hoppers meet up at the annual Hobo Gathering. Ben Ehrenreich of LA Weekly catches a piggyback car north to Dunsmuir, Calif., gets thrown off by police near Stockton, meets Longhaired Donnie and Buzz Blur, Magoo and Tennessee, New York Ron and Crazy Angel (and his dog Meathead), and sees what America looks like from the open door of a boxcar. Photographs by West Coast Virginia Slim, better known to Weekly readers as Virginia Lee Hunter.
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