Hobohemia
Hobohemia is a low rent district in a city where artistic bohemians and the down-and-outs or hobos mix. In Chicago from the turn of the century to circa 1940s this was Tower Town and the area often known as "The West Madison Stem"[1] (Madison street west of downtown) which was known as "skid road" and home to literally thousands of transient men and women, and Dr. Ben Reitman's Hobo College.[2] In New York City it was the neighbourhood of the Bowery, and Greenwich Village.[3] It was the title of a short story by Sinclair Lewis originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, which Lewis subsequently reworked into a three act comedy which was first performed at the Greenwich Village Theatre in 1919.[4]
A reference appears in the Rodgers and Hart song The Lady is a Tramp: "My Hobohemia is the place to be."[3]
See also
References
- ^ {{citation|url=https://maxwellhalsted.uic.edu/home/immigrants-in-chicago/hobohemia/index.html
- ^ https://daily.jstor.org/the-hobo-college-of-hobohemia/
{{citation}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) |title=Hobo Colleges - ^ a b Irving Lewis Allen (1995-02-23), The City in Slang, ISBN 9780195357769
- ^ John Corbin (1919). "Drama". New York Times.