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Traditionally, travelers would bake bread over a jungle fire in a #10 tin can. Today, many bakeries have used the hobo figure for business reasons, including the naming of businesses.

This an actual end of a ship’s hawser line – the heavy cables that anchored ships. Frying' Plan Jack tied this sample to show how a real monkey’s fist was used aboard ship. There would be a rock or piece of metal inside the rope (heavy enough that…

Very detailed, hand carved, holes were hand-drilled. Could be used as a match holder – very utilitarian. Sabot is a French word from which sabotage is derived. Wobblies carved wooden shoes to symbolize their disdain for rich captains of industry…

From the book "The Hobo Style". Items found in the National Hobo Museum in Britt, Iowa.

From the book "The Hobo Style". Items found in the National Hobo Museum in Britt, Iowa. Creator unknown.

A cozy modern restaurant, snack bar and steak restaurant. In Vagabond Motel in Miami, Florida.

Menu from an unknown hobo themed restaurant. Location and date unknown.

Photograph taken outside a hobo themed coffee. Location and data unknown.

Featuring a young wanderer with a bindlestiff.