The King of Skid Row John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis |
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Author:
| Shiffer, James Eli |
ISBN: | 978-0-8166-9829-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their s
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their s