The King of Skid Row John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis |
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| Author:
| Shiffer, James Eli |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5179-1659-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2023 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
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