Historical TRAMP: "A No. 1" from S.F.

jtcolfax

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This is my first post. I drifted in via urban exploration somehow this morning. I have hopped on ONE train....way earlier in life....it took me from my Denver suburb of Westminster...to the other side of Denver....the suburb of Aurora. I hitched to Los Angeles after that. I was running away. Etc. So: I had NO IDEA where it would go.
Just wanted to get OUT. It was Great Excitement. I hurt my knee GOOD, and spend the first few moments rolling around in agony, and then, of course, found that rolling around made me FILTHY.

But anyway. I have some stuff about an OLDE TIME famous Tramp named A No. 1
I thought you might be interested. (I am having tech difficulties....hope this works ok):


I live in Binghamton NY,....and the famous tramp is only mentioned at the bottom of this article...but this is how I first found out about him:

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and here is some glip glop from newspaper websites where I cant copy and paste:
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and here is where A No. 1 got busted in his hometown of S.F.
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I couldn't really read the original post, but the two books linked are fantastic reads. Anyone got some more sitting around? Google doesn't turn up much.

mike
 
HOLEY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS THANK YOU ALL FOR POSTING THIS SHIT!
The movie was one of the first things that gt me interested in riding trains, I almost know that movie word for word - Have it on my PSP too!
 
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