Technology is bringing a new life to a tradition that is over 100-years-old.

There are many of these hobo symbols listed, but there is no direct search for "hobo" phraseology. When I searched a site called The High Tech Hobo Web Site, www.slackaction.com, ...

“I was a hobo,” Willy Howard told me. “So was my wife.” It was almost 30 years ago, and I was flat on my back in a hospital bed in Trenton, New Jersey, sharing my room with this elderly ...

Remember the scene in "Mad Men" where a hobo teaches a young Don Draper how he and other homeless individuals secretly communicate using chalk-drawn symbols? The distinct symbols, known as the ...

Jules Wanderer, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Colorado even laid out another analysis of these symbols in his 2001 article "Embodiments of Bilateral Asymmetry and Danger in Hobo ...

There’s a garden decorated with metal cutouts of hobo signs and a hobo time capsule. And of course, there’s the museum, located in what was, until 20 years ago, the Chief movie theater.

“I was a hobo,” Willy Howard told me. “So was my wife.” It was almost 30 years ago, and I was flat on my back in a hospital bed in Trenton, New Jersey, sharing my room with this elderly man. I called ...