SECRET HOBO SIGNS

The Internet has needed a good directory of old railyard hobo signs - the signs that hoboes used to chalk onto walls and trains to communicate with each other. Behold the Super Secret Clubhouse index of "Secret Hobo Signs". . .
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HOBO/RAILROAD TATTOOS

The Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture has an epic gallery of hobo and railroad tattoos.

HOBO ART: WHO IS BOZO TEXINO?

Filmmaker Bill Daniel set out to ride the rails and live the way of the hobo to answer the profound question "Who is Bozo Texino?" Who is the person, for almost 80 years, who has scrawled this cryptic portrait onto countless railcars across the United States. Daniel's film can be purchased on Amazon.com and on his website.


(via Cool Hunting)

HOBO SIGNS

World Famous Design Junkies has a nice collection of "Hobo Signs" excerpted from the 1969 book "Signs, Symbols, and Signets" by Ernst Lehner.