A Guide to Hobo Symbols.
&amp;#8220;The American hobo has a hard time hoboing nowadays due to the increase in police surveillance of highways, railorad yards, sea shores, river bottoms, embankments and the thousand-and-one hiding holes of industrial night. - In California, the rat pack, the original old type who goes walking from town to town with supplies and bedding on his back, the &amp;#8220;Homeless Brother&amp;#8221;, has practically vanished, along with the ancient gold-panning desert rat who used to walk with hope in his heart through struggling Western tons that are now so prosperous they dont want old bums any more. - &amp;#8216;Man dont want no pack rats here even though they founded California&amp;#8217; said an old man hiding with a can of beans and an Indian fire in a river bottom outside Riverside California in 1955.&amp;#8221;

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveller