Beschreibung:
"Following John Bacich, who documented the last days of downtown Minneapolis's Skid Row neighborhood in the 1950s, The King of Skid Row recreates the violent, alcohol-soaked history of an area of the city now completely redesigned and developed, transformed dramatically from its gritty past"--
Contents Prologue: A Bum’s Paradise Introduction: Snapshots 1. Johnny Rex 2. The Gandies 3. Ring in the Booze 4. The Flophouse 5. Missions 6. The Lost City Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index