The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis

by James Eli Shiffer

Book Overview

The story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters--now in paperback

City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers--hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers--into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city's Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517916593
• ISBN13: 9781517916596
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 7.9"