The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis by James Eli Shiffer

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

James Eli Shiffer

200 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sociology informative sad medium-paced
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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 slep...

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