Hobo signs

Hobo signs were a system of symbols, marked on fences, trees, houses, etc. to give fellow “Knights of the Road” help and warnings.

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These are the marks that told travelers whether a town or house was friend or foe.

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The Internet has needed a good directory of old railyard hobo signs - the signs that hoboes used to chalk onto walls and trains to communica...

Symbols and meanings

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Many of us now use the word hobo to refer to any homeless individual, but back in the America of the late 19th and early 20th century, to be a hobo meant something more.

READING HOBO SIGNS FOR SURVIVAL ---------------------------------------------------------- Hobo signs - Beginning in the 1880's and still today, hoboes place markings on fences, posts, signs, sidewalks, buildings, trestles, bridge abutments, trees and railroad line side equipment to aid them and others of their kind in finding help or steering them clear of trouble. Usually, these signs would be written in chalk or coal letting others know what they could expect in the area of the symbol…