Down & Out- Minneapolis Skid Row- SB- 104 pages- lot of B/W photos

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“very good condition, back cover has a stain”
Country of Origin
United States
Personalize
No
Era
1950s
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Personalized
No
Original Language
English
Inscribed
No
Vintage
No
ISBN
9780816640546
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816640548
ISBN-13
9780816640546
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2362723

Product Key Features

Book Title
Down & Out : the Life and Dealth of Minneapolis's Skid Row
Number of Pages
116 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, Poverty & Homelessness, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Author
Edwin C. Hirschoff
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
0.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2002-005417
Synopsis
An elegiac look at a lost piece of Minneapolis's past. Minneapolis's skid row, known as the Gateway district, was a lively area consisting of dozens of bars, flophouses, pawnshops, burlesque houses, charity missions, and office buildings that had aged past their prime. Encompassing some twenty-five blocks centering on the intersection of Hennepin, Washington, and Nicollet Avenues, the neighborhood was demolished between 1959 and 1963 as part of the first federally funded urban renewal project in America. Gathered here for the first time, Edwin C. Hirschoff's stark and moving images of the Gateway district's final days-its streets, buildings, and parks, the rubble, smoke, and heavy equipment of its destruction-eloquently capture its demise. Down and Out provides a unique historical perspective and the most extensive photographic record available of the Gateway demolition project. Joseph Hart's engaging and comprehensive essay complements Hirschoff's photographs by detailing the district's social and economic evolution and the political decision making that led to its destruction. Hart presents a popular history of Minneapolis's skid row and the people who lived there, migrant workers who learned that changes in the local economy could quickly degrade their status from valued laborer to societal menace (vagrant, tramp, or bum). By capturing the texture of life on skid row, Hart reveals the lost American culture of a bygone community.A creative photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor, Edwin C. Hirschoff (19??-2002) had a successful career in public relations before founding Art-o-graph, a Minneapolis business that has prospered for more than half a century. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1905, he lived in Minneapolis for almost ninety years., An elegiac look at a lost piece of Minneapolis's past. Minneapolis's skid row, known as the Gateway district, was a lively area consisting of dozens of bars, flophouses, pawnshops, burlesque houses, charity missions, and office buildings that had aged past their prime. Encompassing some twenty-five blocks centering on the intersection of Hennepin, Washington, and Nicollet Avenues, the neighborhood was demolished between 1959 and 1963 as part of the first federally funded urban renewal project in America. Gathered here for the first time, Edwin C. Hirschoff's stark and moving images of the Gateway district's final days-its streets, buildings, and parks, the rubble, smoke, and heavy equipment of its destruction-eloquently capture its demise. Down and Out provides a unique historical perspective and the most extensive photographic record available of the Gateway demolition project. Joseph Hart's engaging and comprehensive essay complements Hirschoff's photographs by detailing the district's social and economic evolution and the political decision making that led to its destruction. Hart presents a popular history of Minneapolis's skid row and the people who lived there, migrant workers who learned that changes in the local economy could quickly degrade their status from valued laborer to societal menace (vagrant, tramp, or bum). By capturing the texture of life on skid row, Hart reveals the lost American culture of a bygone community. A creative photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor, Edwin C. Hirschoff (19 -2002) had a successful career in public relations before founding Art-o-graph, a Minneapolis business that has prospered for more than half a century. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1905, he lived in Minneapolis for almost ninety years.
LC Classification Number
HV4506.M6H37 2002

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