The true power of the internet is demonstrated daily, when someone Googles something that tickles their curiosity. So it was with the above graffiti for me - a quick Google search leading into the world of Hobos, Boxcar riding and the more than 100 year old tradition of Moniker Chalking on Freight cars (whose modern equivalent of Warchalking (the drawing of a symbol to denote the presence of a wireless network) brings us full circle back to the internet.
Bozo Texino was apparently two people, likely one following the others footsteps, who drew a smoking hatted cowboy on boxcars. And now, someone follows in the same footsteps in Halifax...
1 comment:
Great post! Never knew anything about him before...love the history.
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