At the end of Nineteenth Avenue homeless men created the community "Pipe City" living in the surplus lengths of sewer pipe belonging to the American Concrete and Steel Pipe Company on the estuary. The company allowed the the men to winter in their makeshift concrete homes on company land. Pipe City, also known as "Misseryville," became home to about 203 men. to qualify for a pipe to sleep in a man had to be jobless, homeless, hungry and scruffy --but absolutely not helpless. This view shows the mayor of Pipe City, Dutch Jensen in front of the office tent.