Content description:
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 an Afro-American man in one of the temporary shelters in Pipe City. The term "Great Depression" removed from the Argus Category field for CSpace cleanup. The category term was possibly related to exhibition planning (DAP, 1/5/2014).
Places:
Oakland Estuary; 19th Avenue, Oakland; Pipe City, Oakland; East Peralta neighborhood, Oakland