Byline: Neil Henry; 1980-05-02; The Washington Post; pages 1
Report: "Down & Out" - Neil Henry - Washington Post
Tags: Baltimore, bum, homeless, lived as, tramp, undercover, Washington
Suburbia was a no-man's-land for the down and out. In Baltimore, my legs were invaluable because they got me around to the blood banks, soup kitchens, libraries and labor pools where I could eat or kill a day and still get back in time to spend a night at the mission. There were, in other words, basic necessities for survival a derelict could count on in the city.