Hobohemia

Hobohemia is a low-rent district in a city where artistic bohemians and the down-and-outs or hobos mix.

In Chicago from the turn of the century to circa 1940s this was Tower Town and the area often known as "The West Madison Stem"[1] (Madison Street west of downtown) which was known as "Skid road" and home to thousands of transient men and women, and Ben Reitman's Hobo College.

[2] In New York City it was the neighborhood of the Bowery, and Greenwich Village.

[3] It was the title of a short story by Sinclair Lewis originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, which Lewis subsequently reworked into a three-act comedy which was first performed at the Greenwich Village Theatre in 1919.

[4] A reference appears in the Rodgers and Hart song The Lady is a Tramp: "My Hobohemia is the place to be.