The Great American Hobo (c)1979 Fogcutter Productions

[@acgillespie]

*1970-2024 ~ Hobo Shoestring. An American legend. R.I.P.*

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Is this true?!

[@acgillespie]

@@steverhodesvideos6244 Yes it's true. google him

[@SaltyNationalist]

I pray that Hobo Shoestring is honored in Britt this year with a plaque or something.. God willing.. Miss you Shoestring..😢🙏🙏🙏

[@daveminion6209]

great video. i could never be Hobo - not enough musical talent, lol RIP - all recent hobos we have lost (thinking of Stobe, Shoestring, etc)

[@PMK7734]

I'm loving the SuperTramp sound track. So appropriate.

[@rdred8693]

No matter how many times I hear them, I never get sick of them. Great album.

[@logosoul76]

Great vintage footage. There is so much mystique about the past, but it is really sobering to be reminded that, while technology may give today's hobos more resources, they were dealing with the same challenges back then that hobos often deal with today. Situations change, but human nature remains the same.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

These guys lived more in one year than most of us would i in our entire lives

[@gud2go50]

It amazes me how similar some of these men look with the “Hobo Face”! I have always found Hobo’s fascinating since I was a child. I always dressed for Halloween like a Hobo! Growing up down in Louisiana, I would watch several Hobos in the area as a kid! Thanks for sharing their story!😊

[@davidmiller7573]

I love that Santa Fe Bo documented this... Stobe the Hobo would have loved it too

[@michaeltodd2923]

God i miss stobe.

[@romeosierrra04]

Darkest hours...

[@enjoylife6311]

Of the night...

[@rickallen6378]

This must really be a great feather in Supertramp's cap.

[@myownprivateglasgow280]

God bless the hobo ;) a sort of artist whose art is life itself...great doc!!

[@ihopcsx]

RIP Stobe the hobo Bear grease

[@davechristian7543]

look on KZbin theirs a train hopper called Stobe hobo.

you mean 'ass grease'

[@fkauthority]

Beargrease!

[@chrisrueckel113]

Great Upload! Thanks for sharing this. I have always been fascinated by the hobo lifestyle and its great to see old footage like this. Maybe one day I will catch my first train!

[@HammerHeadGarage]

They are just people man. No different really than anyone. Don't worry, the way things are going in 2021 you will get your chance to ride a boxcar.

[@isatq2133]

Another Great Recession and world war coming. It’ll be long and hard on the people.

[@jessehurley5862]

2024

[@LRGDuran]

We'd be lucky to find a boxcar nowadays.

[@KQwest98]

they're more free than you or me. they dont do the rat race

[@KQwest98]

@@jessehurley58621

[@twocyclediesel1280]

I lived my life the traditional way and am very blessed but there’s a part of me that would love to do this; just ride the rails across this beautiful land. Nothing but what I can easily carry. No full time job, no responsibility, drink beer with friends and everything you do is your own choice. Must be quite a life indeed.

[@richardhead3211]

i also lived the trad way. i retired in great shape at 59. so glad but i find the bo life to be interesting

[@twocyclediesel1280]

@@richardhead3211 Same age, yea there’s something about it. I’ve been interested in wilderness survival, primitive skills all my life but there’s something about this lifestyle that fascinates me. My grandfather did it for a year or so during the depression. Then he was killed in WWII.

[@richardhead3211]

@@twocyclediesel1280 when i was a boy i wanted to be a bo.

[@SMC84601]

✌

[@davechristian7543]

We called them Wino's heir in Australia but they jumped trains in-side the train not on the out side of it. bring back the way we lived in the 70s n 80s anyday rather than the way ppl r today.

[@joshuarainey6796]

Thanks so much for this,something my dad would have loved

[@__Tazzzo]

Time just never stops.

[@svenjansen2134]

Time is a human construct. Time passes always but no real measurements are needed.

[@GeorgeGeorge7]

A Great Film! we miss "Itchy feet" It was nice to see him in the film. Bobby and Tommy, you guys did a great job!

[@ridindirtyface]

Looks like an ad for Alcoholics Anonymous. I love it!

[@nywherebuthere]

RIP Stobie

[@jimstraub7573]

Very cool

[@johnelliott6408]

This is awesome....

[@admiralbenbow5083]

15.24 He sounds like Old Tom who used to inhabit the Bent Prop at Eloy.

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Reminds me of my time on the road 1974-75.

[@billysmith5721]

I AM A RUBBER TRAMP DRIVING TO CALIFORNIA SOON IN FLORIDA NOW

[@tylerdouglas480]

Always been more of a leather tramp myself.as I don't drive.hope your trip goes well friend

[@AlexanderReyes-g7s]

We are hobos on rubber wheels. MAY the Good Lord Continue to lead us on real good trips.

[@gud2go50]

Super Tramp! Perfect!😂

[@AlexanderReyes-g7s]

Yes thank you Lord. Take the long way home.

[@katekirk4752]

A lifestyle money can't buy.

[@Silenced23]

But money can buy your freedom if a bull sends you to jail. Pay the bill and continue the lifestyle and hopefully can continue the lifestyle money can't buy.

[@triple6758]

Shoestring sent me.

[@SaltyNationalist]

🙏🙏🙏RIP SHOESTRING

[@rikhughes6452]

Glen Miller singing "gentle on my mind" always makes me think of a hobo there some good lyrics in it that describes these men

[@virginialeonaroesch4542]

Glen Campbell

[@hollyrichards2477]

Glen Campbell.

[@Hy-Brasil]

i just think it's pretty funny how you accidentally combined Glen Campbell and Roger Miller (no i didn't even think about the big band until later) I didn't listen to him nearly as much as i listened to Glen and Roger. And Roger was the one who sang King of the Road, which you probably already know is about a hobo. then again.... Glen Miller did sing Chattanooga Choo choo... not exactly about hobos, but it IS about a train :D

[@neildoppelhammer]

Yep, terminology meanings change over the years....😊

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

8:36 haahah yeah I feel him! FUCK IT!!!! Same thing with the other guy taht got fired for the 4th time. Me, I went and got my CDL, fuck this bullshit 9-5. Same type of life, but i get paid to travel aimlessly hahah

[@paulguycaspermanzanares9404]

They ran away from home to join the circus and found out that the circus wasn't around anymore 😮

[@horstebreedow8608]

Hi Bob, do you have the great American logger?

[@joslynnrenee567]

Hi RockinRobTv, In this series there was The Great American Lumberjack, 1981. Would you know of where to find any copy, footage at all? There are family members no longer with us in the video and we have been searching for a copy for decades. Great stuff you posted, so nice to see. Thank you.

[@RockinRobTV]

Hi Joslynn, I have also worked on the lumberjack doc film for Fogcutter and I may be able to upload a copy of it or send you a DVD if you'd prefer. It may take a while to find it in the archives. You'll need to email me with your mailing address at [e-mail]. Please incl. in the email that you are not affiliated in any way with any distributors of visual media and that you will not duplicate the material for any purpose public or private, and I may be able to help you out.

[@michaeltodd2923]

I was looking for a lumberjack doc too.

[@Noam3k]

@@RockinRobTV can you upload the lumberjack one too? I wasn’t able to find it anywhere on the web

[@Alstonar80]

I know Super Tramp is a member of the NHF but why so much of the music?

[@RockinRobTV]

The Supertramp songs were added in post production (because I felt the film needed more music). Also because the messages & feeling of the songs just happened to accentuate the emotional messages of the various scenes. The film maker (Bobb Hopkins) was blown away when he saw the new cut and was happy to allow me to keep them in the film.

[@davidmiller7573]

@@RockinRobTV absolutely love it great choice in your music selection

[@sku32956]

@@RockinRobTV Supertramp was popular in 1979

[@jilpoke]

Because there wasn't any groups called "Super Hobo".

because harmonica, i guess

[@nervousstranger]

Man! I want to watch these videos but for some reason there's horrible music in the background.

[@behindthespotlight7983]

Today is May 30, 2024. If you think you’re never gonna get the chance to experience some of this you might want to start reading some books that fearlessly explain how central banking destroyed the US dollar. We are living in hyper inflation and on the fumes of a dead republic. 4 months from a major (s)election and gas in this region where there is little vibrant job market is $5 a gallon. Groceries up 109% in 3 years. Only those who instinctively know how to live outside the box will survive.

[@rdred8693]

I didn't vote for Biden, and yes, the Fed Reserve is evil

[@KyleKarnes-nb1jl]

Terrible. Those F Rothschilds

[@Hy-Brasil]

For context, in today's money 250 dollars equals $1,096..

[@SMC84601]

👍

[@ornamentalyouth]

i noticed that some of the guys in this documentary said that tramps work and hobos don't. i have a book also from the seventies where the term tramp is used to mean hobo. weird how the terminology seems to have flipped about

none of these phonies know what they are talking about

[@davidorenge6866]

@ how so?

@@davidorenge6866 if you ever worked on a railroad you would know

[@mtdstc]

​@@davidorenge6866google.

[@daviddunning8357]

With our present woke leader in Canada 1/4 of the people live below the poverty line. Homelessness is exploding. We can learn a lot about survival from good documentary’s like this one.

[@KyleKarnes-nb1jl]

What a disgrace the leader is about like the fake one here in America. They scammed and cheated to put in office.

[@KymCarr-iu6pn]

Frypan Jack, cool name, er...handle nowadays.

[@XiamaraLaurensWifeyMu]

The Hobo life, should be preserved as immaterial heritage. As they say about tramping, in the UK it means something else than walking too... Truck drivers that set off for days and sleep in the cab are called trampers.

[@Brokenkingpins]

Turdcutter productions

[@thecrawfish894]

I wanna know what happend to the young dude with white pants and no shirt

[@nikolas_schreck]

Crack

[@stuffandjunkanduhh5049]

that guy and the guy talking about getting fired for the 4th time seems a little hokey to me haha. who the fuck is hopping trains in white pants?? a friend and me once had a joke/plan to steal white suits and ride coast to coast and never wash them. never happened but it would have been glorious. youre filthy in about 5 minutes on a train haha

[@davechristian7543]

@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 someone who only owns one pare of pants mate thats who.

[@sentientcurse3019]

Odd seeing collared shirt men drinking beer by the tracks. Now its all dirty kids and dogs.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

Most of those kids are so called gutter punks and a lot of them are shitbags that show up in towns and terrorize little old ladies and the like with their aggressive panhandling. They're not welcome in most of the traditional hobo waystations and in some they basically have a "kick my ass on sight" target on them from local business owners who won't tolerate their shit. In New Orleans their used to be a couple guys called the wrecking crew that would roughly remove them from your store or Bar front for a fee 😂

[@FATTONYKAUAI]

His shoes are really white for a hobo7 min Really white jeans to 11 min

[@tylerdouglas480]

I mean hobos can get new clothes... especially if they know they are being interviewed.or they just aren't on the road at the time.

[@YuckFoutube-e1z]

Was washed out by the exposure.

[@sentientcurse3019]

Blaze soon reporting for duty. Out

all these guys are long dead now

[@Lazy-kv4kb]

Ride the rails don't let the rails ride you

[@chucknowakowski6676]

Great American hobo, all music by Canadian band….lol

[@operatorjeffdeathstar7759]

Looks like the fucking bottle Depot, music is on point , however...

[@southside1975]

Kick as s toons everything was better back in the day.

[@OxybroCone]

The music in this was wildly shit

[@fr3dr02]

More like a whino documentary -

[@cristianm7097]

Wino. From wine.

[@trevorcoole5325]

fuckin background music"take the long way home" must have been put in later on !!! ,, i hate that song..

[@svenjansen2134]

Yes in this context it's 'too clean'.

[@SMC84601]

👍

[@Lazy-kv4kb]

Another set of fake hobos a true hobo goes unseen moves in silence attention is the last thing a real hobo wants a hobos tales are never told only imagined by those who wish they knew the code Ride the rails don't let the rails ride you

[@imjustyler]

This is acted

[@jarrodanderson2124]

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