Temporary town during the Depression

Usage examples of hooverville.

If Jimmy Beame had come here by freight, in which case he would just about had to have fallen in temporarily with tramps, he could very likely have come back to a Hooverville to spend the nights during his fruitless search for a desk in Tribune Tower.

The storm had paralyzed the city, but fifteen thousand of the unemployed had been hired to dig out Cook County, and efforts to provide relief housing for the down-and-outers in the parks and Hooverville residents had been stepped up.

He never asked again, for there was a Hooverville on the edge of every town.

He settled in Hooverville and he scoured the countryside for work, and the little money he had went for gasoline to look for work.

Every little means, every violence, every raid on a Hooverville, every deputy swaggering through a ragged camp put off the day a little and cemented the inevitability of the day.

The sun was sinking now, and the yellow sunlight fell on the Hooverville and on the willows behind it.

Barbizon-Plaza and look down on the ghetto Hooverville shanties cobbled up in Central Park.

Then I can catch the shuttle home to Hooverville and catch a few hours of sleep.

Inside was a wooden crate big enough to make a pretty good Hooverville shack.