The Hobo Joe’s coffee shops were a hit across Phoenix. Decent enough burgers, pancakes and pies. But they were really known for that namesake character, the one with the top hat and a red ...

(Or seven, if you’re into AMC’s droll accounting.) So many great characters, with so few moral standards. As Matthew Weiner’s saga of the Sixties ad game heads for the final curtain ...

1,200-pound statue and popular roadside attraction are unknown. Hobo Joe was a "World traveler, Philosopher and Connoisseur of Good Food," according to a slogan for the fictional character ...

But it was through popular American music that ... In time, another enduring character would be added to the cast: the humble hobo. The "wanderer" was hardly a new arrival on the American scene ...