In Seattle in the 1930s, hundreds of shacks stood from Harbor Island to First Avenue South. The men who built those scrap lumber, cast-off tin, and flatten ...

Hooverville’s latrines sat at the end of catwalks over the bay. The urinal was the ground. Roy set out to interview the men. In hearing stories he inadvertently created one about himself.

In June of 1930 President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Act. This Act imposed steep tariffs on over 20,000 different goods that Americans imported from other countries. As of its time, it was one ...

Slog tips are pouring in this morning that Hooverville—the bar on First Avenue S with free peanuts, hilarious bathroom graffiti, and an awesome staff—is on fire. One tipper writes: "Just drove ...

Donald Yannacito: Housing: In a time of prosperity, Boulder has a Hooverville. During the administration of President Herbert Hoover, 1929 to 1933, a crisis of housing occurred due to unlivable ...

The big Hooverville grew to a community of more than 600 shacks, four churches and a "mayor," Gus W. Smith, a laborer. Its 300 children went to public schools.

Amherst Historical Society will host the Experiencing 1930s “Hooverville” event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at Sandstone Village, 736 Milan Ave. in Amherst. Focused on life in the 1930s ...

The production designer of "Perry Mason" tells IndieWire how the economic diversity of '30s L.A. found its fullest expression in the Hooverville set. In the headings for his lookbook, Cunningham ...

On Sunday, just before noon, Hooverville Bar owner Billy Kincaid said two people broke into his bar. “It happened at 11:15 in the late morning in broad daylight,” Kincaid said.