The bum who put the touch on JoJo was just like any other bum on Skid Row-red-faced, in clothes that didn't fit, and with the shakes, a condition that only a drink could still. The line was the same with all of them and they always targeted JoJo for his big heart. "I ain't et in two days," they'd beg to JoJo but he knew if he parted with the quarter-that is, if he even had one to part with-the bum would head straight for the nearest liquor store or beer joint. Set in Memphis, Tennessee during the Great Depression, "Skid Row" follows the lives of a group of laborers known as tinners. There was Jew Bill, Shorty, Fingers, Grinder, Swede and Junior, among others, some said to be, "as ugly as homemade sin." Also known as down-and-outers, these men never missed a chance to gawk at the high-steppers prancing in and out of the flophouse across the street from the tin shops. Yet they treated the lovely, shapely Reba, the Widow Hanna, and the innocent Betty Jo with more respect. All the while,...

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