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 ...

Twice the city burned them out, but in 1932, with the national jobless rate at 24 percent, the city let Hooverville stand. It stood for 10 years. It was a settlement of adult men, 72 percent white.

T he games at Hooverville largely went chalk early, but yesterday threw that all in the blender, starting with the day one game that was kicked to early day two because of weather, where aTm ...

A census taken in March 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women, ages 15 to 73, living in 479 shacks along the tidal flat Hooverville. Of the population there, 72 percent of residents were white, with ...

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 ...

Later on today—currently scheduled for 4:30pm CT, but you know how Hooverville goes during the rainy season—I’ll update this post to make it a second round game thread for Ugga vs. The OK ...

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 ...

As the Great Depression worsened in the 1930s, thousands of Americans lost their jobs and eventually their homes. Shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles” named after unsympathetic President Herbert ...

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 ...

HBO's "Perry Mason" production designer Keith Cunningham designed a Depression-era Hooverville that embraces a sense of hope.