Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Photo #1 by Noel Feans
Luck Turned Its Back On Me. Photo #2 by Manuel Callejon
Hitting rock bottom. Photo #3 by Lee Nachtigal
‘Mike’– What hungry and homeless looks like up-close and personal. Photo #4 by Leroy Skalstad
Life can be hard sometimes. Photo #5 by Nana B Agyei
Homeless and sleeping in D.C. Photo #6 by
Guess what, America, we’ve been here before and came out of it. Front page of the New York Tribune on Thanksgiving November 20, 1910. “Notwithstanding a few drawbacks, there is still much to be thankful for this winter.” Photo #7 by Library of Congress
Heartwrenching: homeless children. Photo #8 by Alex (elfon)
The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, CA, 1987. Photo #9 by Mary Ellen Mark via Thomas Hawk
Still hungry. Still homeless. Still need help. Photo #10 by Ed Yourdon
Retired homeless fisherman. Photo #11 by Pedro Ribeiro Simões
Homeless in the Haight. Photo #12 by Tony the Misfit
Homeless and hungry, but still sharing his meal with the pigeons. Photo #13 by Pedro Ribeiro Simões
The Outcast — Stray Dogs and Paper Walls. Photo #14 by SpaceShoe [Learning to live with the crisis]
Shattered dreams and regret. This homeless man is lost in thought. Photo #15 by Henadz Freshphoto.ru
The Forgotten Man. Photo #16 by Alex E. Proimos
Homeless with a pigeon on his head. Photo #17 by Kamil Porembiński
I had a dream. Photo #18 by straman
Cold night. Photo #19 by Ricardo Liberato
Thanksgiving November 20, 1904 front page of the New York Tribune.”This man prefers to hunt his Thanksgiving dinner. These boys will beg theirs.” Photo #20 by Library of Congress
The tradition of Thanksgiving Masking: poor children would “mask” their faces and then beg for food or pennies. “Scramble for pennies” on Thanksgiving [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] from Bain News Service. Photo #21 by Library of Congress
Bain News Service circa 1910. Maskers scrambled for pennies on Thanksgiving like a tradition from 1780 – 1940s. Photo #22 by Library of Congress
Thanksgiving “Maskers” Bain News Service circa 1910. BoingBoing explained the Thanksgiving Maskers: “Progressive era reformers regarded child begging on Thanksgiving as immoral and thought children who engaged in it should be arrested. Why were parents not able to control their offspring? The New York Times in 1903 wanted to know. The newspaper castigated parents who allowed children to demand treats or money as indecent. The police tried to enforce a ban against begging. In response to complaints from the public, the clergy, school superintendents, and classroom teachers issued warnings. The New York Times in November of 1930 worried that demanding coins could teach children to become professional beggars and blackmailers and that children were annoying the public. Begging, decided the paper, was a ‘malicious influence on the morals of children of the city’.” Photo #23 by Library of Congress
Thanksgiving turkey. Bain News Service between 1910 – 1915. Photo #24 by Library of Congress
Now for something a bit lighter of heart. Photo #25 by Ian Sane
Homeless Veteran on the streets of Boston, MA. Photo #26 by Matthew Woitunski
Homeless and hungry. Photo #27 by Ed Yourdon
Homeless woman with dogs. Photo #28 by Franco Folini
Dogs, a man’s best friend even when homeless and hungry? Photo #29 by Torcello Trio
Lost to society. Photo #30 by Ricardo Liberato
Homeless Anonymous? 😉 Photo #31 by Poster Boy NYC
Portrait of homeless man. Photo #32 by Leroy Allen Skalstad
The Hand – can you lend a helping one? Homeless and hungry is a worldwide issue. Photo #33 by Alex E. Proimos
Those dreams people wanted to follow? Cancelled. ~ Banksy. Photo #34 by Chris Devers
Homeless. Please help. Thank you. Photo #35 by Ed Yourdon
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Food for thought indeed. Great collection of photos there
Amazing picture selection, even if I’m suspect once I’ve two pictures on it. Wouldn’t it be possible to share it on, for instance Facebook.
And tonight the President of the United States has disappeared for the second time. – Gosh knows, he won’t be hungry. But then, what sociopath is?
“Buddy, can you spare a dime?” – I thought that quit when my parents were kids. – No Sir!
A dime won’t buy you an apple anymore. But if you strip, or “create” filthy Gangsta “music, or hit, kick or dunk a ball, the money’s in the bank.
Thanksgiving is here, folks, and prayers don’t cost even a dime. Pray for America and then thank Him that we have Him regardless of whatever else we don’t have.
Thank you for the poesy of your images. We all need to stop and look because these people are US.
You americans should quit praying and start working. If there’s a god, I doubt he would be willing to help a nation who, in the last 50 years, has bombed more countries than in the two world wars…
Wars are expensive and so is the gas for your hungry cars. This is what happens when you bite more than you need. It is called debt.
Do not take this message as a declaration of hate, as I do not hate you. Although I lived in the USA for almost eight years, I still think USA is a rotten apple. But perhaps it would be a good idea for the ordinary americans, to start thining with their own brain, just this time. Things could change. …
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These are some wonderful, thought provoking images. It leaves me with a heavy heart, and very thankful for the family, love, and lot in life I have been blessed with.
Unfortunately, I’ve lived in Los Angeles long enough to know that many of these sign-holders are more lazy than down on their luck. I once happened upon a “will work for food” sign holder. I offered him some work and he refused, asking for money instead.
I’ll buy a meal or a blanket for someone living on the street (and I’m currently unemployed), but I won’t give money that would most-likely be spent on drugs or alcohol.
Seeing such sheer depressing views of people makes me feel criminal for having anything at all.
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These pictures for the most part show a very real and depressing aspect of life in the United States. So many are like me caught up in the idea of the worthy homeless who are without hope by no fault of their own and the unworthy homeless who abused drugs, did crimes and worse having become homeless as a result.
Most good people inncluding me would help the worthy homeless in an instant but our hearts harden at t5he very idea that a drug addicted bum or booze hound my get our donation. For fear that our kindness my be sqandered on booze or drugs many of us have hardened our hearts to all homeless people unless they reveal themselves as honorable people to us.
The thing I find really weird about life in the United States is that single guys like me live in 1000 plus square feet of space in a luxury building. Conversely homeless a great many homeless people freeze to death each year for want of 80 square feet of living space. I don’t feel guilty but after looking at these pictures it is hard to look at my couch, my big kitchen, my full dinning room, nice bathroom, walk in closet and more without thinking a homeless person would consider it a huge step up to sleep in the warm safety of my entry foyer or walk in closet.
People who served our country, the retired fisherman these guys struck my heart. the last thing that just makes me hurt is that living in the United States requires you to STRATEGICALLY manage your money across your lifetime and your career or else you WILL BE HOMELESS! But what about the people who weren’t taught or simply don’t have the mental facilityor discipline to manage their money and careers with the required strategic vision. Today if you lack strategic vision in routhlessly plan your life and career you are rewarded with homelessness when you can least tolerate it. Once you become homeless and have no support system you sink to drugs and alcohol because; they are the only tools that make the pain of street life bearable.
I used to hate the drug addict and drunk homeless thinking they were all losers and maybe some are. However I am a man of great discipline by the grace of God Almighty as such I was thus far able to avoid homelessness. But what about them. What about the man or woman who try as they might just don’t have the ability to exert my Vulcan like control over my desires, lusts and needs. What aboout the man who is hard wired to live for the moment because; he lacks the ability to adhere to a strategic vision across a lifetime. What about the man who was too trusting or financially illiterate and lost all his money to bad investments. It was hard for me to understand that not everyone is able to manage money across a lifetime. Not everyone is smart and or blessed as I am. Not everyone avoided drugs, booze and other vices growing up as I did. Should that be cast into the hell of lifetime homelessness for their errors. Should those who failed the survive in this new climate of social Darwinianism be forever punished for their failings.
I won’t give you an aswer to these questions for it is to each of us individually to answer these questions and by so doing reveal the true state of our hearts. I am a black hearted AUTISTIC WEREWOLF BUT EVEN I CAN CHANGE… Look at these pictures closely and see the people beyond the possible failings. My journey to humanity will no doubt be a long one for I am autistic and a social darwinist at heart. I too must learn to look beyond the literal and logical to embrace the flawed human that eludes my easy understanding. I must look closely and lovingly at people who lack self management skills I take for granted. I must be greater than I am at the moment and these pictures helped on that long journey. Thank you and God Blessyou all!