Wing

Culture and Code

Signs, monikers, slang, ethics, art, music, and how film remembered the road.

Choose a room, or follow Next room to walk the wing in order.

What the charts claimed—and what is documented.

Road names as folk art, not a secret pictograph code.

Bindle, jungle, catching out, and more.

A widely circulated text—and contested origins.

Hobo nickels, tramp art, mark-making.

Songs of the road and essential reading.

Films that shaped the popular image.