Slab Mobile Library, from Bo Keely
There are five constants in Slab City found nowhere else in the world:
• Freedom
• Lawlessness
• Drug use
• Poverty
• Reading at sunset
One hour before each summer sunset 20% of the population is seen under a shade tree in a scavenged easy chair reading a paperback with his feet propped up on an ice chest. The citizens read until sunset, and then pull out a headlamp to read a few hours more. Some fall asleep on the spot, and their books are stolen by those who have finished theirs. This was the stimulus for the Mobile Library on my Honda motorcycle.
Comments
Pete M on June 20, 2018 5:43 am
Love the slab city tales, keep em coming Bo