In the late 19th century a street corner vendor selling peanuts, fruit and other snacks. In the early 20th century a train-bound vendor of newspapers, snacks, gossip and travel tips.
He started as a peanut butcher but retired as a Pullman Porter.
Drink one to the fireman, one to the brakeman,
One to the engineer,
And one to the peanut butcher man
For comin’ back year after year.
-Bent Roses, The Peanut Butcher
Drink one to the fireman, one to the brakeman,
One to the engineer,
And one to the peanut butcher man
For comin’ back year after year.
-Bent Roses, The Peanut Butcher
by Elemenopy Queuarestes August 13, 2019