Glossary of Terms

Jalopy: A car that is old and unreliable

Hooverville: A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute people during the depression of the 1930s.

Bull-Simple: 'Bull' in the term comes from authority figures, such as policemen or strike breakers, who were employed to literally thump any oppositional voices during this time. Likened to the big, brainless and brawny animal, the bull, this label soon created the term 'bull-simple'. Bull-simple in fact refers to those people who were bullied into silence and thus sometimes appeared 'simple' in their own defences.

Talkin' Red: Talking Communist or left-wing