Junk man
Junk man is the (largely American) term for a person who buys, trades, or collects disparate items (scrap and usable/repairable things) considered of little or no value to their owners. This person then tries to sell or trade these items at a profit to other individuals and scrap yards.
The Old Antiquarian. Hermann Kern - 1907
Appearances in pop culture
The poet Carl Sandburg has a poem called "Junk Man," in which Death is personified by a junk man.[1] In his song "The Pretender", Jackson Browne imagines that "the junk man pounds his fender", alluded as a Los Angeles neighborhood sight. In the television program Sanford and Son, the father's character, played by Redd Foxx, was a junkman, although even in those days the profession was not as common as it had once been.
Footnotes
- "The Junk Man" Carl-Sandburg.com (accessed June 20, 2007)
See also
- American Pickers
- Grubber
- Karung guni
- Tosher
- Mudlark
- Rag-and-bone man, the British equivalent of this vocation
- Sanford and Son, a television program centered on a junk man and his son
- Dumpster diving
- Waste picker
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