Jack of Harts

Mobile, Alabama was largely burned down during the riots of the Second Great Depression. Some of the major industrial facilities and the Port of Mobile survived thanks to their corporate security teams, and they provided temporary housing for their workers. Most of that housing was composed of international shipping containers, which the Port of Mobile had in numbers far greater than their needs. Individual containers could be turned into barracks-style housing for single men and women, or family-style housing. The port had recently received a shipment of one-piece sinks and toilets for one of the local prisons, and it was easy to install them in the shipping containers to give their workers all the necessities of home. Not necessarily the comforts thereof, but in times of death and danger, a good roof, a clean bed, and a working sink and toilet are sufficient unto the day.