A few months prior to the meeting Johnny was stationed outside the Dollar Tree store in the Port Richmond Shopping Center. Some of the homeless asked for money outright but aggressive asking often got many of the homeless banned from various businesses. Many Dollar Tree customers engaged Johnny in conversation and asked him the same questions: How did you wind up homeless? In those Dollar Store days Johnny had quite a following. Some people would offer to shop for him in Dollar Tree while others presented him with five dollar bills.

Source: Huffington Post December 09, 2017 20:46 UTC