If you wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, you could just stand at the side of the road and someone would pick you up and 8f you were broke and they weren't they'd likely buy you something to eat. Cops would often pick you up and carry you as far as they were patrolling and sometimes even ask the next jurisdiction to give you a ride and if it was cold they'd let you sit on their patrol car or even sleep at the station. And if you were armed no one cared unlike the brainwashed generations of today.