Skid Row

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Skid Row is also the name of a rock band.

The American term skid row is used to refer to the rundown area of a city where alcoholics and vagrants congregate. The first skid row was Skid Road (Yesler Way) in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. After the onset of the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and skid row became synonomous with bad neighborhood.

There is a formally identified Skid Row in Seattle and Los Angeles as well as informally identified districts in almost every American city.

Seattle's Skid Row has gentrified, and in 1970 it was designated the


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