Why is the poor part of town called skid row?

Answer 1

The American term skid row or skid road is used to refer to a rundown or dilapidated urban area. There are neighborhoods formally identified as Skid Row in Seattle and Los Angeles, as well as informally identified districts in almost every major American city, such as The Bowery in New York City. The term was memorialized in the song Skid Row from the musical Little Shop of Horrors.

The first skid row was Skid Road (Yesler Way) in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water on a corduroy road for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. During the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and "skid row" became synonymous with "bad neighborhood."

The Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose Skid Row is on the north end of Main Street around Hastings Street, more commonly called the Downtown Eastside, holds that their own Skid Row was the first. Seattle and Vancouver are geographical and cultural neighbours, and their Skid Rows went through roughly parallel development.

Answer 2

The first skid row was Skid Road in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water on a corduroy road for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. During the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and "skid row" became synonymous with "bad neighborhood."

Answer 3

The first skid row was Skid Road (Yesler Way) in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water on a corduroy road for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. During the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and "skid row" became synonymous with "bad neighborhood."

Answer 4

The first skid row was Skid Road (Yesler Way) in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water on a corduroy road for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. During the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and "skid row" became synonymous with "bad neighborhood."

Answer 5

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Answer 7

In the pacific northwest, near the beginning of the previous century, many logging towns were hastily established along waterways. These waterways were used to get logs to the mill. However, in order to get the logs from a landing site to the river they had to be drug down what is known as a "skid road," this is really just a generally downhill path roughly gouged out with planks laid down to even out the rough patches. The logs would be pulled down these roads by mule teams. Inevitably businesses arose along the skid roads to cater to the loggers who worked them, and also, as is inevitable with all industrial areas, the neighborhoods around the skid roads went into fiscal decline when the logging industry did same. Hence you end up with a section of town with low property values and meager economic growth. Newspapers of the day referred to these areas as "Skid row."

Answer 8

because they have been skidded in a row. U know, they think of people in skid row as rats and cockroahes! Cockaroaches go ina row.

Answer 9

It's just how the upper class puts down people in need...Yes,it is wrong and they shouldn't be knocking people who are doing their
best with what they have...Never put down offer a helping hand...
Clowmy

Answer 10

you have already got some good answers, but our poor part of town has always been called Hollywood. why, I dont know