A skid row or skid road, sometimes called felony flats, is a run-down or dilapidated urban area with a large, impoverished population. The term skid road originally referred literally to a path along which working men skidded logs. Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest. Examples are the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver; Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington; Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon; Skid Row in Los Angeles, and San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
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“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)