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To: Robert Rose who wrote (125060)5/15/2001 7:12:26 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz   of 164684
 
>> ps. skid row if you don't know is actually a seattle coin word, coined from the fact that timber tumbled down the valley to be handled or sent off or what ever. at any rate, it became a derogatory term for a sleazy area.
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I was going to school at U of I in Chicago in the late sixties. I had to walk through "skid row" to get to the school from the downtown train station. It didn't have the meaning of "sleazy", but more as the place where homeless men and drifters, bag-ladies, or alcoholics ended up. It was more a place of aimlessness than sleaze.

Thanks for pointing out the origin of the words. It has been 30 years since I've seen that expression. And I don't think I've actually heard it for at least that long. Though it was in common use when I used to walk through it every day (to save the 35c bus fare). I sure hope none of us ends up on skid row.
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