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Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 38: Out he goes after that. I told him about it. I’ll take care of him.at take care of, v.
Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 38: Out he goes after that. I told him about it. I’ll take care of him. Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 32: Are those hotels spook or gray?at gray, adj.
Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 32: I guess I’m going to make it on the week end.at make it, v.
Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 32: Say daddy, have you dug the set at the Key club?at set, n.2
Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 32: I’d rather get a room at a spook place so I can operate.at spook, adj.1
Skid Row 13: Skid row is [...] that collection of saloons, pawn shops, cheap restaurants, [...] flop houses and dilapidated hotels which caters specifically to the needs of the down-and-outer.at down-and-outer, n.
Skid Row 20: He [...] established a number of station houses throughout the country where hoboes might get their ‘coffee an’s’.at coffee-and, n.
Skid Row 43: The boxcars and hobo-jungles are only a step above ‘carrying the banner’ — not sleeping at all.at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
Skid Row 203: Bay horse—bay rum. Bay horse jockey— one who drinks bay rum.at bay horse, n.
Skid Row 40: The average rent [...] except for free mission beds and hobo-jungles, is between $15 and $19 per month.at jungle, n.
Skid Row 30: Vagrancy merits a longer sentence [...] than drunkenness, disturbing the peace, or panhandling.at panhandle, v.
Skid Row 13: Skid row is a phenomenon peculiar to the United States. It is that run-down area in almost every American city where the homeless can and do live. It is that collection of saloons, pawn shops, cheap restaurants, second-hand shops, barber colleges, all-night movies, missions, flop houses and dilapidated hotels which caters specifically to the needs of the down-and-outer, the bum, the alcoholic, the drifter.at skid row, n.
Skid Row 18: At first the areas containing homeless men were called by a variety of local and descriptive names: e.g. Beer Gulch, Chippie Town, the Red Light District, the Tenderloin.at tenderloin, n.
Skid Row 43: Boxcars expose their occupants to the danger of discovery by railroad ‘bulls,’ an encounter not soon to be forgotten.at yard bull (n.) under yard, n.2
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