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Skid Road
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Author : Murray Morgan
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Skid Road written by Murray Morgan and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with History categories.
Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city’s history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, the 1919 general strike, the 1962 World’s Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and ’80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle’s one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents. With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Mary Ann Gwinn, this redesigned edition of Murray Morgan’s classic work is a must for those interested in how Seattle got to where it is today.
Down Out Under Arrest
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Author : Forrest Stuart
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-08-02
Down Out Under Arrest written by Forrest Stuart and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Social Science categories.
“A well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior.” —Los Angeles Times In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk—an arrestable offense in LA. Why? What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? How did we reach a point where we’ve cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That’s the complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in Down, Out & Under Arrest, a close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart’s years of fieldwork—not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged with managing them—is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced priorities more than on heroes and villains. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart’s book helps us see where we’ve gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens—and ultimately our society itself—for the better.
18 And Life On Skid Row
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Author : Sebastian Bach
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-12-06
18 And Life On Skid Row written by Sebastian Bach and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records both as the lead singer of Skid Row and as a solo artist. He is particularly known for the hit singles I Remember You, Youth Gone Wild, & 18 & Life, and the albums Skid Row and Slave To The Grind, which became the first ever hard rock album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and landed him on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Bach then went on to become the first rock star to grace the Broadway stage, with starring roles in Jekyll & Hyde,Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also appeared for seven seasons on the hit television show The Gilmore Girls. In his memoir, Bach recounts lurid tales of excess and debauchery as he toured the world with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Soundgarden, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails and Guns N’ Roses. Filled with backstage photos from his own personal collection, 18 And Life on Skid Row is the story of hitting it big at a young age, and of a band that broke up in its prime. It is the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams, only to lose his family, and then his home. It is a story of perseverance, of wine, women and song and a man who has made his life on the road and always will. 18 And Life On Skid Row is not your ordinary rock memoir, because Sebastian Bach is not your ordinary rock star.
Kids Of Skid Row Life Is A Story Story One
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Author : Sonja Maas
language : de
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Kids Of Skid Row Life Is A Story Story One written by Sonja Maas and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Fiction categories.
Tyler wächst in Los Angeles auf. Abseits des Reichtums und des Glamours der Traumstadt erlebt er tagtäglich die harte Realität in Skid Row - das Viertel ist geprägt von Obdachlosigkeit, Verfall und Gewalt. Der Kampf um die Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben wird zum bestimmenden Faktor für Tyler; die Folgen eines möglichen Scheiterns werden ihm tagtäglich vor Augen geführt. Momentaufnahmen seines Alltags, mal hoffnungsvoll und harmonisch, mal düster und dramatisch, werden begleitet von Berichten und Nachrichten über die nationalen Ereignisse und Entwicklungen der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts.
Skid Row
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Author : Joseph H. Werner Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2011-07-15
Skid Row written by Joseph H. Werner Jr. and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-15 with Fiction categories.
The bum who put the touch on JoJo was just like any other bum on Skid Row—red-faced, in clothes that didn’t fit, and with the shakes, a condition that only a drink could still. The line was the same with all of them and they always targeted JoJo for his big heart. “I ain’t et in two days,” they’d beg to JoJo but he knew if he parted with the quarter—that is, if he even had one to part with—the bum would head straight for the nearest liquor store or beer joint. Set in Memphis, Tennessee during the Great Depression, “Skid Row” follows the lives of a group of laborers known as tinners. There was Jew Bill, Shorty, Fingers, Grinder, Swede and Junior, among others, some said to be, “as ugly as homemade sin.” Also known as down-and-outers, these men never missed a chance to gawk at the high-steppers prancing in and out of the flophouse across the street from the tin shops. Yet they treated the lovely, shapely Reba, the Widow Hanna, and the innocent Betty Jo with more respect. All the while, these were men trying desperately to make it to the next payday, fighting within themselves whether to put food on the table for the family, or use the last bit of pocket change for a much-needed drink. Teeming with vivid narrative about a lively yet lonely street from a time and place long forgotten, “Skid Row” is told through the eyes of a young lad growing from teenager to manhood while working in his father’s tin shop. Joe Werner has filled his first novel with humor and yearning in his own, unique, bare-knuckled voice. With no subtlety or pretense, Werner makes you root for a group of people struggling to simply exist in this gritty, entertaining novel of bygone days. Joe Werner was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and worked until retirement as a tinsmith and contractor. When taking a break from writing, Joe and his wife, Amelia, travel the world and play golf. These days, he’s busy working on his next novel. For more on Joe, please visit his website at www.joewerner.com.
Skid Row Los Angeles California
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Author : Béatrice Augier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-18
Skid Row Los Angeles California written by Béatrice Augier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-18 with categories.
Pictures story of the Homeless world in SKID ROW Los Angeles. California Pictures taken in the streets of Skid Row by a French women so surprised to discover that face of a big American Famous City
The King Of Skid Row
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Author : James Eli Shiffer
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
The King Of Skid Row written by James Eli Shiffer and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with History categories.
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their souls. Sociology researchers posing as vagrants studied them. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood’s last days through photographs and film of his clientele. The King of Skid Row follows Johnny Rex into this vanished world that once thrived in the heart of Minneapolis. Drawing on hours of interviews conducted in the three years before Bacich’s death in 2012, James Eli Shiffer brings to life the eccentric characters and strange events of an American skid row. Supplemented with archival and newspaper research and his own photographs, Bacich’s stories re-create the violent, alcohol-soaked history of a city best known for its clean, progressive self-image. His life captures the seamy, richly colorful side of the city swept away by a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s and gives us, in a glimpse of those bygone days, one of Minneapolis’s most intriguing figures—spinning some of its most enduring and enthralling tales.
Skid Row
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Author : William McSheehy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Publishing Company
Release Date : 1979
Skid Row written by William McSheehy and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Business & Economics categories.
Skid Road
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Author : Josephine Ensign
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Skid Road written by Josephine Ensign and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Medical categories.
Brother's Keeper -- Skid Road -- The Sisters -- Ark of Refuge -- Shacktown -- Threshold -- State of Emergency -- Epilogue.
Skid Row
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Author : Howard M. Bahr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Skid Row written by Howard M. Bahr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Poor categories.
Social research study of alcoholism, delinquency and other social problems associated with homelessness among poverty-stricken adults in the urban area slum areas of the USA - covers public attitudes about homeless men, the social characteristics of the homeless, the social structures of 'skid row', social control and rehabilitation, homeless women, etc. Illustrations and references.