European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Man strolls through san fran Deco t tenderloin Sulc Jorr Eft. Out of Fate Aiea a real Dentt right Thanet he Hod with the pigeons. Below a Home Leti Man crouches in the door Way of a salvation army  in the bowery ened to skid Row i some drifters have Laken to the cily s subways where a he can Rida All Day and night for a Dollar a moveable beefier until the Iranell police catch up. In pills Burgh Phil Pappas director of com Unity human i services says we began calling them homeless instead Lof drunk. That s when we began doing self help programs 1 and building shelters citywide. La s also a much More spew w population. It s nol Only the bag ladies but men Rind Young women and  to the skid rows began to disappear As such in the -19605, after being a fixture of american cities for most  the Century. F startle not new York gave these sore spots their most common name. It did not originate because the tnhabilant3 were on the skids. I it came from skid Road the name for yesler Way a Street built in the 1b50s to service Henry yesler s ? Sawmill. Logs were skidded Down the Street to Elliot. Buy on limbers Laid across the dirt Road and greased Wilh Shoil. It draw barkeeper and prostitutes eager to gel Meir hands on the fat wallets of Lumberjacks Mil workers and to a fire in 1889 erased the old skid Road bul it was rebuilt and remained a Center for vice As the business District distanced Itsell trom the area. It was called by a number of names Down on the sawdust South of the Slot South of the Streetcar tracks. It even borrowed the tenderloin irom new York and san Francisco and Whitechapel irom London. R but the name that stuck was skid Road translated to skid Row by a Magazine writer who heard in wrong. Today bulb Pioneer Square a Cluster of ,. Restaurants Heaters shops offices galleries and fes Torad residence. There Are monthly gallery walks and strolling Carlers at Christma Spaul Dorpat a local Seattle historian and writer explains skid Row is exploitable within the Xentri Licarion idea you re sort of repairing a neighbourhood making it Safe but also keeping its character with a sinful  there Are still missions and shelters in Pioneer Square and Wilh them Street people nol Long ago merchants complained that the younger Street people were becoming More aggressive Iri Meir hustling which in skid Row Days was called panhandling the mayor has proposed new measures whet would include housing for alcoholics and moves to discourage begging sleeping in the pants and disorderly conduct in Baltimore skid Row was Pratt Street a Harbor Iron warehouse District studded Wilh Sleazy bats that sold miniature bottles of liquor for 45 Centa. Llo houses and profitless piers Busy enough by Day bul bit to drifters Down at the Heel pools sailors and drunks end those who preyed on them. The Baltimore Sun called it our local  today it is the glittery Hart place a disinfected Magnet Tor Louis is. The dislocated sad Row inhabitants Aie scattered through town. The Philadelphia skid Row was Only 10 blocks trom c