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Skid Row, Los Angeles
Skid Row is an area of Downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the population of the district was 17,740. Skid Row was defined in a decision in ''Jones v. City of Los Angeles'' as the area east of Main Street, south of Third Street, west of Alameda Street, and north of Seventh Street.〔("Jones v. City of Los Angeles" ) on Findlaw.com〕 Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations (between 3,000 and 6,000) of homeless people in the United States.〔John Edwin Fuder, ''Training Students for Urban Ministry: An Experiential Approach.'' Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock (2001).〕
==Etymology==
The term "skid row" or "skid road", referring to an area of a city where people live who are "on the skids", derives from a logging term. Loggers would transport their logs to a nearby river by sliding them down roads made from greased skids. Loggers who had accompanied the load to the bottom of the road would wait there for transportation back up the hill to the logging camp. By extension, the term began to be used for places where people with no money and nothing to do gathered, becoming the generic term for a depressed street in a city.〔Partridge, Eric; Beale, Paul (ed.) ''A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English'' New York< Macmillam (1989). p.405〕
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