Skid Road

Author : Murray Morgan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295743509

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Skid Road by Murray Morgan Pdf

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.

Author : Josephine Ensign
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421440132

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Skid Road by Josephine Ensign Pdf

Brother's Keeper -- Skid Road -- The Sisters -- Ark of Refuge -- Shacktown -- Threshold -- State of Emergency -- Epilogue.

Author : Sebastian Bach
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062265418

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18 and Life on Skid Row by Sebastian Bach Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Apakark Thrasher,Gerard Deagle,Alan Mettrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : UOM:39015002338179

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Thrasher ... Skid Row Eskimo by Anthony Apakark Thrasher,Gerard Deagle,Alan Mettrick Pdf

Biography of an Eskimo from the North flown south for job training, his problems with alcohol and subsequent jailing for murder.

Author : James Eli Shiffer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452950198

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The King of Skid Row by James Eli Shiffer Pdf

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.

Author : United States Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210403718

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Technical Manual by United States Department of the Army Pdf

Author : Pamela Dykstra,Michael Patrick Curran,British Columbia. Forest Science Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forest roads
ISBN : MINN:31951D02259491D

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Skid Road Recontouring in Southeastern British Columbia by Pamela Dykstra,Michael Patrick Curran,British Columbia. Forest Science Program Pdf

The British Columbia Forest Practices Code creates a legal requirement for soil conservation and, in particular, calls for skid road rehabilitation to restore site productivity & site hydrology. This report presents the seven-year results of a research trial initiated in the Nelson Forest Region in 1985 to test the efficacy of rehabilitation practices by quantifying tree growth on rehabilitated skid roads. Sites were planted with lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce, or both. At eight locations in the Rocky and Purcell mountains, total height, annual height increment, and basal diameter were measured on 1,713 trees ranging in age from six to ten years. Comparisons are made between growth of undisturbed trees and those on various locations on the rehabilitated berm. Based on the results, recommendations are made regarding improvements to skid road rehabilitation.

Author : Béatrice Augier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1714714098

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SKID ROW Los Angeles California by Béatrice Augier Pdf

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

Author : Murray Morgan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295744629

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Puget's Sound by Murray Morgan Pdf

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, �the City of Destiny,� and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington�s history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget�s Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but have a special significance: a colorful parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers. Morgan begins his account with the landing of Captain Vancouver in Puget Sound in 1792 and ends with the founding of Fort Lewis in 1916, the year the author was born. Between are the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, the boom-and-bust of lumber mills, the anti-Chinese riots of 1885, and more unique Northwest history that will intrigue both new arrivals and longtime residents. With a new introduction by historian and historic preservationist Michael Sean Sullivan, this redesigned edition of Puget�s Sound brings new life to Morgan�s landmark history of the South Sound and the early days of Tacoma.

Author : Graeme d'Egville Hope,British Columbia. Ministry of Forests. Research Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Forest roads
ISBN : MINN:31951D02034122N

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Effects of Bladed Skid Roads on Soil Properties and Early Tree Growth on Two Steep Slopes in the Southern Interior of British Columbia by Graeme d'Egville Hope,British Columbia. Ministry of Forests. Research Branch Pdf

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190282455

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The City in Slang by Irving Lewis Allen Pdf

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

Author : Forrest Stuart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226370958

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Down, Out &Under Arrest by Forrest Stuart Pdf

“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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ron Talarico
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780984706037

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Fire in the Dark by Anonim Pdf

Author : Coll Thrush
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295741352

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Native Seattle by Coll Thrush Pdf

This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036643948

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Monongahela National Forest (N.F.), Lower Williams Vegetation by Anonim Pdf