Word: skidroad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seattle. Author Leighton writes woodenly about Birmingham, bitingly about Omaha, lyrically about Seattle. He finds the pioneer spirit, dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...
...clothing buttoned tightly about his short, diabetic body, a derelict named Driscoll lay on the floor of a boxcar in Seattle's railroad yards. For days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...Lamb." All classes and all races might come to learn of the social teachings of Jesus. For the first day of the new church, last Sunday, Socialist Shorter obtained the Seattle Repertory Players' theatre in the morning, the University of Seattle Y.M. C. A. at noon, the "Skidroad," (Seattle's Bowery) in the afternoon...