[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Wasn’t Seattle the original home of the first “Skid Row”?

[dainbramaged]

Wasn’t Seattle the original home of the first “Skid Row”?
Skid Road, actually - they used to skid logs down the hill to a sawmill in the early days. It morphed into "Skid Row" over the years to describe the crummy part of any city.

[gogeo]

Wasn’t Seattle the original home of the first “Skid Row”?

Actually, "Skid Road." Trees were dragged down the hill (where Yesler Way is now, I believe.) Many locals put up shacks because the real estate was obviously cheap.

[PIF]

It was called skid row because when trees are cut in the forest, they are dragged to a landing by a process known as skidding - once they used oxen, later machines to drag bundles of trees to a landing where they are turned into marketable logs.