Editing Skid row (section)

== Origins ==
The term "skid road" dates back to the 17th century, when it referred to a [[log road]], used to skid or drag logs through woods and bog.<ref name="NYTs">{{cite news|title=A Clash Over Aid Effort on the First 'Skid Row'|last=Turner|first=Wallace|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/02/us/a-clash-over-aid-effort-on-the-first-skid-row.html|newspaper=The [[New York Times]]|date=December 2, 1986|access-date=23 September 2015|page=A20}}</ref> The term was in common usage in the mid-19th century and came to refer not just to the [[corduroy road]]s themselves, but to logging camps and mills all along the [[Pacific Coast]]. When a logger was fired he was "sent down the skid road".<ref name="Crowley">{{cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=286|title=Yesler, Henry L. (1810–1892)|first1=Junius|last1=Rochester|first2=Walt|last2=Crowley|publisher=History Ink.|date=October 17, 2002|access-date=2007-01-27}}</ref>

The source of the term "skid road" as an urban district is heavily debated, and is generally identified as originating in [[Seattle]] and [[Yesler Way]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-29 |title=A true story behind the term "skid row" {{!}} Filson Journal |url=https://www.filson.com/blog/field-notes/yesler-way-the-true-story-behind-skid-row/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=The Filson Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=issue |first=Hannelore Sudermann {{!}} June 2023 |title=Professor's book walks readers through history of Seattle's 'Skid Road' |url=https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/professors-book-walks-readers-through-history-of-seattles-skid-road/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=UW Magazine — University of Washington Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1987-03-24 |title=Original 'Skid Road' : Homeless Add a Sad Note to Gentrified Seattle Area |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-24-mn-299-story.html |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>