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Felony Flats is the name of crime-ridden neighborhoods of several cities in the Western United States. They are usually near a river or creek. In some Western cities, similar neighborhoods are known as skid road. *Aberdeen, Washington's Felony Flats, beside the Wishkah River, best known as the childhood home of Kurt Cobain〔 *Apple Valley, California neighborhood, near California State Route 18 *Portland, Oregon's Lents neighborhood, beside Johnson Creek, plagued by crystal meth addiction〔〔 *Part of Spokane, Washington's West Central neighborhood, near the Spokane River *Vancouver–Camas, Washington, near the Columbia River *North side of Wasilla, Alaska near Mile 49 on the George Parks Highway The similarly disparaging term "" was bestowed on many Western towns, including what later became Dunsmuir, California, Redding, California,〔〔 Lee Vining, California (was Poverty Flat), Grant, Idaho,〔 — "The variants, Poverty Flats and Gravy Bend, were acquired during impoverished times when residents had to eat watered-down gravy."〕 Wolf Point, Montana, and Moab, Utah. A fictional Northern California mining town called Poverty Flat was depicted in the 1915 movie ''The Lily of Poverty Flat'', based on the Bret Harte book of the same name, and shot near Santa Cruz, California. ==See also== *The Flats, once an Irish ghetto in Cleveland 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Felony Flats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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