We couldn't help but notice that maitre d' Mikel Kanter from Vancouver's Elixir bistro is telling tourists an awfully familiar story:
He also offered that the term "Skid Row" was coined just outside the window for the logging skids that led to the water in earlier times. Skid Row, of course, became a term for the down and out, and there's nothing down and out about Vancouver these days.Wait a minute. Skid Row? Doesn't he mean "Skid Road"? More importantly, doesn't he mean it was coined just down the coast in Seattle? There's a whole book about it, as we recall.
