flophouse
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Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Sure, your mom might think your bedroom looks like a flophouse, but how many people are in your bedroom regularly?
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2020
On colder nights he would head to a flophouse, colored a bluish- purple next to another church.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
After a week, I have compiled the following survey: Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Sleeping in flophouses and on bus stop benches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
And sometimes the heartfelt songwriters, the ones capable of moonshine lullabies and Christmases that are both merry and bright, come from Lower East Side flophouses and saloons.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
CBGB’s, at 315 Bowery, has become a legend, but in those days it was a dive bar on the ground floor of one of the many flophouses that lined the avenue.
From Fox News ● Sep. 30, 2019
Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
