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Flophouse Comics
A flophouse (American English) or dosshouse (British English) is a place that offers very low-cost lodging, providing space to sleep and minimal amenities. Characteristics Historically, flophouses, or British "doss-houses", have been used for overnight lodging by those who needed the lowest cost alternative to staying with others, shelters, or sleeping outside. Generally rooms are small, bathrooms are shared, and bedding is minimal, sometimes with mattresses or mats on the floor, or canvas sheets stretched between two horizontal beams creating a series of hammock-like beds. People who make use of these places have often been called transients and have been between homes. Quarters are typically very small, and may resemble office cubicles more than a regular room in a hotel or apartment building. Some flophouses qualify as boarding houses, but only if they offer meals. American flophouses date at least to the 19th century, but the term ''flophouse'' itself is only attested f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunks In A Seven-Cent Lodging-House, Pell Street
Bunk may refer to: __NOTOC__ People Nickname, given name or stage name * Bunk Congalton (1875–1937), Canadian Major League Baseball player * Bunk Henderson, American Negro league catcher in 1925 * Bunk Johnson (1879–1949), New Orleans jazz trumpeter * Oscar Requer (), nicknamed "The Bunk", a former Baltimore police detective upon whom the character Bunk Moreland (see below) is based * Bunk Gardner, stage name of American musician John Leon Guarnera (born 1933), member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention Surname * Carsten Bunk (born 1960), German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics * Leo Bunk (born 1962), German former footballer * Tom Bunk (born 1945), American cartoonist Arts and entertainment * ''Bunk'' (TV series), a 2012 television show on the Independent Film Channel * "Bunk", an episode of the television series ''CSI: Miami'' (season 1) * ''Bunk'' (book), a 2017 book by Kevin Young * Bunk Moreland, a character on the HBO drama series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
