Felony Flats is the nickname of a poor neighborhood in
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
,
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
. It is best known as the childhood home of
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...
, who lived at 1210 East First Street ().
Kurt Cobain Memorial Park
Kurt Cobain Memorial Park (also called Kurt Cobain Landing) is a park in Aberdeen, Washington and the first official, full-scale memorial to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in his hometown.
A welcome sign to the city installed in 2005 which obliquel ...
sits at the south end of
Young Street Bridge in the flats ().
The placement of a "Q-Mart" tribal convenience store and smoke shop in Felony Flats, on
Indian trust land
Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States.
Originally, the U.S. federal government recognized American Indian trib ...
owned by the
Quinault Indian Nation
The Quinault Indian Nation ( or ; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. , caused controversy upon its proposal in 2012 (). The city's mayor said "Look here, 500 block of East Wishkah, the 600 block of East Wishkah... commonly known as Felony Flats... we don't need any more problems for Downtown Aberdeen."
[
Five women who robbed a bank in ]Olympia
The name Olympia may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games
* ''Olympia'' (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlet ...
in 1998, inspired by the movie '' Set It Off'', lived as part of a group of about a dozen women in a run-down house at 708 East First St. ().[
]
See also
*Skid row
A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, in English-speaking North America whose inhabitants are mostly poor people " on the skids". This specifically refers to poor or homeless, considered disreputable, downtrodden or fo ...
, a term coined in Seattle, with equivalent districts in many cities
*The Flats
The Flats is a mixed-use industrial, recreational, entertainment, and residential area of the Cuyahoga Valley neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The name reflects its low-lying topography on the banks of the Cuyahoga River.
History
In 1796 ...
, formerly an Irish ghetto in Cleveland
*Mud flats
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers. A global analysis published in 2019 suggested that tidal fl ...
, occurring at the estuary of the Wishkah River
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Aberdeen, Washington