flophouse

• “One of the guest rooms has been named after a long-term flophouse resident, nicknamed "Charlie Peppers" due to his love of peppers.”

  The Guardian: Shabby or chic? New York's Bowery House hotel

• “my mother told me she wouldn't let me turn her home into a "flophouse".”

  At the Striped Wall With Tulips Low-Angle Café...

• “It seems that when my father was courting my mother, he made up all sorts of stories about his fabulous wealth, when, in fact, he was living out of a suitcase in a Santa Monica flophouse, subsisting on cans of chili and Spam.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dark Side of Innocence

• “The large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg, was known at the time as Mills House No. 1 and served as a flophouse for transient men.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: Anna Calvi, Live in NYC (VIDEO)

• “Here's Anna Calvi performing at Le Poisson Rouge, which was once the legendary jazz venue the Village Gate -- which itself was originally a flophouse for men, making for an interesting bit of fate, as Nina Simone whom Calvi cites as a favorite performed on this stage, and additionally, an early Calvi project was titled Cheap Hotel, releasing one single "New York"...”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: Anna Calvi, Live in NYC (VIDEO)

• “Le Poisson Rouge was once the legendary Jazz venue the Village Gate which was originally a flophouse for men - which is interesting bit of fate, as an earl Calvi project was titled Cheap Hotel, B-side "New York”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: Anna Calvi, Live in NYC (VIDEO)

• “Claus and Emmanuelle talked about the flophouse in Schwabing, where they met as roommates, and the girls they picked up at the dance halls.”

  Fictionaut: The Forest

• “A few years ago, in my role as Global Ambassador for the health organization PSI Population Services International, I visited a Kenyan brothel -- it was a scuzzy flea-bag flophouse on a teeming street in a broken-up, tough part of town.”

  The Huffington Post: Ashley Judd: A Kenyan Brothel's Lasting Impression

• “A precarious flophouse with a questionable past it is both a sculpture and a metaphor.”

  The Huffington Post: John Seed: Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New

• “Though Maeve locates him quickly, their troubles have only begun, and they're soon caught in the crossfire of a heated battle between rich developers intent on gentrification and the last tenants at a decaying flophouse, a trio of old Jewish men calling themselves the Resistance.”

  The Washington Post: Review of "On the Nickel," a mystery by John Shannon

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