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When Elwood retrieves Jake from Joliet Prison at the start of the film, their eventual destination is a flophouse apartment in the Loop, a downtown space defined by L tracks.
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Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
By acquiring the names of all the other lords in his weed-farm network through some poor aristo whose estate has been turned into a flophouse for low-level gangsters after a dispute with the Glasses, Eddie can take this vital intel to Johnston and take away the Glasses’ leverage of secrecy.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
After Chili's twin sister, Jellybean, was found dead in a Kansas City flophouse, Chili began a downward spiral and was eventually caught drinking on the job by Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer).
—Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
The setting of McPherson’s play is a flophouse in Depression-era Duluth, Minn., the port city where Dylan was born in 1941.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Opened two years ago from what essentially was a snowboarder flophouse, Basecamp has now expanded, buying and razing another rundown motor court, adding 24 rooms (74 in all), meeting spaces and a hot tub large enough for the entire Swedish ski team to take a soak.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
At the east end of Great Jones Street lay the Bowery, a once-reputable boulevard that had become a notorious thoroughfare lined with brothels, beer gardens, flophouses and pawn shops.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
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.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
If the land trust homes were going to be long-term investments rather than flophouses, the residents were going to need more than Cunningham’s handyman skills.
—Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
By acquiring the names of all the other lords in his weed-farm network through some poor aristo whose estate has been turned into a flophouse for low-level gangsters after a dispute with the Glasses, Eddie can take this vital intel to Johnston and take away the Glasses’ leverage of secrecy.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
After Chili's twin sister, Jellybean, was found dead in a Kansas City flophouse, Chili began a downward spiral and was eventually caught drinking on the job by Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer).
—Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
The setting of McPherson’s play is a flophouse in Depression-era Duluth, Minn., the port city where Dylan was born in 1941.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Opened two years ago from what essentially was a snowboarder flophouse, Basecamp has now expanded, buying and razing another rundown motor court, adding 24 rooms (74 in all), meeting spaces and a hot tub large enough for the entire Swedish ski team to take a soak.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
At the east end of Great Jones Street lay the Bowery, a once-reputable boulevard that had become a notorious thoroughfare lined with brothels, beer gardens, flophouses and pawn shops.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
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.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
If the land trust homes were going to be long-term investments rather than flophouses, the residents were going to need more than Cunningham’s handyman skills.
—Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flophouse. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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