Crane himself rented a room in a flophouse near his office and put in several 16 to 20-hour days of the work on the project.
All of the floors were rebuilt with single room cabins, bunk rooms, and communal bathrooms to maximize occupancy and the hotel became more akin to a flophouse.
The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, with something different going on in each.
He lived in model lodging houses, government-run houses for homeless men, slightly better than flophouses.
By the 1970s, the building was a flophouse.
The suburban house disintegrates into a flophouse, the stork repossesses the baby, and the wife packs a suitcase and leaves.
At that time, the area was known for its hobo jungles and flophouses.
Frantic to leave town and desperately needing to sleep, the penniless man gives the check as security for a 10 cent bed in a flophouse.
