Poverty Row was a slang term used in
Hollywood from the late 1920s through the mid-1950s to refer to a variety of small (and mostly short-lived)
B movie studios. While many of them were on (or near) today's
Gower Street in Hollywood, the term did not necessarily refer to any specific physical location, but was rather a figurative catch-all for low-budget films produced by these lesser-tier studios.