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- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: Re: K Street
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.200404.2848@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:04:04 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
- References: <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com> <1992Dec27.231647.20726@news2.cis.umn.edu> <C00J01.7E3@techbook.com>
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- In article <C00J01.7E3@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
- >>
- >> Hollywood?
- >>
- >>Didn't the street give tinseltown its name?
- >
- >I've consulted two reference works and both agree that Mrs. Daeida
- >Wilcox, wife of the man who laid out Hollywood, came up with the name.
- >Neither one mentions anything about the street.
- >
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- Right. However, two L.A. streets that might qualify would be Rodeo
- Drive (Beverly Hills) and the Sunset Strip. Both fairly redolent with
- meaning at least on the West Coast of the United States.
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- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
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