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- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: Re: K Street
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.053624.28808@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:36:24 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
- References: <1992Dec29.061741.3474@Princeton.EDU> <C00op6.8Mp@techbook.com> <1992Dec29.172940.28345@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec29.172940.28345@Princeton.EDU> roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig) writes:
- >In article <C00op6.8Mp@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >>roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig) writes:
- >
- >>>The Bowery.
- >>>Downing St.
- >>>47th St.
- >
- >>Someone else has already mentioned Downing St. and I found The Bowery in
- >>Webster's Third (it's about the same as Skid Road), but what is 47th St.
- >>metonymous for?
- >
- >The diamond trade. (The block bet. 5th and 6th is a remarkable little
- >world of its own. Alas, the collapse of the diamond market has done
- >much to depress if not destroy the old ambience.)
- >
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- I thought of 2 others I haven't seen yet, but if I'm
- duplicating judge me not harshly I pray. They are:
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- Seventh Avenue -- home of the NYC garment industry and
- metonymous for the U.S. fashion industry.
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- Carnaby Street -- once synonymous with the Mod fashion
- industry of the Sixties.
-
- --
- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
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