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Kong76 May 26 2013 10:16 AM |
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Frayed Knot May 26 2013 10:31 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
What was once the Jungle is now the Rain Forest.
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MFS62 May 26 2013 11:09 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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The best of these is Gorge Carlin's step by step morphing of "shell shock" into "Post traumatic stress disorder". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeGKuTZtkpg Later
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Mets – Willets Point May 26 2013 05:43 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
I was thinking the same exact thing MFS62.
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Edgy MD May 27 2013 07:40 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
It's the Ed Koch Bridge, not the Queensoboro Bridgie.
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Frayed Knot May 27 2013 10:42 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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I predict this change will catch on a little while after 'Avenue of the Americas' does. So, I'd give it a little time, the other one hasn't even been in effect for seven decades yet.
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Mets – Willets Point May 27 2013 06:34 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
I didn't realize the Avenue of Americas renaming occurred in 1945. When I was a kid everyone acted like it was a recent change so I figured it happened in the 1970s.
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A Boy Named Seo May 27 2013 07:11 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
I did work as an extra this weekend and a couple times the director caught himself after saying 'extra' and said, "Sorry, background artists". Fuckin A right, background artist.
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Frayed Knot May 27 2013 08:15 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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That's kind of the point, seven decades later and people are still treating it as if the change happened only recently.
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Ceetar May 28 2013 07:24 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
Was it actually 'renamed'? in that the old name is no longer valid? I always thought it was one of those ceremonial names.
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Edgy MD May 28 2013 07:38 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
Didn't mean to hijack. I was just referring to this ol' thread, in which FK also transitions to his Sixth Avenue beef.
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Mets – Willets Point May 28 2013 08:13 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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Yup, meant that as confirming evidence of your point. Until yesterday I had no idea that the name change occurred shortly before my parents were born when they acted like it was still something new.
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Frayed Knot May 28 2013 10:13 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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Y'know I drove from Manhattan on the Bridge with Three Names it felt good to get out to the game When the Mets play, you can't embellish your shame cuz there ain't no one to take up all the shame. Na-NAH-Na Na-Na-Na-Nah ...
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Edgy MD May 28 2013 10:21 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
Secretaries have long since become administrative assistants, acknowledging in name that they do all the work, if not in salary.
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A Boy Named Seo May 28 2013 11:33 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
I think if I was a flight attendant, I'd prefer to be called a steward. Sounds classier. (unless my name was Stewart)
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RealityChuck May 28 2013 12:12 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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Benjamin Grimm May 28 2013 12:18 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
When I was in college, in the 1980's, the signs along Sixth Avenue only said "Avenue of the Americas", but any tourists who asked for directions were always confused by references to "Sixth Avenue", which appeared not to exist.
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Ceetar May 28 2013 12:32 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
well they renamed part of 6th avenue Lenox avenue in 1887 (and also Malcolm X in 1987) so maybe it'll catch on in a couple of years.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 28 2013 12:33 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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And I wonder how members of White's, Commonwealth Club, or the Yale Club feel about the fact that they share a descriptive name with the places you used to call "strip clubs" or "nudie bars."
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Frayed Knot May 28 2013 12:34 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
The story I heard was that it was named both in a spate of patriotism following WWII but also because 6th avenue lacked the recognition or cache that some of the other N/S aves had-- 5th Ave was high end shopping, Park was high end living, Madison was advertising, 7th was fashion, etc.-- so the merchants and building owners along there wanted to spruce things up and give the street a new identity.
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Ceetar May 28 2013 12:45 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
6th avenue now is the avenue you note as "only one more block to Penn Station!"
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Edgy MD May 28 2013 01:24 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
And to stay on the seedy side of the tracks, we now have "sex workers" instead of any number of more derisive terms.
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metsmarathon May 28 2013 01:25 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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gynecologists?
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MFS62 May 28 2013 10:04 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. What was it before the name change? Lennox Ave.?
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Frayed Knot May 28 2013 10:09 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 28 2013 10:10 PM |
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That's the continuation of what is 7th Ave below Central Park so it's not really a complete renaming as only a portion of the road is named ACP Jr Blvd And it's probably one of those deals like 6th where both the new and old addresses would work if you addressed a letter there.
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MFS62 May 28 2013 10:10 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
Thanks.
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RealityChuck May 29 2013 01:33 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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batmagadanleadoff May 29 2013 01:51 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9639C8B63 ______________ Few Emblems of Americas Remain on Their Avenue By DAVID GONZALEZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/nyreg ... venue.html
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Ceetar May 31 2013 10:52 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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seawolf17 May 31 2013 11:34 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
Of course there is. It's attached to the garment district.
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Edgy MD May 31 2013 11:55 AM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
It's been around a while. We in the fashion industry have taken to calling it the Venerable Bead District.
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Ceetar May 31 2013 12:20 PM Re: Things that have changed (but not really) thread ... |
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Ha. I was working in it for 6 weeks before I realized it was even called that. I guess I only half noticed the billions of bead shops I was walking by daily. I should start telling people I work in the Bead District and see if they have any clue, I've just being saying Herald Square.
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