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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: Amusing street names
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.041658.11888@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:16:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.174303.1786@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
- >BTW, are there any ULs or even (horrors!) facts about how "Great Jones
- >Street" in New York got its name? Was there a person referred to as
- >"Great Jones," or is the street distinguished from a lesser street
- >of the same name? There is a one-block "Great Jones Street" in
- >Durham, N.C., too; nothing is on it anymore, but they keep the sign
- >up anyway.
- >
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- To the best of my knowledge, Great Jones street has nothing to do with:
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- Jack Jones (or his father Allen)
- David Jones (of the Monkees)
- Me and Mrs. Jones
- Basketball Jones
- (The whole town's talkin' about the) Jones boy
- Lorenzo Jones (No tribble at all)
- Purple Kool-aid (Jonestown)
- Bula Vinaka
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- However, NYC does have a Jones Alley.
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- cj "no connection to Joni Mitchell either" l
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