"Silicon" (geog.)

[Steve K.]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:

> I grew up  with "the Valley" in SE Tx = the Rio Grande Valley. In
> Arkansas, I would ocasionally say that and everybody wanted to know WHICH
> valley,

In and around Flint, Michigan, the Valley can only refer to the Genessee
Valley Mall, which was built around 1970 and one of the first megamalls in
Michigan, as in "I went to the Valley and stopped at every store, but no
one was hiring." (circa 1982).

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