_Dead End_ is...

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 22 20:02:34 UTC 2012


On Aug 22, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "No Through Street" in Saint Louis
>
> "Street Not Through" in Los Angeles

I always liked the "No Thru Way" signs, on what is clearly not a thruway.

LH
>
> "No Outlet" in Wilkes-Barre.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
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