One-Way Street (1910?)

[Bob Haas]

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> From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:19:07 -0400
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> Subject: Re: One-Way Street (1910?)
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> ONE-WAY STREET
>>
>> OED has 1914?
>> From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 12 December 1941, pg. 28, col. 6:
>> (...)  Mr. (Patrick--ed.) McCarthy, who was in charge of all traffic
>> in New York, recalled at his retirement in 1936 that the first one-way
>> street in New York City was Duane Street.  Mr. McCarthy designated it
>> a one-way street in 1910, seven years after he started traffic work.
>
> Clearly the term "one way street" was around before 1910.  Here is the
> earliest I find on Lexis:
>
> 1910 (28 Feb.) _Massachusetts Reports_ 205: 348  The defendant contends
> that ... an automobile ... may go either way on a "one way" street.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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