One-Way Street (1910?)

[Bob Haas]

Oops, sorry folks.  Somehow I replied to a private message on this thread.
My aologies.

> From: Bob Haas <highbob at mindspring.com>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:10:13 -0400
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: One-Way Street (1910?)
>
> What message?
>
>> 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
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> 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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