Peola (was "Nee" = or; or perhaps)

[George Thompson]

The New York City subway system makes a practice of putting up signs
identifying the person who is the general supervisor of each station
(usually a group of stations), with a photograph.  I noticed with
interest a few years ago in a station I do not often pass through that
the station manager was one "Peola [last name forgotten]".  A woman;
from her picture reasonably light-skinned.
For you NYCers: as I recall, this was in one of the east side IRT
stations.  Keep a look out.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
Date: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:05 pm
Subject: Re: "Nee" = or; or perhaps

> The word is definitely "Peola" (approx. [piol@] w/stress on the /o/)
> and not "Pecola." It's quite rare. The only person that I've ever
> heard speak it is my mother, who's now 93. And this is the only time
> I've seen it written. Unless it's in Majors, in which case I've
> simply forgotten whatever he had to say.
>
> And yes, Jon. I do understand that the above is beside the point of
> your post. ;-) I'm just running it up the flagpole to se whether
> anyone salutes,
>
> -Wilson
>
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> >Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> >Subject:      "Nee" = or; or perhaps
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> >Get this:
> >
> >  "In that glossary was the term Peola ( it may have been Pecola)
> it
> >was many many years ago I last saw it.  Peola (nee Pecola) is an
> young>attractive fair skin Negro girl." -- "Broye," "Harlem Slang"
> >(Usenet: soc.culture.african.american.moderated ) (Apr. 17, 1999).
> >
> >JL
> >
> >
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