The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Sun Dec 9 19:19:27 UTC 2007


I wrote:
> Hm. I remember a Chicago bus driver who loved, at the appropriate
> point, to sing out "DOC-tor MAR-tin LU-ther KING MEM-o-RI-al DRIVE".
> (Everybody else I knew just called it "King Drive".)

Correction: insert "JU-nior" after "KING".

Jim Parish

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