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

[Mark Mandel]

In Berkeley, Cal., "(Rev.? Dr.?) Martin Luther King, Jr., Way" is
abbreviated on many signs to "MLK Way" and in speech to "Milky Way".

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On Dec 9, 2007 2:03 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:

> Laurence Horn wrote, of "Avenue of the Americas":
> >  I know other countries and cities go in for those long names, but we
> > Americans (and especially we New Yorkers) are too much in a hurry.
>
> 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".)
>
> Jim Parish
>
>

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