Copy of 1980 "yuppie" from Chicago Magazine

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Jan 6 14:21:57 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:13:05PM -0500, Grant Barrett wrote:
> I received a copy of the May 1980 Chicago Magazine article, "About
> that urban renaissaince..." from Dan Rottenberg, its author. It does
> indeed contain many uses of "Yuppie."
>
> I scanned the pages and make them available here in a compressed
> archive:

Grant,

Many thanks for tracking this down and making it available to us.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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