[Ads-l] Restricted access to "Stars and Stripes" and "The buck stops here"

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's also what they said/ say in NYC.

JL

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > "The bus stops here"
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> Are there any such signs?
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> In St. Louis, they read, "Bus Stop | No Parking Here [in order] To Corner."
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