[Ads-l] Ghost Town

[Andy Bach]

> I am very confused. O'Dwyer was mayor 1946-50

Well, maybe the quote is from his ghost ... it's that kind of town.

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:13 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am very confused. O'Dwyer was mayor 1946-50.
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020, 2:47 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Many urban areas are being described as "ghost towns" during the
> > pandemic.  OED has 1931.
> >
> >
> > Kansas Farmer and Mail and Breeze (Topeka, Kansas) 09 Aug 1895 p 3, col 1
> >
> > "This important adjunct of a free people was situated out on the prairie,
> > at the site of a deserted village popularly called Ghost Town."
> >
> >
> > The Centralia Enterprise and Tribune (Centralia, Wisconsin) 28 Oct 1899,
> > Sat p 12 col 2
> >
> > "Sid Grossman reports that New York was like a ghost town last Tuesday,
> as
> > result of Mayor O'Dwyer's order halting all non-essential business
> > operations to conserve fuel."
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