[78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

[David Breneman]

--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net> wrote:

> Later, Astin's monster father colleague, Fred Gwyn was in
> Car 54, where are you?
> 
> Ooh-ooh-ooh!

There's a holdup in The Bronx
Brooklyn's broken out in fights
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights...

I had no idea, as a kid, what and where any of those
places were, but "back in the day" everyone in the US
was expected to know what East Coast place names
referred to.  You just took it as a cultural tide
that washed over you and assumed that there was some
significance to those words; just as we, as denizens
of the Tacoma area, accepted that the Seattle place
names in "local" broadcasting meant something to
people who lived closer to the studios.  It was 
a world both familiar and strange.