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

[Don Chichester]

When I was a kid, I was addicted to "Dragnet" which (then) was on the radio.  I had a street map of Los Angeles in front of me, so I could follow Friday, etc. as they sped down the various streets and highways of that far-away city.  I was in the NYC area at the time.
 
Don
 
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:25:22 -0800
> From: david_breneman at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
> 
> --- 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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