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Re: Day 1309, or, 'Village People'
Posted By: Grishny, on host 207.90.120.167
Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at 14:20:40
In Reply To: Day 1309, or, 'Village People' posted by Faux Pas on Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at 09:44:02:

> The Village's traditional boundaries are south
> of W 14th St, west of Broadway, and north of
> Houston. (Note: Houston mispronounced "HOUSE-
> ton" by New Yorkers. As a misplaced Texan, I
> always have to remember not to correctly
> pronounce it like the city in Texas [HUES-
> ton].) The area south of Houston is called
> SoHo. The area of Greenwich Village directly
> north of Houston Street is sometimes called
> NoHo. Can you guess why?

There is a very tiny little obscure town in Ohio that Mousie might know called Houston. It's about, oh, 5-7 miles or so north of Piqua on state route 66. They pronounce it wrong there too.

I went on an arts trip to New York City when I was a junior in high school. We had a group of about 20 or so teens, chaperoned by 5 or 6 adults. It was a four day trip. We flew into LaGuardia and took a shuttle into the city, where we stayed at the Hotel Edison near Times Square. The first day we toured mostly the same places you mentioned. We did SoHo, and then had supper at a pizza place in Greenwich Village. The first night we then went and saw Les Miserables on broadway.

Ah, nostalgia. I haven't been back in NYC since, except for a breif drive through the Bronx on our way to New Hampshire. That was a mistake.

Gri"Yahoo isn't always right"shny

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