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From: Rebecca Graham <regjjp>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 08:21:34 -0800
When I was growing up on the Southwest Side of Chicago in the early 1960's we called vacant lots "prairie" -- as in: "Let's go play in the prairie with the billboard over on 63rd street." My dad remembers calling them that, also, in the 1930's. Must be a vestige of Chicago's past.
Rebecca Graham New M.S. L.I.S. in Anchorage, Alaska
Received on Fri 03 Oct 2003 11:21:34 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 08:21:34 -0800
When I was growing up on the Southwest Side of Chicago in the early 1960's we called vacant lots "prairie" -- as in: "Let's go play in the prairie with the billboard over on 63rd street." My dad remembers calling them that, also, in the 1930's. Must be a vestige of Chicago's past.
Rebecca Graham New M.S. L.I.S. in Anchorage, Alaska
Received on Fri 03 Oct 2003 11:21:34 AM CDT
