pynchon-l-digest V1 #71

[Tom Maddox]

Regarding the line from _V._ about the east, "where there are no more
bars."  Undoubtedly the line carries whatever symbolic freight can be
loaded onto it; however--

As I recall, East Main Street in Norfolk is the last street before the
water (Elizabeth River?), and east of it *there are no more bars*. 

This is remembered geography, hence subject to the usual lapses caused by
time, infirmity, brain damage.

I lived in Norfolk during the early '60s, pretty much the final days of
East Main's glory.  I remember buses filled with sailors riding from the
naval base up Hampton Boulevard to downtown and the bars.

Tom

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