VLVL2(3): Melrose Fife

[Dave Monroe]

"Out on the street, wedged into most of the front seat
of a motor-pool Plymouth, waited Hector's partner in
those days, the seriously oversize field agent Melrose
Fife." (VL, Ch. 3, pp. 22-3)


Melrose

http://www.cityofmelrose.org/

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Shop/Melrose.shtml

http://losangeles.travelape.com/attractions/melrose-avenue/


Fife

Main Entry: fife 
Pronunciation: 'fIf
Function: noun
Etymology: German Pfeife pipe, fife, from Old High
German pfIfa, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin pipa pipe --
more at PIPE
Date: 1539
: a small transverse flute with six to eight finger
holes and usually no keys

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


"the seriously oversize field agent"

http://mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/dc269/wallpaper/barney_flag.jpg

http://www.barneyfife.com/


Melrose Fife

p. 23 Great names: the fat Melrose Fife (possibly
inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and
early fifties that went "Melrose five,
five-three-hundred, Melrose five,
five-three-hundred...") ...

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter3.htm

That was the jingle for Sachs Quality Stores.  Not be
be confused with Sax Fifth Avenue, it was a furniture
chain based in the Bronx and the commercial boasted
that it was "New York's most famous phone number" ...

http://www.broadcast.net/pipermail/broadcast/2002-July/110710.html

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