AtD (37) p.1045 Merle R. appears, old farmland, flirting?
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Mon Jul 21 15:46:29 CDT 2008
Mark Kohut wrote:
>> The park had some relatively wild parts. Once some of us
>> kids (or maybe
>> I was alone) wandered off the main track into a hilly area
>> and came
>> across a very unfriendly man who told us, "Don't
>> come up here no more."
>>
>
> There's the beginning of a mystery, or Sycamore Park as Chinatown...
>
The old Chinatown (of the movie) was only about five miles south of the
park.
Where Union Station is now. (if it's still there)
The street is Alameda, which the Anglo locals (at that time anyway)
pronounced AlaMEEda, not MAYda like they said it in the movie.
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