Fwd: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Queens addresses are particularly brutal:

Streets run north-south, and the numbers get higher the further east you go.
Avenues run east-west, and the numbers get higher the further south you go.
Avenues are often paired with roads and drives. So you may find 85th Avenue, 85th Drive, and 85th Road all next to one another.
Queens addresses are a string of numbers that refer to location -- "110-10 10th St." "110" refers to a cross street/avenue, in this case, 110th Avenue. "10" refers to the house number.

LK

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>From: malignd at aol.com
>Sent: Jun 16, 2009 5:14 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Fwd: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her
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>Unless it's been fixed, the numbering system of the town of Skowegan, Maine is random.  2 next to 47 next to 11 -- that sort of thing.
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>One slightly odd thing is that although Palo Alto and Menlo Park seem
>inseparable they are in different counties--Santa Clara and San Mateo,
>respectively but that's no excuse for not maintaining a sensible numbering
>system.  Where I live now in Northwest DC the same numbering that is used on
>Wisconsin Avenue continues for many miles out through Maryland (as far as
>Rockville where I think they start over). 
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>From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 11:33 am
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>Subject: Re: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com> 
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>To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com> 
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>Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
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>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:39 AM 
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>Subject: Re: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her 
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>That's all real familiar territory to me. Lived there in the early 50s and
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>One slightly odd thing is that although Palo Alto and Menlo Park seem
>inseparable they are in different counties--Santa Clara and San Mateo,
>respectively but that's no excuse for not maintaining a sensible numbering
>system.  Where I live now in Northwest DC the same numbering that is used on
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>> On 6/16/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote: 
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>>> years ago driving the main drag on my way to the Packard Fdn offices 
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>>> near Stanford was confusing for this east coaster--looking for a 
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>>> certain building address was made more complicated by the fact that 
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>>> once u enter a town whether its Menlo Park or Palo Alto e.g. the 
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>>> numbers revert back to the beginning--you don't know really when the 
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>>> new numbers start so u end up not only missing the building but the 
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>>> building numbers start up again 
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>>> took me at least 30 minutes to figure this out w/ lots of u-turning 
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>>> its all so seamless 
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>>> On 6/15/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote: 
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>>>> From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.ne
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>>>> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
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>>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:45 AM 
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>>>> Subject: Re: CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her 
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>>>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Paul Mackin wrote: 
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>>>>>> Chapter 1 leads us to think it's a town along El Camino. 
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>>>>> Could you point to the reference? 
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>>>> P. 19 in Harper and Row paperback (P
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>>>> with Roseman (near end of chapter 1). 
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>>>> "They often went to the same group therapy sessions, in a carpool with a 
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>>>> I pick Menlo Park as the model because the two cities abutt and living
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>>>> Also I like the association of Menlo Park with the famous VA Hospital 
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>>>> LSD, 
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>>>> etc, experients of a few years earlier. 
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>>>> Ken Kesey et al. 
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