Strip
I've been visiting my son in Canterbury, and during our conversations he mentioned that while he was in the States (he lived there for four years) he noticed that every town seemed to have its 'strip'...
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"Strip mall" is more often used these daysfor what your son describes. And they're ubiquitous.
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Local lore has it that the Las Vegas Strip was named after Sunset Strip and that Sunset Strip dates back to the '20s. I've no reference for any of this.It seems to me this might well be researched by...
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"Strip mall" is more often used these daysfor what your son describes.No, no, a "strip mall" is entirely different -- it's a group of (boring franchised) stores laid out in a row rather than (as in...
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FWIW, the OED records the use (not so much Main Street as the night-life, if not red-light, district: "A street noted for its night-clubs, bars, gambling houses, etc.") and gives Sunset Strip as the...
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The older "strip" (often capitalized) was the main street or center of a town,Then it's not ubiquitous. I've never heard it used to describe any such thing in any of the midwestern towns and cities...
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I've never heard it used to describe any such thing in any of the midwestern towns and cities I've lived in.Perhaps you've never lived in a military town. Certainly any place that has a military...
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Being raised as an Army brat, I can attest to the use of strip around military installations. Also, a small town here in Eastern Oregon has a road known as, the "Island City Strip". It is about two...
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news.google.com/archivesearch pulls up [references] to "sunset strip" back in 1937. I get the feeling that news.google.com/archivesearch is relatively new so time may take it back [a bit] further.ed -...
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That this fellow, this aldiboronti, posts consecutively two posts entitled "Strip" and "Club". Sassy fellow, he.
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The Google News Archive Search is a great new resource.Thanks for the heads up, janeskid.Darn it! I note that many (most?) of the search results are Pay-per-View/Subscription. Foiled again.
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Also, you can't sort the results by date and the "timeline" feature that groups results in eras is very buggy.Overall, a very disappointing addition to Google's services. They need a little more...
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