What They Think of Us, Season 4 Episode 9
Gleaned from the street index of my Lyon map, herewith the local streets named after Americans:
Entertainment Division:
Rue John Ford
Rue Charlie Chaplin
Allee Buster Keaton
Military Division:
Avenue General Eisenhower
Boulevard des Etas-Unis (so named because during WWI it ran to the US Army camp just outside of town; the site, since annexed, is now an entire neighborhood known as Etas-Unis)
Rue de 3 Septembre 1944 (date of the liberation of Lyon)
Political Division:
Cours Franklin Roosevelt
Pont Woodrow Wilson
Avenue de President Kennedy
Science Division:
Rue Jonas Salk
Avenue Albert Einstein (half-credit, naturalized after his most important work)
Avenue Enrico Fermi (half-credit, ditto)
Miscellaneous:
Square des Ameriques (a bit of a stretch, maybe)
Impasse Lindbergh
Avenue Rockefeller
[Photo: Although, in general, 19th-century transcendentalists are underrepresented in graffiti art, Uncle Hank-Dave peers out on a heavily-tagged stairway on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse]
Entertainment Division:
Rue John Ford
Rue Charlie Chaplin
Allee Buster Keaton
Military Division:
Avenue General Eisenhower
Boulevard des Etas-Unis (so named because during WWI it ran to the US Army camp just outside of town; the site, since annexed, is now an entire neighborhood known as Etas-Unis)
Rue de 3 Septembre 1944 (date of the liberation of Lyon)
Political Division:
Cours Franklin Roosevelt
Pont Woodrow Wilson
Avenue de President Kennedy
Science Division:
Rue Jonas Salk
Avenue Albert Einstein (half-credit, naturalized after his most important work)
Avenue Enrico Fermi (half-credit, ditto)
Miscellaneous:
Square des Ameriques (a bit of a stretch, maybe)
Impasse Lindbergh
Avenue Rockefeller
[Photo: Although, in general, 19th-century transcendentalists are underrepresented in graffiti art, Uncle Hank-Dave peers out on a heavily-tagged stairway on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse]
posted by Frogmarch @ 3:35 PM
3 Comments:
At 6:08 PM,
majordad said…
To think, I've stumbled through life without knowing one could have a Henry D.Thoreau stamp for those occasions when one wishes to express his... uhhhh.. his basic... ahhhh... whatever.
At 5:44 AM,
Jackie Miller Marshall said…
Hey John-- Will be in London Oct 8-16th. Would love to see you. Am visiting old Davidson County friend who is now a U.S. Diplomat. (Yes, It is possible!). Read your short story (the goats reference and tornado the night of our senior prom definitely struck a chord. :)
---Jackie
At 5:55 AM,
Jackie Miller Marshall said…
Get in touch with me and I will pass along info to reach Darin Kennedy. He is an M.D., lives in Charlotte, we hang out and did the NorDaHi 20 Year reunion last October. He is also in the process of writing the next Lord of the Rings- no kidding.
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