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Old 05-09-2008, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by sharkfood View Post
The Kensington of kids playing pimpleball and waiting for the ice cream man still existed at the time Rocky was filmed in 1976.

By the time Steve Lopez published "Third and Indiana" in 1992 or so, Kensington Avenue was known as a desolate area populated by junkies and hookers.

When did the old Kensington give way to the new Kensington?
The neighborhood I lived in, West Kensington, went downhill shortly after the drug dealers moved in.
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