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Winston · #21 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Hal

That's nice, but calling it "Fishtown"
doesn't change the fact that it's always been "Kinsington"

Hal, do you know what connection, if any, there is with London's Kensington? And, while we're at it, how about Mayfair and Bristol? Did the colonists just start using names of their former hometowns when they got here?

brooke · #22 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by eldondre

they brooke a lot of that up when they plopped down the covention center and it moved north.

I saw my name in your post...then realized it was just a typo. Pissing my pants over here.

Winston · #23 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:40 PM

Freudian slip!

brooke · #24 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:42 PM

Brooke/Broke: also synoymns these days. And also, my name is always appropriate in a post re: hookers.

Winston · #25 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by brooke

Brooke/Broke: also synoymns these days. And also, my name is always appropriate in a post re: hookers.

Broke or not, I will not brook Brooke’s babbling, even if it’s about babbling brooks.

(Sorry, too much coffee today...)

pedxing · #26 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:51 PM

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do you know what connection, if any, there is with London's Kensington?

Just a guess, but Kensington in London is just upriver from the City, right? Then further up, Richmond. Same thing here. Right from the start, Philly was looking to be another London. And it was, sort of, for a while.

brayder · #27 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Winston

Hal, do you know what connection, if any, there is with London's Kensington? And, while we're at it, how about Mayfair and Bristol? Did the colonists just start using names of their former hometowns when they got here?

Actually, yes, they did just use familiar names in most cases. It happens all along the East Coast. And if you do the research, most of the earliest inhabitants of a given town were from that region of England. Almost all of the towns around Boston were named after towns in the region of England most Puritans originated from. David Hackett Fischer's book, Albion's Seed, goes into the four main colonial regions and explains how traditions (place names, architecture, clothes, etc.) and such were brought over...very big, but very interesting.

cc · #28 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by pedxing

Just a guess, but Kensington in London is just upriver from the City, right? Then further up, Richmond. Same thing here. Right from the start, Philly was looking to be another London. And it was, sort of, for a while.

DId anyone notice that the apartment buildings around Rittenhouse Sqsuare are named after famous London hotels? Savoy, Dorchester, Regency, Claridge, etc.

cc · #29 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by brayder

Actually, they're trying to change Hell's Kitchen to "Clinton" for some dead rich white guy who lived there. Yes, it's ridiculous, which is why most people still call it Hell's Kitchen. But the local group is now the Clinton Neighborhood Assoc. or whatever...

Actually Clinton is the official name. "Hell's Kitchen" is the nickname first used as a perjorative and now used by yuppies who live there to say "we're tough". Clinton also works well since it is right next to the neighborhood of Chelsea.

brooke · #30 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004, 02:53 PM

Yet, ironically, the neighborhood Chelsea is pretty.