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kleinbl00  ·  3471 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Around the world in three words or less

My dad's home town didn't gain full street names until the early '80s. The rich parts of town had street names, of course, because that's where paychecks went. But the poorer, dirt-road part of town was always "turn at the Y-tree then three houses then it's the one with the black roof." If you lived in that part of town and needed mail, you got a post office box. If you were attending community college and needed your grades mailed, you largely frustrated teachers like my mother.