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I am abashed. I should have thought that Billy Strayhorn wrote "Take
the A Train" in 1941.
GAT
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:28 am
Subject: Underground Sidewalks of New York
> In a message dated 2/22/05 10:13:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > I don't think that the subway lines got alphabetic designations
> until
> > well after WWII.
>
> George, you're kiddin' me! You still reading those darned 19th
> century
> newspapers? Hey when you get up to 1932, when the IND opened, you
> will find the
> first letter designations, beginning with the first letter of the
> alphabet,
> associated with the IND. Hence, the "A" train, the major express
> route on the
> line.
>
> sign me, your admirer, Christopher Gray aka Billy Strayhorn
>
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