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morkie
05-08-2005, 05:00 AM
Hi all, new album is amzing - loving it=)

So I was intrigued, the song stolen away at 55th and 3rd. So I took a drive down to NY City and went to that street.

3rd avenue at that point is mostly high buildings, newly developed, shiny etc.

Right on the corner of 55th and 3rd is a place called PJ Clarkes, which looks totally out of place as it's an older, smaller building that all around it. It's the only building not making vertical use of the land =)

It has the old sign out front saying Liquor Store and looks more like a resteraunt/bar now.

Anyone care to discuss the origin and story of this? =)

- Morkie
PilotC150
05-08-2005, 05:03 AM
It's being discussed in another thread somewhere, i don't blame you for not being able to find it. There is a picture of that building somewhere and it was pretty much agreed on by everybody in that thread that the song is referring to that restaurant/bar (PJ Clarkes).
morkie
05-08-2005, 05:34 AM
Gotcha thanks!

I actually made an effort to see if it had been asked yet before I posted, I claim ignorance =)

- Morkie
msb3079
05-08-2005, 10:54 AM
maybe he ran into an ex there
sonofsuns34
05-08-2005, 11:38 AM
maybe that is where he got the idea for the girl verses in little thing...
msb3079
05-08-2005, 11:42 AM
ooo yeah good connection. both NYC
meatball41
05-08-2005, 05:28 PM
Just out of curiousity, why is everyone so sure he's referring to an address in NYC and not somewhere else?
nonewdirections
05-08-2005, 05:38 PM
Just out of curiousity, why is everyone so sure he's referring to an address in NYC and not somewhere else?

90 to 1 it's NYC.
msb3079
05-08-2005, 05:40 PM
Just out of curiousity, why is everyone so sure he's referring to an address in NYC and not somewhere else?

b/c that's what he told me.
2stepsoright
05-08-2005, 05:42 PM
I thought he was talking about the 55th Congress 3rd Session!
They actually went over alot of important information regarding the National Geological Survey. It makes sense since this is a "political" album.
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/alaska/
meatball41
05-08-2005, 05:52 PM
b/c that's what he told me.

:rolleyes
meatball41
05-08-2005, 05:53 PM
90 to 1 it's NYC.

again...why so sure?
nonewdirections
05-08-2005, 05:57 PM
again...why so sure?

Because there are very few places that have significant organized avenue/street relations like NYC does, especially with numbers that high. It's not like he said "Main and West." Much of the time, references that sound like this refer to New York City. It's just extremely likely.
shoegal_97
05-08-2005, 06:15 PM
maybe that is where he got the idea for the girl verses in little thing...
I was thinking the same thing
JonnyJoyRidin
05-08-2005, 06:49 PM
Hopefully he will play that at the new storytellers and let us all know what it means.
dancindreamer41
05-08-2005, 07:25 PM
Hopefully he will play that at the new storytellers and let us all know what it means.

That'd be so cool if they were on storytellers again! OMG I'd think I'd die of happiness...now tell me...are they going to be?...:p
ryguy178
05-08-2005, 07:28 PM
http://www.derekdemeter.com/55and3rd.html
justinandimcool
05-09-2005, 12:53 AM
The first thing that came to my mind was the Little Thing story, but that's just me.
Redgloam
05-09-2005, 02:02 AM
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=55th+and+3rd,+New+York+City,+NY&ll=40.759213,-73.968501&spn=0.005010,0.007832&t=k&hl=en
MistreatedLewis
05-09-2005, 10:06 AM
That'd be so cool if they were on storytellers again! OMG I'd think I'd die of happiness...now tell me...are they going to be?...:p


Yup.
cerpin_taxt
05-09-2005, 11:42 AM
maybe that is where he got the idea for the girl verses in little thing...

Maybe that's where he saw the girl he talks about in "Little Thing"