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From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: bizarre place names
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 20:00:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 20:00:47 1985
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Show Low, Arizona, is just about my favorite vacation spot in the state.
Many of the streets are named using card game-ese (better word, anyone?)
such as "Deuce of Clubs" or "Queen's High".  Show Low came about as a name
because of the proverbial "this town ain't big enough for the two of us"
situation between heads of two families.  Eventually they decided to solve
things via a card game, instead of fists or gun-fighting.  I don't recall
what game it was, but whoever "showed low" got to stay.
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