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From: kaufman@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Bizarre Geography
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 16:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 16:20:00 1985
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/* Written 10:30 pm  Aug 25, 1985 by mark@cbosgd.UUCP in uiucdcs:net.bizarre */
While we're on the subject of bizarre places, Ohio has some dillies.
Everybody dig out your Rand McNally road atlas (you know, the one
you buy for $4 at K Mart) and open it up to the Northern Ohio pages.

Now check out NQ 13, just northeast of Columbus on route 62.  You'll see
a small town called New Albany.  I've been there, it really exists and
there is at least one resident who is on the net (although their phone
company expanded their office by driving a truck up to the building and
putting phone switch in it.)  Now follow route 62 to the northeast,
past Canton (home of the NFL hall of fame for some bizarre reason)
and Alliance and Salem, but not quite to Youngstown, at NJ 24 (that
explains it, New Jersey somehow caused all this!)  There's another
New Albany.  I've driven through this one too, it's just an intersection
with a general store and a race track.  But I've always wondered what
happens to mail addressed to "Route 62, New Albany, Ohio".
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And just to add confusion to all of this, neither New Albany is listed in the
index in the back of the Rand McNally.

Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)
"Here are the car keys.  Careful, I had them in the oven."