Date:  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 11:20:46 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: downtown/inner city



>Greetings,

>When did "downtown" become "inner-city"?

>As a child, I used to go downtown to the heart of Los Angeles. Now

>it the inner-city.

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>Tom Uharriet

>utom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]admn.712.nebo.edu



I used to go downtown in San Antonio; apparently, Petula Clark would have

done the same. In Milledgeville, we go downtown; but downtown is also a

euphemism for going to a bar downtown. Indeed, I am told that students

drive all the way from Alabama to enjoy our weekly, Thursday-night mardi

gras.



In Philadelphia in the mid-70s people went to center city. I imagine that

they still do.



"Inner-city" sounds like late 60s social activism at work.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu