Jim Beaver:
>
> As to Bogart's Spade mailing a letter addressed
"City" instead of "San
> Francisco," I recall that as being common practice
in many cities and
towns
> in olden days. I believe the practice drew on the
presumption that a
letter
> mailed thusly would be delivered within the bounds
of the city in which it
> was mailed. In Dallas in the Fifties, we used to get
mail addressed to
our
> street address, "City." Obviously not something to
do if you're writing
to
> someone in another "city."
I asked my mother who is almost ninety about this. My wife is
from Milwaukee. We all remember being able to send something
locally by just putting the street address on the envelope. .
None of us remember putting
'City' If John Houston were aware of San Francisco being
called the 'City' as Rob says it makes sense. As I was not
aware of this it struck me odd. Mark
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