Re: Global catastrophe / SHTF "survivable locations"
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Originally Posted by Buzzman
I now can't help myself and attempt to use street signs and real estate (and other business names) as make-believe characters in my as-yet-unwritten-first-novel....
When Garrison Keillor was getting started as a writer for the New Yorker, he often used Minneapolis streets for character names:
Aldrich
Bryant
Colfax
Dupont
Emerson
Freemont
Girard
Humbolt
Irving
James
Knox
Logan
Morgan
Newton
Olliver
Penn
Queen
Russell
Sheridan
Thomas
Upton
Vincent
Washburn
Xerxes
York
Zenith
(plus two or three more alphabets out into the suburbs.)