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Boulevard House

This definition dating from the jazz age is a house on the major street where all the action is. People living there would near fine restaurants, live music and nightclubs. Out your window you would see people wearing their sunday best as they walked down the boulevard.
Life was never better than when we lived at the boulevard house.

One thing I miss about the boulevard house is looking out the window and seeing all those people dressed to the nines.
by Joe Iron February 23, 2008
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Coffin

A regular automobile such as a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry. The name refers not to the safety of the car but to the fact that the people driving them don't really live. They are already dead.
My mom wanted to buy a coffin but my dad would let her.
by Joe Iron February 15, 2008
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Granholm

An empty building, office, storefront, or research park in Michigan usually with a "for lease" or "for sale" sign in front.
I counted six Granholms on Main Street in Ann Arbor on the way to work today.

I saw five Granholms in a row on 96.
by Joe Iron November 24, 2007
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Elvis in the bathroom

To die in the bathroom, usually the result of a life of long term excess.
Another supermodel did an Elvis in the bathroom.

Crazy Bob did too many ludes, lucky I walked in on him or he would have done an Elvis in the bathroom.
by Joe Iron January 21, 2008
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American Youth for a Freer America

A group of quassi-radicals from 70s who roamed Whiting, Indiana and Rush street in Chicago with the two major goals. The decriminalization of Marijuana and the establishment of four day work weeks.
Dude1: Whatever happened to American Youth for a Freer America?

Dude2: Who knows? Maybe they got jobs.
by Joe Iron June 10, 2007
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Big One One Nine

A nick name used by most residents of Lake County, Indiana and the East-side of Chicago for 119th street in Whiting, IN. Once a major cruising destination, its now fallen on hard times. No longer do truckloads of teenagers sit in their vechiles all night long.
Back in the day, we used to cruise the big one one nine all night in a hemi powered Cobra.
by Joe Iron June 8, 2007
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Four Side Park

A nickname for Forsyth Park in the Robertsdale area of Hammond, Indiana. Surprisingly many people in the 46394 zip code are unaware of the real name of Forsyth Park.
When i was a kid we used to play knock-hockey at four side park.

I quit running in four side park after someone in a car threw a beer can at me.
by Joe Iron June 10, 2007
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