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Spadesville
noun
a largely African-American city neighborhood US, 1962- “Where can I get a fix? Where can I get a shot, damn you!” He shook her; her blonde air swirled about her like amputated bird’s wings, and she gasped. “I d-don’t know, I d-don’t know, maybe Spadesville, there’s u-usually a g-game going in one of the garages on Ardmore Boulevard.” — Harlan Elllison, Gentleman Junkie, p. 41, 1960
- I do not, for instance, see how anyone who has enjoyed to any degree the freedom of Spadesville could be anything but deeply moved by the life of enjoyment, toleration and dignity that has been evolved and flourishes in the clubs. — Stephen Spencer, Encounter, p. 229, 1962
- II holed up in a little bar in the middle of Spadesville and the trade was fast and thick. — Lawrence Block, A Diet of Treacle, p. 174, 2007
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