Eastland Mall in North Versailles (Pittsburgh area), PA, circa 1963, its first holiday season. Gimbels closed along with the rest of the chain in 1986, and the mall was eventually torn down some twenty years later. Duquesne Light Company photo. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on FacebookSubmitted by AxlCobainVedder t3_z91ews in pittsburgh
IamTheFreshmaker t1_iyezt4e wrote
Tangent - how many people can you make laugh/infuriate with the way we pronounce Versailles?
vonHindenburg t1_iyfcevt wrote
More or less than the number who get twitchy over 'Doo Boys'.
Oddly, the French name that we do pronounce correctly "Duquesne", seems to be the one that I hear mangled most often in audiobooks and on podcasts.
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