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In "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," Jim Croce mentions "uptown", "the Bowery," and "42nd Street," with the latter being where all the bad folks gather around "Big" Jim Walker at night. Was the reference to 42nd Street significant in 1972?

by /u/mrpeabodyscoaltrain in /r/AskHistorians

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