Why is it, in some older/classic books . . .

[XMan]

The names of places are written as, say, "C_____ Street".

Has anyone else ever seen this?

 

[Spoooon]

I've seen that before... but usually only in books that we were required to read in high school. Classics and the like. And I don't know why. Maybe it's just their way of saying it's a fictional address without people wondering whether it's an actual address or not.

 

[Siva]

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[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I've seen that before... but usually only in books that we were required to read in high school. Classics and the like. And I don't know why. Maybe it's just their way of saying it's a fictional address without people wondering whether it's an actual address or not.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it is just saying that this place does not really exist so just use your imagination and put something in.

 

[astroview]

I heard that means it was a real place, but they didn't want to actually make up a fake place so they did that.

 

[MaxDSP]

cant say ive seen that

 

[WinkOsmosis]

"C____ street"??? They put the underscores in there?