DownGoesFrazier Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 It was on TCM this afternoon. Coincidentally, I am currently reading David Brinkley's book about wartime Washington, and one of the things he discusses is the housing shortage. He tells the joke going around at the time-------" A guy is walking across the Potomac bridge to Virginia, he looks down, and he sees a guy drowning in the water. He yells at him, "What's your name and address?" The guy answers. He rushes to that address to try to rent the now-vacant apartment. The landlord says, "It's already rented". The guy asks "How can that be?". The landlord responds, "It was rented by the guy who threw him off the bridge". Edited by: finance on Nov 6, 2013 6:18 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Great joke, but it sounds like the less the merrier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Not a New Yorker myself , so I don;t actually know, but from what I have read etc, sounds like that jooke could be applied to NYC too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 Most of the people looking for places to live in Washington during WW II were young women. But it's not true that women outnumbered men by 10 to 1. Maybe that was the ratio for residents, but the city was always overrun by servicemen coming through town, and there was certainly no shortage of men for single women to meet. The scene in THE MORE THE MERRIER with ten women falling all over McCrea was just for laughs........Also, in the film, Leon Henderson and Donald Nelson were mentioned. Do you know who these men were? Brinkley devotes attention to both of them.. Edited by: finance on Nov 7, 2013 3:10 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StBartsActor Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Good joke/Great film. I think Leon Henderson was an economic advisor to FDR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 8, 2013 Author Share Posted November 8, 2013 Both Henderson and Nelson were heads of wartime agencies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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