DR Kerry, Welcome to the heights.
Mary Richards' first apartment (on Weatherly)
Ah, yes, Mary's very large studio apartment in South Minneapolis. The actual address was 2104 Kenwood Parkway on the corner of W. 21st St. It even had a balcony. I forget, did we ever see Phyliss & Lar's portion of the house? I know we went upstairs occasionally to Rhoda's hip and groovy pad with beaded curtains et al. Suddenly one season Mary moved to the University of Minnesota area to a large complex, which at that time was called Cedar Square West (1525 South 4th St.) and is now called Riverside Plaza. Back then it was mostly filled mostly with students from the West Bank of the U of M. Now, it's been turned into public housing and has fallen on rather hard times. She only moved there because the owners of the house on Kenwood Parkway got tired of tourists asking to visit with Mary and Rhoda. When the CA crew came back to film new exteriors (it was during the Nixon Watergate brouhaha) they found signs festooning (there's a good word) the house and property which supported the impeachment of said President. The show decided it was easier to let Mary grow up and move into a nice one-bedroom. If only that one-bedroom looked anything like the little boxes that were aparments in Cedar Square West.
Oh, well. Am I being PERSNICKETY by providing all this information? No, I don't think so.
The definition of Persnickety according to one dictionary is particular. Some synonyms are careful, choosy, fastidious, finicky, fussy, nice, and picky.
Another definition says:
Finicky or fussy; demanding excessive attention to petty details or niceties; unduly particular; fastidious; -- of people. [Colloq.]
Yet another:
used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish]
And, finally, before I put you all to sleep:
characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher" [syn: pernickety]
And now I'm off to the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation.
I'll have to think about obscure musicals. I've heard about The Opposite Sex, the musical version of The Women but I've never seen it. I'll have to see if it's available for viewing.
BTW, I would have liked to live in Donna Reed's house. With a big brother like Paul Petersen and Carl Betz for a dad I would have liked it there, I think.
