Who lives next to who on the street? I think Kahn lives next door to Hank. Where is the alley in relation to the houses?
Rainey St.
Oct 16, 2004, 1:23 PM ET4 posts by 2 posters
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On 16 Oct 2004 10:23:32 -0700 Felix Oscar wrote:
} Who lives next to who on the street? I think Kahn lives next door to Hank. } Where is the alley in relation to the houses?
The alleys are behind the houses, alternating with the streets. The driveways open onto the alleys, not onto the street. The Souphanousinphones (give or take an "h") live next to Hank when they live next to Hank, but it's a little ambiguous from show to show who lives on what side. Sometimes Connie's bedroom window is adjacent to Bobby Hill's on the bedroom/garage side of the house, and sometimes the Gribble's house is on the bedroom/garage side of the house. Bill and Boomhauer live on the other side of the alley, not on Rainey Street. The continuity does not admit of detailed analysis. It's a cartoon. If you buy into the concept, you buy into the layout du jour.
Arlen has the same ZIP Code as real-life Beeville. Real-life Beeville has a real-life What-A-Burger and two (count 'em, 2) water towers, plus those raised railroad beds like where Hank lost his first truck. It's also on the road down to Port Aransas.
What do you mean, "the driveways open onto the alleys"?
Sometimes when the four guys and standing, it looks more like they're just standing in front of the houses and right before the street.
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On 22 Oct 2004 09:18:50 -0700 Felix Oscar wrote:
} What do you mean, "the driveways open onto the alleys"?
If you're in one of the driveways, one way goes to the garage and the other way goes to the alley. Rainey Street doesn't have any driveways opening onto it.
} Sometimes when the four guys and standing, it looks more like they're } just standing in front of the houses and right before the street.
By the fence? That fence runs along the alley. There are no fences on the street side of the houses. That thing that looks like a really narrow street is the alley. They put their trash out by the alley for the trash truck to pick up. On the street side there are some hedges and sidewalks, but that's it. Fences, swimming pools, trash cans, garages, they're all on the alley side of the houses. Four guys standing? Alley. Mail carrier, twig boy? Street. Hank and Dale live on one side of the alley with Rainey Street addresses. Bill and Boomhauer live on the opposite side of the alley with some other address based on the street on the far side of their houses (they don't live on Rainey Street). Kahn lives on Rainey Street, but it's not real clear which side of Hank he lives on from one episode to the next.
It could be a cultural thing. Some places just don't have alleys, and everything happens on the street side. People who spend all their time in places may not know from alleys. I grew up on a street with driveways and trash cans, and I didn't really know about alleys until I worked in the drug store, which had an alley out back.
Downtown Laurel, Maryland, (at the heart of the Fourth Largest Metropolitan Area in America) has alleys all over it. When I first moved here, they were just alleys. Now they have street signs on them and anyone can tell the name of each alley.