My father frequently described happy street scenes in Chicago and New York after Louis won a big fight.
"I would trade 100 thousand angry ravers to have 100% safe and happy street parties," he wrote.
*A group of New Yorkers knows as the Dept of Well Being installed 200 "Happy Street Signs" in lower Manhattan.
"Of course, I always wonder why they don't move to Happy Street," Stine joked, adding that it was essential to him that the setting be Midwestern.
I would trade 100 thousand angry ravers to have 100% safe and happy street parties when we started it on philly 6 years ago — Diplo (@diplo) August 14th , 2014
Inspired by the Happy Street Sign paintings created by UK artist Killy Kilford, this guerrilla art project was meant to be "a call to action for the Mayor to set up a formal Dept of Well Being".
My name is [lets use Jessie for these examples} and I am from "Happy Street"[or wherever your from].
Then the Sept. 11 attacks happened, breaking the country's heart and leaving San Francisco's vibrant, tourist-happy streets sad and empty.
They began their criminal careers as a punch-happy street gang called the Ridgewood Boys or the Ridgewood Juniors, the authorities say.
And when the Dow Jones industrial average poked its head above 10,000 late last year, The Cincinnati Post quoted a happy Wall Street watcher saying, "You can quote me this way,Yee-haw,' with a hyphen in the middle".
"A healthy housing market makes for a happy High Street," he adds.
