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In reply to the discussion: Any DUers living in Ireland? Is this story true? [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)And is generally attributed to cops telling dudes to leave the vicinity of the Flatiron Building in New York City (on 23rd Street), where they would gather to watch the wind kick up the ladies' skirts. This is long-time NYC lore, and you can actually test the theory even today, since the wind comes whipping down Broadway in more or less the same way, and it's a models district now. My wife worked in the Flatiron building many years ago, and we often talked about the 23 Skidoo then. This may be mythology, of course, and the phrase has been noted in the late 19th century, but it has zero to do with New Deal wage structures, in any case. That said, you have provided no evidence, and you're generally mixing in various wage structures. Your anecdotal "relatives" could have at least informed you of the actual use of the phrase you're deploying here, in any case.