730 Spring St., Ann Arbor MI

[TheVictors]

In that context and because Zillow is usually so inflated, one realtor I talked to about Denver right now said, "yeah, it's so crazy you can actually trust Zillow estimates!"

 

[jwlcosu]

That's in my old neighborhood; I think it was on of the paper routes I used to throw.

Interesting phrasing. I had two routes as a kid. Both were walking routes, they all were back then, and I threw papers every day. But I never heard it phrased that way. I don't remember what we called it. Maybe delivered. Regional differences.

 

[Michlady]

I don't know how they announce winners

And agree very overvalued

 

[tinselwolverine]

Interesting phrasing. I had two routes as a kid. Both were walking routes, they all were back then, and I threw papers every day. But I never heard it phrased that way. I don't remember what we called it. Maybe delivered. Regional differences.

Right. We didn't use that term when I was a kid in Ann Arbor. "Throw a route" is a term circulation managers used when talking about independent contractor delivery agencies during the years that I worked in circulation management and advertising sales in my years with the L.A. Times, the L.A. Daily News, and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Pasadena Star News/Whittier Daily News.

The agencies were small businesses and probably paid illegal aliens and their kids to deliver papers in the dangerous bad ass hours of the middle of the night after bundling the sections into order (because the paper didn't deliver the paper to the agencies already bundled; they were delivered grouped by section needing to be bundled for delivery) at below poverty wages.

Maybe it's a circulation management term; maybe back in our day, in the smaller towns relative to Los Angeles that we grew up in, our managers would have used that term - "who is that fucker who throws the route that delivers to 730 Spring St? - that fucker has thrown the paper through the front window and broken that window 22 days in a row?"

"That fucker is Jeff Smith (I choose that name as my fake name for two reasons - it's the name of the classic American Everyman character, portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - the performance that initially catapulted Stewart into the image of the archetypal Everyman. The second reason I use that name as my fake name is that it's actually also my name, and it's a common name too; maybe the most common name of all - so whenever I get so drunk that I can't even remember my own name, I just use my fake name - Jeff Smith - and I'm always right!) - we drop his route on Sunset near the corner of Brooks."

I don't know from where the term derives, but I'm pretty sure it's going to go by the way of "throw a buggy whip."

 

[TheVictors]

I threw a paper route in Front Street in Traverse City from 1985-87.


Record-Eagle. I fucking hated the ran but I made bank and had all the downtown businesses, so got tipped in cookies, soda and gift certificates.

 

[TheVictors]

No way ....my wife just told me she entered to win the house. I told you guys she meant business!


Damn, junk mail and other crap here we go!

 

[Gulo Blue]

Former paper carrier, signing in.

 

[TheVictors]

Carrier or thrower?


Cuz we're throwers.

 

[Michchamp]

Carrier or thrower?


Cuz we're throwers.

he was a tosser.

I was a sub-newspaper delivery boy, back in the day. the neighborhood's regular paperboy went on vacation for a month, so i took over his route while he was gone.

Not much throwing in my day. people on the route insisted on the paper being on the front porch, and given how big the yards were, and with trees and shrubs and what not in the way, you pretty much had to walk the paper to the front door and drop it there. this was in the early 90's and the News came out in the afternoon, so I delivered then. on saturday and sunday I had to get up at the ass crack of dawn to deliver though.

I remember some people had really anal requirements, like the paper had to be half under the mat, but not all the way under, or on top, etc., & they always fucking complained about the dumbest shit.

 

[TheVictors]

he was a tosser.

I was a sub-newspaper delivery boy, back in the day. the neighborhood's regular paperboy went on vacation for a month, so i took over his route while he was gone.

Not much throwing in my day. people on the route insisted on the paper being on the front porch, and given how big the yards were, and with trees and shrubs and what not in the way, you pretty much had to walk the paper to the front door and drop it there. this was in the early 90's and the News came out in the afternoon, so I delivered then. on saturday and sunday I had to get up at the ass crack of dawn to deliver though.

I remember some people had really anal requirements, like the paper had to be half under the mat, but not all the way under, or on top, etc., & they always fucking complained about the dumbest shit.

Yeah, I had these crazy old bats at Milliken's Department Store (same family) that wanted me to walk the paper up to the 3rd floor, two floors above the store so they could check their full/half-page Ads.

Instead, I left the paper with the young cashiers 25feet inside the front door. They complained here and there but knew I didn't give a shit.

 

[TheVictors]

My wife was bummed to learn a couple gay dudes from Maryland won the house

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/12/winner_of_hgtv_house_consideri.html

52 Million entries...? wow

 

[Gulo Blue]

Carrier or thrower?


Cuz we're throwers.

I'm glad Tinsel brought this up. I missed this question and it's definitely a question I want to answer.


Carrier. Between the doors. Super legit.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'm glad Tinsel brought this up. I missed this question and it's definitely a question I want to answer.


Carrier. Between the doors. Super legit.

"Throwing a route" is a cool hip idiom, more used by newspaper professionals who have more experience than just having had a paper route as a kid.

I see that I kind of went through the explanation of the terminology in post #24.

 

[Gulo Blue]

"Throwing a route" is a cool hip idiom, more used by newspaper professionals who have more experience than just having had a paper route as a kid.

I see that I kind of went through the explanation of the terminology in post #24.

I never ran into that terminology. I saw more disagreement over whether you had a paper "rout" or a paper "root".

 

[TheVictors]

Always called it a 'rout' and because I had a lot of commercial businesses, rarely if ever got to throw.


However, we just went under contract for that land in Northport and the Century21 office that is selling the property, based in TC, was on my route 30yrs ago...