Big One One Nine

A nick name used by most residents of Lake County, Indiana and the East-side of Chicago for 119th street in Whiting, IN. Once a major cruising destination, its now fallen on hard times. No longer do truckloads of teenagers sit in their vechiles all night long.

Back in the day, we used to cruise the big one one nine all night in a hemi powered Cobra.

9👍 4👎

shire

A nickname for Whiting, Indiana, typically used by residents of Northwestern Indiana usually in their 60s and 70s. The nickname is believed to orginate with Whiting's orginal name Chelshire. Chelshire was renamed to Whiting in the 1890s but the nickname stuck.

Hey, let's go to the Shire.

8👍 96👎

Heaven

A nickname for Whiting, Indiana predominently used by the rest of Lake County and Chicago. The nickname orginated in the 1960s when the counterculture youth of the area were expressing their feelings of displeasure to the amount of religous zealotry in the town. This was evident to the counterculure by the number of churches that dotted the skyline.

Hey, let's go to Heaven and celebrate the 4th of July there.

24👍 18👎

proletariat

One of the masses or regular people. Worker.

My mom told me to quit going out with that proletariat girl.

Hey give me that copy of Gallery, it's the magazine for looking at proletariat chicks.

28👍 11👎