Monkeytown

CB Radio Call for Montgomery, AL. This comes from the monkeys on the island at Oak Park in Midtown. Once they had an escape. After the escape, the city was hailed as Monkeytown by all the truckers. This is around the same time that Birmingham was Smoke City before Iron City.

I'm going to breeze on through Monkeytown headed north towards Smoke City.

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Monkeytown

The story is that truckers call Montgomery, AL "Monkey Town" because of a story about escaped monkeys from the local zoo. The story is that all the monkeys escaped and ran a muck through the city. This is not true. One monkey named Sonny did escape in 1955 and was captured a few days later. Also in 1955, five Rhesus monkeys escaped in Birmingham and they did run through town. Montgomery may be called Monkey Town based on that false story but that has not been proven.

I'm on I-65 headed to Monkeytown and then on North.

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Monkeytown

Term used by Freedom Riders during the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1960s for Montgomery Alabama according to the documentary "Soundtrack for a Revolution."

The documentary "Soundtrack for a Revolution" featured the use of Monkeytown in a song referring to Montgomery, Alabama during the civil rights era.

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monkeytown

Term used to describe city where the inept Alabama legislature is located, Montgomery, AL by Huntsville Talk Show Host Dale Jackson.

"Those idiots in Monkeytown can't get anything right."

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monkeytown

Charmingly racist name for Montgomery, Alabama,used by both black and white denizens and outsiders; refers to the predominately afro-american population.

"We're staying on the interstate until we get past monkeytown----I don't want to get carjacked by crackheads again."

"Get your ass down to monkeytown and get some rock for yo' momma, clown."

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