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Acacia Avenue is a cliché within British culture — shorthand for an average middle-class suburban street. There are at least sixty Acacia Avenues in the United Kingdom, nine of them within Greater London. There is an Acacia Avenue in Ottawa, Canada, and also in Stockton, California. == Cultural references == *Iron Maiden recorded a song entitled "22 Acacia Avenue" on their third album, ''The Number of the Beast'', about a brothel in which their fictional prostitute character Charlotte the Harlot works. The closest Acacia Avenue to their native Leyton, east London is in Hornchurch (though there is an Acacia Road in Leytonstone). *Henry Cass directed a 1945 film entitled ''29 Acacia Avenue''. *Bananaman lived at 29 Acacia Road. *22 Acacia Avenue was a popular Bulletin Board System in Boise, Idaho, in the early 1990s. *In his stand-up performance entitled "Science", Ricky Gervais refers to "2 Acacia Road" as the address of a friend who was killed by a tree falling on his car. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acacia Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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