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COPYRIGHT 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: HEIDI KNAPP RINELLA, REVIEW-JOURNAL
ON EASY STREET --
Work hard, the theory is -- or maybe catch a lucky break -- and you'll end up on Easy Street.
Johanna Rawson has been here since 1955.
Rawson's a resident of the Las Vegas Valley's only official Easy Street, which is parallel to and west of Decatur Boulevard between Alta Drive and Evergreen Avenue. It's just a couple of blocks long, but the nearby Easy Circle and Easy Place expand the Easy contributions to the neighborhood.
Longtime Easy Street residents complain gently, a little wryly, about the snide remarks they've gotten over the years. They know that the rest of us would, on many levels, love to be on Easy Street and can't quite let it pass that some have been there, done that -- not only have the T-shirt but also the official address to prove it.
Rawson didn't get it at first.
"I came from Germany, so I didn't think too much about Easy Street," she said. "Then I said, `How are people going to take this?' "
Pretty well, as it turned out.
"Everywhere I go, people make fun of it -- in a nice way," Rawson said.
"In Las Vegas, people do giggle, but not too much," said Allen Fritzsche.
"I didn't like it;...
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