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Like the rest of the Downtown area of St John's, the buildings of George Street were once chiefly mercantile and
professional in nature. Along with the rest of the Downtown core, however,
George Street began to decline as the twentieth century marched
on.
Nonetheless, George Street thrives today as Newfoundland's most famous
thoroughfare, its reputation built on the fact that it is home to more
bars per square foot than any other road in North America. Where once
stood hotels and blacksmithies, can now be found only a row of drinking
houses.
On any given weekend, amidst the drunken revelery, many deeds -- both
strange and terrible -- occur. Some are stranger and more terrible than
others.
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