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Will it play in Peoria?
1900
Peoria, Illinois
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A vaudeville town of the right size in the right place, so booking agents used it to find out whether an act worked on ordinary audiences before spending money on the cities. The phrase outlived the circuit and became political shorthand, most of all in the Nixon White House, for whether the country would swallow something.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: city-level
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