What is a Miracle Mile?

[nq:1]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
As far as I know, it's just a placename, usually a nickname for a shopping district. A Google search on "miracle mile" shows there are any number of cities that now call one of their districts "Miracle Mile." Who did it first, I don't know. Someone else might know more.

I see there are a few other u

sandanzin filted:
[nq:1]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
In my childhood, as confirmed by the song "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" by the Mothers, it was a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles...one commercial resident was the clothier "Zachary All" immortalized in that song..

In Tucson, it's a stretch of what used to be "business

[nq:1]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
And here's me thinking Roger Bannister, Chris Chattaway ... and a mile in under 4 minutes.
I interviewed Sir Roger in the very early 80s. He was investigating the use of drugs in sport.
Cheers, Sage

[nq:1]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
It's a term which is sometimes used for a shopping district, shopping arcade (covered street or passageway with shops alongside it), or shopping center. If used for a shopping center, I'd expect it to be a strip mall (or to have started out as one): there is such a mall called the "Miracle Mile Shopping Cent

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[nq:2]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
[nq:1]In my childhood, as confirmed by the song "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" by the Mothers, it was a stretch of ... Rock and Roll to Me", it's a place to cruise...I don't know if he had a specific road in mind..[/nq]
Billy Joel probably had in mind the stretch of Northern B

[nq:2]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
[nq:1]As far as I know, it's just a placename, usually a nickname for a shopping district. A Google search on ... now call one of their districts "Miracle Mile." Who did it first, I don't know. Someone else might know more.[/nq]
Until this thread I hadn't realized that there were more "Miracle Miles" tha

In New Radicals song, "You Get What You Give," has these lyrics:

...
Four A.M. We ran a miracle mile
We´re flat broke But hey we do it in style
...
So What does that mean? They went to the mall at 4 A.M. but were broke?

[nq:1]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
It's a shopping or business district, originally upscale or at least meant to be so. The "Miracle Mile" district along Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles dates from the 1920s and is still prestigious. I don't know if that was the first such district to which the name was applied.

Chris Green

[nq:1]I heard it used in various lyrics but ... what exactly is a "miracle mile?"[/nq]
A Royal Mile with less class.

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[nq:1]In New Radicals song, "You Get What You Give," has these lyrics: ... Four A.M. We ran a miracle ... it in style ... So What does that mean? They went to the mall at 4 A.M. but were broke?[/nq]
Malls aren't open at 4 AM.
My guess, from the clues, is that it's like the use someone reported for a Billy Joel song a local term for "cruising" or "dragging the main." Young people driving up