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I was exploring a fascinating site: Atlanta Time Machine, when I came upon a series for the Imperial Hotel, and the various night club acts it had hosted over the years. what I'm wondering about is the use of the apostrophe in Topless 'A Go-Go? what's being abbreviated here? (besides the clothing...) you'll also see it here: Whisk 'A Go-Go. just curious. it's a great site, by the way. an interesting study in "progress", though a lot of the city looks better now, than 50 years ago.
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The apostrophe in "whisk" stands for "ey".
The apostrophe after "topless" stands for "bottomless".
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heh.
except the apostrophe isn't on Whisk...
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O'really? Then perhaps you can ask mister google or some of your other authoritative friends. Good luck. 
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I wonder if this particular apostrophe started out in life as a grave accent representing a la (sorry I can't do accents on this machine).
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> grave accent that sounds like a possibility. the whole ooh la la thing. > O'really do they do topless Go-Go in Ireland? 
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I suspect someone in the page-making process decided the A looked kind of naked all by its lonesome and just needed an apostrophe somewhere.
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> lonesome
I wondered about that, too.
so what about Go-Go? where did that come from?
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From the deep swamp of memory bubbles up the thought that this might be a French expression, hence the accent grave over the a. But I don't know what the go-go part would be. Have we tried to go-go to goo-google?
Edit: Thanks for the site, eta! I grew up in Hotlanta.
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> have we tried
I haven't, expecting that I would get mostly what I don't really want...
there are some great pictures, and so much history there, it must be really interesting to know the places from real life.
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