lovers' lane
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For at least eight years in the 1950s, he returned every March 24 to a San Bernardino lovers’ lane, where his teenage sweetheart, Angela Dornna, had once promised to meet him.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023
Inside its Moorish-inspired walls there was a ballroom, cinema and café, and outside, a tunnel of love, a lovers' lane lined by Kauri trees, tennis courts and fountains.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2018
"It's always great to be out of Washington, D.C. � the only city in the world where you can see a prominent person walking down lovers' lane holding his own hand," he quipped.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The two little adventurers found a footpath in the underbrush, not a lovers' lane, for it was impossible to walk side by side holding hands as is the fashion of lovers.
From Honey-Bee 1911 by Lane, Mrs. John