Show what are cork legs one often meets with a description especially in some of the older novels of men with cork legs and upon reading the graphic accounts of some of some of these old sea dogs for most of them were sailors one would naturally think they had artificial legs lega made of cork cut but artificial legs are never made of cork they do not get their name nama from the material or of which buttrom but from the place at which they were made this was not tho the city of 0 cork in ireland but cork street off piccadilly in a london which was the headquarters for the artificial limb trade in the old days just as certain streets are known agthe locality for certain wholesale 18 businesses in our big cities today |