Display UNIX path at top of Finder window?

I used a trick, long since lost I'm afraid, to tell the Finder to display the
UNIX path name of the current directory at the top of the Finder window.
For example, a finder window with my Documents folder selected
(i.e. "in" the Documents folder) normally shows the special
Documents folder icon and the name "Documents".
What the trick would have it show instead is:
  "/Users/cprice53/Documents"
I've started over with a clean install of Lion (jury still out on the wisdom of this)
so even if the setting would still work, I don't know how to make it.
Does anybody know how to do this in Lion?

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