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		<title>Mysterious Giant-Food Thefts Continue</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/03/02/mysterious-giant-food-thefts-continue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eight-foot-tall fiberglass doughnut was stolen from a billboard in the 2200 block of Baleson Avenue sometime Thursday night, the fifth such large representation of a foodstuff stolen over the past month. The doughnut, decorated with foot-long multi-colored fiberglass sprinkles, was part of an advertisement for Do-Or-Do-Nut, a Star Wars-themed drive-through doughnut stand. Lt. Arnold Corrigan, a police department press officer, told reporters that police had not yet determined a motive. &#8220;Whoever these people are, they&#8217;re good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m talking flatbed trucks, portable cranes, bolt cutters, arc welders. Carting away a giant doughnut? I couldn&#8217;t do it.&#8221; (&#8220;Sure he could!&#8221; joked local morning drive time radio host Charlie Wipple in response. &#8220;Eight feet across? Foot-long sprinkles? That doughnut could feed the whole department for a month!&#8221;) A spokeswoman for Urban Amalgamated Outdoor Advertising, Inc., had no comment. Until this theft, the lingering question was whether four earlier food thefts were related. Three weeks ago, a 14-foot-tall coffee cup was stolen from the facade of the abandoned Il Sigorio Roasters plant near the Industrial District, a crime that police initially attributed to decay or simple vandalism. The theft of three giant tacos, each mounted atop a Mama Nacho taco truck, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What A Character! &#8211; Fatty Turkey</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/19/what-a-character-fatty-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. From the annals of spokesfigures whose time had come and gone before they&#8217;d even arrived, there&#8217;s Fatty Turkey, the eponymous mascot of Fatty Turkey Brand Whole Frozen Turkeys. A subsidiary spawned from McLaren Preservatives, the Fatty Turkey Brand was the brainchild of founder and then-president Leland McLaren, who&#8217;d decided to expand his modest nitrate and polysodium empire into the market which his goods typically serviced. Debuting in freezer sections in 1977 &#8211; during the height of the health-conscious mania gripping thirties-bound baby boomers &#8211; McLaren&#8217;s advertisedly bad-for-you birds may have seemed a counter-intuitive comestible. Leland&#8217;s reasoning was, as he stated in a company newsletter and PR release later that year, &#8220;to reclaim the word &#8216;fat&#8217; from the doomsayers and finger-wagglers.&#8221; The 131-pound, six-foot-two McLaren &#8211; then fifty-five years old &#8211; continued, &#8220;When I was a boy, &#8216;fat&#8217; meant healthy! &#8216;Fat&#8217; meant robust! We all drooled at the thought of a fat, juicy chicken for dinner or a nice, fat goose for Christmas.&#8221; Essential to McLaren&#8217;s campaign to reclaim the luxurious implication of the long-since demonized word, pot-bellied Fatty Turkey himself was stamped onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: &#8220;Bleeping Kids, Bleeping Bleep Ducks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/06/22/friday-facts-bleeping-kids-bleeping-bleep-ducks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of times that there have been cited (by the FCC) instances of accidental profanity on local newscasts- 31 :: Number of these which have resulted in the firing of a local anchor/reporter- 1 (Arthur Stevens, in what has come to be known as the &#8220;4-H Incident,&#8221; 1983) :: Advertising on public transit, by type- 45% Health Care/Rehabilitation Facilities, 30% Legal Services, 12% Fast Food, 5% Entertainment/Movies, 2% Public Transit, 6% Other. :: Number of restaurants classified specifically under the &#8220;Chop Suey&#8221; catrgory in local directories: 1, University Chop Suey :: Years that Sparman&#8217;s Records (closing for good this Sunday at 10pm) has been in business- 58 :: Years Sparman&#8217;s has been in their current University Center location- 56 :: Starting Monday, the City News Vendors Association (CNVA), a loose conglomeration of 213 newsstand operators enacts a new regulation &#8220;to obscure excessive cleavage and/or sexually suggestive content on the covers of periodicals within plain view of the public.&#8221; As a compromise, judgment on what should be covered will be left to individual CNVA vendors. - R. White]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character! &#8211; The Richmond Spectacles Rich Man</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/16/what-a-character-the-richmond-spectacles-rich-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 11:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. The jaunty figure of the Richmond Spectacles Rich Man still steps lively over Pearl Street, striding across the rooftops of the Deputy Tyrone Campbell Building just south of Deputy Tyrone Campbell Blvd, as he has for sixty years this October. These days, however, the bright neon lights of the familiar figure are dimmed, as is most of the once overwhelming brilliance of the popular thoroughfare some local residents used to call “Squint Alley.” In an era where bright, flashy neon signs congregated like flocks of sparkling birds on the sides of every building on Pearl Street, the Rich Man sparkled brightest – and most catastrophically! Richmond Spectacles was founded in 1919 by brothers Agar and Aaron Richmond, sons of a Kansas farming couple. The brothers often waxed poetic upon the self-sacrificing efforts of their sainted parents, whose lifelong scrimping and saving provided the boys sufficient funds to study at a top optometry school. Locals took to the handsome young eye doctors and their hearty story of good old-fashioned American hard work and sticktoitiveness (thanks in no small part to the efforts of Clarion-Standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!- What&#8217;s Ailing Sol?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/11/what-a-character-whats-ailing-sol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. We’ve got a patient here with a very long medical history! Let’s see- He’s got chills, fever, aches and pains? Why, someone’s got the flu! How about; Coughing, sneezing, and breaking out in irregular, red specks? Obviously, it’s chickenpox! And then there’s; Nausea, abdominal pains and dizziness, a sure sign of food poisoning! Sharp pain and difficulty when breathing? Probably an asthma attack. Fever, arthritic pain and rash? It’s probably that old bugaboo Ross River Virus. And who’s suffering from all these symptoms? Why, it’s bound to be … What’s Ailing Sol! Ross Driver Pharmacy (purchased by the Drug-Mart chain in 1990) introduced the city to their frequently bedraggled and bed-ridden spokes-mascot in November of 1950, in anticipation of the inevitable colds and sniffles which usually accompany the winter months. Wrapped in a wooly jacket, with a runny nose and rheumy eyes showing his sickness, the constantly-suffering Sol debuted on a billboard outside the Ross Driver Pharmacy’s original Horseshoe Alley location. &#8220;What’s Ailing Sol?” asked the sign in bold letters, soon to become the trademark ponderance regarding the plucky, punky protagonist. Following that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: Monsieur LeSteak</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/04/what-a-character-monsieur-lesteak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. Remember Charlie the Tuna, the seemingly suicidal spokes-fish for canned fish titan Starkist? Of course you do, who could forget his apparently misguided yet earnest attempts to qualify for a life (or the end thereof) inside a small, tin can? Remember Monsieur LeSteak, the similarly suicidal cut of ribeye who was spokes-mascot for the Sagebrush Saddle chain of buffet-style steakhouses for brief period between 1970 and 1971? Probably not. This might be because – despite sharing the similar motivations of seeking a fatal end inside the consumer’s digestive tract – Monsieur LeSteak didn’t know where to stop. The brainchild (or is that brain-steak?) of now-defunct local advertising juggernauts Brooks-DeAnza, the nearly forgotten mascot and spokes-steak for the Sagebrush Saddle chain of buffet-style steakhouses, Monsieur LeSteak held a brief stint in office, running a mere eight months between 1970 and 1971. At first, the amusingly animated ribeye – bedecked with a chef’s hat and a French accent so thick it could be served as a side with butter and bacon bits – contented itself with singing the praises of the Sagebrush Saddle’s enormous all-you-can-eat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: The Spaghetti Giant</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/28/what-a-character-the-spaghetti-giant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. What stands twenty-five feet tall, wears a toga with a garland of grape leaves and was a fixture of the city’s “Restaurant Row” for thirty-five years? If you said “The Spaghetti Giant,” then are you ever correct! Between 1949 and 1984, the Family Italiano restaurant at the corner of Finnegan Curve and Finnegan Row was not only famous for its inexpensive, family-style buffet dinners and heaping plates of its trademark spaghetti and lasagna dishes, but for the titanic plaster mascot which stood proudly in the center of its parking lot. Literally tens of thousands of area children have squealed in delight from the gates of their parents’ station wagons as they’ve pulled into the parking lot, seeing the beaming face of the Giant looking protectively across the rows of patrons’ automobiles (While dozens of area teenagers may remember the homecoming night tradition of sneaking under the Giant’s toga and painting school slogans across his massive inner thighs). The Spaghetti Giant became such an inspired and recognized icon that he quickly found his way – in a much-less colossal illustrated form – onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: Sour Grapes Magee</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/21/what-a-character-sour-grapes-magee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new recurring series in which we take a look back at the city&#8217;s most familiar advertising icons. “Aw … PHOOEY!” The Silent Life of Sour Grapes Magee Long-time residents of the city may recall that the dour-faced figure painted on the side of the Lowell Furniture Warehouse – just east of Southwest South Street, by exit 588 – not only once had a name, he had a voice. For youngsters and newcomers, however, he’s just a puzzle – with a grimace marring his cowlicked head, arm raised in a dismissive wave – the almost entirely silent mascot whose painted profanity of “Aw Phooey” being the only, utterly ambiguous clue behind his connection to a local furniture magnate. He is Sour Grapes Magee, and there was a time when he was the talk of the town. David Floyd Lowell, grand old man of the Lowell Furniture empire, opened his first store on the first floor of a modest three-story brick building in the ritzy 117th Avenue district (converted into a portion of the fourteen-story Golda Meir industrial complex in 1978). Welcoming customers through an impressive set of double doors, Lowell had a beautiful picture window by which to display his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Dives, Ambulation, &#8220;Also-Ran Arthur&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/02/friday-facts-dives-ambulation-also-ran-arthur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Munson&#8217;s Drugs on the corner of 33rd and Arlington has been in a long-standing dispute with the city concerning signage used each March and 2007 looks to be no exception. The Munson&#8217;s March Madness event advertising features a cartoon of Charles Manson standing atop a stack of dead and mutilated bodies, declaring &#8220;You&#8217;d have to be insane to go anywhere else!&#8221; :: This city&#8217;s historic preservation association was the first in the country to have a specific designation for &#8220;dive bars.&#8221; :: Lonegal&#8217;s Tavern, 3167 Walstreth Avenue, has Tom Waits&#8217; complete catalogue on its jukebox. :: In the waning years of prohibition (1931-1933), forward-thinking organized crime heads here in the city had already directed their efforts toward pinball rackets. :: Miles of bike lanes- 7 :: Proposed miles of added bike lanes under the City&#8217;s &#8220;2020 Vision: Transportation, Conveyance, and Ambulation Planning for the 21st Century&#8221;- 12 :: A sampling of the various types of riots the city has had over the years: Student Riots (1966-72), Race Riots (1967-70, 1985), Food Riots (1913, 1917, 1954), Newsseller Riots (1926), Garbageman Riots (1954, 1977, 1981, 1990), Taxicab Riots (1949) and Lightbulb Riots (1921). :: In what has become a tradition, perennial [...]]]></description>
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