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		<title>Snapshots: Wondrous Helio-Copter Float, 1940</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/04/25/snapshots-wondrous-helio-copter-float-1940/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1940- Winning float in the 1940 Memorial Day parade, Manufacturer&#8217;s Division. The Samson Aeronautical Manufacturing Company&#8217;s entry, featuring a scale model of a &#8220;Personal Helio-copter.&#8221; Local aerospace magnate Lemuel Samson (he of the tiny homes of Samson Heights) would eventually let his obsession with this mode of transport ruin his company and deplete his fortune. It is thought that his experience riding in the model along the parade route that day was the beginning of the end for the Samson Aero. Mfg. Ltd. some fifteen years later. - RJ White Original Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Theodor Horydczak Collection]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Secession Day Parade (1940)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/01/28/snapshots-secession-day-parade-1940/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A parade in Upper Carsonhurst, celebrating their vote for secession from the city in May, 1940. Two months later, a judge overturned the measure, ruling that the city&#8217;s 1919 annexation of the area was inviolable. The ensuing riots in July claimed the lives of two firefighters and three citizens. - RJ White.]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Thanksgiving Baby</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/20/the-end-of-the-thanksgiving-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a few protest groups will be pleased to know that this will be the first Thanksgiving in forty-two years to go without the annual crowning of the Thanksgiving Baby. Long-time residents of the city may have enjoyed watching the annual protests as much as the crowning. At last count, more than fifty groups over the event’s lifetime had lodged official complaints with the city, sponsored activist campaigns against the entire concept of the Thanksgiving Baby and actively protested the event in the streets. Begun in 1965 by local pediatrician Casper Moore, the event of “crowning” a baby declared by a select judging panel as being “the city’s healthiest” was part of Dr.Moore’s long-term plan to weave pediatric health awareness inexorably into the fabric of a prominent American holiday. The first controversy erupted in 1969, when the “crowning” event – which traditionally opened the Thanksgiving Day Parade festivities in the Central Corridor and Downtown – was marred with claims of racial intolerance. It was revealed that one of the event’s six judges – Dr.Moore’s cousin and grocery store chain owner Roger Costello – had steadfastly prohibited the inclusion of any child of African-American descent. His reasoning was that “potential [...]]]></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>Thanksgiving and the night before</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/22/thanksgiving-and-the-night-before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the busiest bar night of the year, often resulting in several impromptu semi-reunions around the city. After the cut, a partial list as to which bars serve as gathering places for alumni from area schools. :: Central South H.S. &#8211; Rafferty&#8217;s :: Eastern H.S. &#8211; The Bell Jar :: Woodrow Wilson H.S. &#8211; Level13 :: City High &#8211; T.G.I.Friday&#8217;s on Cantor Avenue (The one by the new shopping center, not the one by Laurel Park) :: Stenton H.S. &#8211; The Elbow Room :: Murrow Comm Tech &#8211; Typesetters&#8217; Club (actually, they&#8217;ll open up to all former journalism/communications students for the evening) :: St. Alban&#8217;s H.S. &#8211; Old Albie&#8217;s Tap Room :: St. Therese H.S. &#8211; Manlio&#8217;s Sports Room and Grill :: Cardinal Burke H.S. &#8211; T.G.I.Friday&#8217;s on Cantor Avenue (The one by Laurel Park, not the one by the new shopping center) :: Logan H.S. &#8211; Shatterstarr :: Hatfield Prep &#8211; Kegger at some guy&#8217;s parents&#8217; estate in Wicker Hills I hope this helps. I will likely be at home drinking, which is the safest bet, as you&#8217;re less likely to run into folks that way. Besides, you shouldn&#8217;t stay out too late, as the downtown parade starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Turkey, Lights, Abzug</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/17/friday-facts-turkey-lights-abzug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Thanksgiving dinners served by St. Lauren&#8217;s shelter in 2005: 351 :: Thanksgiving dinners served by the Oak Room at the Ritz-Carlton in 2005: 138 :: Where both establishments have purchased their turkeys for the last 85 years: DiNardi&#8217;s Meats :: Number of lights used in the Mabel Tripp Gardens annual Festival of Lights holiday event: 2.5 million :: Total hours the lights will be lit November 19 &#8211; January 1, 6 pm to midnight: 258 :: Volunteer hours needed to hang the lights: 1200 (50 volunteers x 3 eight hour workdays) :: Number of people who have portrayed Santa Claus in the city&#8217;s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade: 8 :: Number of these who actually claimed that they were, in fact, the real Santa Claus: 2 :: Number of women who have portrayed Santa in the parade: 1, longtime New York city councilwoman, Bella Abzug, in 1977, promoting a traveling exhibit of her hats at the Ragnot Museum of Art. :: Number of calls in 2005 to the Community College home ec department&#8217;s &#8220;Thanksgiving Emergency Help-Line&#8221;: 22 :: Only subject in the city school system officially referred to by a British name: Maths &#8211; R. White, C. Messick, L. Dinkins-White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Diebold, Orange Julius, Farley</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/10/friday-facts-diebold-orange-julius-farley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of formal complaints about electronic voting machines in Tuesday&#8217;s election: 435 :: Number of these complaints which came from districts actually using electronic voting machines in Tuesday&#8217;s election: 428 :: City&#8217;s Oldest Library: The Mechanics Association Private Membership Library, Halpern between 5th and 6th (est. 1842) :: Current Mechanics Library cardholders: 1,459 (down from 5,342 in 1866, up from 471 in 1983) :: Current Public Library cardholders: 402,173 ::Mechanics Library annual circulation: 6,829 books and magazines :: Public library annual circulation (system wide): 14,344,449 books, magazines, audio books, DVDs, filmstrips, etc. :: Number of Orange Julius stands downtown when the company was bought by Dairy Queen in 1999: 3 :: Number of Orange Julius stands currently operating downtown: 0 :: Number of former Orange Julius stands which currently operate under a different name, yet offer a chilled, creamy orange-flavored beverage as their signature drink: 1 (the California Sunshine Orange Bar on 7th) :: New balloons announced this week for the city&#8217;s annual Thanksgiving parade: 2, Kermit the Frog and Charlie Brown :: Balloons which were announced to be &#8216;retired&#8217; this week from Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving parade in New York: 2, Kermit the Frog and Charlie Brown :: Grand total [...]]]></description>
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