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	<title>The City Desk &#187; Thanksgiving</title>
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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>Friday Facts: Thanksgiving Parade, Freon, Events</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/16/friday-facts-thanksgiving-parade-freon-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of states represented by marching bands in this year&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade: 5 :: Number of people saved by this year&#8217;s parade Grand Marshal, Janelle Welks, when that van went off of Pier 8 in June: 7 :: Number of candidates for next year&#8217;s mayoral race who will be marching in the parade: 3 :: This year&#8217;s balloons: Farley, a tin soldier, Batman, the Haddon Bros. Meats Tom Turkey :: Number of elves used for the penultimate Santa float: 12 (8 on the float and 4 alternates) :: An upcoming episode of the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters is scheduled to explore the myth that rock candy stored in the back of a refrigerator will absorb free-floating freon molecules and, if ingested, result in a &#8220;serious high.&#8221; This urban legend is believed to have originated with local late night horror tv host Count Film-Ula during a spirited 1978 broadcast. :: Due to a change in their membership’s male/female gender ratio from 19:1 in 1968 to 1:3 in 2006, the 39th annual Sadie Hawkins Day Dance, held as a fundraiser by the Westside Independent Business Owner’s Group (WIBOG) on the third Saturday of every November, will feature a bachelorette auction [...]]]></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>Why it is called &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/21/why-it-is-called-black-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known in the last few decades as one of the busiest of the year for retailers, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. One of the names used for this day is Black Friday, which some say comes from the fact that it is the biggest shopping day of the year, putting stores firmly in the black. This is false, as the days closer to Christmas generate more in sales. For the true origins of the term, we have to dig back a few decades. Laurence H. Black was one of the best floor men in town, working in the men&#8217;s department of the old Osberger&#8217;s Department Store for over thirty years. He had been with the store since its humble beginnings as a menswear store on Richmond Avenue in the late 1920s. Except for a very brief stint in the service during World War II, he remained with the store as it grew, eventually settling into its later eight-floor retail palace on North Geary Street. Black was a fixture in the store, presiding over the suits, shirts, ties and millinery in his ever-present black suit (&#8220;That&#8217;s how they remember me. Black suit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it is called &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/21/why-its-called-black-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known in the last few decades as one of the busiest of the year for retailers, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. One of the names used for this day is Black Friday, which some say comes from the fact that it is the biggest shopping day of the year, putting stores firmly in the black. This is false, as the days closer to Christmas generate more in sales. For the true origins of the term, we have to dig back a few decades. Laurence H. Black was one of the best floor men in town, working in the men&#8217;s department of the old Osberger&#8217;s Department Store for over thirty years. He had been with the store since its humble beginnings as a menswear store on Richmond Avenue in the late 1920s. Except for a very brief stint in the service during World War II, he remained with the store as it grew, eventually settling into its later eight-floor retail palace on North Geary Street. Black was a fixture in the store, presiding over the suits, shirts, ties and millinery in his ever-present black suit (&#8220;That&#8217;s how they remember me. Black suit, [...]]]></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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