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		<title>Friday Facts: Charlie&#8217;s Angels Lunchboxes, Roadside Cabbage, Fake Squid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: A City Council ordinance passed on this date in 1975 expressly prohibited the “display of images of a licentious, erotic, salient or pornographic nature, or which otherwise arouse the prurient interest for the sole purpose of titillation” on children’s metal lunchboxes. :: The Seventh of the Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes was committed on this day in 1968. :: Number of regular weekly Farmer&#8217;s Markets (regulated) within city limits: 12 :: Number of regular weekly Farmer&#8217;s Markets (regulated) within city limits three years ago: 4 :: Number of stands where it&#8217;s just guys selling produce streetside: At least 47 (according to a story this week by the Clarion-Journal) :: Number of these out of a station wagon: 10 :: Number of these out of a van: 22 :: Number of these out of an old ice cream truck: 1 :: Number of vacant lots/properties being used for farming, under the city&#8217;s new UrbanFarm program: 18 :: When First Amendment activists blocked a 1979 attempt by the City Council to pass an ordinance against the sale and display of shirts bearing the legend “FBI: Federal Breast Inspector,” the City Council successfully retaliated by passing a different ordinance requiring three-hundred hours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s for no small reasons that our fair city is often called “The Home of Zoo Hoaxes.” What follows are the Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes, as determined by the Board of Directors of the Zoo Hoax Historical Society, an informal group that keeps track of this odd aspect of our city&#8217;s heritage. A Zoo In Every Home (1911) As an April Fool’s prank in 1911, the Sun-Recorder published an extensive series of articles and (cleverly doctored) photographs in its &#8220;Homes &#38; Gardens&#8221; section detailing what it believed would be the next great status symbol of the still-burgeoning Twentieth Century middle class – The Home Zoo. Where most rural homes and even quite a few urban ones were expected to keep chickens, goats and other small livestock on its property, the Sun-Recorder reported that popular mail-order outfit Sears &#38; Roebuck was offering for sale an entire series of zoo packages, including delivery and installation of cages suited for atrium, living room and kitchen, as well as guaranteed live delivery of lions, tigers, bears, elephants, monkeys and apes. The “Big Thing for 1911” prompted literally thousands of eager calls and telegrams to Sears &#38; Roebuck, primarily from outlying communities to which paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Circles, Cameras, Stamps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Road agent Peter Pascucci reports that construction crews will be working on the Canal Street rotary through the weekend. Motorists are reminded that, once completed, the rotary will be a traffic circle and no longer a roundabout. The changeover will occur at midnight, Sunday, after which entering vehicles no longer have to yield to rotary traffic but must obey all signs and traffic lights. High speed traffic should continue to use the right-hand lane if traveling east-west or north-south. Please be mindful of road crews and temporary signage. :: There are five police-surveillance cameras posted throughout the city, in the following areas: the McShaw-Crankshaft Housing Project plaza, the 33rd Street Public Gardens, the Jefferson High School courtyard, the eastern wall of the Star-Lite Mart at Hayford and Oxford and the Jack Dempsey Memorial Statue Gardens. :: The cameras, installed three months ago, have resulted in 17 arrests, 12 of which were for public urination, one of which was for usury. :: The anonymous guerrilla public-action squad People for the People are suspected of obstructing four of the five cameras, except for the one at the Jack Dempsey statue gardens, since it&#8217;s affixed on top of a 37-foot cubist statue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Underground Winter Zoo</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/29/the-underground-winter-zoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is coming to the Pullman Zoo. Nowadays that doesn&#8217;t mean much. The gibbons and lemurs have moved to indoor enclosures, and many of the zoo&#8217;s other inhabitants&#8211; the bison, and llama&#8211; simply grow thicker coats. When Sheffield&#8217;s Vinyl Mfg. and many of the city&#8217;s other key industries closed down in the mid-80&#8242;s and took most of the city tax base with them, the zoo was one of the first institutions to feel the pinch of funding cuts. Even with the rebound of recent years, there hasn&#8217;t been much call to restore it, keeping it a shadow of its glory days. The elephants now roam a sanctuary in northwest Iowa and the other main attractions&#8211; the tigers and lions and white wolves whose statues still decorate the entrance&#8211; eventually went to the big cage in the sky and no money could be found to replace them. But back before the town came upon rough times, the winterization of the zoo was a project embraced by the entire community. No child of the 30&#8242;s can forget the Whitestone&#8217;s Department Store windows, during the Christmastime rush. When other retailers would pack their displays with Kris Cringle or Bob Cratchet, Whitestone&#8217;s live animal [...]]]></description>
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