:: This year’s Fourth of July fireworks display has been moved to Saturday, at 9pm, at Founder’s Pier. :: Number of times throughout the years that the City’s fireworks display has been postponed due to the weather: 7 :: Estimated…
Tag: Holidays
Boxing Day, with Industrial Solvents
In many modern urban centers Boxing Day has devolved into little more than the first opportunity for recipients of unwanted or ill-sized gifts to put them back into boxes for exchange or store credit. But at the Paulson Solvent Company…
Friday Facts: Buford, Fruitcakes, Sting was Busy
Hello, everyone. Due to the upcoming holiday week, posting will be rather light. So, we leave you with a holiday-oriented Friday Facts and hope that all of you have a relaxing and happy holiday, with your friends and family. ::…
More Christmastime in the City
:: Friday night saw the lighting of the annual Energonistics (formerly Municipal Gas Works) “Eternaflame” menorah, a ten-foot tall structure which consists of a stainless steel set of nine candles, each topped with what will be a constantly burning gas…
Friday Facts: Arby’s, Old Sparky, Pope Pius Ate Here
:: The city’s first legal execution was in 1843. The last was in 1922. :: For a few years, after the West Side Prison was decommissioned in 1953 and turned into a community center, the old electric chair was used…
Friday Facts: Living with elves, DTV, Sharks
:: Number of consecutive years the Journal-Clarion’s Leslie Sellers has reviewed the ballet company’s annual production of The Nutcracker– 28 :: Number of these reviews in which she has called it “mesmerizing”- 27 :: Date by which all of the…
Sons of Walloon Christmas Beer Festival
After many years as a small, localized celebration of cultural heritage, the Sons of Walloon Christmas Beer Festival has become one of the city’s most popular holiday tourist destinations. Founded in 1898 by Voornaam Goossens, the self-proclaimed ‘Mayor of Belgium…
Christmastime in the City
As Christmastime approaches, the face of the city tends to drop its often-cynical sneer and begins to sport a smile. The smiles on the faces of innocent children; the smiles on the faces of far-from-innocent retailers; the smiles on the…
Friday Facts: Mayor Matthau, Cat Runs
:: Number of wars memorialized at War Memorial Park– 10 :: This was the 57th year that the Senior choir from Central High performed at the City Hall tree lighting ceremony. :: The tree lighting was was also the 57th…
The Underground Winter Zoo
Winter is coming to the Pullman Zoo. Nowadays that doesn’t mean much. The gibbons and lemurs have moved to indoor enclosures, and many of the zoo’s other inhabitants– the bison, and llama– simply grow thicker coats. When Sheffield’s Vinyl Mfg.…