Postcard of the Day

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And why not?

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I remember this campaign. The jingle was an awful earworm.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I don't remember it! Now I have to decide whether my curiosity outweighs my fear of an awful earworm.

Whenever I see a Maryland license plate up here, I sing a combo of "Maryland You Are Beautiful" and "Baltimore: Eleven's on Your Side".

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the old "there really is a Kalamazoo" ad campaign around the same time.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ha. Like it isn't just a place Glenn Miller invented for a song?

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The name is often linked with Timbuktu. Which is why my brother went to Timbuktu a few years ago.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hmm. They're both in songs and funny-sounding?

I tried to think of a 3rd city to go with them and Hoboken leapt to mind. But I don't think it's in a song. And the Timbuktu song I'm thinking of doesn't have it in it, either--- it was a song about having a future so bright that one has to wear shades, and the Timbuktu connection is just that the band was called Timbuk 3.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Kalamazoo to Timbuktu, or better yet, this one, which is the one I remember as a kid Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Cool. :)

Kalamazoo is linked to Ann Arbor via a train station list in this classic film moment:

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Library computer won't let me view this, but I took the train between Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo several times when I was a college student.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

It was a scene in the film North By Northwest in which Eva Marie Saint is waiting for Cary Grant to emerge from the men's room in the train station in Chicago. She's standing by a row of phone booths. The announcer is calling out train stops for a train that's about to board, and heading east. There's no talk, what with it having the tension and visual storytelling of a silent film (Hitchcock made several of those before his talkies), so we get to hear the whole list.