In Fort Wayne, Ind., in the 1930s and 50s, Mayor Harry Baals was very popular. But city leaders won't name a building after him. The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls." His descendants have since changed it to "bales." (NPR)
What's YOUR opinion? Personally, I see no problem naming the building after the former Mayor. The people in Ft. Wayne seem a little uptight! Just sayin!
On this momentous day, which would have been your 100th birthday--we have not forgotten you.
Somewhere I have a great photo that I took in NYC in 1987 of a building that was plastered with this poster. The poster was EVERYWHERE. I hope I can find the photo and post it for President's Day, since I missed it for this occasion.
John abuzz is now iPhone and Android friendly.
Now if you would like to view this blog on your smartphone, it will automatically re-format to a mobile view. You can even comment from your mobile device.
If you use blogger.com (blogspot), then I hope you will also activate this feature at:
The mobile view only works for weblog based browsers (ex. mobile Safari and mobile Chrome), so if you are using a Windows Phone 7 device or even Opera mini, it won't work.
Please let me know if your blog is set up for mobile view and I will bookmark it, and read it and comment more often!
The blogger dashboard has no mobile view. It will be easier and faster for me to just go to the bookmark, when accessing blogs from my mobile device.
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