Originally published at: A fake New York town that only existed on a map briefly became real | Boing Boing
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Telephone book publishers would do this too. Zack Diggerhole was used by a local printing company in the telephone directories they printed.
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what’s a telephone book?
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I had a summer internship with the state of NY working in a cartography department. (All pen & ink, lettering with a Leroy. ) Came across the town of “Paradox”, a non-existent place with no roads, rail, or river. Boss explained the practice, but we never tracked-down it’s origins or how long it had been copied onto subsequent maps.
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Completely incensed that Dumbfuckastan isn’t on the map. Dang it!
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This is much like the famous fountain designer LillIan Virginia Mountweazel
Mountweazel, Lillian Virginia, 1942-1973, American photographer, b. Bangs, Ohio. Turning from fountain design to photography in 1963, Mountweazel produced her celebrated portraits of the South Sierra Miwok in 1964. She was awarded government grants to make a series of photo-essays of unusual subject matter, including New York City buses, the cemeteries of Paris and rural American mailboxes. The last group was exhibited extensively abroad and published as Flags Up! (1972) Mountweazel died at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine. [New Columbia Encyclopedia1975 p1,850]
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It’s been renamed Mar-a-Lago.
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It almost works if you sing along to “Istanbul (not Constantinople)”
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It is a heavy paper object formerly used to prop a door open.
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It’s a booster seat; usually in either white or yellow, often used together to elevate a child high enough to reach the table for a meal.
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If you look on “satellite view” or “street view”, even though there’s no general store or gas station, there’s actually quite a bit more there now than what is described in the article. It’s a decent sized exurban neighborhood.
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“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”
“So can I. So can any man. But do they come when you call them?”
“Apparently, yes.”
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In the W*k*pedia entry for Richard Scarry’s Busytown, at least two of the occupants are spurious - added in July 2018 by some Wikiprankster.
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i remember once when i was a kid they came to deliver the new yellow pages in my neighorhood. a gang of guys with hand trucks got their load from the delivery van. one guy went around the corner and was back in about 2 minutes. later on i saw he dumped his entire stack of books into a construction hole. JOB DONE!
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