Comments on: Extreme Trivia #87

by: Phineas J. Whoopee

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:51:28 +0000

The campaign slogan for almost-candidate and rock legend Alice Cooper back int eh 1970s — and later the name fo his 2007 national tour.

– I got Tojo’s shoe trees onE-Bay. Ask me how.

by: Ralph Perk

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:39:45 +0000

Sorry to have to make this known, but Carl Stokes was the first African-American
to serve as a mayor of a major American city. Stokes was elected as Cleveland’s
mayor in 1966, and served from January 1967 until January 1971.

Source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9399737/Carl-Stokes

by: D T Nelson

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:01:16 +0000

I suggested that perhaps you did not consider Gary, Indiana a “major city,” but surely you consider Cleveland a major city. Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland on November 7, 1967, on the same day Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Gary. I know this; I was there. (Gary, not Cleveland.) And it was in all the papers — you could look it up.