Believing its own boosterism, the government failed to see the signs.
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, The_Donald was a hive of Trump boosterism.
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All of their semi-ironic internet boosterism had sincerely paid off.
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The reasons include Los Angeles' history of boosterism and self-congratulatory image-making […].
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The days of uncritical Silicon Valley boosterism seem to be firmly in the past.
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I felt that it was little more than an evening of Canadian civic boosterism.
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Such figures help explain why some of the most exuberant boosterism about Africa has deflated.
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To that end, her local industry boosterism did not stop at the state dinner. Mrs.
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Opponents of the movement decry its uncritical embrace of AI as naïve boosterism for corporate prerogatives.
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These pump out gloom about Europe, cheer about Russia and boosterism for pro-Russian populist parties.
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But posts on the page, which has more than 773,000 followers, quickly went far beyond boosterism.
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More recently, online boosterism brought back Community and raised the funding for a Veronica Mars movie.
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But it has gone way beyond boosterism — many comments are racist and hateful and encourage police abuse.
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But a new UN working paper disagrees with the boosterism around Bitcoin's place in developing or destabilized economies.
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Such boosterism is backed by numbers: America and its allies plan to order more than 3,100 F-35s.
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In the words of Mr Schäuble—not a man know for boosterism—Germany faces a test, not a crisis.
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The good guy always wins in the end and there's always this sort of rah-rah boosterism to it.
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"No pride in genocide!" they shouted, a slam to the boosterism many in their country feel about Australia Day.
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The film, directed by Garth Davis, is effective both as a tear-jerker and as boosterism for new technology.
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This might sound great, but what's often lost in all the boosterism is that this is still just a hypothesis.
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Fashion Review MILAN — It began with some boosterism and a success story; with lobster and lamb's lettuce and lots of chiffon.
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He credits Mr. Trump and his boosterism for much of that, even though he said the president's claims were often overstated.
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This isn't rah-rah boosterism: These awards can frustrate and often miss the mark, but that's why they remain so crucial.
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That sometimes lends itself to less challenging sculpture, like in Washington Square, or simple boosterism, as in the refugee portrait banners.
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Boosterism provides a crutch to the party in power but it creates a boomerang effect when that party goes into opposition.
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The mistake the play's many gay critics have made is in thinking that transformative art should be a form of boosterism.
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I think there's a certain kind of interest, and it's complex because I don't want [to] play into some boosterism around it.
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There, and on Twitter, Daou gained notoriety among Bernie Sanders supporters by taking Clinton boosterism to new heights during the presidential campaign.
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They're forgotten in some of these new books, too, most of which take the form of one kind of boosterism or another.
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Viewers in the late Soviet era had become accustomed to a heavy lexicon of bureaucratese and boosterism that verged on the absurd.
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However, contrary to industry boosterism about "clean" vehicles, our analysis showed compressed natural gas (CNG) in cars and buses yields no significant benefits.
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And while I will protest that I declared him a loser of the last debate, I've been guilty of Rubio boosterism myself too.
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Underneath the betting, the home-county boosterism and the evening-gown weight lifting, a note of melancholy hums faintly in the background here.
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Historians have described this time of selling the sun in the late 103th and early 20th centuries as Los Angeles's period of boosterism.
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But what's often lost in all the boosterism around the low-carb approach is that it is still an unproven hypothesis in science.
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The prime minister himself is a talented and tireless campaigner, delivering relentlessly on-message blasts of boosterism mixed with searing swipes at his enemies.
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Synthetic biology's potential provides a basis for such boosterism; life reprogrammed to produce useful new products, take new forms and act in helpful ways.
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Trump rewarded Christie's early embrace and bullish boosterism by naming him as the transition team chair and later vetting him for the vice presidency.
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Who needs to pay to run a political ad on Twitter when you can get a bot network to do the boosterism for you?
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But prestige, boosterism and corporate coddling — all cherished concepts in Georgia — took a back seat this week to the national debate over gun control.
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They're civic boosterism in physical form: We built a tower so you can properly enjoy the other towers we're so proud of having built.
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This is well meaning, and maybe will result in some pleasant naturalism, but amidst Frieze's wave of boosterism, ignoring the audience seems a bit foreboding.
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Amid the heavy coal boosterism, this year's conference has brought attention to the plight of workers whose livelihoods will be changed under an energy transformation.
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But beyond their boosterism, Nahdi and other creators are also power users who have seen more closely than most how the platform can be misused.
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The city's corporate leaders held outsize influence as Charlotte grew into what it is now: a place where Uptown glimmers and boosterism can border on pageantry.
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He noted correctly that the GOP's opportunistic Keystone Pipeline boosterism is incompatible with the view that eminent domain should not be used to advance private interests.
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His soccer boosterism will be either endearing or annoying depending on your own prior views, but it gets in the way of a more objective analysis.
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The man who runs alwaysbewoke said that 4mysquad's anti-Clinton tone mixed with Sanders boosterism didn't strike him as strange, given that he felt the same way.
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There was seemingly little consensus, with answers ranging from the tech-boosterism of Andrew Yang and Cory Booker to the skepticism of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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There was seemingly little consensus, with answers ranging from the tech-boosterism of Andrew Yang to the reserve of Elizabeth Warren to the opposition of Tom Steyer.
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Yet behind the boosterism lie the real fears of active fund managers: of losing business to passive ones—ie, those offering funds that simply track a market index.
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Rarely seen laughing spontaneously, Mr Trump's emotional range runs from bleak ("American carnage"), to scorn ("so stupid"), and a salesman's boosterism ("Folks are going to be very happy").
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What's missing is an understanding of the harm that can be done when do-something impulses and eco-cure boosterism become turbocharged by government power and subsidized business.
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Rubio ran a relatively spare campaign, but benefitted both from late but relentless conservative and mainstream media boosterism, and from an equally belated Republican paid-media campaign against Trump.
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Hogue has frequently dabbled in magic boosterism (he proclaimed a "National Magic Week" in 2014) and reportedly got in touch with Sessions about a resolution on a national level.
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" Climate activists, Stephens says, do not understand "the harm that can be done when do-something impulses and eco-cure boosterism become turbocharged by government power and subsidized business.
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After all, as blogger Alexander Russo observed last week, the scandal is partly a product of inattention and rank boosterism by the capital's preeminent news outlet — the Washington Post.
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Regardless of their intentions (community engagement, bringing cultural programming to "underserved" populations, etc.) many art spaces ultimately serve as investment projects and property value boosterism for landlords, developers, and realtors.
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And as I've written, there's both boosterism and anxiety in Toronto about a proposal by a corporate sibling of Google to transform a rundown harbor area into a city of tomorrow.
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Far from the cautious boosterism of contemporary annual reports, these sugar photos bear a strong resemblance to Soviet photography of the period, by the likes of Boris Ignatovich and Vsevolod Tarasevich.
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He sent his wealth forth in thousands of dollars paid to Instagram influencers but also in smaller sums committed to normal people willing to spam their contacts with transparently inauthentic Bloomberg boosterism.
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Downing Street has attempted to claim that an economic ideology lies behind these announcements, labelling Mr Johnson's promise of both tax cuts and higher spending as "boosterism" (rather than the more obvious "cakeism").
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But if they make it, they will do so without the usual mayoral boosterism; Mr. de Blasio, an avid Red Sox fan, said he could not bring himself to go to Yankee Stadium.
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Some ethics experts have said this boosterism, coming from an elected official, is problematic, because people who seek to influence him could buy stock in the company as a way of currying favor.
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In another one of those edge-case covering scenarios, I imagine that there are a lot of ways the relationship between Harry and Kim can go, but for me it was all professional boosterism.
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Most of the reel is standard military boosterism, with interviews with Egyptian service members and their families, some impressive weapons demonstrations, and a handful of appearances from current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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My focus is not always warmly received by editors hoping for a certain kind of commercial-art-market boosterism, but I see my work as a collection of research and ideas, specifically my own.
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Maybe the reason that we have so much game boosterism and focus on the present is that looking at the shape of things, and how we got here, completely sucks on an emotional level.
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Boosterism and hype, however, often tend to skirt the very instabilities, shortcomings, and dead ends that need to be looked straight in the eye if this media is to become anything more than an ephemeral novelty.
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Despite Eugene's Savior boosterism (more on that in a minute), the thought of being used against the Alexandrians was too much for Sasha to bear, leading to suicidal desperation and the answer to yet another question.
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So there may be hope yet for Mr. Bullock, a former state attorney general whose down-home boosterism about Montana's natural wonders belies a Columbia Law degree and stint as a Washington lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson.
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On songs like "Ain't No Stopping Us Now," celebrating how "them lips taste like watermelon," and "Hometown," a deeply generic take on post-Florida Georgia Line, midtempo-rock rural boosterism, Mr. Brown's voice is thin and unenthused.
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"We believe there's a great appetite on the center-right for an independent conservative media company that resists partisan boosterism and combines a focus on old-school reporting with interesting and provocative commentary and analysis," Hayes told Axios.
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The liberal hope that comedy can defeat Trump is best exemplified in the recent boosterism of Al Franken, the Minnesota senator and former Saturday Night Live regular who has regularly made headlines with his tough questioning of Trump's cabinet nominee.
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Once FAC gathered its working group and landed a 2017 Andy Warhol Foundation $50,000 curatorial grant, BAMPFA hosted a Feminist Curatorial Practices roundtable convening that helped to coalesce and organize ideas for the upcoming year of feminist boosterism in the arts.
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In general, I'm not fond of this practice – it smacks way too much of 101 boosterism, deriving a policy argument from basic economic models then invoking factors not in the models to make the argument seem much stronger than it is.
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That's probably a losing strategy for Biden and the Democratic Party—one that will see Trump reelected and another four years of disastrous fossil fuel boosterism, with the added twist of white nationalist welfare chauvinism that will enhance his popularity.
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But Trump's plastics boosterism comes at a time when corporate America -- from Google to Coca-Cola and beyond -- is trying to appear more in line with environmentalists, at least attempting to associate their names with less plastic and more recycling.
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"Every mayor has a style, but part of being mayor is showing that you are a citizen of the city," said George Arzt, who served as a press secretary to Mayor Edward I. Koch, who made boosterism a trademark of his administration.
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It had taken several weeks, much too long during an epidemic, but the efforts of public health experts, and a stubbornly pessimistic stock market, finally tore apart the President's standard tactic that the best defense is always verbal pugilism and relentless boosterism.
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Or at least you did, up to a point—early exposure to this mildest of mindless boosterism is at least partially responsible for the fact that at some point I checked out, determined not to become a zombie repeating the ad back by rote.
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Slate's Will Oremus wrote on May 10 that "Fox News is covering James Comey's firing from an alternate reality": No one familiar with the network's popular prime-time opinion shows will be surprised to know that they responded to the news unanimously with full-throated Trump boosterism.
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He never lost his fondness for orange-crate labels, which were re-surfacing as (not inexpensive) collectibles at flea markets; it occurred to him that juxtaposing their imagery of feel-good boosterism with his own editorial commentary would make for a disarming, yet pointed way to express himself.
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Sitting at the counter of Kismet, the airy restaurant she opened this year with Sarah Hymanson on a not-quite-fashionable stretch of Hollywood Boulevard on the edge of Los Feliz, she talks about Southern California ingredients with the same casual boosterism that makes real estate agents bring up the climate.
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Although he benefited from the support of working-class whites who resented affirmative action, busing, mass immigration, sexual liberation and cultural liberalism, Reagan himself was animated by an optimistic individualism that had more in common with Chamber of Commerce boosterism than it did with the defensive and combative communitarianism of conservative populism.
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Mr. Weprin is the founder and chief executive of AJ Capital Partners, the Chicago real estate company that is behind Graduate Hotels, a four-year-old chain of boutique hotels situated near college campuses and designed to cater to the nostalgia and local boosterism that are part of the culture of university towns.
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We will have learned nothing from Mr. Trump's victory if we do not examine today how and why American elites came to indulge in ressentiment-generating boosterism just as economic and cultural inequality was becoming intolerable to so many, and how their loss of intellectual credibility and moral authority brought about the post-truth era.
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If Roger Ailes had only created Fox News — a conservative-leaning network that regularly veers into propaganda and as a matter of institutional policy covers stories selectively, and with an eye to preferred conservative narratives and outcomes — he would still be difficult to recall kindly in May 2017 in light of his boosterism of Donald Trump and how terrible this presidency has already been for so many.
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I'm not much for these so-called national days of food recognition, all the rah-rah boosterism that leaves my email and social media traps thick with press releases celebrating things like National Raspberry Cream Pie Day, National Ice-Cream Sandwich Day or National Grab-Some-Nuts Day (yesterday, as it happens, according to the National Day Calendar, which is someone's actual job to maintain).
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So the event wasn't just a chance to hear his trademark phrases (most often his own name) yelled over a series of polished, star-studded songs; it offered a close-up look at the kind of brilliantly executed boosterism his millions of social media followers usually see at a carefully curated remove — the chance to see DJ Khaled build a four-hour commercial for himself and his sponsors in the flesh.
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During wars, leaders often focus on steeling their countries for long and grueling struggles, the way Winston Churchill did by promising Great Britain only "blood, toil, tears and sweat" during the early stages of World War II. Trump, with his marketer's instinct for boosterism, has taken instead to promising "a great victory... that, in my opinion, will happen much sooner than originally expected," as he put it at Sunday's briefing.
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NEVER A LOVELY SO REAL The Life and Work of Nelson Algren By Colin Asher "Never a Lovely So Real," the luminous title of Colin Asher's absorbing new biography of the once famous but now neglected Chicago writer Nelson Algren (21986-21950), draws upon a 703 essay — commissioned by Holiday magazine during a period of civic boosterism at the height of the Red scare — in which Algren expressed his love for his hometown's grittier neighborhoods.
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As he noted at the opening of the art show #DaddyWillSaveUs (during which he sat almost naked in a tub full of cow blood to honor Americans killed by undocumented immigrants), Trump's "Make America Great Again" has revived "the dissident element in culture -- punk, mischief, irreverence..." Such boosterism apparently made Milo a good fit for Simon & Schuster's Threshold imprint, which publishes not only Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh but also Trump himself (most recently "Great Again: How to Fix our Crippled America").
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During the expansion of the American and Canadian West, boosterism became epidemic as the leaders and owners of small towns made extravagant predictions for their settlement, in the hope of attracting more residents and, not coincidentally, inflating the prices of local real estate. During the nineteenth century, competition for economic success among newly founded cities led to overflow of booster literature that listed the visible signs of growth, cited statistics on population and trade and looked to local geography for town success reasons. The 1871 humorous speech The Untold Delights of Duluth, delivered by Democratic U.S. Representative J. Proctor Knott, lampooned boosterism. Boosterism is also a major theme of two novels by Sinclair Lewis--Main Street (published 1920) and Babbitt (1922).
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Attempts in the period 1901–1914 to secure manufacturing industries generally came to naught. But the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, later called the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company or PASCO, was a major industrial employer for many years.Tronrud, Thorold John. Guardians of Progress : Boosters & Boosterism in Thunder Bay, 1870–1914.
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The Jacksonville Journal is a now-defunct afternoon newspaper in the Jacksonville, Florida area. It began publication as the Metropolis in 1887. Renamed The Florida Metropolis in the early 1900s, it was renamed the Jacksonville Journal in 1922 upon its purchase by John H. Perry. The Journal's new owner was known for his focus on the community and boosterism.
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Bobcat Stadium, MSU's football arena, underwent a major expansion due to Cruzado's boosterism. Expansion of the football stadium was long planned, and provided for architecturally during its 1998 renovation. Boosters had already raised $1 million by October 2010. When Cruzado learned of the fund-raising effort, she publicly endorsed it and challenged boosters to raise another $4 million with in the year.
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The California Immigrant Union was an organization founded in 1869 to promote the settlement of California by people from the Eastern United States and from Europe.All about California and the inducements to settle there, California Immigrant Union, 1870.Daily Alta California: "California Immigrant Union," 14 October 1872 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. The boosterism organization appears to have been active through at least 1875.
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Map – showing – the Geographical location of Fort-Worth, Tex., and Rail-Roads, 1888 Boosterism is the act of promoting ("boosting") a town, city, or organization, with the goal of improving public perception of it. Boosting can be as simple as talking up the entity at a party or as elaborate as establishing a visitors' bureau. It has been somewhat associated with American small towns.
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The back cover was invariably an advertisement for French commerce—boosterism for French made goods and industry.Brandeis University, Brandeis Special Collections Spotlight, The Robert D. Faber University Archives and Special Collections, retrieved, December 5, 2011 Signing his work “Jim,” a caricature drawn by the then unknown Jean Cocteau was published in Le Témoin In 1910; his likeness of actress Sarah Bernhardt was well received and brought him instant recognition.
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In 1950 Dutch Hamann was appointed city manager of San Jose. Hamann's boosterism was supported by Joe Ridder, publisher of the San Jose Mercury. In power until 1969, Hamann created a master plan for San Jose and embarked on a program of annexation that increased the area of San Jose from 17 square miles to 136.7 square miles. The main bargaining chip was the superior sewage system built to handle cannery waste.
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Springs and ciénagas long thought to be permanently wetted went completely dry. The 1878 report to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) by John Wesley Powell warned that the arid, short-grass plains were poorly suited for intensive grazing because of recurrent drought and so little rain west of the hundredth meridian. But nobody listened; boomers, runners, and raiders prevailed as developers’ disingenuous “boosterism” — "The rain follows the plow." — consistently outpaced natural resources.
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Otis's editorial policy was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the rights to the water supply of the distant Owens Valley. 1910 bombing The efforts of the Times to fight local unions led to the bombing of its headquarters on October 1, 1910, killing twenty-one people. Two union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara, were charged.
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Bok served as president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, but resigned after the Board forced the resignation of conductor Leopold Stokowski.Leopold Stowkowski Collection, University of Pennsylvania He was an officer of the Curtis Institute of Music, and founded the Philadelphia Forum, a cultural boosterism group that sponsored lectures, concerts and art exhibits. He was a member of the Committee of Seventy, a Philadelphia watchdog organization that promoted good government. He directed his father's American Foundation, which promoted world peace.
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Map of the Gila River watershed. The Salt River Valley is an extensive valley on the Salt River in central Arizona, which contains the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Although this geographic term still identifies the area, the name "Valley of the Sun" popularly replaced the usage starting in the early 1930s for purposes of boosterism. A common dust for testing air filter efficiency was derived from top soil dust from the Salt River Valley, referred to as Arizona Dust.
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Early doubts about the Duluth area's potential were voiced in "The Untold Delights of Duluth," a speech U.S. Representative J. Proctor Knott of Kentucky gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 27, 1871. His speech opposing the St. Croix and Superior Land Grant lampooned Western boosterism, portraying Duluth as an Eden in fantastically florid terms. The speech has been reprinted in collections of folklore and humorous speeches and is regarded as a classic. The nearby city of Proctor, Minnesota, is named for Knott.
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That is not as important as this was the place these people thought was the grave of Julien Dubuque, his wife Potosa, and her father Peosta, a Meskawki tribal chief. The significance of the monument is less about who is supposedly buried here, and the historic events associated with them, as the historical trend (boosterism) that brought the monument about. The monument is a cylindrical tower that is high, wide, and walls that are thick. It is composed of locally quarried limestone and it has no roof.
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Schorer, 268 Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies,Pastore, 91 and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.Schorer, 235, 263–69 According to biographer Richard Lingeman, "Main Street made [Lewis] rich—earning him about 4 million current [2018] dollars".Lingeman, 156. Sinclair Lewis's former residence in Washington, D.C. Lewis followed up this first great success with Babbitt (1922), a novel that satirized the American commercial culture and boosterism.
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A brash boosterism that had typified Melbourne during this time ended in the early 1890s with a severe economic depression, sending the local finance- and property-industries into a period of chaos, during which 16 small "land banks" and building societies collapsed, and 133 limited companies went into liquidation. The Melbourne financial crisis was a contributing factor in the Australian economic depression of the 1890s and in the Australian banking crisis of 1893. The effects of the depression on the city were profound, with virtually no new construction until the late 1890s.
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He was a strong abolitionist who wanted to influence his Whig party (which soon became the Republican party) with anti-slavery sentiments. During his time the railroads arrived, ending rural isolation, providing a boom for commerce, industry and population. Due to Beaman's boosterism, the railroad was routed through Rutland and became its defining industry for the century to follow. IV During the era of George and Albert Tuttle (father and son, 1856-1882), the Herald moved to daily publication when the Civil War began and provided some distinguished reportage on the war.
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They sent agents to Germany and Scandinavia with package deals that included cheap transportation for the family as well as its furniture and farm tools, and they offered long-term credit at low rates. Boosterism succeeded in attracting adventurous American and European families to Nebraska, helping them purchase land grant parcels on good terms. The selling price depended on such factors as soil quality, water, and distance from the railroad.Kurt E. Kinbacher, and William G. Thoms III, "Shaping Nebraska", Great Plains Quarterly (2008) 28#3 pp. 191–207.
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Kerr traveled more than 400,000 miles to sell Oklahoma's products and potential throughout the nation. Not coincidentally, Kerr's boosterism also promoted his own political fortunes. In 1944 he was chosen to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, where he played a back-room role in the selection of Harry S. Truman as vice president. During World War II, despite the tendency of Oklahomans to keep the federal government at arm's length, Kerr promoted ties to the government, knowing how important the jobs and activity were to create prosperity.
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Scholars especially praised Origins of the New South, 1877–1913, which was published in 1951 by Louisiana State University Press in a prominent multivolume history of the South. It combined the Beardian theme of economic forces shaping history, and the Faulknerian tone of tragedy and declension. He insisted on the discontinuity of the era, and rejected both the romantic ante-bellum popular images of the Lost Cause School as well as the overoptimistic business boosterism of the New South Creed. Sheldon Hackney, a Woodward student, hails the book, explaining:Hackney (1972) p.
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The Birmingham News was launched on March 14, 1888, by Rufus N. Rhodes as The Evening News, a four-page paper with two reporters and $800 of operating capital. At the time, the city of Birmingham was only 17 years old, but was an already booming industrial city and a beacon of the "New South" still recovering from the aftermath of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Newspapers joined with industrial tycoons, academics and real-estate speculators in relentless boosterism of the new city. Prior to starting the paper, Rhodes worked as editor of the city's Daily Herald.
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The line opened to Van Nuys on December 16, 1911, extending to Owensmouth on December 7 the following year. Owensmouth was named in classic real estate "boosterism", as 'nearest' the outlet-'mouth' of the Owens River Aqueduct and echoing English and New England town names such as Falmouth, Yarmouth, and Plymouth. It was actually away when founded in 1912 and used well water instead until being annexed to L.A. city in 1917. The controversy of Valley land speculation and the aqueduct brought the community to change its name from Owensmouth to Canoga Park in 1931, after the Southern Pacific "Canoga" station there.
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It facilitated expansion into the West by creating an inexpensive, fast, convenient communication system. Letters from early settlers provided information and boosterism to encourage increased migration to the West, helped scattered families stay in touch and provide neutral help, assisted entrepreneurs to find business opportunities, and made possible regular commercial relationships between merchants and the West and wholesalers and factories back east. The postal service likewise assisted the Army in expanding control over the vast western territories. The widespread circulation of important newspapers by mail, such as the New York Weekly Tribune, facilitated coordination among politicians in different states.
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He photographed historic events such as presidential visits, the building of the dams on the Columbia River, and Seattle's ambitious Denny Regrade project. Curtis appreciated the beauty and uniqueness of Mt. Rainier so much that for several decades he directed his appreciation for scenic beauty and his efforts at regional boosterism and combined them into the development of Mt. Rainier National Park. Curtis was a founding member of the Mountaineers, a mountain-climbing group which also promoted the preservation of wilderness areas. Curtis was active in the affairs of the club for the first several years after its founding in 1906.
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Since the 1970s, voting has for the most part been perfunctory; the selection of the major parties' nominees have rarely been in doubt, so a single ballot has always been sufficient. Each delegation announces its vote tallies, usually accompanied with some boosterism of their state or territory. The delegation may pass, nominally to retally their delegates' preferences, but often to allow a different delegation to give the leading candidate the honor of casting the majority-making vote. Before the presidential nomination season actually begins, there is often speculation about whether a single front runner would emerge.
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The construction method and scale of the sign were comparable to an earlier sign constructed in 1909 on the side of Yerba Buena Island to advertise the Portola Festival. The current, permanent sign was created in 1929. The sign is cited as a prime example of "civic boosterism"; the intention was to advertise the city's welcoming attitude toward industry. Its location was chosen so as to be visible from the main north-south highways El Camino Real and the Bayshore Highway, as well as from the train and the nearby Mills Field airfield (now San Francisco International Airport).
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While several attempts were made to subdivide and encourage colonization, the land was primary used for agricultural purposes, with raisin grapes the primary product. The town site was laid out in 1891 by railroad company land developers of the US & Santa Fe Railroad, which was completed that year. Hesperia was named for Hesperus, the Greek god of the West. The railroad land developers published pamphlets distributed across the country with boosterism of Hesperia, California, as a potential metropolis, to become "the Omaha of the West" or projections to have over 100,000 people by 1900, but only 1,000 moved in.
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Once Mexico won its independence from Spain, no road in Mexico, including California, was a camino real. The name was rarely used after that and was only revived in the American period in connection with the boosterism associated with the Mission Revival movement of the early 20th century. The original route begins in Baja California Sur, Mexico, at the site of Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, present day Loreto, (the first mission successfully established in Las Californias). Today, many streets throughout California that either follow or run parallel to this historic route still bear the "El Camino Real" name.
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Davidson dismisses both Gaudavaho and Rajatarangini as poetic boast, describing Kalhana's account as "Kashmiri boosterism". He, however, believes that Kalhana's claims might be closer to the truth than Vakpati's claims. According to Davidson, Lalitaditya launched his attack in 733 CE, advanced up to Magadha in the east, and then returned to Kashmir in 747 CE. Tansen Sen (2004) similarly rejects the claims about Lalitaditya's conquest of Hindukush- Pamir region, based on numismatic evidence and contemporary records other than Rajatarangini. According to him, Lalitaditya provided military and logistical support to the Tang campaigns against Tibetans, and the success of these campaigns later led to Kashmiri legends describing him as a great conqueror.
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When he ran out of money, leadership in boosterism passed to Alonzo Horton.Raymond A Mohl, The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920 (1985) The town seemed rundown in 1867 when Horton arrived, but he could only see glittering opportunity: "I have been nearly all over the world and it seemed to me to be the best spot for building a city I ever saw." He was convinced that the town needed a location nearer the water to improve trade. Within a month of his arrival, he had purchased more than 900 acres of today's downtown for a total of $265, an average of 27.5 cents an acre.
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The Resaca Beach Poster Girl Contest, a swimsuit pageant at one time known throughout the South, was founded in the nearby city of Dalton in 1983 as a marketing gimmick of Conquest Carpet Mills, Inc. The name is tongue-in-cheek, since there is no ocean for hundreds of miles, although it draws reference to a once popular bathing spot on the Oostanaula riverbank commonly deemed Resaca Beach. Local boosterism proclaims: "Resaca Beach – North Georgia's Gateway to the Gulf." The pageant, which launched the career of Whitfield County native Marla Maples, former spouse of real estate magnate Donald Trump, has been held intermittently since the mid-1980s, most recently in 2008.
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It started as a boosterism campaign in Colorado Springs, and depended upon cities and towns along the route to participate with monetary contributions and road improvements. It was formalized March 18, 1914, at a meeting in St. Joseph, Missouri, with state and federal highway officials. The highway was completed in 1924. Originally the route was to be from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, California, but the existence of the good National Old Trails Road in the east made New York City a natural terminus, and competition with the Lincoln Highway and the ease of the southern route to California determined the change to Los Angeles.
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Unidentified all-male team demonstrate how the men below, the ‘bases’, support other team members aloft, potentially to create an upright ‘pyramid’, or to do a ‘basket’ toss. Cheerleading developed from mere boosterism into a sport gradually; as one team would develop pyramids, baskets, throws, and tumbles—combining skills from cheerleading, circus arts (like balancing), and dancing—other teams would emulate and build on those tricks. Unlike most college sports, cheerleading has no professional league after college, so the National Cheerleading Championship held annually in Daytona Beach, Florida is the highest-level event where cheerleaders can compete. As of 2020, competitive cheerleading is a billion dollar industry.
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This is in contrast to the 'boosterism' and 'economic' approaches to tourism planning, neither of which consider the detrimental ecological or sociological impacts of tourism development to a destination. However, Butler questions the exposition of the term 'sustainable' in the context of tourism, citing its ambiguity and stating that "the emerging sustainable development philosophy of the 1990s can be viewed as an extension of the broader realization that a preoccupation with economic growth without regard to its social and environmental consequences is self-defeating in the long term." Thus 'sustainable tourism development' is seldom considered as an autonomous function of economic regeneration as separate from general economic growth.
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In order to secure access to the Pacific Electric Red Car lines that used to criss-cross Los Angeles and ended in Long Beach, Pacific City ceded enormous power to railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington, and thus became a city whose name has been written into corporate sponsorship, and like much of the history of Southern California, boosterism. The original Huntington Beach Pier was built in 1904 and was originally a 1,000-foot-long timber structure. Huntington Beach was incorporated on February 17, 1909, during the tenure of its first mayor, Ed Manning. Its original developer was Huntington Beach Company (formerly the West Coast Land and Water Company), a real-estate development firm owned by Henry Huntington.
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The secrets of their success; 1) Recruiting The answer to the most intriguing question about the Ironton Tanks, "How could they compete year after year with teams from the NFL and much larger cities?" is found primarily with the leader of the early years Charlton "Shorty" Davies (circled in the picture gallery's newspaper article below) and his teammate at Ohio State, Bill Brooks.Payne, Phillip G. Big Time Football in Ironton Ohio, Small Town Boosterism and the Early Days of Professional Football Buckeye Hill Country: A Journal of Regional History. II (Spring, 1997): 7-23 The early Tanks typically played without helmets and made fifty dollars a game but sometimes were not paid (F.C. "Dutch" McCarthy, private conversation).
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A Kanopolis advertisement in The Lawrence Journal, May 1886 The Kanopolis Land Co., with editor R.V. Morgan, advertised in other newspapers and in a paper of their own called The Kanopolis Journal to attract buyers to Kanopolis. These advertisements serve as examples of the boosterism characteristic of the frontier west. One from May 1886 proclaimed Kanopolis "is destined to be the railroad, commercial, and manufacturing capital of Kansas" and said buying land in Kanopolis is the "Best investment in the world." Another in July 1887 declared it to be the only town in the state with railroads running north, south, east, and west and also claimed to have seven factories, thirteen stores, and a hotel.
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The railroads sold land to prospective farmers at very low rates, expecting to make their profits by shipping farm products out and home goods in. They also set up small towns that would serve as shipping points and commercial centers, and attract businessmen and more farmers. The M&StL; in 1905, under the innovative leadership of its vice president and general manager L. F. Day, added lines from Watertown to Le Beau and from Conde through Aberdeen to Leola. It developed town sites along the new lines and by 1910, the new lines served 35 small communities.Don L. Hofsommer, "Boosterism and Townsite Development Along the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad in South Dakota," Journal of the West (2003) 42#4 pp 8–16.
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The same motif, he notes, appears in American novels such as Moby Dick and Old Man and the Sea and in monster movies such as King Kong and Jaws and in world literature such as Beowulf. The monster motif also appears in tales of contemporary places outside the United States, such as Scotland, with its Loch Ness Monster. What is not global, Gutowski says, is the embrace of local monster tales by American communities that put them to use through "public relations hoaxes, boisterous boosterism, and [a] carnival atmosphere... ". Folklorist Richard M. Dorson also cites the "booster impulse, mingled with entrepreneurial hoaxing" as the way that Douglas with its jackalope, Churubusco with its giant turtle, and other towns with their own local legends rise above anonymity.
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The second collection discusses the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. In "The Emergence of Black Business in Houston Texas: A Study of Race and Ideology, 1919–45," James M. SoRelle wrote about African-American businesses and how they, in order to attract black investors and customers, appealed to racial solidarity and pride as well the idea of "self-help" within the black community. SoRelle criticized Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier, which had argued that the black middle class was greedy, since the book had rejected the concept of black leaders needing to respond to Jim Crow and how these leaders were committed to their race too easily. SoRelle also argued that boosterism from African-American organizations became an important part of Houston's "business progressivism".
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In 1965 The Hondells released "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda", another song promoting the Super Cub, which was actually used in Honda's TV spots, as a B side to their version of "Sea Cruise." An example of the Harley-Davidson "Young America" campaign The long-running campaign, including the slogan, the music, and the upbeat images of respectable, middle and upper-class people, particularly women, riding Hondas became closely associated with the Honda brand ever since. The image Honda created was contrasted with the one percenter "bad boy" biker and became a focal point of Japan bashing boosterism of US-made Harley- Davidson motorcycles. Aside from Harley-Davidson fans, the company itself had a more conflicted reaction to the successful Honda "You meet the nicest people" campaign.
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" Though some did not like Harrelson's lack of verbosity and obvious hometown boosterism at the concluding moment of the game, others felt the outburst of emotion captured exactly what they were feeling as the perfect game was sealed. A Chicago Tribune columnist, Phil Rosenthal, arguing that each perfect game call is "memorable in its own way", made an explicit comparison of Harrelson's call to Vin Scully's call of Sandy Koufax's perfect game. Harrelson had a 30-minute special on CSN Chicago, Put it on The Board which aired on Monday, June 7, 2010 celebrating his 25 years as a Chicago White Sox broadcaster with memorable footage, memorable quotes and an interview with CSN Chicago's Chuck Garfien. Ken said during the interview, "I hope to be broadcasting for the White Sox until I die.
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Seattle's music history begins in the mid-19th century, when the first European settlers arrived. In 1909, amidst the boosterism engendered by the city's first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition, the Seattle City Council adopted "Seattle, the Peerless City" (words by Arthur O. Dillon; music by Glenn W. Ashley) as Seattle's official song."'Seattle City Song' lyrics" from the City Archivist's website By the early 20th century, Seattle had an upper-class society that established an urban culture, which included music; the city's high culture was, however, shadowed by that of San Francisco, which was then the major cultural center of the West Coast. Seattle also became an important stop for vaudeville tours, put on by large chains like Pantages and Considine; the city also produced a major attraction in the exotic dancer Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Carter's heirs—who initially did not want to move the transmitter closer to Dallas, in their aim to continue Carter's legacy of civic boosterism for Fort Worth—eventually agreed to NBC's demands that it move WBAP-TV's transmitter facilities to Cedar Hill, installing a transmitter antenna on a candelabra tower that was already shared by WFAA and KRLD-TV, and operate it at a higher effective radiated power strong enough to adequately cover Dallas. WFAA lost its NBC affiliation on September 1, 1957, as the network had awarded WBAP-TV the exclusive affiliation for the Dallas–Fort Worth market as a byproduct of the transmitter relocation and signal boost; this left Channel 8 as an exclusive affiliate of the then-low-rated ABC. Channel 8 became known for its heavy schedule of local programs during the period from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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Boosterism: cover of a promotional booklet published in 1907 by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Early settlers discovered that the Great Plains were not the "Great American Desert," but they also found that the very harsh climate—with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, hail, floods, and grasshoppersAnnette Atkins, Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873–78 (2003)—made for a high risk of ruined crops. Many early settlers were financially ruined, especially in the early 1890s, and either protested through the Populist movement, or went back east. In the 20th century, crop insurance, new conservation techniques, and large-scale federal aid all lowered the risk. Immigrants, especially Germans, and their children comprised the largest element of settlers after 1860; they were attracted by the good soil, low-priced lands from the railroad companies.
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So many cigars were made in the watershed in the late 19th century that a local cigar named the Conestoga became known as the "stogie" throughout the US. In the early nineteenth century, it was possible to travel by boat to Lancaster city from Chesapeake Bay through a system of locks. Though the Conestoga is smaller than most streams generally designated a river, local boosterism in the late 19th century insisted that any stream holding scheduled commercial transport should be so called; steamboat service to a local amusement park along its banks (Rocky Springs Amusement Park in Lancaster) barely qualified, but the designation caught on. The name "Conestoga" has also been applied to the Conestoga Rocket, a rocket produced from Minuteman I parts and launched from Matagorda Island, the ship Conestoga, which is a popular diving wreck in the Thousand Islands, the C-93 Conestoga cargo aircraft, and, in Star Trek, the name of the starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization.
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In the face of increasing resistance to the use of scientific methodology in the study of alternative medicine, one of the OAM board members, Barrie Cassileth, publicly criticized the office, saying: "The degree to which nonsense has trickled down to every aspect of this office is astonishing ... It's the only place where opinions are counted as equal to data." Finally, in 1994, Harkin appeared on television with cancer patients who blamed Jacobs for blocking their access to antineoplastons, leading Jacobs to resign from the OAM in frustration. In an interview with Science, Jacobs "blasted politicians – especially Senator Tom Harkin... for pressuring his office, promoting certain therapies, and, he says, attempting an end run around objective science." Harkin drew support also from Iowa Representative Berkley Bedell, as Bedell had used cow colostrum against his Lyme disease. With the OAM's increasing budget in the 1990s, the office drew increasing criticism for its perceived lack of rigorous scientific study of alternative approaches in favor of uncritical boosterism.
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The site has three primary sections: "Explore the City," "Spatial Narratives," and "Interpretation and Narrative." "Explore the City" contains an interactive map and an introduction to the city of Lincoln, Nebraska as it existed during the Gilded Age. "Spatial Narratives" includes a discussion of what a spatial narrative H. Lefebrve, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991); M. de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 115–30; Victoria Thompson, "'Telling Spatial Stories': Urban Space and Bourgeois Identity in Early Nineteenth Century Paris," Journal of Modern History (Summer 2003), 523–556; Katherine Cocks, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) (as cited within the site Gilded Age Plains City) is as well as a brief overview of the spatial narratives of eight different groups of interest in Gilded Age Lincoln: lawyers, boosters (and boosterism), male subculture, African Americans, manufacturing and railroad infrastructure, women, the working class, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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The network had been affiliated with WBAP-TV since it signed on nine years earlier; however, the heirs of Fort Worth Star-Telegram founder Amon G. Carter chose to continue his legacy of civic boosterism of Fort Worth by refusing to move WBAP's transmitter facilities from eastern Fort Worth to an area between both cities. The lack of adequate reception throughout the entire Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area led NBC to simultaneously maintain an affiliation with WFAA beginning in 1950 to act as its Dallas affiliate. (Despite their close proximity, Arbitron originally designated Dallas and Fort Worth as separate markets: the Dallas market as Dallas County and surrounding counties in the area's eastern half and the Fort Worth market as neighboring Tarrant County and the counties surrounding it in the west. The two cities would be consolidated into a single television market in 1952.) The split-station arrangement frustrated NBC to the point where in early 1957, it threatened to terminate its affiliation contract with WBAP-TV if it did not agree to move its transmitter eastward to provide a signal that covered Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Belo also made an attempt to make WFAA-TV the market's exclusive NBC affiliate. To prevent the network from defecting, Carter's heirs—who were reluctant to comply to NBC's demands at first, out of their desire to continue Amon Carter Sr.'s legacy of pro-Fort Worth civic boosterism—agreed to move WBAP-TV's transmitter facilities to Cedar Hill and boost its effective radiated power to adequately cover Dallas; in the summer of 1964, it installed a transmitter at the Hill Tower (owned by the Dallas Newspapers) to feed the channel 5 antenna on a candelabra tower that was already shared by WFAA-TV and KRLD-TV (channel 4, now KDFW-TV); sister station WBAP-FM also moved its transmitter to this location. The move to Cedar Hill allowed channel 5 became the sole NBC affiliate for the entire Dallas–Fort Worth market on September 1, 1957 and subsequently, WFAA-TV became the area's exclusive ABC station. In October 1959, WBAP-TV installed the first color videotape recorder in Texas, allowing it the ability to record a 90-minute segment of programming and replay it in less than five minutes.
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