Living the American Dream

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Facts or Fiction?

I never cease to be amazed about Naperville's role in the world. Today I was told that it played a part in a classic Carpenter's song. You know, Sing, Sing a Song? Well apparently the famous "la, la, la, la, la," accompaniment was sung on the record by children from Beebe Middle School. So far I haven't been able to confirm this, so feel free to tell me if you have the definitive answer. Here are some other facts about Naperville that may not exactly be true, but if they're not, they should be.
1. The 1948 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to someone who once drove through here on his way to Chicago.
2. The trees at the Riverwalk pump out anti oxidants that eat fuel emissions from nearby cars.
3. Johnny Depp first decided that one day he'd star in Pirates of the Caribbean while playing on Centennial Beach as a small boy.
4. The musical about a farming community, Oklahoma, was originally going to be called Naperville, but the name didn't fit the music.
5. Mahatma Gandhi was a bus boy at Indian Harvest.
6. Mayor Pradel was a cheer leader in high school.
7. The Bermuda Triangle is a place where people mysteriously disappear when something bad happens to them. The Naperville Triangle is a place where people suddenly appear and wonderful things happen to them.
8. Elvis Presley still performs nightly at Pfeiffer Hall.
9. A Naperville man always wiped Louis Armstrong's forehead when he sang Wonderful World.
10. America the Beautiful was composed under a tree in Naperville's Central Park.

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