2022 Miscellany #2—snow & cold of February

In the early 1960s, Parma was becoming Cleveland's largest suburb. It was a few years after the latest world war ended, and because of unionisation a well paid working class was being called a part of the "middle-class". New homes were being built, and novelty decorating items were being sold at gardening centers. Two of the most popular were plastic pink flamingos, and glass gazing balls on pedestals. Ernie Anderson was working at WJW-TV8, and played a late night junk movie host called Ghoulardi. He was a hipster in a lab coat, partly between a beatnik and a mad scientist. He was living in Parma, and had a snarky humourous opinion of his fellow residents. The teevee audience loved this, much of Parma was not amused. Peyton Place was a very popular teevee show, Ghoulardi ran skits of Parma Place. He imprinted Don Featherstone's plastic, lawn flamingos as particularly Parma. It took a long time for Parma to accept the identification with good humour.

the rare Parmese Snowbird

West Creek (Parma) Metropark [reclaimed land from a dump]

Avon Lake, Miller Road igloo, car in driveway with Alaskan plate

ring billed gull on clear ice of Lake Erie by the Avon Lake power plant