Remember that line repeated ad nauseum on T.V. in the seventies and eighties?
Psalms little spam-fest got me thinking:
Did anybody actually write for said catalog? What was in it? Was stuffing catalogs the sole business of this small Colorado town?
Questons,questons,questons!! I need answers!(Smacks apple out of hand).
60609 was the ZIP code for the Spiegel Catalog in Chicago.
81009 is the ZIP for the Consumer Information Center in Pueblo, CO.
Inkz,
Actually, the “free” publications are still produced in Pueblo, some of which aren’t actually free though, it’s just a free catalog of publications.
As for Pueblo here’s some useless information, it’s not all that small of a town, it has around 100,000 people and the main income for many years was the steel industry.
It heads the NTSB testing facilities, most of the testing is on high speed trains.
There is no single one industry that supports the city, it is a cross roads of Interstate 25 and Highway 50. The Arkansas river flows through the city and has a large resivoir (sp) that attracts people to boat and water ski.
It also hosts the State Fair every year which is a big boon to it’s economy.
It gets hotter than hell there though, in the summer if we are at 90 degrees in Colorado Springs (we nieghbor them north about 35 miles or so) it’s usually 95-100 degrees there.
More than you wanted to know, but hey now you can spout information on Pueblo at a cocktail party 
Oh yeah? Well, what’s the ZIP for ZOOM, if you’re so smart? 
WoooHooo, you can get it in adobe .pdf format, too.
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
Plus, Pueblo is a city of about 100,000. Not exactly a small Colorado town.
Otto: Oh yeah? Well, what’s the ZIP for ZOOM, if you’re so smart?
I don’t have any data for any town called Zoom in the US. Are you sure you spelled it right?
I said:
I think it’s the NTSB, I could be wrong…it’s one of those federal transportation agencies.
Also, it has the Army Depot that stores chemical weapons from the Cold War…kinda scary.
Oh, and there is a lot of agriculture around the city, everything from corn to beef to melons to wheat, thanks to the Arkansas.
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I got to pass through Pueblo with a group of fifteen or so road trippers this summer. For some of us, it was a quasi-spiritual experience, for those (especially those who never saw the old prospector) it was a whoosh!
Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right…
Hey, you can groove to their ads…check it out! Pointless multimedia at it’s best!
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/comrcial.htm
The place you’re thinking of is called the Transportation Technology Center (TTC). It’s owned by the Federal Government (the Federal Railroad Administration) and run by the Association of American Railroads, which is a trade organization. They do all kinds of testing out there (new freight car designs especially), not just high-speed stuff. I worked out there for a while a few years back. The place looked like a giant model-railroad layout. Their web site is http://www.aar.com/TTC/ttc.htm , if you’re interested.
Besides testing trains, they also do hazardous materials training for firefighters (hey, it pays the bills).
Back to the OP: the ZIP code map in the Pueblo phone book does not show 81009! it is not a physical location. Is this some sort of Illuminati plot, do you suppose? :o
PO Box 350
Boston, MA 02134
I think I sent for something in the 70’s once & it came thru the mail, just like it was supposed to.
Why do I feel really old now? Please tell me you were kidding, AWB. Whoosh me if you wish, but admit you were kidding. I don’t want to feel really old. This is as bad as the girl at work who didn’t know what a weeble was.
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