Lompoc, California (“LOM-POKE”) has a Federal Correctional Institution. FCI Lompoc is a low-security federal prison for male inmates.
Lompoc also has a US Penitentiary. USP Lompoc is a medium-security federal prison for male inmates.
Bob Haldeman was a guest at USP Lompoc. So were Ivan Boesky, and former NFL running back Chuck Muncie.
Johnny Carson once joked that, if Dan Quayle’s Indiana National Guard service during the Vietnam War were ever turned into a movie, it might be called Thirty Seconds Over Muncie, a joke title recalling the World War II Doolittle Raid drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
Johnny Carson attended the launch of Apollo 11.
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That’s my play, but I first noticed it the other day when watching a documentary showing rare or not previously released footage of that mission. I said to my wife, “Hey, theeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!”
Jeez I crack myself up. 
Although Johnny is an English (especially American) name, popular songs about a man named ‘Johnny’ include the Thai song ‘Johnny Johnny Johnny Johnny – Johnny Thi Rak’ sung by Bussaba Athitan, and ‘Johnny, Tu n’es pas un ange’ sung by Edith Piaf.
The folk song “Johnny’s So Long at the Fair”, also known as “Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?”, was popular in England since the 1770s. Supposedly, it refers to young men at the fair not coming home because they were enticed by recruiting officers to enlist in the Army, or because they were “pressed”, meaning forced into service in the Royal Navy by press gangs.
Johnnie, Nevada is a ghost town some 80 miles NW of Las Vegas and 380 miles SE of Reno (gMap, Google Maps). It was established by prospectors in 1890 and named after an acquaintance they called Indian Johnnie. By 1891, 100 people lived there, but by 1907 there were only 300, and by 1935 its post office was discontinued.
Johnny von Neumann was one of the greatest mathematical prodigies and geniuses of the 20th century. He revolutionized game theory, economics, bomb design, several branches of mathematics. He was somewhat absent-minded, once calling his wife to ask why he had just driven to New York.
President Donald Trump dismissed Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Friday in a single sentence.
“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,”
Buttigied did not get the reference and had to google it.
South Bend, the city of which Pete Buttigieg is mayor, is so named because it sits at the southernmost bend of the St. Joseph River. The St. Joseph flows into Indiana from Michigan, then flows back into Michigan and empties into Lake Michigan. Both Michigan and Indiana have counties called “St. Joseph” along the river.
Even though it was a major hit, Dionne Warwick hated the song “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” (Spanish for St. Joseph), written for her by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The singer hates Los Angeles (“LA is a great big freeway”) but Warwick, the future psychic hotline spokesperson, did not.
Author E.L. Doctorow referenced the Dionne quintuplets in his novel ‘World’s Fair’ (1985) in a chapter 2 passage “I don’t trust that doctor,” she said of the physician attending the Dionne quintuplets. “He likes the limelight too much.”
Dr. Martin Arthur Couney (whose credentials were suspect) operated exhibits of premature infants in incubators at the Berlin Exposition of 1896, at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska in 1898, at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900, at the World’s Fair in Buffalo, New York in 1901, and most famously, for many years at Coney Island, New York, where he charged 25 cents to view the babies so parents would not have to pay for their children’s medical care.
The Louisiana Supreme Court is the only state high court in the United States to have two permanent seats - one in New Orleans, the most populous city in the state, and the other in the capital, Baton Rouge.
The earliest references to the legendary Briton named Arthur, who allegedly held court at Camelot, suggest that he was a great warrior, but never a King. Some evidence points to him being the son of a King of Scottish Dalriata.
Author Stephen King, a native of Durham, Maine, created a trinity of fictional Maine towns—Derry, Castle Rock and Jerusalem’s Lot—as central settings in a number of his works. The settings have also been referenced in the works on his wife Tabitha King and his son Joe Hill.
The IWW (“Wobblies”) song “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night” refers to one of their leaders, who was executed (possibly railroaded) for murder. Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union. His most famous songs include “The Preacher and the Slave” (in which he coined the phrase “pie in the sky”), “The Tramp”, “There is Power in a Union”, “The Rebel Girl”, and “Casey Jones—the Union Scab”, which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.
While awaiting execution, Joe Hill sent a telegram to a friend: " I die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time mourning. Organise!"
Hill’s last telegram was “Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don’t want to be found dead in Utah.”
In the original Star Wars film, Luke Skywalker is recruited by the Rebel Alliance to participate in the attack on the Death Star; Luke is assigned to Red Squadron (a squadron of X-wing starfighters), and given the callsign Red Five.
In George Lucas’s original script (and in the film’s novelization), Luke was a member of Blue Squadron. However, during production, it was discovered that the planned blue markings on the miniatures for the Blue Squadron ships would not work with the “blue screen” technique being used to film the SFX shots; Blue Squadron was thus renamed Red Squadron.
“Star Wars” was at the time the highest grossing film in the history of cinema; it has since been surpassed by many films, but only because of inflation. If one adjusts for inflation it has not since been surpassed (figure from Box Office Mojo.) BUT…
… if you adjust for inflation, it was never the all time box office champ. That title would still be held by Gone With the Wind.
David Selznick of Selznick International Pictures is the only producer/studio to have won Best Picture in consecutive years: Gone With the Wind in 1939 and Rebecca in 1940.