Where is Gröna Lund?

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=mzNEgcqWDG4

Janis Joplin - Summertime (Live Gröna Lund 1969)

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1. It sounds like Sweden.

Definitely Scandinavia. Otherwise... :shrug:

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2. Threadjacking my own thread.

I was a mechanical engineering student at Northwestern University.

1969-1970.

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3. I attended the Medill School of Journalism.

Class of 1971. We were there at the same time!

:hi:

You must have read the college football thread.

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5. I've been tempted to join in, but it felt like is would be intruding.

I really enjoy having even a tenuous connection to Evanston.
My older brother still lives in the general area.

I remember Mike Adamle running for more than 300 yards against
Wisconsin at Dyche Stadium.

I even remember classes being canceled because of Kent State.

Ah, the old days.

Who was that guy with the purple eyeglasses?

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6. I had a job and worked Saturdays....

so I never attended any games.

I did meet Mike Adamle once, though. A thoroughly nice guy.

It's a beautiful campus. Did you transfer elsewhere?

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7. I transferred to the USAF.

Enlisted because I won the draft lottery {#26}.

Never finished my college education, but got a
wonderful education anyway.

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8. Ugh. Sorry about that.

What a bad time to be draft-age. But it was an interesting time. My commencement speaker was Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. :eyes:

While many of the graduates smoked grass, played volleyball and other assorted frivolities, she gave a spirited defense of the Vietnam war. :banghead:

I behaved myself throughout the graduation. My parents were there and very proud of me, plus they had sacrificed to send me there. It was about 97 degrees with equal humidity and I wound up with a pounding headache. Later the three-month-old triplets' mother spit up on me.

I am sorry that you were unable to finish. Many men of our generation found themselves in the same boat. It sucked.

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9. Hey, at least I can say I was in the Northwestern University Concert Band.

And I have it on vinyl.

Congratulations an graduating from Medill.

I remember a Northwestern cheer or two:

Advance, Advance, Ambulate over the turf!

Retard them, retard them, make them relinquish the ball.

And the killer:

That's alright, that's O K,
you will work for me some day.

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10. Thanks.

I loved Medill. It was a great education, but they have radically changed the curriculum from the olden days when I attended. It had to happen.

Those are great cheers. Were they real? Only time I was in Dyche Stadium was to line up for graduation.

I was also a commuter student, which made me something of an oddball. I had very little connection to campus life, mostly attended classes and did research in the library. Happily, I lived about 5 miles south of the campus on Chicago's Far North Side and had a car.

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11. Those cheers were from the NU Marching Band.

I miss the energy of those years.

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12. Those are great cheers....

And chacteristic of NU.

:D

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4. Greenland

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13. Thank you for putting Corn Flakes back in it's righrtfull place