A Crummy Commercial

 What you really want is for trains to be plentiful and uncrowded.  But everyone has heard this about baldo Benito: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-saying-mussolini-made-the-trains-run-on-time For some reason this reminded me of one time when I was on an elevated train platform in the Chicago Loop, 20th century, maybe going home from jury duty at the Daley center ?  I was sitting there waiting for a train when one pulled in.  It wasn't the train I wanted, I was probably waiting for the Lake-Dan Ryan.  Anyway, an older lady comes up the stairs and bellows out: "HOLD THE TRAIN !" And the nebbish conductor (with his head out the window) says something like: "Lady, I've got a schedule, I can't hold the train" In the meantime the old lady has walked up to the conductor's train car and blocked the open door with her body.  After a little while another little old lady comes up the stairs, walking slower than the first.  And the condu...

 (no not a musical) I remember when we used to drive up (in the 20th century) to Washington Island from the Milwaukee area.  The freeway stopped at Manitowoc (Waldo boulevard) and we'd proceed to drive up to Door County on Wisconsin highways 42/57.   Highway 42 proceeds north from Waldo boulevard along Lake Michigan, eventually getting to Two Rivers, WI.  Along that lakefront roadway we'd always pass a building with the name:  Hamilton on it. it wasn't this one but it had a similar font   I always wondered what Hamilton was. Fast forward to the 21st century, PBS Wisconsin showed the documentary movie:  Typeface   on their Director's Cut program.  (here is an interview with the director of typeface:   https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/directors-cut/directors-cut-justine-nagan-typeface/ Also, PBS Wisconsin had a documentary which mentions Hamilton on their Wisconsin Hometown Stories program about Manitowoc/Two Rivers: https://pbswis...