Dream City: A Tale of Three Cities
Our historical look at Columbia draws context about the city's beginnings from old advertisements.
Columbia’s early advocates sang the praises of the new city’s closeness to two major metropolitan areas--Washington, D.C., and Baltimore--in print advertisements promoting the new city, according to collections in Columbia’s archives. You can see from the ad copy that the public relations campaign sought to set Columbia apart from its big brothers to the northeast and southwest. “Two of them are old hat,” the 1967 ad copy in The Washington Post reads. “One is brand new. The new city of Columbia.” “It’s a city where you can buy an extra lightbulb or a vintage wine, play a set of tennis or find a private glade for napping. It’s the greatest story ever written. A best seller. Columbia is the next America.” There has been a lot of talk around …
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3:46 pm on Friday, June 3, 2011
I've lived in Howard County for about 3 years now - Laurel, Columbia, and soon Elkridge. I grew up in the DC suburbs and work in DC now so I still feel more connected to the DC metro area or "DMV" as it's called. I would venture to say that more people in Columbia connect with Baltimore than DC though - if at all. more ›