[Ads-l] Rocket City

[Bill Mullins]

Barry Popik's web page, in its entry on "Huntsvegas", mentions another (and much more common) nickname for Huntsville AL -- the "Rocket City".

_Anniston [AL] Star_ 23 May 1953 p 4 col 3
"The new booklet of the Chamber of Commerce features Huntsville as "the Rocket City," as well as the center for Government research on guided missiles."
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