[PW] Politically Incorrect Town Names?

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting John Ptak <jfptak at thesciencebookstore.com>:

> Hello.  I was wondering if there anyone knew of some one-stop
> shopping for information like this?  This came to mind while I was
> looking through "The Lure of Roads in New Mexico" (1921) which was
> decorated with a swastika (not horribly uncommon) and which described
> a town named "Swastika".  The town changed its name "at the outbreak
> of the war", and then drifted I guess, its way to ghost-towndom.
> Apart from having a run through some old gazetteers, does anyone know
> if this data has been collected?  Thanks, John Ptak


You may want to take a look at Gary Gladstone's _Passing Gas_ and 
_Reaching Climax_, both of them subtitled _And Other Towns Along the 
American Highway_. They are available from Ten Speed Press.

John Dyson