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Hooverville (And They Promised Us the World), was the second single by the UK pop band, The Christians (band). It reached no. 22 in the UK singles chart in 1987, and also featured on their million-selling album, The Christians (album) , which reached no. 2 in the UK album charts.
AllMusic has retrospectively been generally favourable towards the album, stating that the band "blend socially conscious lyrics of life under Thatcher with smooth, slickly programmed pop-soul arrangements" and concluding that the record was "a solid debut with very few filler tracks".
Hooversville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1860. Hooversville was established in 1836. The first settlers to claim land in the Hooversville area were George Lohr (1780), Michael Kocher, and Casper Ripple (warrant 1794), who died in 1828.
The name Hooterville approximates Hooverville, a term used for the shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression. But it also approximates Hooversville, Pennsylvania, a bucolic town on railroad tracks in western Pennsylvania. [14] Also, characters on Green Acres visit New York City on occasion and apparently return within a day's time.
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A Hooverville grew up on the largely vacant Irishtown Bend in the 1930s. Most oral histories and written descriptions depicting housing here as a "shanty town" date to this period. [30] Only five homes still stood in the area in 1952, and all of these had long been vacant. [10]
English: Hooverville on the Seattle tideflats, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 1933. Point of view is at the foot of Atlantic St. near the Skinner and Eddy Shipyards.
Whoville, sometimes written as Who-ville, is a fictional town created by author Theodor Seuss Geisel, under the name Dr. Seuss.Whoville appeared in the 1954 book Horton Hears a Who! and the 1957 book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! with significant differences between the two renditions.