New England Travel and Vacation Gazette and Other Wicked Good Content

Article by Eric H. Thought we'd take some time out from New England trip-planning information this morning to reflect on the warm memories of local television and radio ad jingles and slogans from yesteryear. Remember... Bradlee's department store with the ad singers stating that chipper, know-it-all inventory manager "Mrs. B is Buying?" The 1960s-style "In Crowd" swing-like jingle of Dave Dinger Ford in Braintree, Mass., asking "How does Dinger do it?" The Thompson's Clam Bar (Harwichport, Mass.) jingle, "We're going to Thompson's Clam Bar 'cause that's where the very best clams are!" The faint and anemic-sounding,  semi-muted tropical-like jingle for the Island Queen (the ferry from Falmouth to Martha's Vineyard)? Whalom Park (now-closed amusement park in Lunenberg, Mass.) for "A whale of a time?" The Filene's department store jingle that spelled out "F-I-L-E-N-E-S?" Ba...