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2 unusual facts about Gaylord


Minnesota State Highway 111

Highway 111 serves as a north–south route in south-central Minnesota between the cities of Nicollet and Gaylord.

WPBN-TV

In addition to its main studios, there is a bureau in Gaylord on West Main Street.


CBC Summer Symphonies

Artists featured included the Canadian Brass, Colette Boky (vocalist), Philippe Djokic (violin), Monica Gaylord (piano), Jon Peterson (oboe), Marie-Claire Seguin (vocalist) and Richard Turner (harp).

Chicago Gaylords

The original president of the Gaylords selected the name after reading about the Gaylords in the public library (the Gaillards, later anglicized to Gaylord, were people from Normandy who lived near the Château Gaillard, constructed by Richard I).

Edward Gaylord

Gaylord's daughter, publisher Christy Gaylord Everest, now remains as a board member along with her sister, Louise Gaylord Bennett.

Edward Gaylord and his family were actively involved in the formation of the now-defunct and bankrupt Western Pacific Airlines.

Frank Gaylord

The United States Court of Federal Claims denied his claim, but this was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Gaylord v. United States, 595 F.3d 1364 (Fed. Cir. 2010).

Frank Chalfant Gaylord II (born March 9, 1925) is an American sculptor best known for "The Column", a group of sculptures of United States soldiers and sailors which is part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Galaxy Ranger

The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers an 1986 American animated Space Western television series created by Robert Mandell and Gaylord Entertainment Company.

Gaylord Birch

Gaylord G. Birch (March 10, 1946 – April 14, 1996) was a drummer for the bands Santana, Cold Blood, Pointer Sisters & Herbie Hancock.

Gaylord Container Corporation

Gaylord Container was a by-product of the hostile takeover of Crown Zellerbach by Sir James Goldsmith in July 1985, which resulted in the break-up of the San Francisco-based forest products corporation in May 1986.

Gaylord Ravenal

Gaylord Ravenal is the leading male character in Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat, in the famous Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play of the same name based on the novel, and in the films made from it.

Howard Marsh

Marsh also played Gaylord Ravenal in the original 1927 Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat.

John Lee Mahin

According to Kreuger, it was Mahin and producer Arthur Freed who introduced the plot device of keeping the lovers Magnolia Hawks and Gaylord Ravenal young at the end, rather than having them age forty years as in the original stage musical.

Reuben Gaylord

Born in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Reuben Curtis Gaylord was one of eight children of Reuben Gaylord and Mary Curtis who were of Congregational heritage.

O. D. Richardson, former governor of Michigan and Congregationalist, invited Gaylord to come and work in Omaha, Nebraska.

Sin Takes a Holiday

Plain, poor secretary Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) is secretly in love with her philandering boss, Gaylord Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna).

The Gay Sisters

When their mother dies on the sunken RMS Lusitania, and their army officer father, Penn Gaylord, is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves—never realizing their half billion dollar inheritance because of legal system gimmickry.

The Return of the Whistler

When he leaves, a private detective, Gaylord Traynor (Richard Lane) follows him and offers his services to locate Ted's fiancee.

Winfield R. Gaylord

Gaylord was credited by Carl Sandburg with introducing him to the ideas of the Wisconsin wing of the Socialist Party, and with persuading him to move to Wisconsin.


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