Monday, February 23, 2015

Let's name it "Saratoga"

The name "Kayaderossera", perpetuated by the Iroquois nation, meant "land of the crooked waters,"and "Kayaderossa's creek or "kill" led to a lake named "Caniaderiossera" now known as Saratoga Lake. The area was a fertile hunting ground known by the Iroquois as "Sarachtogoe" (English speaking folk called it SARATOGA)
Anyway, the book goes on to talk about white people, their horses and water, but this isn't a book report, it's about the name "Saratoga," a widely proliferated moniker. There is several cities west of here named after Saratoga in the US, due to it's shared redeeming qualities of spring water. Lampasas, Texas used be called the "Saratoga of the South" and today, Disney World has a Saratoga Springs resort
What I have found to be the coolest thing named "Saratoga" besides the warship, because that is absolutely bad ass, is the car, the Chrysler Saratoga New Yorker, here's a photo of a local at the polo grounds....
and the Zippo car just plain rules everything
and for your Zippo, ladies used to smoke these long lanky Saratoga cigs, with cigarette holders, it was like a foot long!
then. finally, being the Spa City Metalhead that I am, these dudes popped up on my radar, Saratoga, the spanish metal band

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