1991 April Ford Times Magazine Arnold Schwarzenegger Enviro Kids Captain Planet

Description: Magazine is in like new condition. Very rare Captain Planet comic feature. Ford Times is sent to you by: NIELSEN FORD INC 919 MAIN STREET BLOOMER, WI 54724 FAN-FRIENDLY BASEBALL A new generation of ball parks brings the action closer. JACKSON 16 HEATH ----------- 2 ----------- The New Fan-Friendly Ball Parks... 4 It's root, root, root for the new baseball parks, with seats that promise to please. By Bill Brashler Has Success Spoiled ... 10 Key West?........ A writer travels to Florida's southernmost point to see whether the town still has its funky charm. By John Duggleby FORDTIMES April 1991 Volume 84 Number 4 Pumped Up About Fitness......20 Movie megastar and former body- builder Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new mission: to see that Americans get fit. By Bob Strauss Enviro-Kids to the Rescue. ..... 28 ... Faster than it takes to fill a landfill and able to squash an aluminum can in a single step. the RAD Recyclers are putting their youthful energy into a campaign to save the environment. By Pam Grout COVER PHOTO Royals Stadium in Kansas City was one of the first modern ball parks to bring fan-friendly features into play. Bill Brashler's story begins on page 4. Photo by Focus on Sports Three Top Chefs Reinvent the Pizza.. 34 When we asked three cooking pros to create their own gourmet pizzas, what we tasted was anything but flat. By LeAnn Bellfi Crown Victorious... 40 A quiet V-8 engine and a smooth ride are the hallmarks of the all-new 1992 Crown Victoria. By Bob Girling DEPARTMENTS Letters ...... .2 Ford Tech ......... 33 Quick-Stops....... 17 Dining ..44 Change Makers .... 18 Puzzler ..48 My Favorite Car....27 Ford ----------- 3 ----------- Architect Rick deFlon in Chicago's new Comiskey Park. ----------- 4 ----------- h, how some baseball fans loved Comiskey Park. Erected in 1910, it was the major leagues' oldest park and was home of the Chicago White Sox, the team that became the infamous Black Sox after throwing the 1919. World Series. Site of the first All-Star Game in 1933- Babe Ruth hit a two- and two decades of Negro run homer- league All-Star games. Home of a scoreboard that was a launching pad for fireworks whenever the Sox hit a home run. Host to 80 sweet seasons in the sun on the South Side of Chicago. Then it was doomed. At the end of the 1990 season, the wrecking ball loomed and fans cried nostalgic tears. Scrawled on one concourse wall were the words, "Goodbye, old girl. It was a great run. But not everybody wept. For Comiskey Park, drenched as it was in spirit and memories, was for many fans a lousy place to watch a ball game. Its seats were hard and narrow, its rows endless and cramped, its bleachers windswept and distant. Worst of all, it had posts dozens of steel support columns that always seemed to be in the way of seeing those blink-of-an-eye plays at first base or anywhere else. Today, just 100 yards south, looming 45 feet higher in its rose-colored con- crete skin, stands the new Comiskey Park. New, as in "new-old," that is. With a $130 million price tag, its own- ers and architects hope they have creat- ed a park with all the virtues but none of the frustrations of the old one. They'll have a better idea about that when fans fill it to watch the first home game in the 1991 season scheduled for April 18 against the Detroit Tigers. Talk baseball with old timers and you talk old-time baseball parks. With names like Ebbets, Forbes, Shibe, Wrigley and Fenway, each one has a memory or an identity as quirky as the APRIL 1991 mogul who built it. Not one of them was like another. While fans still pack Wrigley in Chicago and Fenway in Boston, the others are only memories. They were neighborhood, trolley-car-accessible ball yards put up in the space available. Most were small, with odd dimensions, neighbor- ing rooftops, passing trains and, above all, intimacy. Fans could just about touch the players; players were hound- ed by old ladies ringing cowbells. By the 1970s, most of these urban curios had been replaced by stadiums. With bland names such as Veterans (Philadelphia), Three Rivers (Pittsburgh) and Riverfront (Cincinnati), they are massive, foot- ball-baseball saucers iso- lated from urban life by parking lots. Playing surfaces are artificial and the seats are plastic, located far from the action. Worst of all, they're big, cold places, as municipal and imper- sonal as the bonds that financed them. WITH NAMES LIKE EBBETS, WRIGLEY AND FENWAY, EACH BALL PARK HAS A MEMORY OR IDENTITY AS QUIRKY AS THE MOGUL WHO BUILT IT. Mention the former, those odd-shaped band- boxes, and baseball fans smile. The latter, the cloned, concrete doughnuts, elicit snarls. Add the domed parks, with their odd feel there is no with their odd feel breeze there to bad sight lines, and these gentle, peanut-shelling folks become downright surly. That is why new Comiskey Park and the as-yet-unnamed stadium due to open in Baltimore for the 1992 season are so promising. "Intimacy, charm and character. Those are the three main ingredients of ballpark design today," says Rick deFlon, the principal architect of new Comiskey. DeFlon's Kansas City firm, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK), ----------- 5 ----------- Not a chance, this return traveler. says Beyond the pricey shops and resorts lies a funky side that doesn't disappoint.. What is the funkiest town in America? If you ask me, it's Sorry, always been Key West, Florida. Sorry, New Orleans. Frisco. You're eclectic, but you're nowhere close. I Key West is an island community that got rich in the 19th century by setting up fake lighthouses to lure treasure ships to disaster on its coral reefs, then plundering the wrecks. More recently, descendants of these entrepreneurs created their own illegal cottage industry: smuggling. The I first traveled to Key West about 10 legends go on and on. years ago because of Jimmy Buffett, the laid-back muse of Margaritaville. I wanted to see if the skewed Shangri-La celebrated in It did. On that memorable trip, I flip- is songs really existed. pered through crystalline seas and stared down a six-foot shark mean, FORD TI ----------- 6 ----------- PUMPED UP ABOUT FITNESS Using his considerable star power, Arnold Schwarzenegger motivates America to shape up. ou might not be aware that May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. But don't worry. You will be. Arnold Schwarzenegger will see to that. That's right, Schwarzenegger, a.k.a. the Terminator, a.k.a. the most successful body- builder of all time. Of all the roles and titles that have accom- panied his sprint to fortune and fame, Schwarzenegger says one he cherishes most is his appointed, non-paying position that allows him to give something back to the way of life that has benefited him so greatly. In January 1990, George Bush named Schwarzenegger chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. One of those well-meaning, inoffensive- sounding Washington organizations, the PCPFS had gone about its task of promoting fitness to American youngsters and adults. with low-key persistence ever since Dwight D. Eisenhower formed the group in 1956. Now Schwarzenegger, who helped trans- form weight training from the pursuit of a handful of muscle-bound bodybuilders to a sport pursued by millions of men and women of all ages, has a new aim. He is determined to take the PCPFS's message off easily ignored gymnasium posters and pump it up, using his personality to convince kids that it's hip to be fit. Combining his prodigious star power and savvy political instincts with the methodical determination he's applied to every aspect of his life, Schwarzenegger is confident that he'll be able to turn the '90s into the Fitness Decade. BY BOB STRAUSS ----------- 7 ----------- izza? Gourmet pizza? I've never made pizza in my life!" exclaimed Bern Laxer, owner and chef at Bern's Steak House, in Tampa, Florida. But the wheels already were turning. "This will be some kind of challenge." - none of That was exactly the kind of spirit we were looking for when we asked three of the country's most successful chefs - to conjure up their own ver- whom is in the pizza business sions of a gourmet pizza. What we got was unexpected, to say the least. But that was the whole idea. We tasted grilled pizzas with crusts of sourdough bread rounds, brushed with olive oil and lavished with fresh shellfish and savory pesto. There was a golden-crusted pizza smothered with sweet, caramelized red onions and aromatic with fresh rose- mary, roasted garlic and toasted pine nuts. And if that's not too out of the ordinary, we tried sautéed chicken livers and onions heaped onto a cup-shaped crust. A chicken-liver-and-onion pizza? ----------- 9 ----------- Dy Arkansas CAGLE'S MILL This award-winning dining room inside the Holiday Inn in Russellville is renowned for its hearty American food; prime rib, hot muffins and Possum Pie are favorites. Two other popular attractions are the salad and dessert bars. The hotel and restaurant were built near the site of the historic mill from which the restaurant took its name. In the ----------- 9 ----------- Connecticut AMERICAN CAFE The decor and menu at this hand- some restaurant in Glastonbury celebrate 20 varieties of American cuisine. A large glass case of penny candies and gum balls imi- tates an old-fashioned New England candy store. One corner of the restaurant is a showcase of the South with photographs of scenes from Gone with the Wind and signs for cat- fish, fried chicken dinners and gumbo. The Pacific Coast is por- trayed with surfboards and murals of APRIL 1991 ----------- 10 ----------- California PARADISE GRILL Housed in a white building accented with deep blue awnings, this comfortable and moderately priced grill in Encinitas serves its barbecued fare in a friendly and informal atmosphere. The dining room has a tropical look; fish sculptures seem to swim in and out of the walls. The Paradise Grill was named Best Barbecue in North County in 1989 and 1990. Owner- managers are Paul O'Brien and Steve Goldberg. ----------- 11 ----------- Captain Planet and the Planeteers shows fictional young people saving the environment. Many kids are making similar efforts in real life. ----------- 12 ----------- Enviro-Kids Rescue TO THE BY PAM GROUT Pow! Crunch! Another can squashed for recycling! It's all in a day's work for these grade-schoolers crusading to improve our environment. t's 1:45 p.m. at Oakwood Elementary School in Plymouth, Minnesota. Spencer Hansen, a fourth-grader, anxiously eyes the clock. At exactly two o'clock, the spunky 9-year-old will disem- bark from his desk in Room Three and journey to hallway outside the school's lunchroom. There, he'll meet with his com- rades to discuss strategy and commence with Operation R. Spencer, Adam Gubman, Scott McClelland, Chris Haglund, Jack Fahden and Andy Walling may look like average, red- blooded American school boys. They collect baseball cards, occasionally imitate Bart Simpson and attend New Kids on the Block concerts. But don't let those insignificant

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