{"id":11334,"date":"2015-06-14T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:12:45","slug":"kodaki-san-and-the-girl-from-kodak-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/06\/kodaki-san-and-the-girl-from-kodak-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodaki San, and The Girl From Kodak Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>
\nBy Mike Governale<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

During the early 20th century consumer photography\u2014and Kodak in particular\u2014was itself an emerging market, much like wearable technology today. People were super excited about these new photographic gadgets. But Eastman Kodak Company didn’t sit back and wait for customers to come to them \u2013 they advertised, and they were creative about it. <\/p>\n

In fact, film and cameras weren’t the only things coming out of Kodak Park. In 1917, Kodak employees produced and performed an operetta (or a short musical) entitled Kodaki San<\/i>. One of the featured songs was this piano tune and ode to Rochester…<\/p>\n

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The Girl From Kodak Town<\/h3>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/audio\/the-girl-from-kodak-town.mp3|autostart=no]\n
\nDown where the Genesee River is flowing a blue way to the sea,
\nLies a fair city, so quaint and so pretty,
\nIt\u2019s home sweet home to me.
\nIt\u2019s nature\u2019s own bow\u2019r and I long for the hours
\n\u2018neath its cool gray shadows flown,
\nIt was known as the beautiful city of Flow\u2019rs,
\nNow we call it Kodak Town!\n<\/div>\n
\nShe\u2019s the girl from Kodak Town, Kodak Town, Kodak Town
\nMeet her in her sunlit way,
\nAnd you\u2019ll stay for a picture gay.
\nWhen she sees you smile so quick, then you\u2019ll hear her Kodak click;
\nShe\u2019s Kodaked so many, won\u2019t someone snap her?
\nShe\u2019s the fascinating, picture taking, girl from Kodak Town.\n<\/div>\n
\nThen just suppose that you stand \u2018neath that arbor now look right at me, please.
\nAnd in a jiffy, a picture quite nifty will bring you to your knees.
\nIn case of a show\u2019r, you might spoon for an hour,
\nAnd then plan to settle down,
\nIn that wonderful, beautiful garden of flowers,
\nThat we call our Kodak Town.\n<\/div>\n
\nShe\u2019s the girl from Kodak Town, Kodak Town, Kodak Town
\nMeet her on her sunlit way
\nAnd you\u2019ll stay for a picture gay.
\nWhen she sees your smile so quick, then you\u2019ll hear her Kodak click
\nShe\u2019s Kodaked so many, won\u2019t someone snap her?
\nShe\u2019s the fascinating picture taking girl from Kodak Town.\n<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n

In Kodaki San<\/i> by Arthur A. Penn, Miss Nan Cleary is the girl from Kodak town and she performs the song. The following Democrat and Chronicle story from January 21, 1917 announces the show’s arrival at Lyceum Theater in downtown Rochester… <\/p>\n

“KODAKI SAN” TO-MORROW<\/h3>\n
Kodak Park Employees to Appear on Lyceum Theater Stage.<\/div>\n
At the Lyceum Theater to-morrow and Tuesday evenings the Kodak Park Athletic Association will present its first musical comedy, “Kodaki San.”<\/div>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The story of the operetta tells of a visit made by Father Rochester and his daughters to the Japanese town of Kibosho where he is greeted by the Mayor and his court. Here the Rochester party meet Kodaki San, in which role Miss Hazel Hermance is cast.<\/div>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

While the light plot is woven about the meeting of Kodaki San and Miss Nan Cleary, as “The Girl from Kodak Town,” another plot is woven in in the courtship between Fung Waga. Miss Ella Hoffmeler, and K. Parkinton Booster, the Mayor of Kodak Town, John Norton.<\/div>\n
Not all seats have been reserved for Kodak Park employees. The management has set aside a large number of good seats for public sale and they may be obtained at the Lyceum Theater box office.<\/div>\n
Several singing and dancing choruses will he seen. One chorus will have 123 voices. A symphony orchestra of twenty-five pieces, under the direction of Raymond C. Fagan, will support the choruses. The Kodak March, arranged by Mr. Fagan, will be played as an overture.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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