Distelfink
In popular culture
During the 1940s, variations of Distelfink birds with flowers, hearts and tulips became popular designs for crochet, pottery and wallpaper patterns.[4]
Distelfink was adopted as the name for a chain of drive-in restaurants serving Pennsylvania Dutch food that became popular across Pennsylvania during the twentieth century. Sandoe's Distelfink, which was located in Gettysburg, which was built by Cecil Sandoe in 1954, was patronized by a number of prominent Americans, including former first lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower and Baltimore Orioles baseball star Brooks Robinson.[5]
In the story "The Sign of the Triple Distelfink", the American cartoonist Don Rosa used a triple distelfink hex sign as the origin for Gladstone Gander's remarkable luck.
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-521-44301-2. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
- ^ Distelfink definition
- ISBN 0-517-53260-3.
- ^ "U.S. Folk-lore Used in New Wallpaper." Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Intelligencer Journal, April 22, 1943, p. 1 (subscription required).
- ^ Reed, Lillian. "In its heyday, Distelfink Drive-in served celebrities." Hanover, Pennsylvania: Evening Sun, March 9, 2018.