The Colorado of the East
9 September 2007 – 11:31 pm
Akron, New York: the Colorado of the East
Apparently my hometown will soon be seen on Colorado tv screens in an anti-smoking commercial.
Not sure how they are going to pull this off the closest mountains are hundreds of miles away. 
Original article: Buffalo News
The film shoot came to Akron after Spy Films of Toronto won the contract to produce an anti-smoking commercial for the Colorado Health Department.
“What they liked about Akron was it’s Mayberry-ish and it’s built on an incline,” said Tim Clark, the film commissioner.
