Lackawanna! Even the name sounds like a promise.
Lackawanna NY is a Lake Erie port south of Buffalo, once the terminus of the Erie Lackawanna railroad, and now a dreadful slum, stuck in the same economic malaise as the rest of post-industrial upstate New York.
It's a bit tangential, but HBO did a version of the play "Lackawanna Blues" which is worth catching. And no, to the folks there, it mostly doesn't sound like a promise, at least one that's been kept.
Also, Lackawanna became a major railroad as a consequence of railroad baron Jay Gould's failed attempt (one of many, all of which failed to this day) to create a truly transcontinental (coast-to-coast) railroad empire - instead of acquiring the DL&W, the connecting lines he initiated went to the Lackawanna.
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
