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==In popular culture== {{more citations needed section|date=August 2018}} [[File:Cleveland - The Vacation City.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Cleveland travel brochure from 1930, featuring the newly dedicated Terminal Tower]] <!-- All of these need *third-party* references to show that the pop culture reference to the Tower was sufficiently significant to have been noted by someone other than a Wikipedia editor; no Original Research, please --> * Held annually since 2003, Terminal Tower hosted a "Tackle the Tower" stair-climb charity race from the Tower City mall concourse to the observation deck.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hermescleveland.com/roadracing/events/tower.asp|title=Tackle the Tower Stair Climb|website=Hermes Cleveland|access-date=August 14, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813053517/http://www.hermescleveland.com/roadracing/events/tower.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> * The tower appeared in the climactic scene of the 2001 movie ''[[Proximity (2000 film)|Proximity]]'', starring [[Rob Lowe]]. Lowe's character led his pursuers from the [[Tower City station|RTA rapid station]] to the shopping concourse. * The tower is featured in the films ''[[The Fortune Cookie]]'' (1966), ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'' (1978), ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' (1983), and ''[[Major League (film)|Major League]]'' (1989). * Cleveland-based art-punk band [[Pere Ubu (band)|Pere Ubu]] titled their 1985 compilation of early singles and B-sides ''[[Terminal Tower (album)|Terminal Tower]]''. * The tower can be seen in some scenes from ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'' (2007) and ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' (2012), parts of which were filmed in Cleveland. It is also seen in parts of ''[[Welcome to Collinwood]]'' (2002) and ''[[The Oh in Ohio]]'' (2006). * On August 20, [[1938 Cleveland Indians season|1938]], as part of a publicity stunt by the Come to Cleveland Committee, [[Cleveland Indians]] players [[Hank Helf]] and [[Frankie Pytlak]] successfully caught baseballs dropped from the tower by the Indians' third baseman [[Ken Keltner]].<ref name="When Baseballs Fell From On High, Henry Helf Rose To The Occasion">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102205626/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119227/index.htm ''When Baseballs Fell From On High, Henry Helf Rose To The Occasion'', by Bruce Anderson, Sports Illustrated, March 11, 1985]</ref> The {{convert|708|ft|m|adj=on}} drop broke the 555-foot, 30-year-old record set by Washington Senators catcher [[Gabby Street]] at the [[Washington Monument]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=322&pid=7402|title=The Baseball Biography Project: Ken Keltner|last=Nitz|first=Jim|publisher=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=20 July 2010|archive-date=14 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714042244/http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=7402&bid=322|url-status=live}}</ref> The baseballs were estimated to have been traveling at {{convert|138|mi|km}} per hour when caught.<ref name="When Baseballs Fell From On High, Henry Helf Rose To The Occasion"/> * The Terminal is visible in several episodes of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''. * Terminal Tower is featured in the opening credits of ''[[Hot in Cleveland]]''. * Graphic artist [[Harvey Pekar]], writer of ''[[American Splendor]]'', regularly featured the tower in his comics. * Terminal Tower is displayed and mentioned among other Cleveland attractions on a season 1 episode of ''[[30 Rock]]'', titled "[[Cleveland (30 Rock)|Cleveland]]," during a musical montage of the city. * The tower is featured in cartoon form on the logo of the now defunct Yellow Cab Company's "I Like Cleveland" logo on the fleet of vehicles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/05/yellow_cab_co_of_cleveland_clo.html|title=Yellow Cab Co. Of Cleveland closing after 90 years in business|date=26 May 2017|access-date=13 July 2020|archive-date=16 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716082447/https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/05/yellow_cab_co_of_cleveland_clo.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * Terminal Tower was famously photographed by noted photo journalist [[Margaret Bourke-White]]. * The tower is prominently featured on the ''Cleveland That I Love'' clothing line. * Terminal Tower is regularly presented on the cover of the ''[[Cleveland Magazine]]'', in fact the last section of each issue which recalls past triumphs, tragedies and tales about the city of Cleveland, is entitled ''Terminal Tower''. * The Terminal Tower features heavily in the 2017 detective noire thriller book called ''The Noir Evil'' which retells the events of the [[Cleveland Torso Murderer]] investigation with elements of ''[[Lovecraftian horror]]''
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