How One Tourist Confused Bangor For San Francisco
Living in the 2020s, we have instant access to more information, often right through our phones, than at any other time in the history of mankind. We can call up pictures and videos of nearly any place in the world. We can even use Google Street View to virtually “drive” to places hundreds or thousands of miles away.
That was not the case in the 1970s.
That fact could explain how a German brewery worker ended up confusing San Francisco and Bangor.
According to the Toasters Youtube channel, in 1977 Erwin Kreuz was on his way to a vacation in San Francisco, California, when he ended up in Bangor, Maine, instead.
How One Tourist Confused Bangor For San Francisco
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The tourist who mistook Bangor for San Francisco
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What it’s about: The tourist who mistook Bangor, Maine for San Francisco, becoming a local folk hero in the process.
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Biggest controversy: No real controversy here, just a big misunderstanding. Erwin Kreuz was a 50-year-old German brewery worker who spoke no English and had only taken one flight in his life before he booked a trip to San Francisco in 1977. When the flight made a refueling stop in Bangor, a flight attendant whose shift was ending and wouldn’t continue on for the next leg of the flight, bid him to enjoy his stay in San Francisco. Kreuz took that to mean the plane had landed in the Golden City and got off the plane. He got into a taxi, asked the driver for “sleep,” and was taken to the Bangor House hotel, not realizing until the morning he was in the wrong pla
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