"Since the United States Government declares this man to be Santa Claus, this court will not dispute it. Case dismissed."

In the 1947 holiday classic, Miracle on 34^th Street, the defense attorney endeavors to prove that his client – a nice old man with whiskers, Kris Kringle – is the one AND only Santa Claus. He receives fortuitous help in that regard when the post office – the United States Post Office, a branch of the Federal Government - delivers oodles of mail to the courthouse where Kringle is on trial. After a few legal motions, Judge Henry X. Harper delivers the title line to this post.

In 1981-82, in a lesser but just as significant manner the Intelligencer Journal (to be discussed in greater detail in a future post) granted quite the imprimatur on the 340 Club when, based on the composite votes of the general public over a two year period, they declared the 340 Club to be the 3^rd most popular night club in Lancaster County behind only The Village and The Old Colony.

Now, in 2007, after over two decades of darkness as the 340 Club emerges for what will be the Third Coming in whatever final form it takes, the world’s largest search engine (that bears repeating – the World’s Largest and Most Popular Search Engine) – Google – recognizes the 340 Club as the one and only and most significant of any organization, group or collection of misfits in the world by that name. Try it yourself, simply go to Google and do a search on “340 Club”. No need to say 340 Club Lancaster PA or provide any additional detail. Simply type in the numbers and letters: 3 4 0 C L U B … and voila, at the top of the hit list, comes 340 Club. [NOTE: to be honest, the 340 Club is coming up 6^th on the generic Google but #1 if you use Google Blogs thereby limiting your search to Blogs only]

We’re baaaaaaack.