Color Spectrum Fiasco

In 1979, a series of color spectrum strips were mailed to random households in the American midwest. Most of these were discarded as junk mail, and were lost forever. There are only three known surviving copies, two of which are privately held. The only remaining "public" color strip is taped to the inside window of Southwyke Shopping Center, an abandoned mall in northwest Ohio. How the term "fiasco" became associated with this event is unknown.

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