What is your hometown famous for?

[JSBIRD 1]

Mobile, Alabama: Home of original Mardi Gras (Yes, before New Orleans)

Calhan, Colorado: Highest non-mountain town in the US. 6509msl. (And a major femur breaking DZ for guys who are gonna show us how to swoop...LOL)

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"Now I've settled down,
in a quiet little town,
and forgot about everything"

[FallinWoman 1]

St. Louis:
The Gateway Arch
Anheuser Busch
World Champion St. Louis Cardinals



AND

toasted ravioli!!!!

~Anne

I'm a Doll!!!!

[daremrc 0]

the worlds finest warehouse techno parties, circa 1997

Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

[Muenkel 0]

Northport, NY. The only thing I can think of is that the movie 'In and Out' starring Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck was filmed there.

Sorry folks, that's all I got.

Chris

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Chris

[loco.cerveza 0]

The town I was raised in Copperas Cove Texas has given nothing to the world, but the Town I call my Hometown Huntsville Texas is were we take great pride in executing all of those “bad people” for killing, raping and anything the people of Harris county (Houston) do not like. Oh, some dude name Sam Houston also lived here.

Remember that expectant life span is an average, and most people are below average
--Garrison Keillor

[Slowfaller 0]

Elgin, IL was known for it's watch/clock factory. An Elgin watch is even featured in the film Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The scene before the race for land features someone holding an Elgin pocket watch.

Where I live now, Carpentersville, is mentioned in the Smoking Pope's song "You Spoke To Me".

I drove all the way from Carpentersville
to see you here tonight and it was worth it.
You didn't play my favorite song but that's alright
I love the new stuff too
I'm just glad I got to see you.

--"Someday you will die and somehow somethings going to steal your carbon" -MM

[freekflyguy 0]

Home town Stamford in Lincolnshire, birthplace of Daniel Lambert.

Then lived in Grantham Lincs, birth place of some political chick and a scientist ( Margaret Thatcher and Sir Isaac Newton), and it was once voted the most boring place in the UK.

Now live in Swindon Wilts, birth place of a couple of minor celebs, one who is a MAJOR MILF and the other Dr Who's last assistant and some bridge building bloke. ( Mellinda Messenger, Billy Piper and Isambard Kingdom Brunel)

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

[therealbonger 0]

Anheuser-Busch, yeah bud light and budweiser straight from St.Louis, even natural light beats any miller product

[kallend 2,106]

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Charles Darwin was born there. 12 Feb 1809

He didn't have much choice about that. But he chose to LIVE in my home town

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[skydiverbry 0]

Floods! In fact the greatest flood in U.S. history. The Great Johnstown Flood of 1889.

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Growing old is mandatory.Growing up is optional!!

D.S.#13(Dudeist Skdiver)

[shropshire 0]

So much for HIS judgement and there was me thinking that he was bright too.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[zaxxx 0]

Long Beach Ca.

Home of:
Snoop Dog
Sublime
Skunk Records
The Queen Mary
Joe Jost's
The smallest liquor store on the planet (located on the northwest corner of Lakewood and Sterns)
The only city in the country which surrounds a whole other city (Signal Hill)

Side note: Long Beach Poly has more football players in the NFL than any other high school in the country

love what you do and who you do

[BillyVance 34]

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Long Beach Ca.

Home of:
Snoop Dog

??? I thought he was from Queens or something in the NYC area?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Lindercles 0]

You obviously don't listen to his lyrics very closely.

[gonzalesna 0]

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orange county is a county, not an individual location...

I know this, but if considering something a hometown for me, i would have to use the county... since we have cities, rather than towns. hmm, I guess i have lived in Anaheim more than any other, but i have also lived in Garbage errr garden grove, be.. buena park, and some others when i was younger.

I know how it is man... I've lived in Mission Viejo, Garden Grove, Cypress, Huntington Beach, and Westminster to name a few in that county... the list goes on with 4 other states...

I was born in Westminster, CA, but I claim La Crosse, WI because I'm now embarrassed to claim California. (I wasn't until the past few years)

Some people refrain from beating a dead horse. Personally, I find a myriad of entertainment value when beating it until it becomes a horse-smoothie.

[zaxxx 0]

Long Beach Ca.

Home of:
Snoop Dog

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??? I thought he was from Queens or something in the NYC area?

"With so much drama in the LBC it's kinda hard being Snoop D-O doubel G"

love what you do and who you do

[bozo 0]

Beaver, Utah
Birthplace of Robert Leroy Parker aka Butch Cassidy
and Philo Farnsworth, inventor of the television.

bozo
Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars.

[rdwdretrt 0]

The home of Seabisuit. . .and boy do we use that when having local fund raisers.
The owner of Seabisuit, Charles Howard built our current hospital because when his son Frank had that car accident, there was no hospital in town to take him too.

[ladyflyer77 0]

ME!!!

If I stand on my tip toes, I can see the weekend from here!

[BillyVance 34]

My current home-town, home to Alabama's #1 Post-Whore.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Douva 0]

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Buddy Holly

Look at good ol' Lubbock, Texas, representing on DZ.com. What year did you leave Lubbock, Shotgun? I got out in 2000.

I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names.

[drae 0]

St. Petersburg, Florida is known as the "Sunshine City"
When I was growing up, if the sun did not shine at some point during the day, you got the next days newspaper free! They did not give many newspapers away either!

[ladyflyer77 0]

consider yourself sued

If I stand on my tip toes, I can see the weekend from here!

[crotalus01 0]

Elvis.

As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

[Dumpster 0]

My childhood home of Edison, NJ was named after Thomas Edison, whose lab was in nearby Menlo Park. He was called "The Wizard of Menlo Park".

I lived in NJ until I was 12, when we moved to rural Western NY - to a town named Friendship. I actually consider Friendship my "hometown" - I came of age, became "aware" in that area.

Now I didn't actually live in Friendship - I lived in a town called Wirt, but our mail was delivered by the Friendship post office. I went to school in town called Richburg. Richburg was named such because lots of rich people used to live there. Emphasis on "used to". After the oil fields played out, so did the money. But that's a whole other story.

The town was originally called Bloody Corners. An interesting name to say the least, with an interesting story behind it.

In the center of town was a place where four roads came together, or a "four-corners".
(People in the area don't call such an intersection a crossroads, but a "four corners" - If five roads came together, which is not uncommon in that area, it's called a five-corners, naturally.)

Roads in the area are often named for the town they lead to, such as the Cuba road or the Belmont road. Well, this four-corners joined the Cuba road and the Belvedere road.

Oil was first discovered in that area. As a matter of fact, you can, to this day, travel to a place called the Seneca Oil Spring, and see the very spot where oil was first discovered in North Amereica.

With oil drillin' came money - and roughnecks -and the roughnecks liked to drink.

At the four-corners, there was a tavern on each corner. It wasn't uncommon to find a dead body there in the morning, hence the name Bloody Corners. (This is a story about Friendship-)

Later on, the town "merged" with another town called Dog Patch, named such because of it's large dog popualtion. If memeory serves me, Dog Patch was some where along the Friendship-Dog Patch road, which also went to Belvedere.

Years later the town fathers where trying to figure out how to attract more people to the lovely town of Bloody Corners - And they decided to re-name the town Friendship, in a effort to rid it of it's unsavory reputation. It kinda worked. Until the oil fields played out and the foundry shut down.

Now this story, as colorful as it is, no doubt has been embellished and mutated somewhat over the years, so the basis on actual fact is dubious at best. But it does make for an entertaining story. Not unlike the story of how I got the screen name I use.

I assume no responsibility for the factual basis of either story.

Easy Does It