What is your hometown famous for?

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

I got nothin'. Thats what you get when you live in a little podunk town.


Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[gonzalesna 0]

Mine used to hold the world record for most bars on one street (56) and still holds the record for the worlds largest six pack...

Clicky!
http://www.worldslargestthings.com/wisconsin/sixpack.htm

La Crosse, WI

Edit to add: Population: approx. 50,000

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.

[sundevil777 93]

Only about 16,000 live in my little hometown, but...

The Grass is Greener here (Scott's Lawn Products).

Lots of Honda and Acura vehicles made a few miles away.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[piisfish 135]

we had the longest "Mille-Feuilles" in the world (around 400m)

Gland, Switzerland.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Lindercles 0]

Awww, Bobbi, your hometown is famous for having YOU!

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[wildfan75 1]

Prison.

The MN max security prison is in Stillwater (technically Oak Park Heights).

Otherwise the birthplace of Minnesota or where Jessica Lange lives.

[everymansaved 0]

The town right next to mine (prettymuch part of it) is home to the gentleman that discovered the quark.

God made firefighters so paramedics would have heroes...and someone can put out the trailer fires.

[marcandalysse 0]

The town I grew up in got known when the Neo-Nazis marched in Skokie. Became a made-for-tv movie. The Blues Brothers made fun of the Chicago Nazis in their movie.

My current home, Sarasota FL, was famous as the winter home of the Ringling Bros Circus since the 1920's. Interestingly, the circus is currently doing a show in Sarasota for the first time since they left town over 50 years ago.....

"The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton

[jumpnjoecutaway 0]

Water tower made into a tea pot,with steam and everything

Westside is the best side!

[jdthomas 0]

I am from a small town in south east Kansas and I guess one of our few claims is that Gordon parks was born and rasied there. and the other notable for the nascar fans is that the bricks in the brick yard are from my town as well.
I think more notable and honorable is that we are home of the 1st national cemetary and I think the only one to have native american soliders from the civil war buried there.
Joe

www.greenboxphotography.com

[Lindercles 0]

You're from Fort Scott?!

[Rick 67]

murders I am originally from Detroit but I have been in Orlando for 24 years

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

[GTAVercetti 0]

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I got nothin'. Thats what you get when you live in a little podunk town.


Bobbi

Well, I am from nowhere, but the town 4 miles away? you might have heard their chocolate.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[jimmytavino 16]

Well the "town" i live in now, (and for the past 35 years)
Rochester N Y is famous for KODAK.....
but my true 'hometown' of Brewster NY is famous for 2 things....
1. That's where jimmytavino and lots of other Tavinos came from ..

2. The Tv show "That Girl" from the 60's and 70's starred Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie and the story line was that She grew Up there.
Her tv dad Lou Marie supposedly owned a restaurant in Brewster....which is a one hour train ride North of NYC...

so counting these two things...... It's famous for NOTHING ! hahahahaha..

jimmy from brewster

[abelizegirl 0]

Glooscap. My home town has claimed him as ours for as long as I can remember.
He is a mythical culture hero, god, and "transformer" of the Algonquian peoples, an Indian of great size and powers. His paper mache statue stands at the park in my home town of about 500 people. He supposedly walked with such great stride that his steps created the Glooscap Trail, hundreds of miles around and about Nova Scotia. He is credited as a creator, a protector of animals and earths father figure. I have no recollection of a time where his huge figure wasn't there, hand outstretched to the sun, birds pooping on his head, kids sitting on his big moccasins eating slurpees.
Wow........what a neat way to start my day with these thoughts in my head.......think I'll call home and say hi.......

It's all Jimmy Buffet's fault.

[Rdy2skydive 0]

My little NJ town has an interesting history:

1. Has been around since the 1600's
2. First real copper mines in North America
3. First steam engine constructed here
4. Some of the Revolutionary War was fought here and in surrounding areas
5. Sopranos are filmed here and in surrounding area.

[mailin 0]

Foxborough, MA

- home of the new england patriots
- as of the 1990? census it was the second whitest town in the US
- was the 'straw hat' capital of the US at the turn of the 20th century

wiki article


Jen

Arianna Frances

[azdav 0]

Cool story......is this him?

Good thing his name wasn't Goosclap

Noooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!! M.P.F.C.

[jumpjunkie 0]

Home to the first regiments of Buffalo Soldiers in the late 1800s. And in the Guiness Book for the only lake on record to catch on fire.

Tubing, so easy a caveman can do it.

[livendive 8]

We made the plutonium that ended WW2. In tribute, the mascot for the local high school is the Richland Bombers, and their "logo" is a mushroom cloud. How's that for politically correct?

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[Remster 24]

Is their mascot a red suited fat guy with a hood and cape?

I think we may have discovered where Homer lives! lol

Remster

[abelizegirl 0]

Yes, that is him, in all his glory in the park in my hometown. My mom is Mi'kmaq, her dad was a tribal leader, so I got all of the stories from that side of he family. Mythology is facinating as far as Greek and Roman myths go, but the stories I grew up with are ones that people actually protected and passed on until just a few generations ago. It is really cool.

It's all Jimmy Buffet's fault.

[floridadiver81 0]

Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Birthplace of Yuengling beer!

"Age has absolutely nothing to do with knowledge, learning, respect, attitude, or personality." -yardhippie
"Fight the air, and the air will kick your ass!!! "-Specialkaye

[hisgoofyness 0]

Chattanooga - Home of the train

The Chattanooga Choo-Choo, that is.

Also home to the first Coca-Cola bottling facility.

Also played a large roll in the Civil War.

Goudha is for Buddha, and that's good enough for me!

[jceman 1]

Berlin, Wi was known as "The Fur and Leather Capital" of the state.

N.B.: Do you remember the old Wild Bill Hickock TV show and his sidekick Jingles (played by Andy Devine)? Jingles alwasy wore a fringed buckskin vest -- he had several and they were all handmade by my father in law.

Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money.

Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?