Interesting things about your town

[Xollence]

I had to do a paper for my New Jersey history class on my town. I found so many interesting things.

1) The Baylor Massacre took place here, which was during the Revolutionary War.

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2) My town only had 1 traffic light until about 5 years ago when our town got another one. That fact on was jeopardy when I was a kid.

3) My town only has about 20,000 people but has 7 dry cleaners on the same exact block. I've never even seen this many dry cleaners in Manhattan.

4) Bill Maher grew up and went to school in my town.

Anyways post anything unusual or interesting about your town.

[Newtyped]

apparantly theres a gay ghetto here o_O (i dont live in the gay ghetto)
http://www.newhavencvb.org/base/content.cfm?section=visitors&dir=core&page=alternative&sub1=things_to_do&sub2=&sub3=
and heres a thing of history
http://www.new-haven-ct-relocation.com/?gclid=CKX_mP6cxoQCFUAbFQodqkNZcQ
of course they are lieing about the beutiful buildings, it looks like crap here ^^;;

[IFHTT]

About the only thing of interest in my town was the fact that former president Bill Clinton graduated from high school here. Other than that, there's nothing special at all about this crap hole.

Edit: @ Heretic below: Yep Hot Springs, Arkansas.

[The Heretic Azazel]

You live in Arkansas?

Anyway Sam Walton of Wal-Mart fame's first 5 cent store was built in my little town of 7000

[Newtyped]

bush went to college in my city -.-
of course everyone here knows he got c's

[Deadfire]

Canadian city, and the capital of the province of Manitoba. Located in Western Canada, Winnipeg plays a prominent role in transportation, finance, manufacturing, agriculture and education. It is known as the Gateway to the West.

The city is located near the geographic centre of North America. It lies in a flood plain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers and started around the point now commonly known as The Forks. It is protected from flooding by the Red River Floodway. Winnipeg is the province's largest city with a population of 619,544 people (2001 Canadian Census). The Winnipeg Census Metropolitan Area (which includes Winnipeg and surrounding rural municipalities has a population of 706,900 (Statistics Canada, July 1, 2005 estimate).

The climate in Winnipeg is very extreme; overall, it is one of the coldest large cities in the world, with temperatures averaging below freezing from mid-November through much of March (and most nights below −24 °C (-11.2 °F) in mid-winter), although from May to September temperatures often reach 30 °C (86 °F) and sometimes exceed 35 °C (95 °F). The city receives more precipitation in the forms of both rain and snow than other Prairie cities, but the weather is characterized year-round by an abundance of sunshine.

Sir William Stephenson (aka Intrepid), the spy, and man on whom the character of James Bond is based was born here. Also Winnie-the-Pooh or the Winnipeg Bear has named after the city

[Terracosmo]

Sävedalen, aka Savedalen, is a shitty town on the outskirts of Gothenburg. Nothing cool ever happened here except that this is where Terra was born, raised and hopefully not will die. We used to have horses but when they all died of old age, cars replaced them.

There is also a band named after Sävedalen which is called Savedale, the members of that band have played together three times and pretty much suck. Due to pure coincidence, Terra actually happens to be a member of that band. Who would have thought?

Terra later went on to create another band called... *post turns into random banter about Terra's ownage*

[darkshadow]

Amsterdam, we all know whats interesting here

[Kraco]

I doubt there're terribly many internationally curious things over here.

The only thing might be the Air Guitar World Championships (http://www.omvf.net/2004/ilmakitara.php). It's a 10 years old event, and participants come from all over the world.

[Newtyped]

I doubt there're terribly many internationally curious things over here.

The only thing might be the Air Guitar World Championships (http://www.omvf.net/2004/ilmakitara.php). It's a 10 years old event, and participants come from all over the world.
I feel sorry for your town :(

[Assertn]

http://www.google.com/search?q=hollywood&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official



Amsterdam, we all know whats interesting here
AIDS?

[masamuneehs]

i actually have a few things about my town.

1. The very first pet cemetery in the US is in my town. Founded in 1896.

2. The very first Carvel ice cream store was (and still is) in my town. Carvel is the chain that pionerred soft-serve ice crea, and Flying Saucers (ice cream between round chocolate waferish thingies). It was a traveling ice cream truck but in 1934 it broke down in my town and the guy decided to start his store at that spot.

3. The Odell House is in my town. It is a spot where the French general Comte had several meetings with American revolutionaries, including George Washington. There was also a small Revolutionary War battle fought in my town, along the Bronx River.

4. The first American to ever recieve a TV transmission lived in my town. In 1928 John Logie Baird sent the first successful inter-continental television signal to O.G. Hutchinson, who was living in my town at the time.

5. My town is also the location for the Ferncliff Cemetery. Notobales amongst the buried are: Malcolm X, Judy Garland, Aaliyah, Ed Sullivan, Alan "Moondog" Freed (the NY DJ who helped coin the term 'rock and roll'), jazz musician Gerry Mulligan, actress Joan Crawford and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell (founder of hip-hop group Run-DMC)

6. Apparently there is a Japanese rap/R&B group named the "Heartsdales" who take their name from my hometown, where they lived for several years.

For a town with less than 10K people (and god does it feel smaller than that...1,186.1/km² population density...) guess there's more land than I thought... well that's not bad for a small town nobody's ever really heard of.

[Vegechan]

http://www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/

Yeah.

[complich8]

Let's see ...

7 miles or so north of town, you can find the battleground where William Henry Harrison's army regiment crushed the spirit of Tecumseh's midwestern native american confederation in summer of 1811. That's sorta unique ...

Purdue was the first university to have an airport and an aviation program, and the first university to have a computer science program. The university has produced 22 astronauts. It's also home to an Accelerated Mass Spectrometer (sequestered under the memorial mall, about 50 feet underground ... it's neat). We've also got a functioning nuclear reactor, a supersonic wind tunnel, and the one of the largest auditoriums in the world (clocking in at 6025 seats -- more than twice as large as Carnegie Hall). We're also famous for graduating more women in engineering than ... well... pretty much anywhere. And we enroll more international students than any other US university.

We've also got some cool cultural stuff that goes on here... Purdue's "Spring Festival/Bug Bowl" in spring, "Dancing in the Streets" and "Taste of Tippecanoe" in the summer, "Feast of the Hunter's Moon" in fall.

It's not the NYC. It's not southern california. But it's got some uniqueness to it, ya know?

Oh yeah, and more restaurants per capita than anyplace else in the country!

[Assertn]

http://www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/

Yeah.

http://www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/national/special_events/IMAG014.JPG

Cecilia Brauer Playing the Armonica. Wow....look at her go!

[Alhuin]

(This isn't exaclty my town, but close enough) I believe the most interesting thing here is Waverly Hills Sanatorium; or, the Tuberculosis hospital.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hills_Sanatorium
http://ghostsagogo.com/waverly.html

Basically, the hospital was a place to quarentine all those who had or possibly had TB. At one point, the death toll was so great that getting rid of the bodies was very difficult. So they built a giant (100 ft I believe) body chute to throw the dead bodies (and sometimes the still-living) into to hold until a train came by and picked them up. The chute was named the Death Tunnel (which, coincidentally, is the name of the recent DVD released based on Waverly). Room 502 in Waverly is supposed to be the most haunted room, on account of a nurse hanging herself in the room. In actuallity though, the entire place is equally haunted.

The show "Ghost Hunters" (shown on Sci-Fi) recently did a segment on Waverly. Now, the goal of the Ghost Hunters is not to say something is haunted... but to say that something is NOT haunted. They use many technological means and personal and logical reasoning to support the fact that a place is not haunted. They've maybe only labeled 3 or 4 places as haunted. After going through Waverly, and having everyone experience a paranormal encounter, they rated Waverly as among the top haunted sites in the world. They straight-up agreed that that place was definitely haunted.

Tours are held every Halloween through Waverly. A local band (Incursion) actually named themselves after a room in Waverly (previously Incursion 502) but dropped the 502 due to too much confusion. Anyways, I thought it was real interesting that I live 30 minutes away from this site... and it's ranked among the top haunted places in the world. Pretty freaky.

[gr3atfull]

Well, as you might all now, I live in Montréal.

It is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in Québec. Also, its the second biggest french city in the world. Plus, it hosts Juste pour Rire (Just for Laughs) comedy festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, the Montreal World Film Festival, and many others.Expo 67 was there and so was the summer olympics in 1976 (that was where the romanian girl named Nadia Comaneci got 7perfect 10s and won three gold medals in gymnastic). It is the city where like 95% of the population loves hockey. In fact, it also has the oldest canadian hockey team which is the most successful clubs in all of North American sports history, the Canadiens.

[Stoopider]

The food... and more food.

[Zinobi]

Kurt Cobain was born and raised in Aberdeen, WA <<where i lived up til about a year and a third ago....

[samsonlonghair]

I grew up in Miami, but during Highschool my parents moved us to a pointless little town on the West Virginia / Virginia border. Nothing happens here ever. No battles were ever fought here; no one famous was born here; nothing important ever will happen here.

But at least its better than some places in West Virginia. There are some seriously god-awful backwards places around here.

[Kraco]

Speaking of Ye Olde Battles one funny event took place in this town. During the Crimean war the brave English Navy sailed here and burnt down large quantities of tar, which was the major export of this city back then, during the sailing ship era. Too bad much of the tar had actually already been bought by the English themselves and was just waiting for to be shipped to England. So, in short, they came here and destroyed their own wares...

[Xollence]

Well, as you might all now, I live in Montréal.

It is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in Québec. Also, its the second biggest french city in the world. Plus, it hosts Juste pour Rire (Just for Laughs) comedy festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, the Montreal World Film Festival, and many others.Expo 67 was there and so was the summer olympics in 1976 (that was where the romanian girl named Nadia Comaneci got 7perfect 10s and won three gold medals in gymnastic). It is the city where like 95% of the population loves hockey. In fact, it also has the oldest canadian hockey team which is the most successful clubs in all of North American sports history, the Canadiens.

I love Montreal. I used to go there every year when I was little for 9 years straight. I don't remember much except for this really good steak I had. :)

[Assertn]

The only slightly interesting (at least to me, anyway) thing about the place I used to live was that the road right by me was 21 mile: the same 21 mile that's 13 miles north of 8 mile, the movie with Eminem. I dunno...I think it's slightly interesting at least.

[Edort4]

My town has a lot of interesting things but I loved the chunnin exam we had last year (mixing real life with anime is bad nope?). What really is interesting is that here we have a terrorist group (well not only in my city but it has made a few terrorist acts here) but it only targets certain politics and writers. So like 60% of the ppl dont give a shit about it, they care but somehow they are used to it so they dont do a fuss about it.

[Board of Command]

My town has two universities on the same street and within 500 m of each other, thus University Avenue.

[gr3atfull]

I love Montreal. I used to go there every year when I was little for 9 years straight. I don't remember much except for this really good steak I had. :)

I am glad that you liked Montréal! Did you ever tried poutine? It is really delicious. If you ever come back there, make sure you buy it from La belle province, they have the best one ever!

Talking about history, I also forgot to mention that Montréal is the only city in Canada that was invaded by the army since it had a terrorist group that wanted the independence of Québec in 1970 (october crisis).

[The Heretic Azazel]

Anyone who eats gravy on chili fries is a fat ass. A FAT ASS!!

[Board of Command]

Anyone who eats gravy on chili fries is a fat ass. A FAT ASS!!
Don't know what you're talking about, poutine is the shit.

...except Burger King's. Don't ever order poutine from Burger King.

[gr3atfull]

Anyone who eats gravy on chili fries is a fat ass. A FAT ASS!!
Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you eat poutine once in a while, you wont become a fat ass. If you eat it every day, its normal you become fat!
Its common sense. I eat poutine once per week, and I am not fat.

[Board of Command]

Like McDonald's says, "If you eat a lot of food, you will get fat."

[mage]

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you eat poutine once in a while, you wont become a fat ass. If you eat it every day, its normal you become fat!
Its common sense. I eat poutine once per week, and I am not fat.
is this what you're talking about?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Poutine-clow.jpg

looks damn gross.

[Board of Command]

Yes that is poutine, but the cheese isn't done very well. It's supposed to melt onto the fries. It's actually very good.

[Genma]

Let's see...

My city is the one where that myspace emo-suicide kid ("do me a favore", if any of you have seen YTMND and whatnot) killed himself.

A pornstar used to live here, I think. O_o;

And its the current residence of a woman holding the Guinness record for most tattoos.

... And... that's it. No famous battles here. If anyone can guess the city, props to them.

[XanBcoo]

Did a quick search: Mission Viejo, California?

I'm from Houston, Texas. There's lots of interesting things about Houston. Notably, it is the 4th biggest city in the U.S, is where NASA's Mission Control is located, and was where the Enron Corporation was based.

I'm currently living in Austin, the capital of Texas. Austin is a college town, home to the University of Texas, and apparently is known as the "Live Music Capital of the World".

[AlterEgox5]

I don't claim my town because I wasn't born there (born in Vegas, thankyouverymuch), but seeing as I am now stuck in Illinois, my claim to fame is that I live on an old air force base - Chanute anyone? Anyway, the only good thing about it is that it's fairly quiet (er, ignoring the fact that there's a railroad not too far from my house), but going biking is cool because there are all kinds of deserted buildings around. It was really weird when I went on eBay and found old postcards for stuff I bike past. I guess it shouldn't be weird...but it is.

Oh, and Xan...man, every time I see that sig, I shudder.