What's Your Town's Claim to Fame?

MK said:
Hummm.. We had Marvin Zindler. Hard act to follow..
Hard town to gauge.. A lot of rednecks mixed with a few
rocket scientists. Most of those work at NASA.. :/
And we have most of the types Sip mentioned thrown in for
entertainment.
But for some reason, I have a hard time seeing Dean really
spending too much time here in Mildew City. :/

YouTube - Dean Martin - Houston (Year 1965)
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I have lived in Houston all my life. Other than it being a good place to make a living there is little else to recommend it.
 
My town, cedar city utah is famous for the shakespearian festival and me. I have never been to a shakespearian play. People of culture travel halfway around the world to see it. Maybe someday I will check it out!
 
Built in 1990, 26 tons of steel and reinforced concrete, 12-foot-high, 27-foot-long Radio Flyer Wagon. It can hold as many as 300 people. Spiering spent six to seven days a week for a year building the $36,000 sculpture, for which he received a $30,000 commission.
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Yep, a big red wagon.

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I am sure there is more, but I am sure it doesn't hold a candle to the wagon! :D​

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Seaside, Oregon, is 10 miles south of Fort Clatsop, where Lewis and Clark spent the winter. Seaside is where they set up a salt cairn, to make salt for their journey home. You can hike the trail between Seaside and Cannon Beach, the same trail Clark hiked with the Natives to go see a dead whale.

I've been to most of the National Parks west of the Rockies, and this part of the coast is as spectacular as anything I've seen elsewhere. Clark said as much in his journal.
 
4 miles from here is the great campus of the blundering turds...errr thundering herd(Marshall Universtiy)
 
Town I was raised in was the home of the "chained rock". In the 1950's, a bunch of men took a donkey team and dragged a very large logging chain (each link wieghed 8 lbs.) up the mountain. They connected one end to a large rock and the other end to another rock with the chain spanning the middle. Legened has it that the chain keeps the smaller rock from rolling down the mountain and destroying the town.

Town is Pineville, KY.

I have the only whole link from the chain (3 links were left over and two were cut in half which left the third intact link). It was given to my fanter by one the men that organized this mission.
 
Winter Haven Fl. Home of the now defunct Cypress Gardens.Also Gram Parsons,Jim Stafford in the music world.Otis Birdsong,Tree Rollins and Rowdy Gaines in the sporting world.And Gary Garbrecht who lived here and was famous in the Smith & Wesson collectors world.
 
Well, let's see. Mayetta Kansas really isn't known for a damned thing. I did see a bumper sticker on a truck that sums it up though. "For such a small town this one sure has a lot of ***holes".
 
One noisy railroad track; poor planning; uninteresting downtown; suburban sprawl and declining business. Why am I here? Married a fine gal who has to live here for work and the dead economy which prevents me from moving.
 
Detroit Michigan. Motor City turned Murder City.
But they claim it's coming back. They've said that since the early 70s, should be back any day now.
 
Gary said:
I have lived in Houston all my life. Other than it being a good place to make a living there is little else to recommend it.
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Ah, Houston. Thanks to a psycho ex-girlfriend who told her ex-husband that I was going there to kill him, I was notified by the Sheriff that if I ever stepped foot inside that county, I would be arrested on sight.
 
As the story goes.... The colonial iron blast furnace in town, ca. 1741, supplied iron shot to General Washington's troops during the Revolution. Also listed as making the first successful use of the hot blast system of making iron in the U.S. operated by the Henry and Scranton families during the 19th century.

Oxford, NJ

LTC
 
only read the first 14 pages so if someone already had this I'm sorry.


The Greatest Spectacle in Raceing
And Payton Manning.
 
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