What's Your Town's Claim to Fame?

My towns claim to fame would be the name..

WYANO! This was a Coal Mine owned town and was owned by Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company Y&O and the town eventually became WYANO (YanO).
 
New Richmond, Oh. I'm the only resident that had a speaking role in a movie. Some Came Running 1958.
 
NASCAR team owner Jack Roush crashed his airplane into a local lake. Contrary to popular belief, it all didn't go down the way the media played it out. :rolleyes:

That and Dallas Cowboys Defensive End Demarcus Ware.
 
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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)
 
Town in PA I was raised near supposedly was in Ripleys back in the 1940's for most saloons per block. The street by the tracks was apparently nearly all bars (one pool hall and the chinese laundry). There was a Pennsylvania Railroad round house just outside of town where they turned the coal & steel hauling locomotives around. Years later my parents still wouldn't let me walk down that street.
 
Cambridge, New York....Home of Pie a la mode. The hotel here claims to be the first place that put ice cream on pie back in the late 19th century. We are not far from Saratoga Springs, the birth place of potato chips!
 
Syracuse, N.Y.

Home of the Dinosaur Barbecue...voted best barbecue in the United States by ABC's "Good Morning America".

Flame on, jealous Southerners.....:)
 
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rutherford, tenn-last home of davy crockett and the final resting place of his mother. cabin on the school grounds built in 1956 using some logs from his last home place here. come visit. lee
 
Conyers, GA...April 2010 playmate of the month!!!

Atlanta Journal Article

That's this month, Conyers is actually famous...notorious is likely a more proper word, for a number of things. It's the home of actress Holly Hunter, the family's home is less than a mile from me. Heritage High School made the national news a year after Columbine with another school shooting. One of our local businesses shut down the whole eastern part of the state when BioLab had a chemical fire that traveled east down I-20. We were once famous for the PBS series Lost Children of Rockdale, a PBS series highlighting the over sexed children in our high schools.

We also have a Superior Court Judge that occasionally makes national news with some of his sentencings. he runs a court very much like it should be, doesn't take crap off anyone that comes in his courtroom. Local ambulance chasers hate appearing before him.

Cheers,
Sam
 
Oldest brick building west of the Mississippi

Howdy,
Oldest brick building west of the Mississippi river.
Thanks
Mike
 
I guess this week its been Fla.Sunshine!!!
Spring breakers are here.But not like years past.
Fishing both salt and fresh water.
Everglades and 'gators.(and I guess now pythons and others)
Most of all,very few Fla.Natives.Sad.(I've herd that this is the first time Fla.has negitive numbers of people moving here.)

D.G.
 
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