What's Your Town's Claim to Fame?

Pat Benatar grew up here. Dan Lauria, who played the role of the father from The Wonder Years also lived here. Joy Behar was once a teacher at the high school. Top international model Linda Morand was born here. Jack Barry grew up here and was valedictorian of his graduating class.


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Kokomo is known as the "City of Firsts"

1894 - Elwood Haynes makes the first successful trial run of his "horseless carriage" on Pumpkinvine Pike, which is now Boulevard east of U.S.31.
1894 - The first pneumatic rubber tire was invented by D.C. Spraker at the Kokomo Rubber Tire Company.
1895 - The first aluminum casting was developed by William "Billy" Johnson from the Ford and Donnelly Foundry.
1902 - Kingston carburetor developed by George Kingston.
1906 - The first Stellite cobalt-base alloy was discovered by Elwood Haynes.
1912 - Stainless steel tableware was invented by Elwood Haynes as a response to his wife's desire for tableware that wouldn't tarnish.
1918 - The Howitzer shell, used in World War 1, was created by the Superior Machine Tool Company.
1918 - The first aerial bomb with fins was first produced by the Liberty Pressed Metal Company.
1920 - The mechanical corn picker was created by John Powell.
1926 - Carl Molin developed Dirilyte golden-hued tableware.
1928 - The first canned tomato juice was created by Walter Kemp from Kemp Brothers Canning Company in response to a physician's need for baby food.
1938 - The first push-button car radio was created at Delco Radio Division of General Motors Corporation.
1941 - Globe American Stove Company manufactured the first all-metal life boats and rafts.
1947 - The first signal-seeking car radio was created by the Delco Radio Division of General Motors.
1957 - Delco Radio Division of General Motors developed the first all transistor car radio.

Also home to Ryan White. Home to the first Ponderosa Steakhouse. First McDiner. Rupert from Survivor. Steve Butler (sprint cars). Steve Croft. Jack Purvis. Jimmy Rayl. John D. Shearer. Floyd Talbert. Kokomo Arnold. Kokomo Opalescent Glass Works. Among many other things and people. Kokomo was also listed in 2008 on Forbes 'dying towns' list. Third down. :( We are a factory town, and with the economy and failing auto industries, Kokomo is not as fruitful as it once was.
 
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Festus MO... known for the fact that it was formed as an answer to the fact that what is now Crystal City MO was a dry mining town... so it was originally named "Tanglefoot" after the fact that it was mainly saloons and it seemed that the miners had a problem with their feet getting all "tangled up" when they tried to make it back home to the company town...

We are also the location of the "Cave House" that was seen on various news services when the owners were in bad financial state and put it in ebay... it was once the venue of Ike and Tina Turner, Bob Segar, and other notable artists who performed in the amphitheater deep inside the place.
 
1918 - The first aerial bomb with fins was first produced by the Liberty Pressed Metal Company.
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Maybe the first AMERICAN aerial bomb with fins. The Germans and Brits had been using them for at least a couple of years previously.
 
Back in the CB days we were known as "Popcorn City" by the truckers. Unfortunately the popcorn company closed so now the only thing we're famous for is me...I'm a legend in my own mind.
 
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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