What's Your Town's Claim to Fame?

[ElToro]

Our City is the "Almond Capital of the World"....

Chico or Sacramento ? i have heard both...

and its pronounced "ammoned" right? not "all-mond"

 

[Noah Zark]

Wouldn't happen to be Latrobe and Kennametal? Worked for them for almost 20 years, until they closed the Detroit plant.

No, it's the Elk Co / Clearfield Co area. At one time there were almost 30 powdered metal manufacturers in the area, and the Metal Powder Industries Federation figured that 40% of the world's P/M parts were made here, starting with the original oil-less bronze bushings in 1928.

Noah

 

[460v LAC du FLAMBEAU]

Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin...northern Wisconsin...54545 zip.

Home of Little Bohemia tavern (still open)...site of John Dillinger & Baby Face Nelson shootout with the FBI...April 22, 1934. The bad guys escaped later to be killed in Chicago. Baby Face Nelson still holds the record of killing 3 FBI agents.

Johnny Depp 2009 movie "Public Enemies" was filmed at this original shootout site.

 

[ambassador]

Clame to fame.

A fourty year old nuclear power plant,WOW.

 

[USAF385]

Oh.. I forgot to mention.. to my South East I have Scranton: Home of the Office.

And Joe Biden.

 

[shotguntom]

Sadly, our claim to fame is Joey Butafucco and Alec Baldwin.
Tom

 

[Rick-F]

Louisville, KY

". . . faster horses, older whiskey, younger women, . . . mo' money"

 

[SteveA]

Emporia, KS home of William Allen White, Clint Boyer and the 2010 Division II women's national champion basketball team.

 

[Blacksmith58]

1. Ronald Reagons Boyhood Home - Dixon, Illinois
2. Home of the Dixon Petunia Festival - Dixon, Illinois
3. John Deere Historic Site - Grand Detour, Illinois - Where the Legend Began!

 

[armadillo]

My hometown had the original ROTEL cannery. They canned tomatoes with green chilies for us locals for many years - then in the 1960's they got famous and sold out to one of the big conglomerates.

We could buy unlabled, dented cans for pennies a case. You never knew what would be for supper - sauerkraut, black-eyed peas, beets or tomatoes w/ green chilies.

RO*TEL - RO*TEL History

 

[paladin42]

They once hung an elephant.
The Hanging of Mary the Elephant

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Bugs Bunny's left turn . . .

Now THAT'S good

 

[RABULL]

Almond Capital of the World

El Toro...it is Ripon, CA which is just north of Modesto and you are right it is ammond and not allmond....

 

[MTS Cop]

The New York Yankees, Black 47, Regis Philbin. And crack wars.

 

[ElToro]

2. Home of the Dixon Petunia Festival - Dixon, Illinois

i think they hold a cider festival there as well.

 

[JEBSON]

Ray Kroc (Mc Donalds) and Walter Payton (Chicago Bears) both lived in Arlington Heights, Illinois during the pinnacle of their careers.

 

[Eltioloco]

El Toro and RABULL, not to hijack this thread but, its pronounced allmond when the nut is on the tree, and ammond when it's off the tree...... You have to beat the L out of it to get it off the tree. Ken

 

[Mule88]

Dayton is the Birth place of the Wright Brothers

 

[dave-arlington-va]

R E Lee's former residence

My Dad lays there now with many thousands other of our country's best.

 

[R. G. Amos]

I reside there

 

[45/70 marlin]

Saluda,S.C. "Where Texas Began" the birthplace of the Alamo heroes Travis and Bonham.

Now we are known for the final stopping place for illegal mexicans,chicken processing plants and agriculture.

 

[Hofstet]

Petoskey, MI going to be named as one of the top 8 places to retire in the May/June issue of "Where to Retire" magazine.
Great place to live IMO if you like 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad snowmobiling.

 

[sgt.207]

Home of the Clintons. I'd much rather live in the same town as President G.W. Bush!!!!!!

 

[mike from st pete]

Town's Claim to Fame

Saint Petersburg Florida, home of the newlywed and the nearly dead, God's waiting room, the sunshine city. To name a few.

 

[wheelgun28]

I live in "The Gateway to New England" we are the first town into Connecticut when you come up I-95

Next to us is "The City That Works", should read "that city that used to work" but hey...

 

[Sven]

Petoskey, MI going to be named as one of the top 8 places to retire in the May/June issue of "Where to Retire" magazine.
Great place to live IMO if you like 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad snowmobiling.

Some spring I'd like to go over that way and look for some Petoskey stone.

 

[labworm]

Historians, interesting read regarding the American Revolution.

Battle of Chelsea Creek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Jst1mr]

The Musky Capital of the World (that's the fish, not the smell) and home of the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and the American Birkebeiner (a 50 kilometer cross country ski race attended by some 7,000 competitors). I grew up in "The Halloween Capital of the World"...

 

[PRK 25-5]

Tylersville, Pa.
If you are driving the speed limit and you sneeze. You will never see us.
We like it like that

 

[FlYFiShErMaN]

St. Augustine, FL OLDEST CITY IN THE U.S.