What's Your Town's Claim to Fame?

[357larry]

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".

 

[OLDFED]

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.

 

[srgvaz]

Auto Theft Capital 2010

 

[michael thornton]

cullman alabama, they say that there used to be a big sign here ? any one ever see it?

 

[moosedog]

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.

 

[jag312]

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.

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.

 

[LTC]

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

 

[bubbiesdad]

Birthplace of "the bomb".

 

[OLDFED]

Hey, Bobf...y'all may want to tell them folks that carved the 'possum stone that they spelled "Mastodon" wrong.

 

[HCD]

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


The Greatest Spectacle in Raceing
And Payton Manning.

 

[FirebirdV8]

The town I have lived in with the most interesting claim to fame is Olney, IL. They are the home of the white squirrels. They even have a holiday and white squirrel count. Whatever you do if you ever come to this town, don't run one over, they don't like that.

 

[redsfan2]

Cincinnati Ohio .... home of pro baseball. First night game ( baseball ) largest Oktoberfest in the U.S. Tall Stacks celebration. I know I'm forgetting a couple of others as well.

 

[MK]

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.

I've always felt much the same way..
Nothing against jungles, but cement versions are boring. :/

 

[Senior Citizen]

had the last "public" hanging in the state of Florida. 2 white men and a black man. Hung for rape as my grandfather told it.