So, what's your town known for?

[rockmyplimsoul]

nearly every town or region has it's "thing" it's famous for:

- where i grew up (campbell, ca) it was known for prunes and dried apricots (oh, yay!)

- lived up in humboldt county for awhile, which is known for something more enjoyable than prunes ;)

- now i live in morgan hill, which is known for its mushrooms (not the psychadelic type!). nothing like fresh shrooms, but oh man if the wind is blowing the wrong way ...

so what's your town's story?

[mjmoonwalker]

I grew up in Palo Alto, California, which is famous for many things...
-One of the places in Silicon Valley
-Birthplace of Hewlett-Packard
-Home of Stanford University
-Residence of Steve Jobs (bad experiences with him)

My new residence, Taipei, isn't really known for anything except:
-Having the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101
-Manufacturing many things such as laptops and electronics like that

[dtcarson]

My current town, Holly Springs, NC, is the 'fastest growing town in North Carolina'. That of course could be a bad thing or a good thing.
My hometown, Peachtree City, GA, is the golf cart capital of the south. At the time I went to college, my college had a larger population than my hometown.

[Doc Evils]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Enfield

[Nickster]

Where I live right now Albuquerque NM.
- Were known for the International Balloon Fiesta (a ton of hot air balloons floating the sky every year)
- Green Chile
- We have Sandia National Labs.
- Bill Gates tried to start Microsoft here but I can't remember why he didn't I think the cost of starting a business was really high here.
- My Dad used to work in the same building that Bill Gates and Paul Allen were in for a little while and same floor.
- Bill Gates was Arrested Here
- Bugs Bunny Often made wrong turns here
- Mike Judge attended School here as well as Freddy prince junior

The State I am in is known for some stuff to.
- Los Alamos is here which is where a lot of the Manhattan project took place.
- Nuclear Bomb was developed here
- The Space Port of Richard Branson is supposed to be build here
- We have some nice mountains.

[Sypher]

Cambridge would be known for.. the University, the Folk Festival and being a centre of high-tech industry. oh and having a rubbish football team

[Galley]

Greenville, SC
Was once the "textile capitol of the world"
All the Pepto-Bismol in the world used to be made here.
The birthplace of Diet-Rite cola
Home of Michelin's North American headquarters
One of the few, if not the only cities in the U.S. with a large waterfall downtown.
Home of Shoeless Joe Jackson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Edwin McCain, Aaron Tippin, Charles Townes (inventor of the Laser), Tour de France cyclist George Hincapie.

[Nader172]

General Mills had great history in Minnesota and Bob Dylan was born here.

[LukeA]

Monroeville, PA.

Dawn of the Dead was filmed less than 1500 feet from my house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroeville%2C_Pennsylvania

Monroeville also boasts the second planned community in the US, Garden City.

[Nickster]

How about a rule of no postings to Wiki's let's try to keep everything here on this page.

[LukeA]

In addition, Monroeville is very near the world's first all concrete bridge, the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge. The bridge was also the largest of its type for a very long time.
http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/watson/albums/bridge213.jpg

[Amelie]

My 'town' is known for many things; shame to say, but I haven't seen a lot of the sites, except for the retail stores, Macy's, H&M, etc...:D. Seriously, though, my mom raised me in museums, so I've visited most of them many times, the Metropolitan, MOMA, Natural History and even the lesser known, like the Transit.

[ipodphoto30]

Chicago Illinois

Marshall Fields headquarters
Marshall Fields was also born here
Great archecture in downtown
Home of the Sears tower
Famous Chicago Hot Dogs
Chicago Deep dish pizza
Lots of movies were filmed here
Kill Hannah, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy are from Chicago
Great Chicago Fire history
Lake Michigan can be sited not too far from my house


Lots more things can be listed, but I can't think of more right now, I'll edit when I can think of some more.

[goldcoaster]

Great beaches, great weather

[LukeA]

...Macy's, H&M, etc...

H & M
The dress like Euro-trash store




Meh.

[Amelie]

Meh.
What the hell do you all know about fashion in Pennsylvania? :) My uncle drove me through once. I saw a lot of cows. Better coordinated than the girlies. :D

[LukeA]

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh in the west, Philadelphia in the east, Alabama in between.

If you went through the middle of the state, I don't blame ya.

[bdb]

Portland, Oregon is known as "the rose city". Roses grow like freakin' weeds here. Then again, so does nearly everything else.

Its has been called the "beer capital of the USA", and was once called by a beer expert (with the unfortunate name of Michael Jackson) as a candidate for beer capital of the world, due to having more breweries than Cologne, Germany.

Portland has been noted as "the most sustainable city in the USA" by SustainLane.com and the "best bicycling city in the USA" by Bicycling Magazine. Portland was awarded Best Walking City by the health magazine, Prevention, and Outside Magazine calls it a New American Dream Town. Men's Journal picked Portland as its Best Place to Live, partly because of its fantastic music scene.

The nearby Willamette Valley has a booming wine industry, with pinot noir being the signature varietal. There is a growing winery tour industry.

It also boats an awful basketball team that is most noteworty for its criminal record.

Oregon is the largest producer of Christmas trees in the country.

But its a horrible, horrible place, and you do not want to move here! :D

[Kristiano]

Well, these are myths that have sadly perputuated internationally. Some of which are not longer valid:

Caning for vandalism
Fine for littering
Hanging For Drugs
No Chewing Gum
Lots and lots of trees
Insane price for cars

[mjmoonwalker]

Well, these are myths that have sadly perputuated internationally. Some of which are not longer valid:

Caning for vandalism
Fine for littering
Hanging For Drugs
No Chewing Gum
Lots and lots of trees
Insane price for cars

WHAT!??!? YOU MEAN YOU CAN CHEW GUM IN SINGAPORE?!!

[ArtDamage911]

Green, Ohio: rich drug abusing teens!!!

[Amelie]

Fine for littering

Here in the City there is a fine for littering, it just rarely gets enforced.

[pohatu771]

Byron's not known for anything, really, but LeRoy's only 20 miles away, and Jell-o was invented there.

[LukeA]

Is it true that Singapore has a rating system for public restrooms?

I don't remember where I heard that.

[pohatu771]

Manhattan had one of those... it was called George Costanza.

[zenith_kitten]

well, Sydney is known for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Sydney Opera House, the Sydeny Festival and the Sydney Olympics in 2000 :D

[mrdantownsend]

basically, nothing, excepty too many laws

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%2C_NJ

[LukeA]

And I thought my town was white. (85%)

mrdan's is 97%.

[jeza29]

mine is known for money but i'll let you figure out what town that is

hint: its not in california (it seems like most towns known for money are there)

[mjmoonwalker]

mine is known for money but i'll let you figure out what town that is

hint: its not in california (it seems like most towns known for money are there)

Err....how vague...

[ipodphoto30]

mine is known for money but i'll let you figure out what town that is

hint: its not in california (it seems like most towns known for money are there)

Chicago, New York, Las Vegas?

[moe_4eva]

mine is known for the olympics :D

[JMG]

my town is known for movie stars, fake t!ts, fake people, fake tans, exotic cars, the ghetto, illegal aliens, traffic, overpriced real estate, and many many more wonderful things.

[LukeA]

mine is known for the olympics :D
...and polygamy.

[papayaninja]

Fine for littering
Lots and lots of trees

Dear God!!!!! How dare they fine people for littering?! What a backwards society. :p :D

And trees! Not trees! Anything but trees!

Anywho, my town is the birthplace of renowned photographer "Snowflake" Bentley. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley) If you do not know who he is, read the wikipedia entry. Interesting stuff.

We also, though I didn't know this before just reading the Wikipedia entry for my town, have the longest continuously running general store in Vermont. It changes owners semi-often though, and is currently in it's third ownership in 15 years.

[iPotm]

My 'town' is known for many things; shame to say, but I haven't seen a lot of the sites, except for the retail stores, Macy's, H&M, etc...:D. Seriously, though, my mom raised me in museums, so I've visited most of them many times, the Metropolitan, MOMA, Natural History and even the lesser known, like the Transit.

Be sure to check out some babe holding a torch, she's a riot.

[LukeA]

Be sure to check out some babe holding a torch, she's a riot.
And that big gorilla, what's-his-name.

[VipFREAK]

-One of the places in Silicon Valley

Close to Mj here... "Silicon Valley"

[iPotm]

And that big gorilla, what's-his-name.

Schwarzenegger. He lives in California though.

[LukeA]

Schwarzenegger. He lives in California though.
nice.....http://forums.ilounge.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[VipFREAK]

No no... Schwarzinmyass. :rolleyes:

[Macromedia]

Victoria Canada
Rain, flowers, and pot...

[aisx]

mine is known for:

-steve jobs
(NOTE: I am new ^_^ hello all)

[antiditz]

mine is known for the olympics :D

whereas mine is known for not winning last year's 2012 olympics bid...

[iPodBlanc]

My town was featured on ABC's "My Kind of Town" last summer and our local 'Mustard Museum' has been on Food Network several times. :p

[Nickster]

mine is known for:

-steve jobs
(NOTE: I am new ^_^ hello all)


Hey welcome. You have a 0 Posts count that's pretty cool I haven't seen that before.

[andy2808]

Colchester is known for it's status as ''oldest recorded town in britain'' and it's historical background of being the Roman Capital of England.

[Amelie]

whereas mine is known for not winning last year's 2012 olympics bid...
You mean losing last year's bid. ;)

[ThisisCraigP]

davison is know as the city of flags. :p

[lush]

Novi Sad is known as the city of EXIT festival

[JMG]

LA is the city of fake boobs/tans/lips/personalities.

[iLounger]

Irvine is known for it's planned communities.

[kylo4]

Irvine is known for it's planned communities.

Irvine's also known (at least by me) for the hilarious show Pablo Francisco did called Bits & Pieces. That's how I know it. He came out and said "I'm in Irvine." and laughed like Dracula.

[pohatu771]

Byron NY actually has a town named after it- Byron Minnesota... and, unsurprisingly, they've outgrown us...

We are home to (half, anyway) of the three-time New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C volleyball champions.

And then there's the bloody civil war that led to Byron's independence from Bergen... the then-mayor got a papercut from the document.

[samleeper92]

Greenville, SC
Was once the "textile capitol of the world"
All the Pepto-Bismol in the world used to be made here.
The birthplace of Diet-Rite cola
Home of Michelin's North American headquarters
One of the few, if not the only cities in the U.S. with a large waterfall downtown.
Home of Shoeless Joe Jackson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Edwin McCain, Aaron Tippin, Charles Townes (inventor of the Laser), Tour de France cyclist George Hincapie.
Shoeless Joe was born in Pickens County
My town, Greensboro, NC is known for the first sit in in the 60s,
that band Athenaeum, Rick Dee (weekly top 40)
Battle of guilford courthouse, last one before yorktown in 1781
annnd me

[LukeA]

I recently found out that there's a My Chemical Romance song about my town. The song has to do with the movie Dawn of the Dead.

[Derek McNelly]

Center Line, MI

1.7 Square Miles, all land.

4 Gas Stations
1 7-11
8 Liquor Stores
93% White
8,000 Population

[godsmack011]

Travis Tritt lives in mine.

[neb]

Bristol, United Kingdom:


Strong links with the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The S.S. Great Britain resides in one of the docks here. Clifton suspension bridge was another of his projects, and a famous reminder of his influence. He was also the architect for the GWR railway, which provided citizens with an invaluable travel link to London.
Was one of the principle ports involved with the slave trade of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Many of the components for the supersonic jet Concorde were developed and manufactured here. It is the final resting place for the aircraft, and you may pay to visit it.
Was the base for the explorer John Cabot, whom in the latter part of the 15th century undertook a voyage to explore North America.
Is the epicentre for the trip-hop music scene, which emminated in the 1990s. Bands such as Massive Attack and Portishead are from Bristol and composed their songs in the area.
The world famous guerilla artist Banksy is from Bristol. Many of his works can be spotted when walking the streets of this city.
Bristol International Balloon Festival
Edmund Burke was a Member of Parliament for one of Bristol's constituencies. During the 18th century he proposed the system of representative democracy. It is a system which we still use today, as do the majority of democracies across the globe.
The very first Methodist Church was founded in the city by John Wesley.

[toothpaste]

New York City is know for many things, this is a short list

1. never sleeps
2. has over 200 zipcodes (each is a neighborhood)
3. over 170 different languages are spoken here
4. has the best/drinkable tap water anywhere
5. subways smell like pee
6. has many delivery services (rockmyplimsoul will understand ;) )
7. is a concrete jungle that eats up tourists

[CuteLiLIvy55]

I grew up in Sayreville, NJ.. That is where Bon Jovi is from.. and.. thats basically it. Pretty boring. But we're near Seaside.. and NJ is known for drunk teenagers going there..

[toothpaste]

New York City

1. birthplace of hip-hop
2. new life for millions of immigrants.........ellis island back in the day
3. google lives here (111 8th ave corner of 15th street)

[Jacksteruk309]

I come from Glasgow, Scotland, and where to begin! Glasgow's known for so much!

Engineering, especially ship building on the River Clyde. Glasgow used to be the place ships were made, but unfortunately the industry's dying out for many reasons which we won't go into here :-)

Education, two of the best universities in the UK are here, University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. Glasgow has the largest student population in Scotland and the second largest in the UK.

Football/Soccer, two of Europe's best teams come form Glasgow, Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers

Glasgow is the home of Franz Ferdinand, the Fratellis and Amy Macdonald.

Very distinctive accent/dialect, often known as Glasgow Patter, Glesga Patter or just Glaswegian

Glasgow is also currently the front runner for hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Glasgow has the second largest and most economically important retail sector after London.

So, basically a lot of the stuff Glasgow does or has is the second best in the UK, usually after London. Although sometimes Edinburgh beats us too but that's a rare occurrence ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow