Is your hometown known for anything?

[TheBigB9]

Read the subject! Is your hometown known for anything or did something kinda cool happen thats worth sharing? Like a historical event, somebody well known getting born there, etc.

Just a random thread, the most embarassing thing about your hometown thread got me curious.

 

[Julianking93]

Pretty sure this was done the other day but......

I live in Tennessee. It's known for 2 things; racism and intolerance.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

umm a couple prime ministers were born in brisbane.... thats about it, nothing really much worth sharing, its a real small town

 

[Shock and Awe]

Robins Air Force Base, location of Air Force Material Command, and US Air Force Reserve Command.

 

[nico74]

Umm the assassination of JFK.

 

[blubbyblubbyblub]

i am born in my nations capital man Stockholm Sweden man

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I don't live in a town, but the nearest one used to make whips, for horses. Yay?

 

[rob47]

Well my hometown used to be the world centre for linoleum that plasticky stuff you put on kitchen floors. It's Staines, Middlesex in the UK.

 

[demoman_chaos]

3 things:
An author, a fat chick on a boat and Colonel Potter from MASH (author being Sam Clemens, aka Mark Twain and his book Tom Sawyer, fat chick being Molly Brown that was on the Titanic).

 

[Good morning blues]

The 2010 Olympics, I guess.

 

[TheStickman]

I think a member of Toto is from here.

EDIT: Ted Lyons is from here also.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

We were once a dairy queen town, people were close and happy. Then the town sold out....so we are sell out capital!

 

[-Samurai-]

John Denver wrote a song called "Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio". It's a song about how boring it is here in Toledo.

 

[Joe Matsuda]

Lilac capital of the world...

...and I think the unibomber used to live here...

thats about it

 

[hottsaucekid]

The Worlds Largest Horseshoe Crab!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/12731

Actually pretty cool for such a small town.

 

[Sacman]

Pretty sure this was done the other day but......

I live in Tennessee. It's known for 2 things; racism and intolerance.

really I was in Tennessee a few weeks ago visiting family...
OT: I live in Sacramento it's sort of the capital of California...

 

[Macgyvercas]

I'm in Erie, Pennsylvania. During the War of 1812, the British seized Lake Erie. A fleet was built to meet the threat. Long story short, the American fleet completely thrashed the British and captured 2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813.

The point of all this is that the ships of the American fleet (5 schooners, 3 brigs, 1 sloop) were built here in Erie. Erie also served as a naval base during the war.

 

[gostchiken]

One of Chris Farley's last movies "Almost Heroes" was filmed in my hometown of Cottonwood CA.

 

[AfterAscon]

A couple of famous football players are from my hometown, including Bobby and Jackie Charlton (they won the world cup in 1966) and Jackie Milburn (Newcastle United legend). There are several others, bit none are as notable.

 

[Naheal]

Obama stopped here on the campaign trail a couple years back and we gave him a box of peaches. Last year, he stopped by during our peach harvest to talk about something... apparently, he had folks out picking peaches for him at the time, too.