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What's your town known for? - 10/28/2006 10:26:46 PM

Dennis

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Name ONE thing different, off the wall and/or unique about your town you're living in right now, that has something in common with all 50 States.

For example;

Oklahoma City: Parking meters, the first one was invented and installed here.

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/28/2006 11:01:33 PM

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Winnie The Pooh is named after Winnipeg (my home city)!!

Winnipeg Bear, the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, was not actually born in Winnipeg. Instead, Winnipeg Bear was purchased in White River, Ontario, by an officer (Lieutenant Harry Colebourn) of the Fort Garry Horse cavalry regiment en route to his embarkation point for the front lines of World War I. He named the bear after the regiment's home town of Winnipeg. In 1924, on an excursion to the London Zoo with neighbour children, Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A. A. Milne, was introduced to Winnie for the first time.

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/28/2006 11:02:39 PM

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Edison, NJ....Named after Thomas Edison who lived here and invented the incandesant lightbulb. He also invented the phonograph so Edison NJ is the birthplace of recorded sound. In addition to his work with incandescent light and the phonograph, he built the world's first electric railroad in Edison. Pretty cool, too bad I had to look it up online...lol.

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 8:01:17 AM

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KITTANNING PA. Armstrong Co.

Formed March 12, 1800 out of Westmoreland, Allegheny and Lycoming counties. Named for Gen. John Armstrong, who had destroyed the Indian village at Kittanning, 1756. Here, county seat was laid out, 1803, and "Daugherty Visible" typewriter invented in 1881.

Built on the site of a Delaware and Shawnee village.

Filming location for:
· 2002 movie, "The Mothman Prophecies"

( I know it was not that good)

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 10:28:19 AM

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what does this have to do with hummers? we need a special section for this kind o' stuff

Sacramento, CA
first incorporated city in CA, in 1849 at the height of the gold rush. most famous current resident - Conan the Barbarian. you know you've all seen it, so just go ahead and admit to it. personally, one of my favorite movies, i have it on dvd and vhs.

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 10:28:28 AM

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The Metz car http://www.islandneighborhood.org/metz.htm
Waltham Watch
Steam engines
Lally Column
Power steering
Crayola crayons
Plus a lot more

http://www.waltham-community.org/history.html
http://www.crmi.org/index.htm

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 12:51:07 PM

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Clifton Suspension Bridge built by one of the worlds great engineer's Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859)

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 12:54:07 PM

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Gary Grant was born here also!

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 12:55:16 PM

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Another one my favourite bridge!

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 2:06:27 PM

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My home town I moved out of 1 1/2 years ago is Cicero, IL, better known as Al Capone's headquarters, which was about 1 mile down the street from me. It was a bank at the time, then a currency exchange, and now, a mexican clothing store! Go Figure!

We are also known for the Martin Luther King's march in the 60's since it was targetted toward the town specifically.

I don't live anywhere famous now, but where I'm moving to, is known to have the first of many things, including a main staging area for the civil war amry's and all this other "stuff" i forget right now. It also has one of the oldest working railroad stations in the country.

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 6:12:28 PM

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ORIGINAL: blackstangs281

KITTANNING PA. Armstrong Co.

Formed March 12, 1800 out of Westmoreland, Allegheny and Lycoming counties. Named for Gen. John Armstrong, who had destroyed the Indian village at Kittanning, 1756. Here, county seat was laid out, 1803, and "Daugherty Visible" typewriter invented in 1881.

Built on the site of a Delaware and Shawnee village.

Filming location for:
· 2002 movie, "The Mothman Prophecies"

( I know it was not that good)

Really??....I didn't know that...that movie completely freaked me out. Wasn't it suppose to be based on a true story? I don't think your town is too far from me...I'm in Stroudsburg, PA...Monroe County. Guess I should research it and find out something interesting

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 6:26:45 PM

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I used to live in a townhouse when i move out
Cher made a movie there well parts of it called Mermaids
She was three feet from me

AND

Filming location for:
· 1998 movie, "A Civil Action"
· 2000 movie, "State and Main"

Well-known residents have included:
· F. Lee Bailey, lawyer
· Charles J. Precourt, astronaut
· Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 6:34:09 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: H24fun

quote:

ORIGINAL: blackstangs281

KITTANNING PA. Armstrong Co.

Formed March 12, 1800 out of Westmoreland, Allegheny and Lycoming counties. Named for Gen. John Armstrong, who had destroyed the Indian village at Kittanning, 1756. Here, county seat was laid out, 1803, and "Daugherty Visible" typewriter invented in 1881.

Built on the site of a Delaware and Shawnee village.

Filming location for:
· 2002 movie, "The Mothman Prophecies"

( I know it was not that good)

Really??....I didn't know that...that movie completely freaked me out. Wasn't it suppose to be based on a true story? I don't think your town is too far from me...I'm in Stroudsburg, PA...Monroe County. Guess I should research it and find out something interesting

Yea, it was based on a true story from Point Pleasent WV. I guess Kittanning looked like it and they wanted to use the bridge. They shut down traffic for a good while. During the filming, I lived about 1/4 mile away. The red house that the cop lived in was right down the street from my place. A lot of noise and lights.

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/29/2006 11:11:55 PM

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Okay since everyone is presenting more than one example...

Here is another one..

Oklahoma City: The first Shopping cart was invented and used here....Hence the first parking lot door ding

The first shopping cart was introduced on June 4, 1937, the invention of Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Piggly-Wiggly supermarket chain in Oklahoma City. With the assistance of Fred Young, a mechanic, Goldman constructed the first shopping cart, basing his design on that of a wooden folding chair. They built it with a metal frame and added wheels and wire baskets, and advertised the invention as part of a new “No Basket Carrying Plan.”

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RE: What's your town known for? - 10/30/2006 2:23:19 AM

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Prescott was once the capital of Arizona. It should be known as Hummerland (there, it is Hummer related) because of the incredible off roading that it offers. Sedona looks exactly like Moab, plus deep forests, sandy deserts, boulder country, lots of snow, lots of ghost towns and abandoned mining towns. It was just picked as second best place to retire in.
Many auto makers test their new cars here because of the extreme summer heat down south and for extreme cold winter driving up north. It is not uncommon to seethe new models, slightly disgused, driving around in caravans.

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