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by teknimage on December 31st, 2006
- Chicken Wings
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Ani DiFranco
- Frank Lloyd Wright houses (a few)
- Rick James (born here)
- Millard Fillmore (born here)
- William McKinley (shot here)
- 1901 Pan-Am Exposition (where hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls lit up a city for the first time with thousands and thousands of Thomas Edison's new light bulbs by using Nikola Tesla's new invention, alternating current)
- World's Largest Disco (an annual party)
(The last one... maybe not so famous... and maybe should not have been mentioned... kinda embarrassing.)
by Jodie44 on January 5th, 2007
Memphis. Elvis. BB King.
by ... on December 31st, 2006
Yeah...fraid so....Bill Clinton!
by travis bickle on January 4th, 2007
Garland, Texas is based after the town of Arlen in the TV series King of the Hill.
by BobSaccamano-is-back on December 31st, 2006
right outside city limits there is a billboard: Home town of the infamous AnswerBagger, BobSaccamano
by LynfromNM on December 31st, 2006
The only thing that comes to mind is the International Balloon Fiesta every fall (Albuquerque).
by Joe-Speedy on December 31st, 2006
Brantford Ontario. Home of the great Wayne Gretski and homestead to Alexander graham Bell.
Ashincalgary: Hehe, I'm in Edmonton and was going to use the Gretski thing too lol
Joe-Speedy: Edmonton has the Klondike Days festival. You don't need Wayne.
by Darryl61 on January 4th, 2007
Though I currently reside in Oregon, my hometown is Detroit Michigan. Is it famous for anything? I would say so. Known as the motor city for the past 60 or so years, the home of Motown, Ted Nugent and Bob Seger.
by Nom de guerre on January 5th, 2007
Elvis Presley.
BBQ.
The Blues.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by themisterF on January 5th, 2007
Boston, MA. Famous for the Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and the Revolutionary War as well as many other things.
by glamorgirli on December 31st, 2006
Garden City Michigan---Has the first ever K-mart, and The fist Little Caesars is right down the street from me!
by tinybubbles is sitting on the carpet read on January 5th, 2007
we are famous for the world championship dog sled races in northern manitoba,racers form all over the world come here.
by Littlemisswallflower on January 5th, 2007
You tell me.
The Steelers are from here (though I personally don't care much about football)
We're nicknamed the Steel City or something silly like that
ummm... I think theirs something else but I can't remeber it right now. Do you know where I live??
by BenjaminMiller on January 5th, 2007
We are known as the town that created chicken wings.
by Stableboy on January 5th, 2007
Richard Nixon is buried here in Yorba Linda, CA. That's it. We're all white bread and generic without this bit of sizzle.
by Simply msFortunate on January 5th, 2007
Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Former world record holder for the most lit Jack-O-Lanterns in one place, up until this past year, when Boston obliterated us. Which seems unfair, as Boston has about 15x the population of my little town...
by sleepy kitty on January 4th, 2007
my town is named after a colour of clay. Terra Cotta
by Azraff on December 31st, 2006
The headquarters for Goodyear (we were called the Rubber City) The Goodyear Blimp or airship. The Firestone Golf Tournament. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Devo, Lebron James, Quaker Oats and a center for Polymer Science.
by shellscat on December 31st, 2006
I live in Georgetown Ohio which is where president Ulysses Grant spent his boyhood years and attended school. You can tour his home and the schoolhouse he attended.
by Carmella on December 31st, 2006
The Beatles and the Albert Dock. Plus we have two football teams, who I'm told are rather good.
by Anonymous on December 31st, 2006
It was the home of Tone's spices and also was the place where the first comfortable dental chair was invented by John Naughton, called, "The Dental-Ease" chair. Also Cloris Leachman (Mary Tyler Moore Show) and 2-3 other celebrities were born here.
by Damiana on December 31st, 2006
The San Antonio Spurs Basketball Team.
Go Spurs Go!
by Anonymous on January 6th, 2007
Rochester, NY. It's where Susan B. Anthony lived.
Also, Kodak.
by AntigoneRising on January 5th, 2007
Whole hog sausage. On a better note, my high school had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the country. We were featured on 20/20. I've got pride running ALL through me.
by Wendora on January 5th, 2007
Yeah, it has a rehabilitation hospital named after a famous stage actress.
by Inspector Javert on January 5th, 2007
Yep.
Washington, D.C. It's famous for alot of things, like being our nations capital, the Washington Monument's there, as... well, alot of other stuff.
by JaiyneFortune on January 5th, 2007
My hometown (Steelville, Missouri) was once known as the floating capital of the United States. There are many rivers/creeks where campgrounds and canoes are plenty. Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs also visited Steelville, MO on the show to work at the local charcoal plant.
I now live in Abilene, Kansas. We are famous for having the National Grey Hound Hall of Fame.
by VOD on January 5th, 2007
The HOME of Country Music and the Grand Ol' Opry!
OHOHOHOH! GooGoo candies.The Titans.Congressman Frist
by hemiman on January 5th, 2007
Our hometown of Bowie, Texas,(Montague County), was named after a famous frontiersman and soldier of the Alamo. James Bowie or Jim Bowie, as he is often called. His brother is actually the person that made the famous Bowie knife for James. And that design was taken from another knife. So the famous Bowie knife design has been around longer than old James would have had us believe. James Bowie did fight at the Alamo, however, he was mostly laid up with pneumonia at the time. In fact, I think he was in his bed when the Mexicans entered the fort and dispatched all the fighters. Sorry about the second picture, you may have to click on that one.
by Redhawk on January 5th, 2007
San Diego....Beautiful Weather...almost all of the time. San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park (considered THE ZOO to emulate by most other zoos in the world.)
by tomsims on January 5th, 2007
Richmond, Virginia - famous for many things: Patrick Henry' "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech, tobaco, seat of the Confederacy, burned by Lee to keep it from Grant, home and final resting place of Presidents and other famous people - just to name a few things.
by Perryman on January 5th, 2007
Yes, it is known worldwide as "The City of Brotherly Love".
by Mrs.mezzo is a Wagnerian soprano on January 5th, 2007
The William Kennedy Smith rape trial, Donald Trump's latest sham marriage, lets see what else? Oh yeah Henry Flagler lived there and built large hotels which you can usually see pictures of on the Travel Channel.
by shopaholic on January 4th, 2007
I live in Coffs Harbour Australia and its famous for..... The BIG Banana!!!! how sads that?
Check it out, www.bigbanana.com
by TaoZen on January 4th, 2007
Giant Portland Cement
by FreshApples on January 4th, 2007
Oh yeah, The Edgar Northcentral Steam Engine show-largest in the world! It is awesome! 43rd annual was last year, i served ice cream [yum]
by jangobean on December 31st, 2006
My town is famous for being 'The Home of the Tubular Bandage'.
by Lydia on December 31st, 2006
Livingston, Scotland, UK known for having the only McAurthur Glen in Scotland, big outlet shopping centre. Also the biggest ASDA-Walmart Supercentre in Scotland. People come from all around to visit these...My flat mates in uni (the irish ones) know about my town because they have trips visiting them.
by Dregnan on December 31st, 2006
Thomas A. Edison purchased or acquired rights to 145 old mines in the east and established a large pilot plant at the Ogden mine, near Ogdensburg, N.J.
by scubabob on February 28th, 2007
This has been buried so deep, I doubt it'll be read. My home town is Lloydtown, Ontario. We have the dubious distinction of being the home base and home town for the rebels in the first rebellion in Canada, known as the 1837 Rebellion. Many of my local pals are descendants of the original rebels, including the Lloyd family, descended from Jese Lloyd, one of the ring leaders and the name behind the town.
For more information on the rebellion http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/rebellions/index.html
Edit: As of last week, I can add an important thing here. An Olympic Gold and a Silver medal. Eric Lamaze won both. Silver in the team equestrian event and gold in the individual. Way to go Eric!!!! Congrats and..beer is on me when you get back.
by kitty loves you on January 5th, 2007
Robin Hood and Nottingham lace
by ptrask on January 5th, 2007
I'm not sure that the town is FAMOUS for this, but it is the location where the movie The Witches of Eastwick was shot. A few stories about that...
When Jack Nicholson goes running out the front door of Cher's store, takes a right and goes up a hill, he ends up on the town Common with a little duck pond and a big white church in the middle. In reality, if you took a right out of that building (Cards and Shards Gift Shop) you are actually heading in the opposite direction from the town Common. When they filmed that scene, the sun was in the wrong place for them to show him going left towards the Common.
I watched them film the scene where he comes around a corner in the black Mercedes and runs off the road as he is approaching a stone bridge. They had an iron rail set up on the side of the road that was hidden by shrubbery, that the car would ride up on to make it appear to "bounce" off the rocks. They shot that scene 15 times before they had it right. Every time they shot the scene, it would rip the side off the Mercedes and they would tow it back to the Sandy Beach parking lot, where they had a mobile auto-body shop that would fix the car up to like-new condition in about 20 minutes.
When Jack goes into the hardware store, all of the goods in the store were rented by the movie company from my brother's tackle shop. In one scene in the store, you can see a hat on a shelf behind the proprietor that says Trask Tackle on it. (You have to have a good quality VCR with freeze-frame to actually read the hat!)
by Lukezor on January 5th, 2007
Mark Twain and Norman Baker, he claimed he had a cure for cancer and actually did a live surgery where he removed a mans scalp and top of his skull while the man was still awake.
by dhervin on January 5th, 2007
We have the Largest JR Cigar Outlet in the World (I've been in there once maybe) and Kit Carson's parents are buried in my church's cemetery.
by munchkin_kids_downunder on January 5th, 2007
sydney is famous for several things, the harbour bridge, the opera house and even the 2000 olympic games, plus many more.
by Beezyboo on January 5th, 2007
umm.. the hopewell cape rocks. its said to be a place where you can see some of the worlds highest tides
by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on January 5th, 2007
Nope. My town is so small that people drive right through it without even knowing it. Hell, I grew up 20 miles away and didn't know this town existed until I moved here!
by Alaskacatalog on January 5th, 2007
Salmon capitol of the world. Alaska's first city (Gateway to Alaska). The Blueberry Festival. Home of Ray Troll and Terry Pyles (major artists). Home of the world's largest Totem Pole Park (Saxman). And finally, more Totems than anywhere else on Earth (they are everywhere). ____________________________________ Using the laptop, no pics in here, but go to Alaskacatalog.com (in progress), and see some stuff.
by Munyi89 on December 31st, 2006
Being the most boring place in the world maybe.
by Omegacrep on December 31st, 2006
It's the home of headquarters for EDS, JCPenney, Frito Lay, Dr. Pepper 7up. It's home to Chuck Norris, Troy Aikman, and Ross Perot.
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Where are you right now? home,work,friend's house,shower;) lol cafe,park??? Well maybe not a park.Make it interesting;)
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I gave you 3 points for the Disco. Everyone didn't hate it. Just ppl that can't dance. Now it's back, and they call it "Dance Music".
by Alaskacatalog on January 5th, 2007
Yes Buffalo. I understand that there is some nice redevelopment going on there now as a December NY Times article detailed.
by Perryman on January 5th, 2007
Yeah. It's been ongoing since 1901. LOL There has been so much apathy and political nepotism here that nothing much has ever really happened yet. But, we have a new mayor and I have high hopes. It's actually chock-full of undervalued real estate, if anyone would be interested. :)
by teknimage on January 5th, 2007
I had the wings at the Anchor Bar. I think they have since been improved upon. Do you hang out on Chippewah street? (My old company's corporate headquarters is in the Knox mansion on Delaware.)
by AntigoneRising on January 5th, 2007
Cool! You know what the biggest lie is? That the Anchor Bar created chicken wings. They really came from a soulfood restaurant on Buffalo's East Side, which is a predominantly black community. They came up with them one year during a blizzard, when delivery trucks couldn't get into the city. They simply took the discarded parts of the chickens they used to fry and viola! Chicken Wings. The Anchor Bar just seized on this idea and popularized it, and they're far from the best wings I've ever had. I've been to a few parties at the Knox mansion, can you believe people used to live like that! Buffalo used to have LOTS of money. Anyway, Chippewa was never really my style. There's a few groovy restaurants there, like The Calumet, but it's really a straight, college strip of bars and clubs. Not bad, just what me and my friends used to affectionately call, "rabidly heterosexual". That being said, I've stumbled along that street more times than I can remember. :)
by teknimage on January 6th, 2007
It has been a few years. I went to a place with a sky bar, the Zoo, etc. I was at some other bar that was mostly techno and gay. At least gay guys can dance. The one that I wouldn't enter was "The Sanctuary"...that mural scared the bejeezus out of me. I spent a lot of time eating at Coulter Bay across from the Holiday Inn on Delaware.
by AntigoneRising on January 6th, 2007
Wow! That HAS been a few years! The Sanctuary closed shortly after it opened, but the mural somehow remained up for about 2 more years. Sky Bar was pretty cool. That's mostly gone now. A few of the floors are still open, I think, but I don't think the roof bar is. And ZooBar is also gone. I can't remember what replaced it, but it had been owned by a company that also owned ZooBars in Toronto, NYC and Miami. Coulter Bay has good salads and sandwiches! LOL The gay bar you went to must have been Club Marcella. It's almost a Buffalo institution! It's been around for years and is about as popular as a gay dance club as it is for its weekly drag shows, when it gets more straight folk than gay. Just like "The Birdcage".
by teknimage on January 6th, 2007
Yay, Ani Difranco!
by anonymous on January 8th, 2007
Pres. Mckinley showed up twice here! He was born in my home town, Canton, Ohio
by mike blair on January 8th, 2007
Yeah, um... Ahem. On behalf of the citizens of the great City of Buffalo, I'm sorry for allowing him to get shot.
by teknimage on January 8th, 2007
Frank Lloyd Wright - A few houses.....
A few very important (architecturally) houses
by pcorr99 on June 13th, 2007
We also have the national landmark, Pano's!
by Veritas cant turn down a woman in red on January 22nd, 2008