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Skeld
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Huntsville, AL ...I used to live in Huntsville, back in 1994. I loved it there.
I like it here alot. I've been here ~12 years, so this is home now.
Other places I've lived:
Mayfield, KY & Murray, KY - my hometown & college town, respectively.
Los Alamos, NM - Birthplace of the atomic bomb.
Syracuse, NY - Home of the Orangemen.
Tucson, AZ - Home of unholy heat (but I contend that summers here in the South feel much hotter).
-Skeld
Carletonville has uranium too. It just pales next to the gold....
Why is it that mining towns have such a problem with Paedophilia and violence? Is it the reality that the Mining company has great sway over the local government (is the unelected local government) and they notoriously employ the worst kind of animals?
Warendorf is best known for horses and horse-athletes (more than one of the riders of the german olympic team are from Warendorf). Also, this town came through WW2 almost intact (as one of the few towns of any size in Westphalia) thus people interested in historical architecture know the town for well kept buildings from several epochs. One of the towns shools is older then 670 Years making it one of the oldest gymnasiums (german shool form roughly equivalent to college preparatory high schools) in the region. The "suburb" Freckenhorst where I live has the oldest baptismal font of northern germany (carved from one piece of rock).
The nearby city of Münster where I visit the university and generally spent most of my time ist known for being the city where the peace of westphalia was signed, ending the thirty year's war in europe.
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Location of one of the first gold rushes back in the colonial days.
Currently, it is the corporate headquarters for several of the largest U.S. banks, including Bank of Amerioa and Wachovia.
It has also tried to establish itself as the center of NASCAR. Lowe's Motor Speedway is loacted here along with the shops of most of the major race teams. They are also currently breaking ground on the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Museum.
It is home to the US Whitewater Training center, a big articfical river (complete with waterfalls and rapids) for training olympic-level kayakers.
The Carolina Panthers play here at (*shock*) Bank of America Stadium.
We also have the Charlotte Bobcats NBA franchise.
Despite all this, Charlotte is a city with multiple personality disorder. There are several old money families, a lot of new money families who have moved her from the North and West Coast, and a lot of regular everyday folk who moved here for jobs. We also have very large population of illegal immigrants, drawn here by construction jobs and the ridiculous ease of obtaining a North Carolina Driver's License.
That being said, there's no such thing as a typical Charlottean. I was born here, and I rarely encounter anyone else my age (35) or older who claims the same.
My home town, Moab, Utah, was known as the uranium capital of the world. Then in the mid-eighties, the uranium business went bust and about ever other house on the street was empty because so many people left to work in the mines in Nevada. I can't say that I blame them considering that the options to stay there were to work for $3.35 an hour in a restaurant, a hotel or a super market.
Now, it is known for mountain biking, tourism, and housing so expensive that most of the locals (who work in the town's hotels and restaurants) can't afford to get by. It is also known for alcoholism, inbreeding and crystal meth addition too.
Nice to see another Utard on the boards.
Carletonville has uranium too. It just pales next to the gold....
Why is it that mining towns have such a problem with Paedophilia and violence? Is it the reality that the Mining company has great sway over the local government (is the unelected local government) and they notoriously employ the worst kind of animals?
Hey! You leave Diamond Lake alone!
We don't have no problem with it.
Them's the reasons ah came here!
...errr...
Los Angeles, CA.
We have millions of people, bad traffic, smog, plenty of sunshine, plenty of crime, the LAPD, and still no NFL team.
But we do have USC football :) and UCLA football :(
Thats where Im from! Representing the Glendale! Moved into Inglewood and then into Hawthorne when I was a wee tyke then we got the hell outta there. My sister was born just a few blocks from Crenshaw Boulevard (west side!!)
LA has the Rainbow and Whiskey and the Forum and the Hollywood Palladium and Hollywood Bowl and Griffith Park and Magic Mountain and friggin Disney!
Thats where Im from! Representing the Glendale! Moved into Inglewood and then into Hawthorne when I was a wee tyke then we got the hell outta there. My sister was born just a few blocks from Crenshaw Boulevard (west side!!)
Small world, dude. I grew up in Gardena. My parents still live in Torrance, in the corner made by Crenshaw Blvd and the 91. I even went to El Camino College for a few years and then ran away screaming.
<.< >.> I ain't never goin' back tho. Tired of the oil refinery blowing up.
Patrick Curtin
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Battles Case Subscriber)
Oh yeah. Sandwich (my town) was also home to the creator of Peter Rabbit, the children's novelist Thornton Burgess, a dedicated conservationist.
Shelton, CT is the home of the only Wiffle Ball factory in the world and is the town of its birth. The nearby town of Stratford is the home of Sikorsky Aircraft, manufacturer of the Black Hawk helicopter.
Shelton also has a champion little league team this year, from what I'm told.
My best friend was born in Stratford, and his father worked at the Sikorsky plant for something like fifteen or twenty years. The same friend's sister lives in Shelton. Small country, eh?
Carletonville, South Africa.
Alcoholism.
Child abuse.
Family murder-suicides.
Mining accidents.
Losing a hospital in a sinkhole.
Richest gold mines in the world.
Swap gold for graphite, then close the mines, and that could be my town. And our hospital didn't fall into a sinkhole, it burned down. Still...
"Howdy folks, welcome ta Dee eF Dubbya..." (ZZ Top/Big Tex voice). Yeah, I figured only locals would know Deep Ellum and the Cotton Bowl is not, alas, what it once was, but both worth mentions, thanks Ubermensch. Shouldn't have left out The State Fair of Texas or the TX-OU game either.
It's been a little over 10 years since I was paid to leave Texas, the only good thing Junior Bush ever did for me, so I wasn't sure if they took a xanix stick to deep ellem and turned it in a copy of west downtown.
I was born in Syracuse, NY, notable for being the home of both Syracuse University and the University of Syracuse, as well as the ever-expanding Carousel Mall.
I also lived for seven years in Erie, Pennsylvania. Erie is probably the most divided town I've seen- there was the *good* half, home of the now defunct International Paper mill, modern art sculptures, the historic waterfront district, and Hamot Hospital. Then, there was the *bad* half, home of housing projects, the General Electric plant, crappy parks, and abandoned warehouses. IP and GE also had two of the most violent labor unions in western Pennsylvania. When they weren't striking, they were rioting; usually in Sharks V. Jets -style gang fights against each other. Many a Molotov cocktail rolled down Main Street in those days.
More about Ticonderoga, NY:
- Ticonderoga High School has the highest dropout rate (25%) in the north country, yet was ranked in the top 2% of high schools in the nation by U.S. News.
- Population (winter): 2,100
- Population (summer): 6,500, approximately half from New Jersey
- Population steadily declining as local businesses close. Also has the highest unemployment rate in the county.
- At least twelve fatal car accidents per year.
- 15% of high school students enter the military after graduating.
- New Deal-style road crews are on the town payroll only to provide them with employment. They don't actually do anything. (For example, I once watched a street sweeper park his still running vehicle in the middle of an intersection and enter a bar).
- High instances of divorce, alcoholism, child abuse, teen pregnancy, and general ignorance.
- Nearly as many fundamentalist Christians per square mile as Kansas.
I'm from Henniker, NH: The only one on Earth. That's right, there is no other town on the entire planet that shares our town name. While I don't think that warrants a wiki page, we have one nonetheless. There is nothing special about Henniker, but we do have our own ski-slope and college.
I was born in Washington DC, which I think most people are familiar with. Still, I get annoyed when I have to fill in "State of Birth" in any paperwork.
I grew up in Woodbridge, VA. Which has Leesylvania, a small state park in my old neighborhood that has a few interesting pieces of history from the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. It's also where "Light Horse" Henry Lee's parents are buried.
The only thing it has is Potomac Mills Mall, which, for a long time, was one of the largest outlet malls on the East Coast. It was a major tourist attraction for a long time because of that.
Hildesheim, Germany, is a diocese since 815. Today it is known for the St. Mary´s Cathedral and St. Michael´s church, both listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Both churches had been built in their current form shortly after 1000 AD, and have been reconstructed after WW2. They contain medieval artwork of great importance, like the great bronze doors commisioned by bishop Bernward around 1000 AD as well.
In the first weeks in august, there is the Mera Luna festival, one of Europes most important wave and gothic festivals (IIRC, about 20000 people come here every year).
The Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, with has an egyptian collection on par with the worlds foremost egyptian museums. Some exhibitions have been shown here and in museums in London, Paris, New York and Cairo.
Stefan
"Howdy folks, welcome ta Dee eF Dubbya..." (ZZ Top/Big Tex voice). Yeah, I figured only locals would know Deep Ellum and the Cotton Bowl is not, alas, what it once was, but both worth mentions, thanks Ubermensch. Shouldn't have left out The State Fair of Texas or the TX-OU game either.It's been a little over 10 years since I was paid to leave Texas, the only good thing Junior Bush ever did for me, so I wasn't sure if they took a xanix stick to deep ellem and turned it in a copy of west downtown.
Nah, Deep Ellum is still weird.
Brattleboro, VT is largely known for being in the Top 10 Small Arts Towns in the country, as well as getting national coverage on Dr. Phil when people make use of our somewhat clothing-optional bylaws, and getting national coverage on Wolf Blitzer when we passed an ordinance requiring that the local police department arrest George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes should they ever set foot in our town.
Heh, I love my town.
depends on your definition of "your town" --
My birth town is Killeen, known mostly for Fort Hood.
My "home" town is Starlight PA... known for a summer camp and not much else (other than the fact that it's in the woods with the bears... who most likely outnumber the people).
My "residence" town could be either Amherst (where I grew up) known for it's founder, lord jeffery Amherst, who gave smallpox laden blankets to the Native Americans to cull their numbers (yeah, great thing to be known for, I know) or alternatively as the home of UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the state university system.
Otherwise it would be Chicopee (Where I actually live) ... which is not really known for much of anything (Unless you are a fan of utopian fiction, in which case the author of "Looking Backward" lived here.
- Ashavan