WHATS Unique or famous about your hometown
sun rae
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Saturday, 31st of July 2010 11:02:35 AM
My hometown is host toworlds only main street oil well and worlds largest sun rae wax manufacturing plant, also a lot of the city streets are paved out of Registered User brick from the old days and our population is only 1600 people.Clark Gable Joined: Friday, 4th of June 2010, 09:42:04 helped pave some of the brick streets also while he lived here and was Posts: 651 employed by the wax plant.
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Amor
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Sunday, 1st of August 2010 09:40:33 PM
Beer and cheese and sausage. Amor Registered User Joined: Friday, 16th of April 2010, 08:01:01 Posts: 1096 Viewed 9537 times
Dickens
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Monday, 2nd of August 2010 08:11:56 AM
I am from a small town near pittsburgh, whose only long time Dickens claim to fame is the three stooges, who got their start here at a local Registered User park doing live shows through the summer Joined: Wednesday, 2nd of June 2010, 11:01:36 Posts: 1364 Viewed 1963 times
Toe nibbler
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Tuesday, 3rd of August 2010 02:24:12 AM
I've said this on here before but J K Rowling the creator of Toe nibbler Harry Potter novels was born in my home town.Yate, ( same hospital as me). Registered User So I guess that is something to be proud of. Joined: Saturday, 12th of June 2010, 06:18:35 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling. Posts: 1225 Viewed 13082 times It is also believed to be the birthplace of Banksy, the urban artist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
Yate is home to the largest Tumble-Drier manufacturing plant in Europe.
Yate is one of only a handful of places in the world where Celestite can
be mined commercially & the mineral is incorporated into our town coat of
arms.
http://yatetowncouncil.gov.uk/coatofarms.asp
That is all I can think of for now.
Kisses
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Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 02:28:50 PM
My hometown is Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We are famous for 5 Kisses Stanley Cup (Ice Hockey) Championships in 6 years, also hockey legend Mark Registered User Messier, & others like Ryan Smith & Fernando Pisani. The greatest hockey Joined: Thursday, 27th of May 2010, 00:10:30 player that ever lived, Wayne Gretzky, also set the majority of his Posts: 313 records while playing for the Edmonton Oilers. Also our football team Viewed 5993 times (CFL) has only missed the playoffs once in 33 years, holds the record for
most Grey Cup championships, & NFL quarterback Warren Moon (ret.) began
his career there, led our team to a record 5 consecutive Grey Cup
Championships, before he went to the Houston Oilers, & I believe he is in
the NFL hall of fame.
egyptiana
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Thursday, 5th of August 2010 12:37:19 PM
My hometown is Missoula, Montana. While exploring the egyptiana northwest, Lewis & Clark made their way passes through the area. Missoula Registered User is also HQ for the National Forest Service is Smoke Jumpers. For those of Joined: Thursday, 13th of May 2010, 08:39:20 you who don't know, the Smoke Jumpers parachute in to fight wild fires in Posts: 115 remote areas. As well as assist with major forest fires. They are the Viewed 18649 times special forces of firefighting.
BunniCakez
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Friday, 6th of August 2010 01:58:53 AM
Sarasota Florida. We have the John Ringling museum and the BunniCakez Ringling art school. Both founded by John Ringling of the Ringling Registered User Brothers & Clyde Beatty Circus. Joined: Wednesday, 21st of April 2010, 10:10:23 Posts: 556 Viewed 16272 times
teddyboo
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Saturday, 7th of August 2010 02:58:06 AM
Im from Adelaide teddyboo Its the Murder Capital of Australia Registered User (Y) Joined: Wednesday, 28th of April 2010, 04:20:57 Dont I feel safe at night LOL =P Posts: 882 Viewed 10651 times
Katie Babe!~
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Sunday, 8th of August 2010 10:20:44 PM
I am from Perth. I don't know what our city is famous for apart Katie Babe!~ from being the ''dead'' city, but WA is famous currently for the mining Registered User boom that is making our state rich. Joined: Wednesday, 2nd of June 2010, 06:08:29 Posts: 1311 Viewed 3389 times
Snugaroo
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Monday, 9th of August 2010 09:24:14 AM
The view from my deck shows a George Washington crossing, a Snugaroo battle for the freedom of America, and the start of worker is rights and Registered User unionization in America, in addition to a mysterious plane that went down Joined: Thursday, 27th of May 2010, 10:22:26 in the river, never found. I contemplate it all as I look out. Posts: 572 Viewed 14247 times
Beamer
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Tuesday, 10th of August 2010 07:43:30 AM
Gorton is (frozen fish) and the movie The Perfect Storm. Beamer Registered User Joined: Sunday, 6th of June 2010, 09:05:32 Posts: 1054 Viewed 5805 times
Beautiful Baby
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Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 03:57:49 PM
I am from Napier, New Zealand originally, and we are famous for Beautiful Baby our Art Deco buildings and architecture. Registered User Joined: Wednesday, 9th of June 2010, 10:10:54 For those who don't know about Art Deco, it was a style of buildings back Posts: 1072 in the 1930 is - very cool - and people come from miles and miles away to Viewed 2669 times see them. We also have a thing we call Art Deco weekend every year where
everyone dresses up in '30 is clothes and driving all the vintage cars. It
is pretty cool!
Annbelle Lee
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Thursday, 12th of August 2010 07:08:22 AM
im frm chicago ni99a we got our own dances our own style our Annbelle Lee own words and basically we just the sh1t lol Registered User Joined: Tuesday, 1st of June 2010, 00:59:04 Posts: 799 Viewed 10544 times
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