Post a picture of something your town or city is known for. Let’s see what you’ve got. I live in Dallas so I’ll post probably the one of the most obvious answers:
FW is a good place to live. If you know people or have the means to meet them.
It’s not really a “tourist” or “visitor” place, tho some nice things make the guidebooks.
{Tho the single-person or young-person nightlife is better in D. More fluid. Easier to meet people.}
The art museums in FW are most worthy.
Excellent ballet.
There is a big rodeo. Lots of horse events.
We get the bennies of D without the traffic.
(we can often get to most of the notable attractions over there [east of 360] as quickly or even more quickly than someone who lives in Dallas or Collin countries can get to them).
My first reaction was to look up images of meth heads but after doing so, I thought it in bad humor and refrained from putting that. We aren’t known for anything really. Daniel Boone let a horse go nearby. Tom Dooley (Dula) was captured here. I guess the nature is the only thing we really have going for us.
Don’t know how to post a pic but it would just be trees anyway. There’s nothing here. A gas station and a tiny PO. I’m at the edge of a Nat’l Forest in N. Alabama. No neighbors or anything. A satellite view shows a tiny reddish dot for my roof then nothing but trees.
@medz Yep… I live near what’s called the Sipsey Wilderness area of Bankhead Forest. It’s where hundreds of Indians hid out when they were rounding them up for the reservations and most were never found it’s so dense. If you hike in there now you’ll find their carving messages to one another on the trees. If you hike a few miles in there are beautiful falls, creeks and there’s a tree that takes about 8-10 men with their arms spread out to surround the trunk. It is pretty cool but if you don’t know the place or hire a guide, you may not find your way out for a few days for real.
@RiotDemon Funny how that basically describes my town except we’re about 90% white, 4% Asian, 3% black, 3% whatever . I live across from a fancy golf course, closer to the mansiony side of town, though I don’t live in one.
@cinoclav I live in a regular neighborhood. Behind my backyard is a wall for a HOA development. The price of the houses more than doubles. That’s not even the most expensive part yet.
I forgot I was supposed to add a photo. Let’s try:
Edit: forget it. Just keep getting photos of trump.
Wichita is not known for a whole lot – it’s kind of boring here. But here’s a lip syncing video that our police department did. There’s a lot of nice views of Wichita in it.
Hometown, not current town. The slash image selection sucks! Current town is pretty good considering its stuck in illannoy, but not really best known for anything.
@Targaryen Cool! I’m definitely closer to Simsboro than NOLA. If your shipmate is on 97.7 he probably knows a friend of mine who was/is on there all the time covering MMA.
@pitamuffin I mean, we are kind of known for that. But Horseshoes and Lincoln come first. It’s weird to have lived in both cities that claim to have invented the corn dog. Shoot. That’s probably good enough to be its own forum topic.
@cattylaq I lived in Xenia for about 5 years, 99’-04’ stationed at Wright Patterson AFB. I lived on Vermont Ave. Used to ride my bike from Xenia to Yellow Springs on the old train tracks converted to bicycle trails. That was awesome!
This is Jacksonville FL. The idiot who ran around inside a convenience store carrying a live gator is only the latest. On the good side, we brag about Ray Charles, Pat Boone, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, Limp Bizkit, and several others.
/image Lynyrd Skynyrd
/image Molly Hatchet
Huh, my town is probably mostly known for horrible rich people (well, rich enough to be horrible) and John Hughes movies. Let’s see:
/image Ferris Bueller glass house
That looks right. And really reminds me of the library from that angle.
Lima, Ohio.
it’s…ok…
known for? not much lately…
Red Seat of a Red County. Many, if not most of the folks here drank the “orange-aid” if you catch me…
Home to an oil Refinery(Currently owned by the Canadians - Husky), makes 25% of the gas sold in Ohio.
we had an oil strike back in the 18-somethings,(after PA, but before TX.) First place they ran into Sour(Sulfurous) Crude, the local refinery was where they figured our how to refine sour crude into usable products. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=22961
we have a Ford Engine plant that was put up to make the MEL v8’s for Edsel’s, and such(Mercury, Edsel, Lincoln)
went on to make lots of different lines over the years, Currently The FWD 3.5l V6, and it’s 3.3 &3.7L Variants, and the 2.7&3.0L Ecoboost V6.(RWD 3.3,3.5,3.7, and Ecoboost 3.5 made in Cleveland.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Engine
across the Road from there is a Dana Facility,making Spicer Driveshafts.
in the surrounding region there are tons of small factories pumping out parts for mostly Honda…
we have a Locally owned University that is growing by leaps and bounds on it’s automotive, and Motorsports program.(If you’ve watched any sort of race in the US over the last several years, you’ve seen their logo on firesuits, on cars, on billboards, etc. University of Northwestern OHio, UNOH.(they added the H to probably at the behest of whoever owns the rights to the card game UNO, and to avoid confusion with another local College, Ohio Northern University, ONU.) UNOH.edu
Proctor & Gamble have their Main Laundry Bottling plant here. If you’ve purchased a P&G Liquid Laundry product(Tide, Gain, Downy, etc) in the Lower 48, there’s a better than 95% probability it was Bottled in Lima
we are also the Retail hub for the surrounding 5 counties, which are mostly rural Farmland…
and oh yeah, Remember the TV show GLEE? it was set in a fantasy version of Lima. basically Lima in name only.
OH! and lest i forget, we had a brush with infamy with John Dillinger. his gang Robbed a bank in nearby Bluffton, Ohio. Dillinger and an accomplice were arrested and jailed in Lima(the County Seat). A Few days Later, other members of his crew Killed the Sheriff and busted him out. (whole incident Skipped over in the 2009 Johnny Depp Movie “Public Enemies”)
Exhibit at the County Museum:
This photo of Allen County Museum is courtesy of TripAdvisor
@Limewater New Mexico and it is the largest hot air balloon festival in America and maybe the world. This one bills itself as the largest hot air and music festival in North America. Music being the differentiator!
@Limewater@readnj Albuquerque reporting in here. I totally forgot about the Balloon Festival. It happens once a year and really is great. The rest of the year Albuquerque is best known for the place where you get everything stolen; car, truck, trailer, life, from the hotel parking lot when you stop here for the night. Oh, and we’re known for wasting close to $100M on the ART (Albuquerque Rapid Transit) that basically provides nothing to no one except homeless transients who use the bus stations to urinate and shoot drugs. The buses don’t even work and no one has been allowed to ride on them. The construction of the bus line down Central Ave (Route 66) drove many businesses to bankruptcy and only provided more opportunities for criminal element to prosper. Your federal tax dollars paid for it all though, so you can rest better knowing your hard earned money is being squandered by corrupt city government. I bet this kind of thing is happening all over America. The preceding message is not sanctioned or endorsed by the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.
@Limewater You’re right! Bugs Bunny should have made a left turn at Albakurkee! Coming from Los Angeles a left turn at Albuquerque would have taken Bugs to Santa Fe where Chuck Jones lived for many years. Thanks for bringing me back from the negative place I was dwelling. Of course it’s Bugs Bunny!
@readnj I went this year and got to see the mass ascension on Saturday night. I still need to figure out the camera on my new phone so I didn’t get any pictures.
@looseneck I’m on a regular local balloon crew and this year the weather was amazing ! We got five out of six flights in. The only one we missed was Friday night and there was no question that was going to cancel!
@readnj My friend is on the catch crew for Remax and her daughter took lessons to fly the balloon. I’ve never been up in one unfortunately. Maybe one day…
If a “town” can be a place that has a grocery store and a gas station, then I’m about 14 miles from the nearest one. It’s mostly known for being the place that people around here go to get gas and groceries.
The town I grew up in is known for arts festivals, biker rallies, and Christmas lights. About a year from now, I suspect that it will be known for some really bizarre murders. HBO just wrapped up filming for season 3 of True Detective.
Guess the town that I actually live in isn’t known for a whole lot. Being just outside of Philly, there are some historical properties. Brendan Hansen (Olympic swimmer) is from here. Swell bubble gum and El Bubble bubble gum cigars began and were produced here for decades.
However, the big city that I’m next to has a bit more going for it. Philly really is a great city.
My town is known for being in 3 counties and having a school district that is in 5 counties. (As a result of the 3-county thing, I once got a jury summons for a county I don’t live in.)
The fourth largest rodeo in North America: The Pendleton Round-Up and an pretty well know textiles manufacturer: The Pendleton Woolen Mills. Not necessarily proud nor ashamed if either.
All out-of-towners when visiting my home town of Fargo, North Dakota, must go downtown and take a picture in front of the Fargo Theatre! Here’s Josh Duhamel (North Dakota Native)…
Also, probably most known for our NDSU BISON!! EPSN College Gameday said “This is what college football is all about!!”
@tohar1 I feel like I comment every time you post this, but it is amazing how well NDSU fans travel. The championship game is played here, in Frisco, Texas, and NDSU fans take over the city, the area, and they bring their wallets with them. It’s really awesome.
That said, I’m an Indiana State grad and someday we will beat you.
@ChadP What’s the old saying…“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”? I’m afraid that a Sycamore is no match for a Bison, unless the tree dies, falls over and smashes the animal in the head…so yeah, I guess anything is possible! #SmackTalk
@rtjhnstn I lived in Milwaukee in the 90’s. I actually worked at Briggs and Stratton. I use to love the bar they had in the schlitz building. I lived on Downer Ave.? , and in Shorewood. I miss Summerfest, Bastille days, fish fry’s, and gyros late at night.
I’m not really sure what, if anything, Garland is known for but my hometown, Wylie, is known for a few things.
Known as Wide-Awake Wylie since the 40’s. It was where all the “wild” parties happened at that time. Shops stayed open until midnight! When I grew up there the most happening hangout spot was Sonic so I guess times changed lol
It was well known for a while for an axe murder that happened there in the 80’s. A woman killed another woman who was having an affair with her husband. The book and movie Evidence of Love is based on it.
For some odd reason one of the best known things from this small town is a now defunct ski store called The Ladylike Shop. We traveled quite a bit when I was younger and people all over the country would say “oh, that’s where the Ladylike Shop is!” when we would say we were from Wylie. This was long before the internet and I still don’t know how it become so well known. We even met someone in London who knew about it.
/image Molly fort worth
@f00l I haven’t been to Fort Worth a ton. I should do this sometime.
@Targaryen
FW is a good place to live. If you know people or have the means to meet them.
It’s not really a “tourist” or “visitor” place, tho some nice things make the guidebooks.
{Tho the single-person or young-person nightlife is better in D. More fluid. Easier to meet people.}
The art museums in FW are most worthy.
Excellent ballet.
There is a big rodeo. Lots of horse events.
We get the bennies of D without the traffic.
(we can often get to most of the notable attractions over there [east of 360] as quickly or even more quickly than someone who lives in Dallas or Collin countries can get to them).
/image Float your fanny down the ganny
nothing.
@mfladd Nothing at all? This gives me an idea for a topic for another day then.
@Targaryen It smells like chicken shit in the spring. Does that count?
Churches. Lots and lots of churches.
@Supportathan That’s pretty.
@lseeber Thanks! I googled it myself.
@Supportathan Good job!
potholes, crime, and religious fanatics
/image crazy religious folks doing crime by potholes
My first reaction was to look up images of meth heads but after doing so, I thought it in bad humor and refrained from putting that. We aren’t known for anything really. Daniel Boone let a horse go nearby. Tom Dooley (Dula) was captured here. I guess the nature is the only thing we really have going for us.
@tnhillbillygal I drove from home to Dallas through a part of Tennessee. Great bit of country there.
Don’t know how to post a pic but it would just be trees anyway. There’s nothing here. A gas station and a tiny PO. I’m at the edge of a Nat’l Forest in N. Alabama. No neighbors or anything. A satellite view shows a tiny reddish dot for my roof then nothing but trees.
@lseeber
/image alabama national forest trees
@medz Yep… I live near what’s called the Sipsey Wilderness area of Bankhead Forest. It’s where hundreds of Indians hid out when they were rounding them up for the reservations and most were never found it’s so dense. If you hike in there now you’ll find their carving messages to one another on the trees. If you hike a few miles in there are beautiful falls, creeks and there’s a tree that takes about 8-10 men with their arms spread out to surround the trunk. It is pretty cool but if you don’t know the place or hire a guide, you may not find your way out for a few days for real.
If you shop at Costco, you’ve heard of the city I live in…
I had to consult Wikipedia for this.
95% white people.
Golf.
Multi million dollar properties on one end, lower/middle class on the other.
@RiotDemon Funny how that basically describes my town except we’re about 90% white, 4% Asian, 3% black, 3% whatever . I live across from a fancy golf course, closer to the mansiony side of town, though I don’t live in one.
@cinoclav I live in a regular neighborhood. Behind my backyard is a wall for a HOA development. The price of the houses more than doubles. That’s not even the most expensive part yet.
I forgot I was supposed to add a photo. Let’s try:
Edit: forget it. Just keep getting photos of trump.
Wichita is not known for a whole lot – it’s kind of boring here. But here’s a lip syncing video that our police department did. There’s a lot of nice views of Wichita in it.
@Barney Pretty neat video.
/image Las Vegas Strip
Hometown, not current town. The slash image selection sucks! Current town is pretty good considering its stuck in illannoy, but not really best known for anything.
@duodec I was outside the MGM when Tyson bit Holyfield’s ear.
Since there’s a reason why the median home values are below the county average, I’ll leave it at this:
The Cat in the Hat movie was filmed here.
@narfcake
I wouldn’t go around prompting that fact.
@PlacidPenguin I don’t, but apparently that’s the nicest comment in urbandictionary.
(It’s not like it was a couple decades ago, but stereotypes linger, and there’s definitely room for improvement.)
Is? I’m not sure, I have a lot more was’s than is’s. We have this:
/image red river neon bridge
And this (?)
/image duck commander independence bowl
And this
/image Margaritaville casino bossier
And this
/image corruption
We have this cool venue that somehow some artists start their tours from
/image Shreveport municipal auditorium
Which was super on the map back in the day with this
/image Elvis Louisiana hayride
We used to have this
/image bayou billionaires show
We had a bar in this
/image true blood
And lots of movies were filmed here until they changed the tax law.
@djslack I’ve been to New Orleans a couple times. And one of my old shipmates is on a small radio station that covers sports in Simsboro.
@Targaryen Cool! I’m definitely closer to Simsboro than NOLA. If your shipmate is on 97.7 he probably knows a friend of mine who was/is on there all the time covering MMA.
I technically live in a suburb north of the large city near me, but it’s known for nothing, so I’ll just do this one
Hicksville, NY.
@heartny omg, you must live near me!!!
I guess I’ve been here too long to know.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I guess our painted skies? Sunrise and sunset are often a miracle of color.
@ruouttaurmind Can’t think of anything else we’re known for? How about this:
I agree on the sunrises/sunsets though.
@Oonagh Fair point…
@ChadP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Tomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_sandwich
@ChadP I thought that town had something to do with The Simpsons? No?
@ChadP I lived pretty close to Springfield (Pawnee) for a part of my life. Still have family in and around. I do love me a good horseshoe.
@moonhat we always thought so. But I think it’s an amalgamation of all the Springfields on the show.
@ChadP You really should have gone with:
@pitamuffin I mean, we are kind of known for that. But Horseshoes and Lincoln come first. It’s weird to have lived in both cities that claim to have invented the corn dog. Shoot. That’s probably good enough to be its own forum topic.
/image Nascar
/image Country music museum
The star on the mountain right above my house (not to mention some seriously spectacular sunsets).
Also
/image xenia oh bike hub
also known for the 1974 tornado
@cattylaq I lived in Xenia for about 5 years, 99’-04’ stationed at Wright Patterson AFB. I lived on Vermont Ave. Used to ride my bike from Xenia to Yellow Springs on the old train tracks converted to bicycle trails. That was awesome!
This is Jacksonville FL. The idiot who ran around inside a convenience store carrying a live gator is only the latest. On the good side, we brag about Ray Charles, Pat Boone, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, Limp Bizkit, and several others.
/image Lynyrd Skynyrd
/image Molly Hatchet
It’s supposed to be a fly catcher (state bird) but I think it’s the mosquito (I think the real state bird).
@jst1ofknd
https://goo.gl/images/47kioy
I gave up on the previous post…
@CaptAmehrican WTFO? Interpretation welcome.
@OldCatLady Vietnam draft riots
Hmm the one I grew up in - a burning river. Immortalized by Randy Newman.
I wouldn’t have guessed so many people here owned a town or a city.
@elimanningface
Huh, my town is probably mostly known for horrible rich people (well, rich enough to be horrible) and John Hughes movies. Let’s see:
/image Ferris Bueller glass house
That looks right. And really reminds me of the library from that angle.
Lima, Ohio.
it’s…ok…
known for? not much lately…
Red Seat of a Red County. Many, if not most of the folks here drank the “orange-aid” if you catch me…
Home to an oil Refinery(Currently owned by the Canadians - Husky), makes 25% of the gas sold in Ohio.
we had an oil strike back in the 18-somethings,(after PA, but before TX.) First place they ran into Sour(Sulfurous) Crude, the local refinery was where they figured our how to refine sour crude into usable products.
https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=22961
Used to have a Big locomotive works, but that went basically went out with steam…
https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=22935
we have the plant that built/builds/refurbishes the M1Abrahms main battle Tank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Army_Tank_Plant
we have a Ford Engine plant that was put up to make the MEL v8’s for Edsel’s, and such(Mercury, Edsel, Lincoln)
went on to make lots of different lines over the years, Currently The FWD 3.5l V6, and it’s 3.3 &3.7L Variants, and the 2.7&3.0L Ecoboost V6.(RWD 3.3,3.5,3.7, and Ecoboost 3.5 made in Cleveland.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Engine
across the Road from there is a Dana Facility,making Spicer Driveshafts.
in the surrounding region there are tons of small factories pumping out parts for mostly Honda…
we have a Locally owned University that is growing by leaps and bounds on it’s automotive, and Motorsports program.(If you’ve watched any sort of race in the US over the last several years, you’ve seen their logo on firesuits, on cars, on billboards, etc. University of Northwestern OHio, UNOH.(they added the H to probably at the behest of whoever owns the rights to the card game UNO, and to avoid confusion with another local College, Ohio Northern University, ONU.)
UNOH.edu
Proctor & Gamble have their Main Laundry Bottling plant here. If you’ve purchased a P&G Liquid Laundry product(Tide, Gain, Downy, etc) in the Lower 48, there’s a better than 95% probability it was Bottled in Lima
we are also the Retail hub for the surrounding 5 counties, which are mostly rural Farmland…
and oh yeah, Remember the TV show GLEE? it was set in a fantasy version of Lima. basically Lima in name only.
OH! and lest i forget, we had a brush with infamy with John Dillinger. his gang Robbed a bank in nearby Bluffton, Ohio. Dillinger and an accomplice were arrested and jailed in Lima(the County Seat). A Few days Later, other members of his crew Killed the Sheriff and busted him out. (whole incident Skipped over in the 2009 Johnny Depp Movie “Public Enemies”)
Exhibit at the County Museum:
This photo of Allen County Museum is courtesy of TripAdvisor
The largest hot air balloon and music festival in North America and second only to Albequerque as to the overall largest
@readnj Ah, my sister lives in Flemington and was just there for the balloon festival. I’ll make it one of these years.
@cinoclav You need to do that! Last weekend in July. Sunrise and Sunset flights and lots of other stuff going on.
@readnj
Wait… Where is Albuquerque again?
@Limewater New Mexico and it is the largest hot air balloon festival in America and maybe the world. This one bills itself as the largest hot air and music festival in North America. Music being the differentiator!
@Limewater @readnj Albuquerque reporting in here. I totally forgot about the Balloon Festival. It happens once a year and really is great. The rest of the year Albuquerque is best known for the place where you get everything stolen; car, truck, trailer, life, from the hotel parking lot when you stop here for the night. Oh, and we’re known for wasting close to $100M on the ART (Albuquerque Rapid Transit) that basically provides nothing to no one except homeless transients who use the bus stations to urinate and shoot drugs. The buses don’t even work and no one has been allowed to ride on them. The construction of the bus line down Central Ave (Route 66) drove many businesses to bankruptcy and only provided more opportunities for criminal element to prosper. Your federal tax dollars paid for it all though, so you can rest better knowing your hard earned money is being squandered by corrupt city government. I bet this kind of thing is happening all over America. The preceding message is not sanctioned or endorsed by the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.
@accelerator Actually, I’m pretty sure your hometown is best known as the place Bugs Bunny always seems to miss his turn.
It is also less well known as the title of Weird Al’s 11+ minute epic about how he hates sauerkraut.
@Limewater You’re right! Bugs Bunny should have made a left turn at Albakurkee! Coming from Los Angeles a left turn at Albuquerque would have taken Bugs to Santa Fe where Chuck Jones lived for many years. Thanks for bringing me back from the negative place I was dwelling. Of course it’s Bugs Bunny!
@readnj I went this year and got to see the mass ascension on Saturday night. I still need to figure out the camera on my new phone so I didn’t get any pictures.
@looseneck I’m on a regular local balloon crew and this year the weather was amazing ! We got five out of six flights in. The only one we missed was Friday night and there was no question that was going to cancel!
@readnj My friend is on the catch crew for Remax and her daughter took lessons to fly the balloon. I’ve never been up in one unfortunately. Maybe one day…
Harry & David - mail order food stuffs. Known for great pears.
As a local, my favorite however is the Black Bird. It wears different outfits for certain holidays/times of the year.
@lordbowen Will vouch for pears.
I would say we are known for our outlets, our former mental institution or the Bryan Brothers.
Ski Capital of the East, bay-bee!
@simssj YES for skiing!
If a “town” can be a place that has a grocery store and a gas station, then I’m about 14 miles from the nearest one. It’s mostly known for being the place that people around here go to get gas and groceries.
The town I grew up in is known for arts festivals, biker rallies, and Christmas lights. About a year from now, I suspect that it will be known for some really bizarre murders. HBO just wrapped up filming for season 3 of True Detective.
Guess the town that I actually live in isn’t known for a whole lot. Being just outside of Philly, there are some historical properties. Brendan Hansen (Olympic swimmer) is from here. Swell bubble gum and El Bubble bubble gum cigars began and were produced here for decades.
However, the big city that I’m next to has a bit more going for it. Philly really is a great city.
Hometown Folklore has it that this little gem used to be named Max’s "X-tra Fine Salad Dressing until he sold the recipe to Kraft for 300.00 in 1931
Oh yeah and Salem Illinois was also the home of the GI bIll of Rights
@cardiganb Wow, two wonderful things to be known for! I LOVE Miracle Whip…and a man in uniform.
Fullerton California.
Fender electric guitars, and a handful of the early west coast punk bands like The Adolescents and Social Distortion.
Tars
@cranky1950 is that smelly? Hot tires stink
@tinamarie1974 naw, they’ve got scrubbers and stuff.
My town is known for being in 3 counties and having a school district that is in 5 counties. (As a result of the 3-county thing, I once got a jury summons for a county I don’t live in.)
A mound. With flowers on it. Pretty exciting, huh?
@parodymandotcom That’s gorgeous!
@parodymandotcom sooo… Flowermound Tx I’m Guessing?
@earlyre
My city is also known for having the same name as the state and county…
@jst1ofknd So originality is not inbred trait there?
@mfladd
Nope.
@jst1ofknd New York?
Words not needed
@jksquared Hey neighbor, I’m originally from Massachusetts.
@jksquared Was that the blizzard of '79?
@Targaryen Close - Blizzard of '77
Almost posted this gem from Snovember (2014)…woke up to 4 feet of snow, with a grand total of 7
The fourth largest rodeo in North America: The Pendleton Round-Up and an pretty well know textiles manufacturer: The Pendleton Woolen Mills. Not necessarily proud nor ashamed if either.
All out-of-towners when visiting my home town of Fargo, North Dakota, must go downtown and take a picture in front of the Fargo Theatre! Here’s Josh Duhamel (North Dakota Native)…
Also, probably most known for our NDSU BISON!! EPSN College Gameday said “This is what college football is all about!!”
@tohar1 We have family in North Dakota around Fargo and Moorhead. We’ve visited a couple of times, and I love the place.
@duodec C’mon back anytime! I’ve lived here since 1990 & really like our city!!
@tohar1 I feel like I comment every time you post this, but it is amazing how well NDSU fans travel. The championship game is played here, in Frisco, Texas, and NDSU fans take over the city, the area, and they bring their wallets with them. It’s really awesome.
That said, I’m an Indiana State grad and someday we will beat you.
@ChadP What’s the old saying…“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”? I’m afraid that a Sycamore is no match for a Bison, unless the tree dies, falls over and smashes the animal in the head…so yeah, I guess anything is possible!
#SmackTalk
@rtjhnstn I lived in Milwaukee in the 90’s. I actually worked at Briggs and Stratton. I use to love the bar they had in the schlitz building. I lived on Downer Ave.? , and in Shorewood. I miss Summerfest, Bastille days, fish fry’s, and gyros late at night.
@rtjhnstn Funny Stuff! I remember well both the the “Schlitz Sh*ts” and the “Labatt’s Splatz”. Very glad I never developed a taste for either beer…
@mfladd My dad misses the Friday fish frys also. He lives in Florida.
@rtjhnstn if he’s in Florida he should be able to get fried fish anytime.
@RiotDemon Not the same as a Midwest fish fry.
The weeds? They’re most abundant here, anyways. That’s my house on the left and my backyard. Haha weeds
@LemonTheCat Purdy! Even the weeds.
@LemonTheCat Lovely! You even have the fabled Dandelion Meadow,
I’m not really sure what, if anything, Garland is known for but my hometown, Wylie, is known for a few things.
Known as Wide-Awake Wylie since the 40’s. It was where all the “wild” parties happened at that time. Shops stayed open until midnight! When I grew up there the most happening hangout spot was Sonic so I guess times changed lol
It was well known for a while for an axe murder that happened there in the 80’s. A woman killed another woman who was having an affair with her husband. The book and movie Evidence of Love is based on it.
For some odd reason one of the best known things from this small town is a now defunct ski store called The Ladylike Shop. We traveled quite a bit when I was younger and people all over the country would say “oh, that’s where the Ladylike Shop is!” when we would say we were from Wylie. This was long before the internet and I still don’t know how it become so well known. We even met someone in London who knew about it.
@Targaryen My hometown is known for it’s historic downtown area. Although the town itself is fairly small, a lot of films get done there.
Currently, filming for another IT movie is going on. I haven’t seen the most recent one, but it was done there too.