Other Than You- What is Your Town Famous For?
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I've had three towns in my lifetime, so in order it's beer, gambling, and bourbon (and horse racing).
Baseball bats, thoroughbreds, bourbon, and allergies.
Very nice guys, some of you are from s9me interesting places.
I forgot, my town gave the world these guys:
I forgot, my town gave the world these guys:
Yes. In fact my friend owns it, my co-host manages it, and I occasionally give tours through it. Lol.I couldn't resist.
Google delivered:
Secret Caverns
Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.www.atlasobscura.com
I'm kinda retired from life, who are those two? I think the lower one did a Smothers Brothers show or two.
Buffalo NY for many years was noted for thin sliced hot roast beef on a German Kummelweck roll topped with corse salt and caraway seeds. The beef was sliced from a huge chunk known as a ships round. Cooked in a booth in front of customers. The stacked high slices with fresh horseradish. Only a few places serve it now replaced with chicken wings and Buffalo sauce. Also the home of the Buffalo Bills football team.
Except for the fact that anything involving the taste of caraway seeds is categorically hideous, ghastly, horrible, and disgusting, that's a nice story.
And all this time I thought it was Hershey, Pennsylvania. Live and learn!
The town in which I currently live, Janesville, WI, is known for Abraham Lincoln haven given a speech and slept here one night. We had a General Motors Assembly Plant from 1919, until 2009, which caused many blue-collar families in the area much pain when it closed.
Nearby Edgerton, WI, where I spent most of my youth and what I would consider my hometown was known around the area as "Tobacco City U.S.A." with it being the main cash crop in the area, and at one point having 52 tobacco warehouses in town. Author Sterling North, PGA Golfer Steve Stricker, and NASCAR driver Rich Bickle are all from Edgerton.
Nearby Edgerton, WI, where I spent most of my youth and what I would consider my hometown was known around the area as "Tobacco City U.S.A." with it being the main cash crop in the area, and at one point having 52 tobacco warehouses in town. Author Sterling North, PGA Golfer Steve Stricker, and NASCAR driver Rich Bickle are all from Edgerton.
... and Muhammad Ali, college basketball and a 390-million year old fossil bed right there in the Ohio River.
Yeah, I like your town!
(And Kremer's)
Saint Louis. As any home town native of the city would tell you, this thread isn’t long enough to say it all.
You must be the closest member to me! Hi neighbor! Haha
Glad to know there's even more pipe smokers in the area! It seems every other week I run into or find another one here in Rock Co.
Now that I have had time to think about it. Off the top of my head, here is a brief list. Apologies to any natives if I left off some of the more important things in your mind.
Confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi
Was a part of France and then Spain before being bought by the United States
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Gateway Arch
The Saint Louis Cathedral
Ead’s Bridge
Jazz and Blues Culture
Baseball Cardinals
Anheuser-Busch
Ice Crème Cone
1904 World’s Fair
Dred Scott Decision
T.S. Eliot
Josephine Baker
Chuck Berry
Yogi Berra
John Goodman
Jon Hamm
Maya Angelou
Scott Bakula
Robet Guillaume
Nelly
Dick Gregory
Vincent Price
And too many more to name…
America’s First Kindergarten
Grant’s Farm
Forest Park
Saint Louis Art Museum
Saint Louis Zoo
Shaw’s Garden
Tower Grove, West End, and Soulard Neighborhoods
The Hill and Italian Cooking
Saint Louis Pizza
Provel Cheese
Gooey Butter Cake
Toasted Ravioli
St. Paul Sandwich
St. Louis-style barbecue and Pork Steaks
Gerber Sandwich
Slinger
Mayfair Salad
These are just off the top of my head. If we count the metropolitan area, it gets too crazy long with even more well-known world renown places and names.
Confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi
Was a part of France and then Spain before being bought by the United States
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Gateway Arch
The Saint Louis Cathedral
Ead’s Bridge
Jazz and Blues Culture
Baseball Cardinals
Anheuser-Busch
Ice Crème Cone
1904 World’s Fair
Dred Scott Decision
T.S. Eliot
Josephine Baker
Chuck Berry
Yogi Berra
John Goodman
Jon Hamm
Maya Angelou
Scott Bakula
Robet Guillaume
Nelly
Dick Gregory
Vincent Price
And too many more to name…
America’s First Kindergarten
Grant’s Farm
Forest Park
Saint Louis Art Museum
Saint Louis Zoo
Shaw’s Garden
Tower Grove, West End, and Soulard Neighborhoods
The Hill and Italian Cooking
Saint Louis Pizza
Provel Cheese
Gooey Butter Cake
Toasted Ravioli
St. Paul Sandwich
St. Louis-style barbecue and Pork Steaks
Gerber Sandwich
Slinger
Mayfair Salad
These are just off the top of my head. If we count the metropolitan area, it gets too crazy long with even more well-known world renown places and names.
I didn't realize you were native to the other side of the state. Yes, KC just couldn't let Saint Louis be the murder capital of the world. I left that one off of course. When I was a kid, the city had just over 200,000 people. It had 330 murders per year. Compared to LA. which had about 3.5 million people at the time with 600 plus murders. We mopped the streets literally in blood per capita murder.
Born in South Dakota, but barely remember it. Grew up in a Kansas-side suburb of KCMO. Then lived in all manner of cool places. Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, (far western) North Dakota, coastal North Carolina, and rural-ish Ohio (though I much prefer the western US). Finally ended up back in KC---though only a couple hundred feet from the Kansas line---for family reasons a decade ago. The hoodrat wars and related that make a good chunk of KCMO disgusting don't affect me here, but I still don't care much for the place. (Maybe I would if I hadn't seen so much to compare it with, however.)
As for the recent crime upturn, it's for the same reason as most US cities these days: DA's who refuse to prosecute as a general thing, then release the ones who ARE caught on signature bond. Result? The police department is quitting in droves, and no one is replacing them. And the result of that? 100% rocket science: the bad guys have little to fear, and are taking full advantage of it.
Unfortunately, you are absolutely correct. It’s appalling.
Although born in Astoria, Queens, known for, among others, Tony Bennett, Maria Callas, Cyndi Lauper and Archie Bunker, I grew up in Chicago. The family moved here when I was 1 year old, and I have lived in the same neighborhood for more than 70 years.
The Chicago list is endless, but this may be near the top:
The Chicago list is endless, but this may be near the top: