Foo - My towns claim to fame.

Black and white old photo
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Eternal_Tree_Redcrest_CA_Redwood_Highway.jpg
Color old photo
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Eternal_Tree_House_at_Redcrest_CA_Hwy_101.jpg\\
Another Color photo with a little girl (old)
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Eternal_Tree_House_Redcrest_CA_US_Hwy_101.jpg
A view of the interiors 20' diameter room.
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Interior_of_Eternal_Tree_House_SC879.jpg

Just behind the fence is my sisters house.

So, this is my hometowns claim to fame, what is yours?

Steven

http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=119920
^^^
That would be my town's claim.
Mrs. Cooper turns 113 this August, she is older than Bilbo Baggins and the 15th oldest person on the planet.

(the story about the tattooed three year old is not so much a claim to fame)

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/destination/Fall03/images/peteandboilerupb4.jpg

My town's claim to fame #1.

#2 is the oldest bar in Indiana, the Knickerbocker saloon

http://www.knickerbockersaloon.com/home/

3# is the Triple XXX Restaurant, Indiana's oldest Drive In and home of the Duane G Purvis All American Burger, which is a hamburger with peanut butter on it..

http://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/index.html

San Luis Obispo, CA had the first motel in America.

There's something else but I can't remember what it is.

We've had like two incidents of mass murderers going after the college girls.. One was so outageous, they made a film from his many murders.
Other than that, our town was named after a famous Greek General whose speciality was killing off Turks.

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5686/pabombsfter10seconds.jpg
Not technically my town I guess, but the area in general, and the main reason we're not some speck in the middle of nowhere.

the most obnoxious droivuhs? (http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/meet-veronica-moss-auto-lobbyist/)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Durst

He was born in Florida but raised in good ole Gastonia - G-town, Baby!
When VH1 did a show on him, there was footage of him rapping in the basement of my step-daughter's father's house. He used to mix for Fred when they were in high school and trying to break into the white guy rapping thing.

He also hung out with my wife when she first got her place (the place we live in now) and there are a few broken things he probably had something to do with.

Break Stuff NSFW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_eCIjr1Mb0)

The second town I lived in I claimed as home. Avocados.. We grow like 20 % of the nations avocados. Plus a significant amount of the mainland's Macadamia nut production.

We have 10 real lakes within the actual city limits of a pretty good-sized city...?

http://www.sevenpack.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/NewBelgiumFatTire.jpg

The guy that designed Disneyland's Main Street USA was from my town and designed Main Street after our downtown area.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NEAOmGUnAyA/R8xdtW40NcI/AAAAAAAAFdI/LDNUZbuf82I/s400/dland%2Bmain%2Bstreet.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/10167987_345a072e8e.jpg?v=0

The second town I lived in I claimed as home. Avocados.. We grow like 20 % of the nations avocados. Plus a significant amount of the mainland's Macadamia nut production.
And a Naval Weapons Station.

Can't pick just one...

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Mine.

Home to worldwide headquarters to Eastman Kodak and Bausch & Lomb.

Home to Terry's bicycles - which unfortunately is moving to Vermont.

Cab Callaway grew up here, as well as punker Wendy O. Williams, wrestler Chyna, singer Lou Gramm, and of course Susan B. Anthony ...

Home of the largest children's museum, Strong Museum http://www.strongmuseum.org/

eBaum's World was here till company sold the beginning of this year.

Zweigle's Hot Dogs, Genesee Beer and Nick Tahou's Garbage Plate that tastes fine at 3 am after the bars close.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1061/garbageplate.jpg

that looks like something that i saw in my drinking days only it was coming up not going down. :D

that looks like something that i saw in my drinking days only it was coming up not going down. :D

The original Nick Tahou's was in a crummy area, right next to a mission - very questionable neighborhood, yet all sorts of famous people when they're in town have gone there as they've heard of Tahou's Garbage plate, kind of amazing actually.

Greenville, South Carolina


Shoeless Joe Jackson
Greatest baseball player of all-time

JoAnne Woodward (Mrs. Newman)
Greenville High, Class of 1947

Frank Selvy, Furman University
Only man to score 100 points in college game

Bob Jones University

Airwick Raines
cross country bicyclist
Greatest Jack Russell Terrier in History

The only really noteworthy piece of history from Plymouth Township where I live:

http://www.thomasgenweb.com/avondale_hw01.jpg

http://www.thomasgenweb.com/avondale_report.html

Wilkes-Barre, where I work, is the home of Planters Peanuts...

Cable Television was invented in the area: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcabletelevision.htm

The state of Wyoming was named after the valley I live in... the Wyoming Valley.

Oh, and the first successful gasoline powered automobile was built in Plymouth, PA. (Different that Plymouth Township, but right "next door"). http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/44957/automobile/259067/The-United-States

There is more, but these are a few of the highlights I have learned in the 4 years I have lived here.

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We gots other stuffs, too, I think.

probably the brown's chicken massacre, back in 1993.

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=106182&d=1243439996

:love:

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=106182&d=1243439996

:love:

Yes, beautiful JoAnne :)

and the cool part, pgoat? We still dress like this in Greenville. :)

(at least in the private schools)

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/17/4a/5a/greenville.jpg

"On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and five shows into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 ran out of fuel near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina, where they had just performed at the now demolished Greenville Memorial Auditorium, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana."

And a Naval Weapons Station.

which some say equals lots of agent orange.?.

Yes, beautiful JoAnne :)

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Something really important. Don't I recall your town is the home of George Hincapie.. Someone we should nominate for CNN's Hero program..?

probably the brown's chicken massacre, back in 1993.

Was that Arlington Heights? I have an unusual connection to that case. Yucky.

jim

This (http://www.mechanicsburgchamber.org/JubileeDay.shtml)

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Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, LSU

Losing and snow. Awesome.

Buffalo, NY.

Something really important. Don't I recall your town is the home of George Hincapie.. Someone we should nominate for CNN's Hero program..?

Greenville home to George, yes :)

no comment on CNN,............

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Greenville home to George, yes :)

no comment on CNN,............

We all have to find our favorites.. For me, Roubaix, and his many charity rides.. Puts him up there on that bike pedestal.

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/destination/Fall03/images/peteandboilerupb4.jpg

My town's claim to fame #1.

#2 is the oldest bar in Indiana, the Knickerbocker saloon

http://www.knickerbockersaloon.com/home/

3# is the Triple XXX Restaurant, Indiana's oldest Drive In and home of the Duane G Purvis All American Burger, which is a hamburger with peanut butter on it..

http://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/index.html


#3 also has very good biscuits and gravy!

Good stuff all. We used to have a redwood in my neck of the woods that had a three story home inside it, alive and kicking until the wind blew it over some years back.

And who is that ugly guy in the gold hat wearing black? Man he is ugleeeyyyyy Roger Stauback is the man. :)

Steven

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/destination/Fall03/images/peteandboilerupb4.jpg

My town's claim to fame #1.

#2 is the oldest bar in Indiana, the Knickerbocker saloon

http://www.knickerbockersaloon.com/home/

3# is the Triple XXX Restaurant, Indiana's oldest Drive In and home of the Duane G Purvis All American Burger, which is a hamburger with peanut butter on it..

http://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/index.html

You're forgetting Harry's Chocolate Shop- definitely a dive but always nationally rated. I'm a Purdue alum myself.

You're forgetting Harry's Chocolate Shop- definitely a dive but always nationally rated. I'm a Purdue alum myself.
I prefered the piano bar at the neon cactus :)