Chicago:
16" softball (no gloves)
Hotdogs with so many condiments piled on top you might not notice if there was no hotdog in there.
Deep-dish pizza
Italian beef sandwiches
Blues music
The Cubs
North/South racial housing segregation
Rush Street
Skyscrapers
relative to similarly sized cities: realtively compassionate drivers
tollways where all traffic (I-pass excepted) comes to a complete stop every couple of miles
Montreal:
Poutine
Language Laws
Beautiful women and handsome men
the Big “Owe” (Olympic Stadium . . . I think it’s finally paid off . . . thirty years later)
Public transportation
The two solitudes (French and English)
The mulitudes (Everybody)
Bipolar Weather.
Too many one way streets.
Hartford (this’ll be shorter):
Insurance
The Whalers (1972-1997), the only NHL team to ever play in a mall
Best hospitals per capita in the nation
Biggest population decline in US of a city over 100,000
ESPN (In Bristol, which can be considered part of the metro area)
Yankee ingenuity
Colt guns
Lorenzo, you forgot the L.
Jack or shit, I forget which.
Hometown - Pittsburgh
Steel
Steel Curtain
Iron City Beer
Chipped ham
Fries and coleslaw on the sandwich
Bridges and tunnels
Three Rivers
Thousands of Yinzers
Mullets
New Orleans:
Blues
Jazz
inept football team
the best food on earth
horrible streets
the French Quarter
shady politics
City Park
St. Louis Cathedral
Mardi Gras
the Superdome
Yes, the el. It belongs, for sure.
With the millions of other Chicagoan’s on the SDMD who might want to participate, I left more than a few off. But the el never crossed my mind. :smack:
Atlanta:
Coke
The Braves
Home Depot
Traffic problems
Urban Sprawl
Cynthia McKinney
Feel free to add more…I just can’t think of them just now
Nashville:
Country Music
Opryland Hotel
Tennesee Titans
Bill Boner (harmonica playing, Oprah-appearing, adultrous ex-mayor)
Nashville Predators
Loveless Cafe
Fan Fair
Southern Hospitality
The first No El, Kahuna did say,
Was to a certain poor Lorenzo in IMHO where they play…
:eek:
Miami
Drugs
Corrupt Politicians
Elian Gonzalez
Liberty City Riots
Scarface Cocaine Cowboys
Rudest Drivers in the US
Hurricanes, and not the college football team
Hurricanes, the college football team
Need I say Chads?
More Cuban immigrants than you can shake a plantain at
Pathetic airport
DEA Drug Stings breaking records weekly
South Beach, were bikini tops are optional
Short sleeves in mid-winter
Great restaurants
160 miles from Key West
the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, TransAmerica pyramid, Bay Bridge
the Giants and Forty-Niners; Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Joe Montana, Steve Young
hating Los Angeles (crap, was that a secret?) 
huge gay population; open-mindedness, acceptance
Hippies/ Haight-Ashbury/ Berkeley
“The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco.” - Mark Twain
Starfleet HQ
The Dot-Com boom (shared with San Jose and everywhere in between)
Cable Cars
I love it.
Flint, MI
Micheal Moore’s movie Roger and Me
General Motors
…
Not much else :rolleyes:
My city is known for its overwhelming Denverishness. That, and they say that it is almost exactly 1.61 kilometers above sea level. Whatever good that is…
St. Louis:
The Arch
The Mighty Mississip
The blues
The Blues
The Cardinals; Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire, Jack Buck
Jesus’ favorite football team
Thin-crust pizza
Toasted ravioli
Budweiser
Boeing
Hey, we have urban sprawl, crappy roads, and stupid drivers, too!
Nelly
Charles Lindbergh, sorta
The New Orleans Cathedral…OK, maybe not
Until recently:
TWA
McDonnell-Douglas
Hey, Lsura, how about Ted Turner & CNN?
Fort Worth
Cowboys (real ones, not the football-playing variety)
Cattle
Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District
Great art museums like the Kimbell and the Amon Carter
Barbecue
Joe T. Garcia’s
Aircraft manufacturing
Sundance Square
Being the better half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex
“Where the West Begins!”
My hometown is known for being invented to fill in that hole in the map that nobody bothered to explore. Oh, and we’re also known for having a pretty high percentage of teenage men removing the mufflers from their enormous trucks and speeding down local roads while blasting country music, fifteen friends in the back. Down-home charm.
Auckland:
Sky Tower Casino
Clogged motorways
Waitemata Harbour
Extinct/dormant volcanic landscape
Yuppies
The cellphone addiction
Controversial local politicians
Controversial television “stars”
“The Big Smoke” - literally, at times
Buskers
Harbour Bridge (even after all these years)
Oh, and the America’s Cup yachts.
Honolulu:
Tourists
Beaches
Sun
800,000 people, 2 freeways
Tourists
Orange County west
The true Melting pot
Ridiculous cost of living
Palm Trees
Tourists