Inspired by the recent “think of a city” threads for Britain and Australia, let’s do something similar in a different part of the world.
Other than Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, what is the first Pennsylvania city that you can think of?
Harrisburg.
Lehigh
Wilkes-Barre
Doylestown.
Hershey
Sorry – I grew up in NJ. Lots of 'em come to mind.
Allentown
Erie
I recall in 4th grade we had to learn five cities in all fifty states.
My first thoughts are
Harrisburg (Capital), Erie (Port), Allentown (Billy Joel song), Scranton (mentioned on All In The Family a lot), York (former US Capital)
Harrisburg is the first I thought of, I’m assuming it’s the 3rd biggest because it’s the capital but I may be forgetting something. Next I’d say Erie because I used to work up near there and knew people who lived there, but it’s not much of a city.
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Holy crap, Harrisburg is tiny, smaller than Scranton even. Rounding out the top 5 are Allentown, Erie, and Reading.
Hershey, Lancaster, York. Lived in the last for a few months in '85.
Tower City
Scranton.
Erie
Harrisburg
Allentown
Grove City (I know this one because IIRC, there are outlet stores close to there that I used to drive to when I lived in Youngstown, OH)
I grew up in Maryland and was a high school wrestler. So I think of a pile of small-to-tiny college towns with wrestling programs:
Bloomsburg
Stroudsburg
Lehigh
Clarion
If I weren’t who I am, I’m sure I would think first of Harrisburg or Scranton.
State College.
I forgot the obvious:
Allenwood (home of Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland).
Jim Thorpe.
a town mostly known for not having any connection at all to the man the renamed their town for.
Harrisburg, Hershey, State College, Indiana, and Wilkes-Barre.
Hershey
Breezewood
Harrisburg is the first to come to mind. I’ve got family in western PA, and went to school in eastern PA, so I could name plenty more, but Harrisburg is the only that there’s any reason I’d put it at the top of the list.
I’d probably also mention Johnstown, Altoona, Villanova, Bryn Mawr (which isn’t technically incorporated), Lancaster, Greensburgh, State College, Indiana, Allentown. On any given day, there’s a few others I might remember that aren’t coming to mind right now, and I might forget some of those.
Erie and Hershey probably wouldn’t come to mind (though of course I’ve heard of them), because I don’t have any particular connection with them.
Ummmm. Punxatawney?