# What cities will forever be known for one specific thing/event? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759 "2002-12-30T22:15:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/21 "2002-12-31T01:04:15Z")
Cicero, IL: Al Capone Aspen: snooty ski resort Zermatt: ditto Munich: Olympic massacre, Beer Hall Putsch Kocs: birthplace of the coach ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/22 "2002-12-31T01:09:03Z")
Heidelberg - Dueling scar. Port Arthur West Point Appomattox (w/ or w/o “Court House”) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/23 "2002-12-31T01:10:41Z")
Auschwitz. Buchenwald. Dachau. Treblinka. And a lot more. Sadly, all for the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/24 "2002-12-31T01:19:24Z")
I’m not sure if these are well-known in the US, but they’re instantly recognisable in the UK. Lockerbie: the Lockerbie air disaster Dunblain: the massacre at a primary school ---
**Author:** ![StikyIcky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@StikyIcky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StikyIcky)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/25 "2002-12-31T01:30:31Z")
Most of the cities that came to mind immediately were already taken. So here are a few I thought of: Homestead, FL: Hurricane Andrew. Utrecht will probably always be remembered for its eponymous treaty. Ya know…the one that ended the war of Spanish Succession. Paducah, KY: Another school shooting. Breezewood, PA: The “city of motels.” Runnymede: I hear that Magna Carta thing was pretty important. Dunkirk. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/26 "2002-12-31T01:33:12Z")
Chicago–for the Great Fire, for the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/27 "2002-12-31T01:40:10Z")
Mufreesboro - people who don’t read the OP carefully enough 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/28 "2002-12-31T01:42:07Z")
Antietam Anzio Vicksburg I guess you could go on forever with towns at or near battlefields. Warsaw - Jewish Ghetto and The Uprising San Francisco - gold rush, earthquakes, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, _If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear something groovy in your head…_ (is that too many?) Oranienburg and several others - need I say? San Juan Capistrano - swallows Pensacola - US Navy Houston - oil, cowboy cops, NASA Miami - cocaine, hurricanes Tokyo - formerly billion dollar buildings, people, the Emperor, people, Mt. Fuji, people, fire-bombing, people, Hideki Tojo _et al_ Well, I’ll leave some for the rest of y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/29 "2002-12-31T01:45:50Z")
Yeah, well, I went back and read the OP before I posted, but not the damn title. Cut me back to: Antietam Anzio Vicksburg Oranienburg San Juan Capistrano Pensacola ---
**Author:** ![ceyjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@ceyjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ceyjen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/30 "2002-12-31T01:46:20Z")
Roswell, NM–aliens Killeen, TX–Luby’s Cafeteria massacre Waco, TX–wacko pseudo-religious nuts Texas City, TX–chemical plant explosion Brownsville, TX–ritual killings of tourists by “satanic” border mexicans ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/31 "2002-12-31T01:56:06Z")
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl (assuming those are proper towns) Tunguska, Siberia ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/32 "2002-12-31T01:56:10Z")
make that Mufreesboro AND Houston 😃 Carlsbad Nanking Dien Bien Phu Rhodes ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/33 "2002-12-31T01:57:16Z")
I’d wager Ft. Hood comes to mind before Luby’s more often than not for Killeen. Ft. Lauderdale - Spring Break Matamoros - Boys Town Beirut - civil war (or whatever you want to call it) Las Vegas - Bling! Bling! ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/34 "2002-12-31T02:06:12Z")
Some more: Cooperstown,NY Menlo Park,NJ Paris,Ky.-home of horse brothels Promontory point,Utah Cape Kennedy (nee Canaveral) Fla, Weeki Wachi Springs,Fla. home of the underwater mermaid show. Ossining,NY-Sing Sing Palm Beach County-chads Lynchburg Tenn.-sippin’whiskey Atlantic City-salt water Taffy Saratoga Springs,NY.-racetrack Brooklyn,NY,-dem bums (at least to the oldtimers) ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/35 "2002-12-31T02:07:14Z")
Andersonville Cicero Kent Indianapolis Monte Carlo ---
**Author:** ![GuitarHero76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@GuitarHero76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuitarHero76)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/36 "2002-12-31T02:08:57Z")
Berlin, Germany Lexington and Concord, MA ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/37 "2002-12-31T02:15:31Z")
Chattanooga Choo Choo ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/38 "2002-12-31T02:52:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WillSantini \* > San Diego, CA & Perris Island, SC - Where Marines are born \*\* \ Parris Island, SC \ Best Summer camp ever 😛 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/39 "2002-12-31T03:34:51Z")
Madras 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/40 "2002-12-31T03:42:00Z")
Buffalo, NY - Blizzard of '77, where it really didn’t snow much, it just blew the accumulated snow off of ice-covered Lake Erie. Plains, GA Chappaqua, MA South Bend, IN Baghdad, Iraq Tehran, Iran Bhopal, India Pompeii, Italy Giza, Egypt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759.md?page=3)