# 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:** 3
**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, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/41 "2002-12-31T03:46:26Z")
Mariel, Cuba Acapulco, Mexico Orlando, FL Chapel Hill, NC Liverpool, England ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/42 "2002-12-31T04:14:50Z")
Peshtigo, WI – the big fire in 1871. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/43 "2002-12-31T04:14:54Z")
Bethel, NY - Woodstock 1969 Green Bay, WI - The Packers Daytona Beach, FL - Daytona 500 (& Spring Break) Augusta, GA - The Masters Golf Toruney Lynchburg, TN - Jack Daniels ---
**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, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/44 "2002-12-31T04:26:04Z")
Hey Gang! If you have to explain for what it is “famous”, maybe it’s not _really_ “famous”, ya’think? South Bend? Studebakers? (and we won’t talk about duplications - you know (or probably don’t) who you are…) Tallahassee ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/45 "2002-12-31T04:52:52Z")
am I the only one who is wondering what half of these cities are supposedly famous for? Detroit-Motown (both the music and cars) ---
**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, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/46 "2002-12-31T04:56:17Z")
Mufreesboro, Houston, and Dearborn… (but hey, at least it wasn’t a dupe!) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/47 "2002-12-31T04:58:51Z")
In Aus. it would have to be Port Arthur (at least from an international perspective). But there are certain small towns (and _town_ is quite a generous term in some of these cases) that have noteriety for various reasons. - **Moe** (A little tacker was murdered and his body not found until 12 months later…but Moe was, and is, pretty infamous for being the ‘trailer trash’ centre of Australia). - **Nimbin** (site of the Aquarius Festival in 1971 (?) and became the alternative lifestyle Mecca for all things hippie. - **Snowtown** (a one-horse town in the middle of essentially desert where some unfortunate souls met their demise at the hands of some loonies and were found rotting in the old town bank vault…BTW, there has never been, nor unless hell freezes over will there ever be SNOW in Snowtown). - **Coopers Creek** …site of the ‘Dig Tree’ where Burke and Wills, intrepid explorers extraordinaire, unfortunately missed the remaining members of the exploration party by a matter of hours and consequently met their doom. (Very funny story the Burke and Wills saga!!) - **Ayers Rock (Uluru)**…the place where the dingo took the baby, (\* or was the dingo set up\*)? (The Azaria Chamberlain Case) I could include Glenrowan (bushrangers), Truro (more murders), Bathurst (for the car race), Albert Park (Grand Prix), Darwin (Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day that wiped out the whole city) and a whole lot more…but I won’t. Gee, for such a relatively small population, we have an AWFUL lot of small towns that have had very strange things occur in them. 😃 ---
**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, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/48 "2002-12-31T13:14:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > \*\*Mufreesboro, Houston, and Dearborn… > > (but hey, at least it wasn’t a dupe!) \*\* Would you care to explain your remarks. Civily, this time? :mad: ---
**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, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/49 "2002-12-31T13:24:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted and edited by UncleBill \* > \*\*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 - Carter > > Chappaqua, MA - Kennedy bridge crash and death of passenger > > South Bend, IN - Notre Dame > > Baghdad, Iraq - Saddam > > Tehran, Iran - 70’s Hostage Crisis > > Bhopal, India - Union Carbide Cheical deaths > > Pompeii, Italy - volcano > > Giza, Egypt - Pyramids \*\* ---
**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, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/50 "2002-12-31T13:26:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted and edited by UncleBill \* > \*\*Mariel, Cuba - Mariel Boat lift to Miami > > Acapulco, Mexico - Cliff Diving > > Orlando, FL - the Mouse > > Chapel Hill, NC - UNC > > Liverpool, England - The Beatles\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/51 "2002-12-31T13:28:46Z")
I have to say, every time I hear the name of Washington, DC, the first thing that pops into my head is that it’s the capital of the USA. I think most people are like me in this regard. (But seriously, NYC? I can’t think of a city that’s known for _more different_ things!) [Blakely, GA](http://www.theonion.com/onion3626/cryptosporidium_daze.html) should serve as a warning for small towns who want to cash in on their one specific thing/event. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/52 "2002-12-31T13:33:57Z")
Oh, and of course, my fair city of Cambridge, MA is a college town, and that’s all it ever will be. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/53 "2002-12-31T13:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Would you care to explain your remarks. Civily, this time? :mad: \*\* I think something has gone riiiiiight over my head. What’s going on here?? ---
**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, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/54 "2002-12-31T13:52:08Z")
I thought of one more: Vidalia, Georgia - onions. (I’ve been there. As far as I know, there’s nothing else it could be known for) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/55 "2002-12-31T13:59:56Z")
Kingston, Barstow, San Bernadino - “Route 66” Tucumcari, Tehachapi, Tonapah - “Willin’” (by Little Feat) ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/56 "2002-12-31T14:00:08Z")
Woodstock! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/57 "2002-12-31T14:05:45Z")
[ul][li]Guernica[/li][li]Bastogne[/li][li]Stalingrad[/li][li]Arnhem[/li][li]Hungerford[/li][li]Telford[/li]Stratford-upon-Avon[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/58 "2002-12-31T15:14:23Z")
Omagh ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/59 "2002-12-31T17:34:36Z")
Not really one particular town, but an area, northern Idaho has carried a bad reputation for being a haven for white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, the KKK, etc. (they’re all the same as far as I’m concerned). Fortunately, the Aryan Nations church went bankrupt and their complex was torn down a few years ago. Still, it will take the area awhile to shake the stigma with which it has been associated. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759/60 "2002-12-31T17:54:26Z")
Tenerife, Canary Islands - 747 Disaster Turin, Italy - Shroud For those that aren’t fans of Hockey, I think Edmonton, Alberta will only be known as “That place with the big mall.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cities-will-forever-be-known-for-one-specific-thing-event/145759.md?page=4)