What cities will forever be known for one specific thing/event?

[happyheathen]

*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor *
**Would you care to explain your remarks. Civily, this time? :mad: **

Posters from the named cities have listed towns which are known for more than one thing.
The OP is titled “What cities will forever be known for one specific thing/event?”.
Pasadena

[ceyjen]

Laramie, Wyoming – Mathew Shepard

San Ysidro, California – McDonald’s massacre

[mudcrutch]

:smack: I completely misread the OP. Sorry about that. I will substitute my choices with …uh…

White Sands, New Mexico

and this one will probably fade into obscurity, but it has affected me and my family who have ties to this town:

Tulia, Texas - The drug war. I actually saw a documentary on TV about this the other day.

[Speaker_for_the_Dead]

Salem, [insert state], for the witch trials.

[cmkeller]

Salem of the witch trials is in Massachusetts, Speaker.

Also - Winslow, Arizona - the Eagles’ “Take it Easy”.

Chaim Mattis Keller

[okielady]

*Originally posted by Joe K *
**Ditto. **

A third vote for Oklahoma City, definitely. Some may also remember the destructive tornadoes of May 3, 1999, but for the majority of the population, when they hear “Oklahoma City” they automatically think “bombing.”

[Violin_D_Ingrate]

Sturgis, SD

[Medievalist2]

*Originally posted by ceyjen *
**Waco, TX–wacko pseudo-religious nuts
**

The Koresh cult compound fire didn’t actually take place in Waco. The tragedy took place in an unincorporated rural area. Waco happened to be the nearest major town, so the media referred to the cult compound fire as “the Waco disaster.” I don’t think it’s fair for people to blame Waco for the Koresh cult tragedy, because Waco really had nothing to do with it. Before the cult compound fire, Waco was already famous as the home of Baylor University, one of the most respected private religious universities in the country.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

*Originally posted by dwc1970 *
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.

Wasn’t that in/near the small town of Hayden Lake?

[neutron_star]

Originally posted by Troy McClure SF
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl (assuming those are proper towns)

Chernobyl is indeed a city in the Ukraine, but Three Mile Island is just that, an island. It’s right outside of Middletown, Pennsylvania, my hometown. You could see the cooling towers from the small hill behind my house.

[Purd_Werfect]

Vatican City - Best used car deals on the planet.

[racer72]

Scotticher, when I think of Bellingham, I think of the pipeline explosion there a few years ago. I have a cousin that lives a few blocks from the creek that caught on fire.

As an auto racing fan, I only have to mention these towns to anyone that know racing and they know what I mean.

Talladega
Charlotte
Watkins Glen
Martinsville
Dover
Indianapolis
Darlington
Bristol

[racer72]

*Originally posted by Lsura *
**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) **

Onions may be the only thing Walla Walla is known for. They do have the big state prison there too.

[Banger]

Skokie, Illinois: Nazi march and the ACLU

Amityville, NY: the “Amityville Horror”

[Scotticher]

*Originally posted by racer72 *
**Scotticher, when I think of Bellingham, I think of the pipeline explosion there a few years ago. I have a cousin that lives a few blocks from the creek that caught on fire.
**

Yes, that is another thing that put us on the map…and once again NOT in a GOOD way.

Does your cousin still live here? Wouldn’t it be funny if I actually KNEW him/her?

[Agrippina]

Hopewell, New Jersey—for the Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial in the late 30s.

[Briny_Deep]

*Originally posted by cmkeller *
Also - Winslow, Arizona - the Eagles’ “Take it Easy”.

Yah, but Winslow might be better known for the big crater near there - it’s been there since long before the Eagles!

[nit]
Labdad, it’s Kingman, Arizona.
[/nit]

Thought of another possible - does Tupelo, Mississippi mean anything except Elvis Presley, except for those fine folk who actually live there, who probably think about other things occasionally?

(This thread has got me thinking about city stereotypes, how annoying they can be for the actual residents. Although I freely admit Seattle is capital of Coffee, Rain and Suicide. [The residents don’t care much about the Space Needle.])

[jacksen9]

Plymouth Massachusetts

Coco Beach … I always think of I Dream of Jeannie

[OxyMoron]

Yalta, for the allies’ conference and the division of Europe;
Srebrenice, for the Bosnian massacre;
Selma, for the March;
Ypres, yet another battle;
Nanking, for the rape by the Japanese;
Kitty Hawk, for the first flight
Bikini Atoll and Mururoa, for U.S. & French nuke tests (respectively)
Grand Forks, North Dakota, for the Great Flood of '97
Fargo, North Dakota for the eponymous movie (unfair, since only the opening scene was set in Fargo - and none of it was filmed there. The rest was Minnesota.)
Carthage, for defeat by the Romans
Little Rock, Arkansas, for the Little Rock Nine (school integration)
Montgomery, Alabama, for the bus boycott
Laramie, Wyoming, for Matthew Shepard
Chattanooga, for the choo-choo
Atchison, Kansas, for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Kalamazoo, for the gal you’ve got there
Pisa, for the Leaning Tower
Granada, for the Alhambra
Lourdes, for the shrine
Agra, for the Taj Mahal
Davos, for the World Economic Forum
Bethlehem, for the birth of Christ
Mecca and Medina, for the Kaba and the Prophet’s Shrine, respectively
Pharos, for the lighthouse

[jackelope]

Pamplona. The Falkland Islands. Mazar-E-Sharif. Agra, India.