Apparently it gets pretty hot here.
I was born in Jefferson Davis Hospital in 1976. My mother said she felt creepy there the entire time she was in the hospital. I figure she just spooks easy.
In 1999 Jefferson Davis Hospital was demolished after 15 years of neglect and abandonment. It is not a series of condos for Yuppies.
Perth, Western Australia, is said to be the most isolated city in the world.
Consider this:
The state Western Australia has an area of 2,530,000 square kilometres. (977,000 square miles). It is LARGER than all of Western Europe.
The population of Western Australia is about 2 million. When you consider that more than 1.4 million of us live in Perth, the only city in the state, it is incredible to consider how low the population density is here; imagine 600,000 people spread over the entirety of France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Scandinavia!
So what we have is a developed, urban city isolated in a tiny corner of an enormous expanse of brown land. The closest Australian city to us Adelaide, South Australia, some 2,800 km (17.50 miles) to the east.
Moose wandering in the middle of downtown traffic. Grizzly bears breaking into autoparts stores and leaving “blueberry colored droppings” all over.
“Them” calling it tourist season, when we’re not even allowed to shoot them.
The way that you can tell it’s springtime in Alaska (and no, it’s not cuz it’s 40 below) is when the little old people in motor homes move into the Walmart Parking lot.
The MOST interesting thing about Anchorage has GOT to be the “Fly by Night Club” where they hold the “Whalefat Follies” and where their motto is “It’s not easy being sleazy”.
You’re thinking of the wrong Jefferson Davis Hospital. As weird as it may be, there have been two Jefferson Davis Hospital’s in Houston. The original one, which I referenced, was constructed in 1936, and still stands today (albeit it is rather derelict). You can see it from the loop on downtown. Upon close approach, the worn facade still reads, “Jefferson Davis Hospital.” It’s just off Washington Avenue near the loop downtown (I’m rather poor with street names and whatnot). Creepy place.
Another checkin in for the Isle of Man here - hmmmm not much to say that hasn’t been said already by Lobsang but I do feel that it’s worth mentioning that, especially on such a tiny island, the sheer amount of martial artists/martial arts schools is quite impressive…
I’m another university student (West Midlands) “pining away for my Island home”…
Toledo, Ohio
We’re near MIchigan!
We are Frogtown USA and The Glass City
We were/are home to Danny Thomas, Soupy Sales and Jamie Farr
We have an awezome zoo and a great art museum
Not far from Cedar Point, Cleveland, or Detroit
Great natural wildlife perserves
What’s interesting about Harbor Springs, MI: Umm…
Oh, that’s right. Nothing. Never mind. 
Seriously… Hemingway used to come here to vacation, I suppose, and no one’s shut up about it since. The Ramseys (you know, Jon Benet Ramsey, murdered under mysterious circumstances, etc.) used to summer in Charlevoix, which is very near us. We’re south of Mackinaw City, Mackinac Island (which doesn’t allow motorized vehicles, rather unique, and there was a movie filmed there in the eighties with Christopher Reeve, Somewhere in Time), and Fort Michilimackinac (which very few people can pronounce, also important historically). We’re also south of the Mackinac Bridge (which curiously enough, does not go to Mackinac Island), and that’s one of the larger bridges in the world (largest suspension bridge? I don’t know, but we’re supposed to be proud of it for some reason.) So we’re near some vaguely interesting places… Oh, who am I kidding? We suck.
My hometown, Geneseo,IL (pop: 6,000) had the highest per-capita suicide rate in the nation sometime in the late 1970’s due to a rash of teenage suicides. I hear they even profiled it on 60 Minutes, but I was born in 1977, so I really have no recollection of any of this and the older folks in town almost never acknowledge that it happened.
Formby, Merseyside, one of the very very few places in the world where you can see a red squirrel in its natural habitat.
Ugh, boring.
But I was born in Liverpool - the football club, the Beatles, the poorest city in Europe, that’s the place…
My old home town: Site of the first discount merchandizing operation in the United States, courtesy of one Frank W. Woolworth, an area native. Birthplace of arguably two of the most important Secretaries of State of the 20th Century: Robert Lansing and John Foster Dulles (they were distantly related). Proportionately largest city park (area of park/area of city) of anywhere in the country, with facilities designed by Olmsted). Type site for the Pamelia dolostone that characterizes the Early Ordovician is within walking distance of my former home; type site for the Chaumont limestone that underlies it is about 15 miles west. It was the place where the flat-bottomed paper bag was invented. Some of the finest whitewater rafting/kayaking in the East is on the river directly through the heart of the city.
My present place: lovely little crossroads town with nothing at all famous about it, with phone exchange and postal service from a nearby town of 6,000 where Margaret Truman’s husband was born. 25 miles from Raleigh, arguably one of the most pleasant medium-large cities in the country, and birthplace of Andrew Johnson. 25 miles south is the Ava Gardner Museum; 45 miles west is the site where the last Confederate force, under Joe Johnston, surrendered to Sherman to end the Civil War.
FTR I wish I was born where Loneraven was born. I love the place, has a kind of personality. All my family were born there.
(Liverpool)
Vollen - just outside of Oslo, Norway. Plenty of viking grave mounds within walking distance of my house. A small viking-age ship was unearthed less than a mile away in the 60s. The wharf that built Amundsen’s legendary polar explorer ship Maud lay on the beach a couple of hundred yards away, it’s gone now - final remaining structure was demolished just a couple of years ago.
The Nobel Peace price is handed out in town each year. Former Winter Olympics host city. The wedding cake for the recent royal wedding was made by the baker’s shop just down the road from my house. Crownprince residence is about 5 minutes further inland by car.
The German heavy cruiser Blücher, secretly constructed 40% larger than authorized by the most recent treaties, was sunk a few miles further south from here on the first day of World War 2 killing some 600 of the invading troops onboard.
The first Greek Catholic church in the U.S. is in my home town - St. Michael’s.
Mrs. T’s Pierogies headquarters is there as well.
I know that d_redguy mentioned the Durham Bulls. He failed to mentioned that that is ALL there is. There is nothing interesting where we live.
Well… I live mostly in Brisbane now, but about Ipswich:
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It was meant to be Queensland’s capital city, but the river wasn’t wide/deep enough for the big boats to get in.
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As a result of this, Ipswich has some of Qld’s most beautiful old houses and 2 large churches.
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It used to be a huge mining area for coal and limestone.
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As a result of this, Qld’s first railway was built here, and there is a great railway museum here now.
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A campus of the University of Queensland has recently opened - in what used to be a lunatic asylum! (Some say not much of a change - not me, I go there! :D)
-It was on the down and out because of the decline in mining but the new university is causing better house prices and (hopefully) reputation.
- There was a murder here in the main street a few years ago by a few kids. It was caught on film - but they got off anyway. They walked down the mall a few days later with “murder - one” t-shirts on. :eek:
Let’s see, we’ve got:
- The first battle of the Civil War
- The woman who cut of her husband’s penis and threw it in a field
Welcome to Manassas, Virginia!
Auckland is built on 48 volcanoes, all safely slumbering (none of which featured in LOTRs) It is the biggest city in NZ with a quarter of the countries population and is also the biggest polynesian city in the world. We were recently voted among the 10 best places in the world to live (no that didn’t help me much).
Although have more boats per head of capita then anywhere else we recently became the place that lost the Americas cup (to a landlocked country!..with a kiwi crew!)…but that was weeks ago so we are over it now.
We have a ginormous homophobe cretin for a mayor (I hasten to add I live in the part of the city not responsible for him!).
Yes we are wonderful, you should keep making movies down here O.K so no one made a movie in Auckland but we are the biggest city and we can gloat (don’t tell them pesky south islanders they will tell you that they are best…ok so they are right…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
Interesting things about Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
-Home to the ‘Allan’ candy factory.
-Home to the first ever Tim Horton’s.
-We have 2 War of 1812 ships sunken in our lake. They are still there, right side up and in remarkable condition.
-Birthplace of Martin Short.
-Our city rests over a 315-foot escarpment, with part of the city on top, and part of it below…males for interesting driving.
-Canada’s largest steel producer
-Canada’s largest (or 2nd largest) sea port.
-Home to the first Canadian Wendy’s.
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Hey, isn’t Ian Astbury from Merseyside??
Oohhh, Waterford – I’ve been there twice. Pepper Mill and I went there a few years back because she always wanted to see the Waterford factory. (they give a way better tour than the Steuben glass works in Corning New York used to give). We saw the Viking ruins in the parking garage downtown, the old City Walls, and Reginald’s Tower – which was under repair at the time. A couple of years ago I went back, and finally got into Reggie’s Tower. Fun.
I live in Saugus, Massachusetts, home of the First Ironworks in the American Colonies (not to be confused with the First Ironworks in the American Colonies in Quincy, Mass, or the one in New Jersey.) Our first ironworks is best, because they’ve reconstructed a working model on the site, and have a museum where you can see the original Hammer (its head about 2-3 feet across) and the original Water Wheel.
Saugus also has the Cheesiest highway running through it. Drive up Route 1 from the giant fluorescent orange T. Rex (with fluorescent green eyes) at the miniature golf course and the former Weylu’s Chinese restaurant (the size of an Imperial Palace), past the Hilltop Steak House with its 100-foot lighted cactus and herd of fibeerglas cows, past the Chinese/Polynesian restaurant Kowloon’s, past the Border Cafe with its giant neon sign that says EAT, past the Prince Restaurant with its giant replica Leaning Tower of Pisa, and past the restaurant in the form of a ship. The Ship’s bowsprit now seems to be invading the quaint New England Village that disguises the Christmas Tree Shop. You have to come up here to see this collection of lovable kitsch.