# What's on your US City "Quarter" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779 "2007-03-20T21:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/21 "2007-03-21T03:25:39Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] Madison: Probably a Badger. As in Bucky. Or the Capitol, but capitol buildings are all kind of genereic looking on coins. [/quote] Could be worse, they could put the godawful Monona Terror or the Overblown Center on it. > [@Miss Purl](#): > > Milwaukee: Beer mug Or a brat. Or both. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/22 "2007-03-21T03:29:09Z")
Tulsa, Oklahoma would probably be represented by a representation of [The Golden Driller](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/b/bd/Golden_Driller_Sm.jpg), a surly-looking ochre colossus who looms over the Tulsa Fairgrounds with one hand on a derrick and the other hand holding his pants up. ---
**Author:** ![Barrels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/23 "2007-03-21T03:37:19Z")
Madison: It’s a toss up for me, either the sunprint chairs or a beer and a cigarette with a big X across it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/24 "2007-03-21T03:42:11Z")
Dionne Warwick’s (or Burt Bacharach’s?) head floating over The Mystery House. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/25 "2007-03-21T04:53:08Z")
My hometown is Shenandoah, PA, home of Mrs. T’s Headquarters. A pierogy on ours. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/26 "2007-03-21T04:58:57Z")
I almost feel bad, mine is so obvious. East Lansing: A burning couch ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/27 "2007-03-21T05:15:59Z")
Cleveland: the Cuyahoga River, on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/28 "2007-03-21T05:16:14Z")
**tripler** , I think Charlie Russell’s [skull](http://www.cmrussell.org) would be very fitting for Great Falls. So, aside from Great Falls, I have lived in: Denver, CO: Sky line view (ugly cash register included) set in front of mountainous back ground. Coeur d’ Alene, ID: The awesome beauty of the lake could not be recreated on a coin, but they should try. Portland, OR: The convention center’s green spires with the Fremont bridge in the background. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/29 "2007-03-21T05:24:55Z")
Corvallis, OR: drizzle ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/30 "2007-03-21T06:41:19Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Could be worse, they could put the godawful Monona Terror or the Overblown Center on it. [/QUOTE] I purposely avoided those because of the ugliness that would occur. The carpet in the Monona Terrace makes me dizzy whenever I look at it. What is it with convention centers and ugly carpets? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/31 "2007-03-21T13:59:18Z")
Gainesville: A gator. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/32 "2007-03-21T14:07:44Z")
Schenectady: [The giant GE sign.](http://www.roadsidenut.com/ge703.jpg) If it’s got to be noncommercial, then City Hall. Albany: The State Capitol Building ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/33 "2007-03-21T14:15:42Z")
Austin: An image of [Leslie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cochran) ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/34 "2007-03-21T14:26:31Z")
Buffalo, NY: A buffalo\*. We don’t even _care_ that buffalo aren’t indigenous to Buffalo, everyone is pleased enough with the fact that our city’s name can be represented so accurately by a single image. \*Bison New York City: I’m going to go with the A train. I think it represents the entire subway system well, and New Yorkers are united in their love and/or love to hate of the subway. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/35 "2007-03-21T14:28:03Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] Without a doubt, West Lafayette, Indiana would have this classic view of University Hall (the new version–with only one pointy cupola): [University Hall](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wggray/images/Univ_Hall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wggray/Contact.html&h=450&w=600&sz=79&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=XKeJVEqrXE3AFM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpurdue%2Buniversity%2Bhall%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GGLD%26sa%3DN) [/QUOTE] Meanwhile, the Lafayette coin would feature a view of the [Tippecanoe County Courthouse.](http://www.lafayette-online.com/vtour/C.shtml) There’ll have to be a committee meeting to discuss the design for Cleveland. I lived in that city’s suburbs from birth (1959) until moving to Indiana in 2001, and my first thought was [this building.](http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=121783) When my siblings and I were younger, our family would often head to the city, and the kids would compete to see who’d be the first to say “I see the Terminal Tower!” Perhaps the different generations and senses of pride/disdain could be accommodated by an anachronistic Downtown panorama that takes in the Tower, the Rock Hall, **and** the burning Cuyahoga… ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/36 "2007-03-21T15:23:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] I purposely avoided those because of the ugliness that would occur. The carpet in the Monona Terrace makes me dizzy whenever I look at it. What is it with convention centers and ugly carpets? [/QUOTE] I have never seen the carpeting inside the Monona Terror for I refuse to set foot in it. Ugly building blighting the shoreline, built only because it’s Frank Goddamn Lloyd Wright’s Last Unfinished Design or some shit (except it’s not because after, like, the third referendum to build the thing finally passed, suddenly plans for some damn boathouse that he designed to go with it appeared). The Overblown Center I have less choice about, because how else am I going to see Four Bitchin’ Babes and The Nylons when they’re booked in every frickin’ year? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/37 "2007-03-21T15:40:13Z")
Fredonia, NY: a natural gas well in front of a Grange House. In the background is the famous I.M.Pei architecture of SUNY Fredonia. (Use creative geography :)) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/38 "2007-03-21T15:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I have never seen the carpeting inside the Monona Terror for I refuse to set foot in it. Ugly building blighting the shoreline, built only because it’s Frank Goddamn Lloyd Wright’s Last Unfinished Design or some shit (except it’s not because after, like, the third referendum to build the thing finally passed, suddenly plans for some damn boathouse that he designed to go with it appeared). The Overblown Center I have less choice about, because how else am I going to see Four Bitchin’ Babes and The Nylons when they’re booked in every frickin’ year? [/QUOTE] The Wisconsin TAG grant program-thingy that I participated in when I was younger always held their conferences in the freaking Monona Terrace. The view over the lake is nice, but the carpeting is a terror. Think Aztecan nightmare, coupled with earth-toned primary color. Lots of red, hints of blue. OK, now take that image and put it on a record player and let it spin for a good while. Look like vomit? Good, you’ve discovered what the carpeting in the Monona Terrace is like. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/39 "2007-03-21T15:56:23Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] …There’ll have to be a committee meeting to discuss the design for Cleveland. I lived in that city’s suburbs from birth (1959) until moving to Indiana in 2001, and my first thought was [this building.](http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=121783) When my siblings and I were younger, our family would often head to the city, and the kids would compete to see who’d be the first to say “I see the Terminal Tower!” Perhaps the different generations and senses of pride/disdain could be accommodated by an anachronistic Downtown panorama that takes in the Tower, the Rock Hall, **and** the burning Cuyahoga… [/QUOTE] I agree that the Cleveland quarter should prominently feature the Terminal Tower, and if it wouldn’t be too crowded, I’d include I.M. Pei’s distinctive Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, too: [http://iatwm.com/200509/Cleveland/RockHall.jpg](http://iatwm.com/200509/Cleveland/RockHall.jpg) Or maybe a compressed version of the city skyline? And enough with the burning river jokes, already! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/40 "2007-03-21T15:57:54Z")
Des Moines, IA: A State House, two rivers, and a mixmaster, surrounded by cheesy housing developments. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779.md?page=3)