# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/41 "2007-03-21T16:51:16Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Minneapolis/St. Paul - Mall of America [/QUOTE] Nah, it doesn’t look like anything. Probably a good choice would be the [spoon-cherry](http://i.pbase.com/u5/mngatorguy/upload/37165099.cherry_9634w.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/42 "2007-03-21T17:16:39Z")
Baltimore: syringe ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/43 "2007-03-21T17:25:41Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Baltimore - Fort McHenry [/QUOTE] That was the first thing that popped into my mind. But i think there are some other views that locals might prefer. Maybe Federal Hill, or the Inner Harbor. Personally, i’d stump for Mt. Vernon and the Washington Monument. Or perhaps a car running a red light. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/44 "2007-03-21T17:28:17Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Des Moines, IA: A State House, two rivers, and a mixmaster, surrounded by cheesy housing developments. [/QUOTE] And a 1955 calendar to show what the current year is in DM. **Chicago** - A lawn chair sitting in a shoveled out parking space on a snow filled street. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/45 "2007-03-21T18:27:00Z")
**Boise, Idaho-** They’d probably show the [Idaho State Capitol Building](http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc19202.php). Either that, or the [Boise Train Depot](http://www.world-guides.com/images/boise/boise_train_depot_travel2.jpg), which stands at the opposite end of Capitol Blvd. from the Capitol and is considered by some to be Boise’s signature landmark. ---
**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, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/46 "2007-03-21T18:49:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] 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. [/QUOTE] Our HS Prom was there. The carpet in the “Mistake on the Lake” is a combination of 1970’s worst colors (rusty orange, teal, purple, and the like) and modern design. Now add in a bunch of HS girls and the rainbow of colors that prom dresses come in. Prom looked like the kid who ate crayons puked everywhere. I hate that carpet! ---
**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, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/47 "2007-03-21T18:51:35Z")
[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy] Nah, it doesn’t look like anything. Probably a good choice would be the [spoon-cherry](http://i.pbase.com/u5/mngatorguy/upload/37165099.cherry_9634w.jpg) [/QUOTE] I got a “ **Forbidden** ” message when I clicked that link. For those who were similarly foiled, [try this view.](http://z.about.com/d/minneapolis/1/0/v/1/nov2000spoon.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/48 "2007-03-21T18:56:44Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Gainesville: A gator. _sigh_ [/QUOTE] no, it’d be a passed-out student next to a broken liquor bottle and a condom, duh. 😃 But then, that might be a bit indistinguishable from most other college towns… How about… The Football AND basketball National Championship Logos 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/49 "2007-03-21T18:57:28Z")
Montgomery, AL: I’d opt for the [Alabama Shakespeare Festival](http://www.countryinns.com/chi/images/hotels/ALMONEAS/loc3_450.jpg) (mainly because most people don’t associate $50 million Shakespearean theaters with Alabama), but I’m guessing they’d go either with the [capitol](http://p.vtourist.com/474880-Capitol-Alabama.jpg) or, if it was election year, Rosa Parks or Jefferson Davis, depending on who they were pandering to the most at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/50 "2007-03-21T22:46:07Z")
[QUOTE=CoG888] **tripler** , I think Charlie Russell’s [skull](http://www.cmrussell.org) would be very fitting for Great Falls. [/QUOTE] AAAH! I’m so _sick_ of Russel! I thought I escaped his artsy wrath when I left! Yeah, it was great at first, but when yer inundated with ‘Russel this’ and ‘Russel that’, it gets annoying. You couldn’t go to a restaurant and not see a ‘Russel Special’ on the menu. :smack: Tripler I’ll happily take Lewie & Clark any day. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/51 "2007-03-21T23:10:21Z")
Birmingham(AL): [Vulcan](http://www.vulcanpark.org/) ---
**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 22, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/52 "2007-03-22T13:25:19Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] Birmingham(AL): [Vulcan](http://www.vulcanpark.org/) [/QUOTE] If he ain’t got pointy ears, he ain’t no Vulcan in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/53 "2007-03-22T14:14:34Z")
Houston, TX Either the NASA logo or the San Jacinto monument. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/54 "2007-03-22T16:25:02Z")
Cleveland [The FREE Stamp](http://cs.georgefox.edu/~nbodenst/roadtrip/gallery/allpics/free_stamp.jpg) [Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum](http://home.neo.rr.com/rodsphotogallery/CityLife/Cleveland/Images/RocknRoll.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/55 "2007-03-22T16:56:17Z")
Well, Farifax, Virginia hardly amounts to a “major mity” but there is only one choice of historic landmark in my city. [The Fairfax County Courthouse](http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/courthouse/) is the oldest courthouse in the United States that is still in use as a court. Juvenile and Domestic Relations hearings are still held in the original courtroom, restored to it’s earliest known appearance. Multiple new and very large buildings surround it now. They have George Washington’s Will there, where it was originally submitted for probate. Tris ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/56 "2007-03-22T21:57:29Z")
Houston would probably have some spaceship crap. I’m really sick of that, especially since none of that stuff is really in Houston. Or, if they were feeling retro, something to do with cowboys, although even the people who held on for years thinking we were some sort of cowtown have mostly given up, or died. An honest one would have a mess of refineries and the ship channel. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779/57 "2007-03-23T00:16:49Z")
My hometown of Tacoma should have [“Galloping Gertie”](http://www.ee.utulsa.edu/~pgl/tnb1.jpg), the first bridge across the Tacoma Narrows. The locals would probably want [the current bridge](http://www.dragonwyck.net/images/narrows-bridge.JPG) or the new [double bridge.](http://bridgepros.com/projects/TacomaNarrows/designviz2_small.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-us-city-quarter/396779.md?page=2)