Seeing as I grew up in Hollywood, CA, I don’t know where to begin, as you might imagine.
How odd.
I had mentioned that Charles Shultz had lived here briefly and had created a mural for his daughters room and the current owners sent it to the Shultz family…
Well, it just so happens that the Today Show had Al Roker at the soon to be opened museum in California and they showed the mural! That was Tuesday morning, I don’t recall. It was just odd because I had posted this on Monday.
Huh.
Techchick69 I will always assiciate your town with Dan’s Bake Sale also known as the Republican-Love-In. (I’m sure you conservitives remember this right? Musta been '94?)
Here in Toledo,Ohio we were known as “The Glass Capitol” arguably, the art glass movement of the 50’s and 60’s was started here. Dominic Labino had a studio.
That silly Ice cream scoop you see every where was designed here.
We have the best Art Museum in the United States that charges no fee for entrance. By donation only, a plastic box sits at the door. I usually put in a fiver per person.
Our Zoo had the very first filmed underwater birth of a hippo.It lead to us getting the pandas from china long before San Dieago.
Leading research in fighting musquito borne diseases was done here waaaaay back. We used to be a swamp you know?
Willys-Overland designed and manufactured the first Jeeps for the military. When Chystler bought A.M.C. it wern’t for the Pacer.
Tony Paco’s is still here in his original store, though his grandchildren are arguing now, this institution ain’t going anywhere.
** Jamie Farr** and the L.P.G.A. for the Kroger Classic at Inverness Club (site of Senoir U.S. Open in 2003)
And lastly, lets not forget the Toledo MudHens! We got a new stadium and are on top of the league. Watch out Louisville Bats. We’re coming to kick your arses.
We invented Techno music
(hey, shut up, it’s cool to me!!!)
Where’s that, 5-HT? I can think of a few places with a decent claim.
Detroit of course, everyone else is lying.
(well maybe not Belleville, but they are a Detroit Suburb)
Coventry where Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets and the original Peeping Tom was struck blind when trying to get a look at her.
Where were Kraftwerk from? (not that I’d argue Detroit has a damn good claim!)
Well, that’s really a just a question of what you consider to be Techno. not many people would describe Kraftwerk as techno, though they were, of course, intensely influential to the original techno artists. I’d personally call them Electro, as it lacked techno’s characteristic 4/4 bass much of the time. As Derrick May said, “techno is like Kraftwerk and George Clinton trapped in an elevator with nothing but a sequencer to keep them company”
I currently live in a town that is considered the speed-trap capital of Colorado.
But when I lived in New Mexico I lived in two communities that had interesting claims to fame.
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Columbus, The only town/city in the U.S. occupied by a foreign power since the war of 1812. It was right around the turn of the last century. Villa came across the border kicked a little butt and stayed in town for a week or so and then left. We used to claim that he probably just got bored. Related to that, Columbus also claims the first military air field in the U.S. After Villa left Columbus, the U.S. Cavalry came in and purchased a couple of Wright (they might have been Jennys) bi-planes to try to find the Mexican general/terrorist. They built a barn to put the planes together and house them and had the first ever U.S. military air base.
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Clayton, It is the town that while they were hanging old west bad-man Black Jack Ketchum, they accidently ripped his head off. They actually buried the head and body in two different locations in the town cemetery for awhile. But then someone ran for town council on a “reunite Black Jack’s body parts” ticket and they were put back together. For years people kept trying to dig up Ketchum’s coffin and steal it. It is now incased in tons of concrete.
Hometown: Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
Author W.O. Mitchell lived there, and socialist/unionist politician T.C. Douglas.
We had one of the first cable-TV setups in western Canada, and the highest TV tower for a while.
The psych hospital, which served the southern half of the province, was very progressive for the 1930’s when it was built. Dr. Osmond did some early LSD research there, and I think his collaborator Dr. Hoffer visited a time or two.
Present day: Burnaby, BC.
Nothing ever happened here. Go next door to Vancouver - Captain Cook dropped by.
Sheffield has an Art Deco silent movie house that dates back to the 1920s. After years of neglect, it was restored and turned into a nice 300 seat theater.
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is located here. Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, The Stones, Traffic, and lots of others used to record here. Then again so did the Osmonds.
I drive by the 3614 Jackson Highway Studios where Lynyrd Skynyrd did some of their first professional recordings every day. Not once have I found that cool.
I live in a large city, so I’ll narrow this down to my suburb, and give you The Bankstown Bunker.
Check out the last pic on the page for an idea of what the Bunker was like when it was new.
Leon Trotsy spent some time in the PoW camp we had here during World War I. He was captain of one of the baseball teams the Germans had set up, but instead of talking about playing ball he’d give lectures on the glory of communism.
My home town and the city where I live now are both in NI so most historical stuff is distasteful but there are a few bright spots.
There’s a printer’s in my home town, Strabane called Gray’s Printers. Supposedly this was the workplace of someone who went on to print the American Declaration of Independence. (Note that’s printed, not wrote or composed or signed)
And where I live now, Belfast we built the Titanic and the DeLorean DMC12 and we know how they turned out.
Briefly served as the capital of the United States after the the Revolutionary War.
Congress ratified The Treaty of Paris ending the war here.
George Washington resigned his commission here.
The U.S. Naval Academy is here,
etc.
Imagine my shock that no one’s mentioned Las Cruces, New Mexico, yet. Actually, Mesilla Park, which is a holdout Las Cruces has enveloped, was the last grounds and trial place of Billy the Kid. Lots of Wild West things going on here over the last several centuries.
Where I went to HS, The Dalles, Oregon, is generally considered the end of the Oregon Trail.
Get out much, jk1245?
Madison, Wisconsin -
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Named after James Madison, Fourth President of the US. At the time the major downtown streets are named after all 39 signers of the Constitution. No other location in the world can make this claim.
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Study home to John Muir, considered the founder of the world-wide conservation movement. Muir credits the University of Wisconsin, and a particular professor for his inspiration.
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Lake Mendota, the most researched lake in the world.
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Home of the Forest Products Laboratory, the only lab of its kind in the world.
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Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society, taught at UW-Madison.
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Vitamin D discovered in Madison.
There are others but they escape me for the moment.
Oh, yeah. The 32nd anniversary of the Sterling Hall Bombing is August 24.
I live in American Falls The only town in the United States to be moved intact for a dam to be build. Every building was moved in 1924 to a new sight. My house was one of the ones moved and they set it in backwards. which explaines why the beautiful stained glass windows face the back porch.
I used to live in Arco, Idaho the first city in the world lit by Atomic power. If you call 2000 people a city :rolleyes:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
winnie the pooh of course
a soilder who had lived here during world war one, found a baby black bear in Ontatio and named her Winnipeg, “winnie” for short
um…windest intersection in north america?
thats not really historic…
the Red and Assinoboine (?) rivers meet and thats where alot of the fur trading happened
and ya thats all i can think of…