From YOUR Home Town

[mojoe54]

MY HOMETOWN WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF JACK BENNY, RAY BRADBURY...AND ME!

 

[slobone]

Scrabble, apparently.

 

[springboksfan]

Steve Tasker, Pro Bowl MVP, 1993

(with wife Sarah)


http://www.buffalosportshallfame.com/Class_of_2001/Steve_Tasker/steve_tasker.html

 

[JakeBequette]

Um.... Well, I think the worlds largest lead deposit used to be here. Moses Austin is burried here also.... That's just about it....

Potosi on Wikipedia​

 

[dvdmallett]

My home town Avril Lavigne, where I now reside, Jim Carey.

 

[colabearbc]

Terry Fox, Raymond Burr, Michael J. Fox all within 10 miles from my home.

 

[lostboi5]

My town is famous for its steel mill. The mill itself began making rails in 1868, becoming the first facility in the United States with the main purpose for making steel. The mill also installed the first iron-producing Open Hearth Plant and Blooming Shop in the 1870s. Of Course with steel workers, the town was also famous for its bars. A town of 2.2 square miles that at its peak boasted 27 bars and 17 churches!

 

[josher]

George Washington slept here. Was he never home?

 

[JayHew]

Home town was known for building the best firetrucks (American La France) is the glider capital of America, Mark Twain Home was there (Landon home) and Quarry Farm where he spent the summers writing (his small octagon office where he wrote parts of Tom Sawyer, Hick Finn was located on that farm is now on the Campus of Elmira College). Speaking of the College, was the first Woman's College. Location of the Battle of Newtown where the Iroquis league was broken by the Colonial Army during the American Revolution. Location of one of the worst prisoner of war interment camps during the Civil War. Just to name a few things.

Sort of a podunk town, but nice scenery and quite a bit to do around there. 23 miles from Watkins Glen for the racer crowd.

Have only be back there on short visits over the last 30 years.

 

[justjoshoh]

Dayton is known for these inventions:

Airplane
Controls for Rudder
Elevator
Wing Lift Shape
Isolated Home and Farm Electric Lighting System
Stepladder
Radio Isotopic Thermoelectric Generator
Controllable Pitch Propeller
Microfiche
Collapsible Portable Crib
Human Heart-Lung Machine
Motorized Wheelchair
Walker Attachment for Wheelchair
Pull Tab
Pop Top Beverage Can
Ice Cube Tray with Ejector Mechanism
Smart Fan
Micro-Encapsulation
Goniometer
Manually Operated External Heart Machine and Expiratory Valve
Liquid Crystal Alingment Methodology
Movie Projector
Movie Camera
Movie Film
Movie Theater
Multiple Array Continous Ink Jet Printer
Automobile Starter
100 Octane Aviation Fuel
Price Tag Affixing Machine
Directional Compass with Dual Radio Beam Triangulation System
Flexible Radiator Hoses with Wire Impregnated Sweeper Hoses
Learmatic Electrostatic Gyroscope
Lighted Scoreboard
Leland Refractor
Solenoid
Incentive Stamp
Ethyl-Leaded Gasoline
Airplane Supercharger
Official Building Mail Chutes
Electrically Stimulated Ambulatory Motion
Cash Register
Gas Masks
Portable Breathing Resuscitator
Computing Scale for Butchers and Grocers
Parachute
Continuous Rolling of Wide-Strip Steel Manufacturing Process
Airplane Ejection Seats
Artificial Heart
Artificial Kidney
Automobile Air Bags
Bionic Organs
Blind Solo Flight
Carbonless Copy Paper
Chrome Plating
Computerized Aircraft Loading System
Double Glass Windows
Electric Cash Register
Filter Cigarettes
Fixed-Focus Headlights
Frost-proof freezer
Fuzzbuster & Radar Detectors
Glass Photographic Negatives
Ice Cream Cone
Instant Blood-Glucose Level Testing
Laser Weapons
Liberty Engine
Night Serial Photography
Nuclear Powered Pacemaker
Quick Process Malleable Iron
Room Air Conditioner

Dayton also has its share of famous people:

Erma Bombeck, national columnist
Allen W. Eckert, author
John Jakes, author
Clarence Page, journalist
Chip Bok, cartoonist
Milton Caniff, cartoonist "Terry and the Pirate" & " Steve Canyon"
Nancy Cartwright, voice talent "Bart Simpson"
Bing Davis, artist
Cathy Guiseweit, cartoonist "Cathy"
Mark Henn, Disney artist "Pocahantas"
Mike Peters, cartoonist "Mother Goose and Grimm"
Coby Whitmore, illustrator
Phil Donahue, talk show host
The Breeders
Rick Derringer, musician
Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter "Showgirls", "Basic Instinct" & "Jagged Edge"
Dorian Harewood, actor "Roots"
Allison Janney, actress "The West Wing"
Gordon Jump, actor "WKRP In Cincinnati" & Maytag Man
John Lithgow, actor "Third Rock From the Sun"
Rob Lowe, actor "The West Wing"
Chad Lowe, actor
Roy Meriwether, jazz pianist
Shirley Murdock, singer
Don Novello, "Father Guido Sarducci" of Saturday Night Live
The Ohio Players
Julia Reichert, filmmaker
Gary Sandy, actor "WKRP In Cincinnati"
Martin Sheen, actor "The West Wing"
Ming Tsai, chef, TV host
Jonathan Winters, actor, comedian
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet


All of these items were found at the City of Dayton website

 

[Soilwork]

I'm not sure which home town to choose.

I was born in Hartford which I think used to have lots of insurance companies in it.

I lived in Sackville New Brunswick until I was 18, and that gave the world lots of ugly, smelly, inbred farmers and nervous sheep that walk funny.

I lived in Toronto for 18 years, and that was the first city to have no racial majority, a stong gay community, and.. um... Rush.

I now live in LA, which gave you Paris Hilton's career. Sorry.

 

[treanir]

Fireworks Disaster
In 2000, a fireworks storage facility exploded, killing 23 people and destroying an entire neighbourhood. Video footage has been seen by people all over the world and the Discovery Channel made a Blueprint for Disaster episode on it.

Textile industry
My home town used to be famous for its textile industry. The end of the industrial revolution put a stop to that.

Grolsch
Ever had Grolsch? It comes from my home town.

 

[ozguy]

I was born and grew up in Kalgoorlie, an inland gold mining town some 600 km east of Perth. Gold was first discovered here in 1893, and it has remained Kalgoorlie's major industry for the past 113 years.

Kalgoorlie's claim to fame .....

The largest concentration of gold mines in Kalgoorlie is confined to an area of about 1 square mile on the south-east outskirts of the town. It is often referred to as the Golden Mile, and is said to be the richest square mile of gold-bearing earth on the planet.

Today all the old gold mines are literally being swallowed up by the super pit, an immense open cut gold mine (Australia's largest).

If you ever make it to Western Australia, a visit to Kalgoorlie is highly recommended .... it is one of Australia's most amazing and fascinating outback cities!

Views of Kalgoorlie (including the Super Pit) .....

 

[aussieduo]

My hometown, Mackay, Queensland was the home of Kathy Freeman. We produce 1/3 of Australia's Sugar. We have the largest bulk Sugar terminal in the world. We are also home to one of the largest and most efficient coal terminals in the world, as this is a major mining area. Also found here, is the largest continuous stretch of Tropical Rainforest in Australia, which is also home to many plants and animals found nowhere else. Mackay is also the home to the largest collection of Art-Deco buildings in Australia. For a city with just under 100,000 people, I think we aren't doing too bad at all!!

 

[Lube]

Walt Whitman.

 

[Fastdavy]

I'm from a small town,all we has was Lloyd Bridges

 

[momp57]

I'M SO EMBARASSED!
"I come from a different place and it has made me a different leader. In Midland, Texas, where I grew up, the town motto was, ``The sky's the limit,'' and we believed it. There was a restless energy, a basic conviction that with hard work, anybody could succeed and everybody deserved a chance. Our sense of community -- our sense of community was just as strong as that sense of promise. Neighbors helped each other. There were dry wells and sand storms to keep you humble, lifelong friends to take your side, and churches to remind us that every soul is equal in value and equal in need. This background leaves more than an accent, it leaves an outlook -- optimistic, impatient with pretense, confident that people can chart their own course in life.... The largest lesson I learned in Midland still guides me as governor of Texas: Everyone, from immigrant to entrepreneur, has an equal claim on this country's promise." --George W. Bush, Acceptance Speech, 8/3/00

 

[tx_doc]

Austin, Tx:
Our state capital is 15 feet (5 m) higher than the National Capitol and made entirely out of pink granite.
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman killed 16 people by firing upon them with his rifle from atop the UT Tower.
The city is referred to as Silicon Hills due to the following high tech companies having headquarters here: Dell, IBM, Freescale Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Vignette, AMD, Applied Materials, Intel, Motive Inc, Cirrus Logic, Samsung, National Instruments, United Devices and Sun Microsystems.
Famous Austinites: Matthew McConaughey, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Dabney Coleman, Tom Ford of Gucci, Ethan Hawke, Harry Knowles, Benjamin McKenzie from the OC, writer James Michener, rapper Nelly, wrestler Dusty Rhodes, director Robert Rodriguez, CBS news Bob Schieffer, R&B singer Ciara, and Star Trek's Michelle Forbes.

 

[hotdog1846]

My hometown, Colorado Springs, gave us Cassandra Peterson, the actress who brought Elvira, Mistress of the Dark to life!

Aren't her boobs fascinating?

Elvira:

Cassandra Peterson, out of costume:

 

[ozguy]

ALBANY, Western Australia .... my home for the past 30 years. Some claims to fame ....

* First official settlement in Western Australia .... Declared a military outpost by the British on January 21, 1827 and originally called Fredericks Town, but the name of Albany was officially proclaimed in 1832.

* Princess Royal Harbour ..... Albany's beautiful natural harbour; one of six of the largest natural harbours in the world ....

* Dog Rock .... Mother Nature's handiwork and right in the middle of town ....

* St. Johns Anglican Church, Albany .... constructed in the 1840s from local stone and was the first church consecrated in Western Australia.

* Albany has a very important link to the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) legend as the first and second ANZAC convoys left from Albany. These convoys consisted of troop ships from all over Australia, as well as New Zealand, and included the flagship of the China Station and a Japanese battle cruiser as part of the naval escort. Albany was chosen as the rendezvous point because it was an important coaling and watering port. The convoy left Albany for Egypt, where the troops would train before being landed at Gallipoli to fight the Turks in World War 1.

For the thousands of Australian soldiers who died at Gallipolli, Albany and King George Sound was their last sight of their homeland.

* Albany has another strong Anzac connection in that it was where the first dawn service was held. In 1918 a young Anglican chaplain, Padre Arthur Ernest White, who served as chaplain with the 44th Battalion AIF and was gassed and wounded at the Western Front, celebrated a Requiem Mass for the Battle Dead at the alter of St. John's Anglican Church, Albany. After the service he and some members of the congregation climbed to the summit of Mount Clarence. It was from this viewpoint that the people of Albany had gathered in 1914 to look at the great convoy of ships that had gathered in the Sound to carry the men to Egypt. As Padre White looked over Princess Royal Harbour, he is reported to have said 'Albany was the last sight of land our troops saw of Australia. Perhaps we should commemorate them this way every Anzac Day.'

In 1929, Padre White was appointed Rector of Albany and decided to mark the next Anzac Day by celebrating a Dawn Eucharist. On April 25th, 1930, some parishioners who attended this 6 am service then accompanied their rector to the nearby war memorial, where he placed a wreath on behalf of the parish. They then followed him up Mt Clarence to wait for a boatman to lay a wreath in the water at the entrance of the harbour where it would drift out into King George Sound. As it was laid, Padre White said these words, 'As the sun riseth and goeth down, we will remember them'.

When he entered the details in the church service register, he wrote, 'First Dawn Service held in Australia.'

King George Sound, from where the first and second ANZAC convoys departed. I took this pic from the top of Mt Clarence, at the Dawn Service on ANZAC Day this year ....