Your city/hometown

[crazycanuck]

Hey ladies,

As i was biking this evening, i thought about asking you lovely ladies about your city or hometown.(I know i mentioned something like this in the SS thread but will put it here...)

Is there something well known or special about your town/hometown? I know very little about many of your hometowns and would love to know more..I know i could google but i'd be here for a while....(Curious about missouri for some reason...)

So i'll start...1-from what i understand Perth is the most isolated capital city in the world. 2Western australia has 12500km of coastline...!!! 3-The rabbit proof fence is/was situated in WA & is the longest in the world...

c

[Kimmyt]

My hometown where I was born was supposedly the place that Ben Franklin flew his little kite thinger?

I don't know much about the town I live in now, but the next town over and the town that I really really wanna live in, is the town where The Blob was filmed! The theater in the movie that everyone runs screaming out of is the still in operation and every summer they have a Blobfest where theres a parade and people dress up as characters and then they load people into the theater and watch the film and re-enact the running-from-the-theater scene. I'm totally gonna go this year.

K.

Also: I saw Rabbit Proof Fence and OMG was that the saddest movie ever...

[AllezGirl]

Curious about missouri for some reason...)

I grew up in Camdenton, Missouri. There really isn't much to brag about, but it is on the RAAM route and the people are extremely friendly. That's the aspect that I miss the most about the Mid-West.

[QUOTE][I don't know much about the town I live in now, but the next town over and the town that I really really wanna live in, is the town where The Blob was filmed! The theater in the movie that everyone runs screaming out of is the still in operation and every summer they have a Blobfest where theres a parade and people dress up as characters and then they load people into the theater and watch the film and re-enact the running-from-the-theater scene. I'm totally gonna go this year.
/QUOTE]

I have lived in Phoenixville, PA for the about 10 years (yup, home of the blobfest!)...I love it here!

[SJCzar]

Hometown : Milwaukee, WI

Everyone thinks beer, brats, and Friday Fish Fry when discussing Milwaukee but there really is a lot more.

We are also known as the City of Festivals. We have a beautiful lakefront area which hosts a different ethic festival every weekend of the summer.

Our main festival, Summerfest, which runs for ten days from the end of June into July is really worth coming to town for. There are multiple stages with all different types of music going on all day. It really attracts some great acts. A few years ago Billboard Magazine even rated it as the best music festival in the country.

We also have a first class zoo and excellent museums. Our art museum got a fabulous makeover with an new addition designed by Santiago Calatrava.

[caligurl]

i was born and raised in herkimer, ny.... in the mohawk river valley of upstate new york.... right smack in the middle of the state!

herkimer was named after a revolutionary war general.... his home is still a popular place to visit on the mohawk river/barge canal..... the whole area is rich in history.... a lot of people don't realize that upstate NY has a lot of agriculture and dairy farming... most people think of NYC when you mention NY (hubby fell in love with the area when he visited.. all the older colonial homes.... the green grass... trees.... cows.... far from what he stereotypical pictured for "new york") even though we lived in the middle of town, we was fortunate that our grandparents had a small "hobby" farm with a few cows.... my sister and i would spend our younger summers at their house during the day... playing in the hay barn... in the neighbors corn fields... with the cows! (one of my most traumatic memories was walking through the middle of a neighboring barn and a cow with runny poop splattering ALL over me! UGH! yes... i was a priss even back then and that was VERY traumatic! another traumatic memory.... when i found out that one of the little cows had actually been purchasefd for and meat! i NEVER ate ANY of it! if my mom was cooking that meat.... i got to eat spaghettios.... i look back now and wonder how i would have known the difference?????? but she appeased me for some reason and didn't make me eat it!)

we are "famous" for herkimer diamonds..

we are close to remington guns (in ilion... where my mom grew up) and utica.... which, of course had the fx matt brewery.... home of utica club beer *rolls eyes* and the boilermaker race.....cooperstown and the baseball hall of fame is also just a short drive away... all in all... a nice area to grow up in and to be able to go back and visit!

oh... we're also an exit on the new york state thruway! lol!

[kaybee]

I actually grew up in the bayou country of Louisiana. Sure do miss crawfish! I married a Georgia boy, and for the last 20 years have lived in or near Dalton, Georgia, the Carpet Capital of the World. Most of the carpet made in the United States is made in a three-county area centered around Dalton. Shaw, Mohawk, and Beaulieu are headquartered here. However, neither DH nor I work in the carpet industry.

The Tour de Georgia will roll through here next Friday, and BRAG begins here the second weekend in June. We're 25 south miles of Chattanooga, TN, and 90 miles north of Atlanta.

KB

[bikerchick68]

I'm in San Diego, CA. Famous for surfing, fish tacos, near perfect weather, the start for RAAM every year, and Hotel Del Coronado. Also a military town with both Miramar Naval Base (where Top Gun was filmed) as well as Camp Pendleton...

every fall the Blue Angels fly over my office for 5 days during the air show... I sit in the grass outside and eat lunch so I can watch them without fighting the crowds!

We have wonderful riding routes... inland is plenty of climbing and you can ride the coastline from LA to San Diego cycling along the water most of the way... really neat to be riding and watching the surfers catch waves!

[Dianyla]

I grew up in Redlands, CA. Known for lots of WASPs, old victorian mansions, and the Redlands Bicycle Classic.

[Popoki_Nui]

Hometown: Victoria BC
http://www.tourismvictoria.com/

Originally a Hudson's Bay Company trading outpost and Gold Rush staging point in the 1800's, Victoria was built largely by Chinese and Kanaka labourers and ruled by the British. Today Greater Victoria is the capital of British Columbia and a city of 350,000 laid-back, slightly off-centre folks, most of whom have ended up here on the island to escape from the harsh climate in the rest of Canada, as well as ex-pats and wanderers from all over the world.
Some of our most notable events are the Swiftsure and Victoria-to-Maui yacht races, Tall Ship Festival, FolkFest...a celebration of multiculturalism, and the Victoria Cycling Festival (yay! )
Hope you can visit sometime!

[bikerchick68]

Popoki... also the Gardens! I love Buschart Gardens (sp?)... and Stanley Gardens in Vancouver... as well as Capilano Suspension Bridge... Victoria and Vancouver are both just gorgeous!

[mmelindas]

...Yes, I have lived in 57 places in my 62 years... I consider a lot of places my "hometown".. but I spent most of my life in one place, Asheville, North Carolina...up in the Appalachian mountains, close to the Blue Ridge Parkway of western North Carolina....probably the most gorgeous mountains on earth... http://www.exploreasheville.com/

Asheville is famous as being the home of THOMAS WOLFE, a famous author whose stories made the theatre screen in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"... He wrote "Look Homeward Angel" and "You Can't Go Home again".... http://library.uncwil.edu/wolfe/wolfe.html

Asheville was voted the "Best City to Live in" back in the late 90's because of it' s mild climate, lots of beautiful mountains, low cost of living and tourist attractions (golf, hiking, great dining, mountains). People flock from all over in the fall to view the incredible colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It used to be one of TWO International Weather Records Centers in the US, but after the cold war, those centers were dispearsed all over because of security reasons. The military depends on those weather forcasts!

It's home to the famous Biltmore Home and Gardens, an amazing estate....
http://www.biltmore.com/

I loved living there and have a lot of memories. Billy Graham used to come to my high school and he lives in a small community nearby, Black Mountain, NC.

I imagine biking would be so much fun there, because of all the tree-shaded roads and gentle hill.

[mmelindas]

Oh, the southland, how beautiful... here are some shots from the Bayou country that I took from the cab of our truck when were there...(no more trucking for us, a year was enough...)

[btchance]

I grew up in Mustang, Oklahoma. The Chisholm Trail passes through at the Western edge of town (a whole 12 square miles of town). It's also where Kendall Cross, the Atlanta Olympics gold medalist in wrestling grew up (he was on the same team as one of my brothers). We've also had a few famous football players come through here, but I can't think of the names right now, which is completely unheard of for someone who went to OU. Oh well, I'm not that crazy about football anyways

[Crankin]

My hometown is Newton, MA. Known for being the birthplace of the Fig Newton cookie and having a great school system. I have also lived in Miami, FL (ugh), Tempe, AZ, Philadelphia (briefly), and Tyngsborough, Boxborough, and now Concord, MA. The Old North Bridge (the "shot heard round the world") is 3 miles from my house. I live in a town where tourists come from all over the world! Still can't get used to it.

[songlady]

Hey Caligurl, I have been to the Herkimer Diamond Mine! My mother is from Middleburgh, NY. Not exactly next door, but in the area.

Ok, Rochester is the home of Kodak. We also have one of the largest Lilac Festivals in the country every May, beautiful sight! Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass lived here. We are also the home of Wegmans grocery stores, if you've ever been in one, you know how wonderful they are.