What is your town famous for?

Question

It's got to be famous for something doesn't it?

Answer 1

there is an old castle from the 16th century next to the sea~

Answer 2

Crescent City, California was the hardest hit town during a tidal wave in 1964. The waves reached as much as 6 meters (20-21 feet) and destroyed half of the waterfront business district. Eleven persons lost their lives.

We were struck by another tidal surge in November of 2006 which did damage to the boats and docks in the harbor but did not come ashore.

The town was evacuated about a year and a half ago after a large earthquake 90 miles off shore. We only had 20 minutes to get to high ground, as it wasn't clear whether a tsunami had been generated. Luckily it wasn't, but it was a pretty creepy experience.

Answer 3

--Being in a Huey Lewis and the News lyric *decades* ago (Champaign, Illinois).

--General purpose geekiness. Seriously, last time I checked, the University of Illinois here in Urbana-Champaign still had one of the *five largest* Library systems in the United States. This after being in the top three all through the 80s and part of the 90s.

*And* much of the technology that goes into your large-screen Plasma TV was invented by researchers here. *And* the software parent of both Mozilla/Firefox and Netscape Navigator, Mosaic, was created here. *And* until very recently we had at least a partly functional set of underground tunnels built in the late 1800s that were designed to get people from Point A to Point B safely in spite of the more than occasional *bitterly cold* winters back then. (of course, the tunnels were falling apart, and are now mostly sealed off for good....it isn't just about keeping the D&D freaks out of the *real dungeons*, there was too much in the way of crime and break-ins going on since some tunnels led directly into building basements)

Oh, and did I mention that I live about *four blocks* at most away from a top flight Nanotechnology Building *and* the Beckman Institute, where people study things (related to cybernetics and psychology) that even most of the other students aren't fully clued in on, never mind the locals. :))

Lots and lots of stuff going on. And serious, major league surplus computing power *per capita*.

Like I said, General Purpose Geekiness, though it isn't as cool in that regard as it once was. Other small to mid-sized collegiate and University towns are catching up is why...that and a lot of things here that were *Once* the greatest are going the way of the tunnels. :) Hope this helps and thanks for your time!

Answer 4

Syracuse-
* Tom Cruise - Actor that has starred in many top-grossing movies.
* Robert F. Engle - Recipient of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in developing methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility or common trends.
* Terry McAuliffe - former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and confidant of President Clinton Telergy Board of Directors.
* Rod Serling - Screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction series The Twilight Zone.
* Jimmy Van Heusen (Chester Babcock, 1913-1990) - major American song writer, winner of four Oscars and an Emmy [2]

Several other well-known individuals have ties to the Syracuse Metropolitan Area, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, actor Richard Gere, and two-term United States President Grover Cleveland.

Answer 5

William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Answer 6

Pickle Capitol !!

(Strangely so, since pickles aren't even pickled here anymore!! LOL )

Al Capone's hideaway and speakeasy

A made for Television movie actually created a song about my hometown. (Oooh aah __________)

We make and invented Black Boxes here, yeah, the one's that aren't even black...you know...in the planes!
We make those stupid Highway cones here

We had the first Solar Energy high school....later it became known as the "Mold School."

We produced the guy who's playing the lead role in "Phantom of the Opera" in Las Vegas. (went to high school with him)

A few major motion pictures have been filmed in the town directly next to mine....in paticular:
"The Road to Perdition" and "Novacaine"

Answer 7

I live in a little town called Apalachicola,Fl. We are famous for the inventor John Gorrie who invented the ice machine.

Answer 8

My home town in Tennessee is known for hanging an elephant from a railroad crane back in the early 1900's. A traveling circus was coming thru town and the elephant went on a murderous rampage and killed it's handler. No one had a gun big enough to shoot it, so they hung it.

Answer 9

Casino's and Black Jack Lovely Lady Luck and the roll of the dice,show girls and Sigfrid and Roy. Brights lights and Wedding Chaples,Elvis impersonators and Wayne Newton.Home of the ALL you CAN eat Buffet's and Cool night clubs and of days gone by "The Rat Pack".

Answer 10

Disney World!

Answer 11

Mardi Gras
swamps
Crawfish
Gumbo
Hurricane Katrina/Rita