What's So Special About Your Home Town

[YOSP]

Philly...

besides the historical part, we are averaging better than a murder a day...isn't that special

[zzaapp]

I was a Navy Brat, so I really don't have a home town.  Until I was in 8th grade, I thought it was normal to go to a different school for every grade.

I lived in the northwest burbs of Chicago for 25 years, and we raised our children there. 

Now we are in Dayton, Ohio, birthplace of aviation, home of the Wright Brothers.  If you are ever in town, check out the Air Force Museum.  They have some really interesting old equipment on display.

I still don't consider it a "home town", even though we make our home here now.  If people ask where I am from, I use that old line from Happy Days.  When Richie asked the enigmatic Kat Mandu where she was from, and she replied, "...from the place where the wind begins..."

[Robmeister]

Mine is special in an infamous way.

I live about 1.5...maybe 2 miles from Columbine High School here in Littleton, Colorado.

Grew up in Long Beach, California....when I was a kid we would watch the L.A. Rams practice at Blair Field in Long Beach.  We'd bug'm for autographs as they left.

Some of you may remember these names...but back then I had autographs (all on one piece of paper) of:

Merlin Olsen
Jack Snow
Roman Gabriel
Fred Dryer
Deacon Jones
Bob Brown
Tom Mack

That'd be worth some $$$$ if I still had it.

[champ007]

My town has became a big attraction, lately due to "Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil". I grew up here, moved away and came back. I like the laid back southern charm it still has. Its funny that the Bonaventure Cemetery has became so popular that they lock it up at night. I have relatives buried there and have passed out there at night in my younger adventures. The Wormsloe plantation is where they filmed the house for Forest Gump, its been a historic colonial place since I was knee high to a grasshopper! Lets not forget that Juliett Gordon Low was born here, which is the founder of the girl scouts, guess we wouldn't have all those great cookies! Oh and Mrs. Wilkes heart clogging country food, Ft. Pulaski and Ft. Jackson from the civil war, man there is alot crap here. Golf is also big here, minutes away from Hilton Head Island. I guess this town is ok, just need alot more rock concerts and it would be great!   

[agassi]

the movies league of there own and hard rain was filmed here

[marshd1000]

I was born in Tacoma, WA about 30 miles south of Seattle.  But I consider myself more of a Seattleite as I have lived here most of my life.  Anyway, Seattle is special in the fact that it is a exciting cosmopolitan city with a alive downtown core.  It has great shopping, nightlife, and tourist attractions like the Pike Place Market and the Seattle Center (the 1962 Expo grounds) with the Space Needle.  But in less than a hour, you can be skiing in the mountains, hiking or boating on Puget Sound.  In about 2 hours or less you can be at the main part of the ocean, Mt. Rainier or even desert.  I feel blessed to be from and live here.  Plus being sly is quite normal here!

[wpruitt]

Oh and Mrs. Wilkes heart clogging country food,...  

Don't forget The Lady and Sons, along with the St. Patrick's Day Celebration

[Jdogs Better Half]

sydney!!!

the beach!! somewhere in amongst those homes is where we live!!

[joergHH]

Hamburg!!

It's the best town in old German. See www.hamburg.de

If you need a contrast, take the Express train (ICE) to Berlin, it lasts only 90 minutes.

J

[KALBO]

Elkhorn, WI is called the "Christmas Card Town" for how it looks in the winter...started way before I was born.  My dad acutally got in a film(you can barely make him out sitting on the bench when they filmed some segments on the basketball team) they made on it in the 50's.

I moved to Delavan, WI for a bit...famous for its Circus back in the day, an elephant actually fell through the ice at a local lake.  Also famous for Gary Burgough(spell check)...you know, RADAR from M. A. S. H.?  My mom had the hots for him...he was a senior when she was a freshman in high school...shouldn't he be one to go SLY?

[nomad]

I grew up in Springboro, Oh. There is not much about this town, although it was part of the underground railroad during the slavery days. Then we moved to Venice, FL. The sharks tooth capital of the world, and former winter home of the Barnum Baily Circus until they moved out a couple of years agonow it just home to a bunch of real old people. Now I live in Marietta, Oh. Its known for being the first city and capital of Ohio, and the river boats, there's alot of history that started there on the expantion west way back when. I think the people that live there still think its 1891, very backwards. I like the fact that I travel for work all the time, I die of bordom there

[triumphcorvair]

Huntsville,TX....The VICTIMS Rights capital of the World!

[-Doug-]

I grew up in South Mills, NC (15 miles North of Elizabeth City, NC and 40 miles South of Norfolk, VA). What was special about it? Our house was right it front of the canal that is part of the Inter Coastal Water Way. During the peak season, we got to watch all sorts of boats travel up and down the canal.

Another interesting fact is that the county it was in had one stop light! Not sure if that is the case any more given all of the development that is happening nowadays.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

New Orleans, there's nothing more to say, good spicey food, spicey--to say the least- politics.  More than 250 years old, this old girl can't be burnt out or flooded out.  It's up, it's running and it's a great place to live and visit.  We're Back, as they said in the movie! Laisse les bons temps roulez!

[tomgallagher]

Philadelphia, where it all began in 1776.