My hometown is culturally insignificant.

[Tornado]

As that bar to the left of my post says, I'm from Lyons, New York. So I was perusing the Wikipedia page while listening to the TWEWY OST, and compared my town's Wikipedia page to some others near it. Out of all that research (at least 5 minutes worth), what have I learned? Nothing has ever happened here, ever.

Then we look at one town to the East:

• Hometown of the guy who made CatDog.
• Hometown of a PBA champion.
• My birthplace

Then we go to the North:

• Attacked, and burned down, by the British.
• Once contained a large number of Shakers.
• The birthplace of Arbor Day

To the West:

• Hit by a tornado so strong it apparently dissolved the village government. Or something.
• Used to be controlled by the French.
• Named after some Greek dude (okay, this town kinda sucks too).

To the South:

• Birthplace of the Mormons, thus directly responsible for at least 4 jokes for every sitcom made since the 80s.
• "The only place in the world that has four churches on the four corners of two intersecting highways" (possibly related to the Mormon thing). Did you here that!? The world!
• Hometown of the founder of American Express.

Somehow, being somewhat less poor than most towns in the area doesn't seem to cut it in comparison. I always wanted to live in the town to the East, but that was more because there was a Dunkin' Donuts there. The CatDog thing just makes me furious.

 

[BayConRong]

The most my hometown is good for is that we make excellent wine: Chateau St. Michelle, Colombia Winery. He have also Hosted Led Zeppelin and The Guess Who. Now let's play what city is it?! and Stiglettes can't guess.

to the West:

• Hometown of Deathcab for Cutie musician Ben Gibbard and Chris Walla
• Hometown of Sanjaya Malaka American idol runner up. Actually went to school at the school I went to. A couple of my friends knew him.

To the South:

• former home to the Seattle Seahawks
• former HQ for Costco
• HQ for Bungie Studios

The East:

• Home of Microsoft and
• Home of Nintendo of America.

 

[Philly]

@Toronado: Where about in New York is Lyons?

The most my hometown is good for is that we make excellent wine: Chateau St. Michelle, Colombia Winery. He have also Hosted Led Zeppelin and The Guess Who. Now let's play what city is it?! and Stiglettes can't guess.

Are you up in one of those towns on 303 or whatever that road is that runs from Snoqualmie to Monroe? Or Bothell?

to the South:

• Nothing interesting in that town.

To the North:

• former home to the Seattle Seahawks
• former HQ for Costco
• HQ for Bungie Studios

The East:

• This town was named after the airport that it contains.
• Nothing else interesting there.

And there's a whole lot of water to my West.

 

[YSSMAN]

My Town Has Cultural Significance!

Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

In Business...
* Known as the "furniture city," is home to Herman Miller and Steelcase
* Home to the Amway Corporation
* Home to the Meijer chain of stores
* Home to Wolverine World Wide (maker of Hush Puppies, Merril Shoes, CAT Boots, etc)

Cultural Pieces from Grand Rapids...
* Chris Van Allsberg (author) is from East Grand Rapids, the book The Polar Express is set here
* The writers of American Pie were from East Grand Rapids, and centered their movies around landmarks of the area
* Grand Rapids was one of the first cities in America to have a Volkswagen dealership in 1953

Government and Politics...
* Home, and final resting place of Gerald R. Ford (38th President of the US)
* Grand Rapids is considered to be the Conservative "center" of the Mid-West (despite going for Obama in 2008, tee hee!)
* In 1945, Grand Rapids was the first city in the US to place fluoride in its water
* Home of Rodger B. Chaffee, a NASA Astronaut, who was killed in the Apollo 1 disaster

Education...
* Home of Grand Valley State University, winner of the NCAA Div II championship (football) in four of the last nine years
* A massive number of religiously-based colleges (Aquinas, Cornerstone, Calvin, etc)

Famous People...
* Gillian Anderson (X-Files, etc)
* Al Green
* Anthony Kedis (that dude from the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
* Mustard Plug
* The Verve Pipe
* Johnny Benson (won the Craftsman Truck Series title in 2008)
* Floyd Mayweather Jr.
* Chris Van Allsberg (The Polar Express, Jumanji, Zathura)
* The DeVos family
* The VanAndel family
* The Bissel family (vacuum people)

...Considering that the Grand Rapids metropolitan are pretty much takes up a 1/3 of the state these days, you get to roll a lot of territory in there.

 

[Thiele]

I live in a town of 300 people, not much here...

 

[ASH32]

I live in a town of 300 people, not much here...

That's better than living in a town of 300 idiots and there is a lot more than that here, from drug dealers, to drug uses( there is a lot of them ), to the people you make their money rooting through peoples yards for bits of scrap, or your bank details if they are lucky, while they claim benefits obviously. I don't think I need to look up my town to know that it's a total dump, there is no doubt places worse than this too, I have just never been to any. So you can understand that I don't really care if it culturally significant, well I suppose it is, to the yob and drug cultures.

 

[MagpieRacer]

My town has little interested about it (Peacehaven), so heres the interesting bits:
Peacehaven coincides with the point where the GMT line crosses the Egnlish South Coast.
Featured at the end of Qudrophenia, the cliffs he rides along then off are in Peacehaven.

North: (Lewes)
Site of the UK wost ever avalanche.
Has its own currency in circulation.

West: (Rottingdean)
Rudyard Kipling lived here.
Henry Allingham lso resides here, 2nd oldest man in the world, last founding member of the RAf and WW1 veteran.

East: (Newhaven)
Well used in WW2, a key point for Britain.

yay.

 

[Famine]

My hometown made your hometown.

What with it being the birthplace of industrial-scale steel manufacturing processes.

 

[Slicks]

My city:

-Is the capital of my province
-Sees more than 3.5 million tourists annually
-Is the home to the Canadian Pacific naval fleet
-Was explored as early as 1774
-Was established in 1843 and incorporated in 1862
-Is home to a luxurious hotel that first opened in 1908
-Has castles in it (One of which was used for filming of X-Men, and Smallville)
-Is home to Nelly Furtado, David Foster, Swollen Members,


And is on an island.

 

[ND4SPD]

My town:

-Invented the jock strap.....
-Was the hometown of the John McCrae, who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" in WW1
-Guelph was the home of North America's first cable TV system. Ted Metcalfe created McLean Hunter Television and their first broadcast was Queen Elizabeth's Coronation in 1953.
-Guelph's police force had Canada's first municipal motorcycle patrol. Chief Ted Lamb brought back an army motorcycle he used during the First World War. Motorcycles were faster and more efficient than walking.
-Guelph's police force was the first to have two-way car radios.
-The wire coat hanger was invented here in the 1920s, probably by Steele's Wire Spring Company.
-Hometown of Neve Campbell
-Robert Munsch is also a Guelph resident

 

[TheCracker]

My home town:

• Is a spa town.
• Hosted the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest.
• Has Menwith Hill situated close by.
• Is where world renowned crime-writer Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple) 'disappeared' to in the 1920's.
• Is where the fabric Crimplene was invented.
• Is where a 10th Century Viking hoard was recently discovered.
• Was Britain's 3rd Best Place to Live in 2005.
• Has 'The Stray' - a stretch of open parkland that surrounds the town centre, which as an act of Parliament in 1778, has to always have a fixed size of 200 acres.
• Apparently it's citizens drink alcohol to more hazardous levels than anywhere else in the UK (which personally makes me feel better about myself).

 

[Richardrfo]

• 
  As the oldest recorded Roman town, Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain. It was for a time the capital of Roman Britain and also claims to have the United Kingdom's oldest recorded market.

• With the history mentioned above, comes Colchester Castle, constructed over the vaults of the ruined Temple of Claudius.

• The town was destroyed during Boudica's rebellion in AD 61, after which point London became the Capital.

• Colchester has been an important military garrison since the Roman era. The Colchester Garrison is currently home to the 16th Air Assault Brigade. The army's only Military Corrective Training Centre, known colloquially within the forces and locally as 'The Glasshouse' after the original military prison in Aldershot, is in Berechurch Hall Road, on the outskirts of Colchester. The Centre holds servicemen and women from all three services who are sentenced to serve periods of detention.

• Twinned with Wetzlar, Germany, Avignon, France and Imola, Italy.

• Colchester is reputed to be the home of three of the best known English nursery rhymes: 'Old King Cole', 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'.

• People who were born/have lived in Colchester: 2 members of Cradle of Filth, the Britpop band Blur, the landscape painter John Constable, Jay Kay of Jamiroquai and during the 1940s Margaret Thatcher.

Really not all that exciting after the Romans, if I might say so myself.

 

[homeforsummer]

My home town:

• Is a spa town.
• Hosted the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest.
• Has Menwith Hill situated close by.
• Is where world renowned crime-writer Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple) 'disappeared' to in the 1920's.
• Is where the fabric Crimplene was invented.
• Is where a 10th Century Viking hoard was recently discovered.
• Was Britain's 3rd Best Place to Live in 2005.
• Has 'The Stray' - a stretch of open parkland that surrounds the town centre, which as an act of Parliament in 1778, has to always have a fixed size of 200 acres.
• Apparently it's citizens drink alcohol to more hazardous levels than anywhere else in the UK (which personally makes me feel better about myself).

Your hometown is my hometown!

 

[Mark T]

• 
  As the oldest recorded Roman town, Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain. It was for a time the capital of Roman Britain and also claims to have the United Kingdom's oldest recorded market.

• With the history mentioned above, comes Colchester Castle, constructed over the vaults of the ruined Temple of Claudius.

• The town was destroyed during Boudica's rebellion in AD 61, after which point London became the Capital.

• Colchester has been an important military garrison since the Roman era. The Colchester Garrison is currently home to the 16th Air Assault Brigade. The army's only Military Corrective Training Centre, known colloquially within the forces and locally as 'The Glasshouse' after the original military prison in Aldershot, is in Berechurch Hall Road, on the outskirts of Colchester. The Centre holds servicemen and women from all three services who are sentenced to serve periods of detention.

• Twinned with Wetzlar, Germany, Avignon, France and Imola, Italy.

• Colchester is reputed to be the home of three of the best known English nursery rhymes: 'Old King Cole', 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'.

• People who were born/have lived in Colchester: 2 members of Cradle of Filth, the Britpop band Blur, the landscape painter John Constable, Jay Kay of Jamiroquai and during the 1940s Margaret Thatcher.

Really not all that exciting after the Romans, if I might say so myself.

I can't believe you live about 20 mins away from me. Want to go Liquid tonight?

My home town of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

• Archaeologist, J. Hazzledine Warren discovered a wooden spear, dating back at least 400,000 years. This is the oldest known man-made wooden artifact found on the British Isles'

• Clacton was once the home of the singer Sade and C.J from The Wildhearts as well as the groups the insane picnic, Spasmodic Caress, The Quivering Tendency and Prince Charles' Forgotten Aspect.

• Leeds United and former Ipswich Town midfielder Ian Westlake was born in the town, as well as the lead singer of rock band Interpol, Paul Banks and Jeremy Spake, of BBC's Airport.

• Only Fools and Horses actor Paul Barber, who played Denzil and hardcore dance DJ, Darren Styles also reside in the town.

• The resort was once home to the second oldest Butlins site, but in 1983, it was closed and replaced with the Martello Bay housing estate after a very short lived theme park called Atlas Park took over the site. The closure of Butlins is often heralded as a key milestone in the decline of Clacton as a major UK tourist resort.

• Clacton-on-Sea was the scene of the first recorded WWII civilian casualty when a German mine laying plane crashed into a residential street. Vid below.

 

[TheCracker]

Your hometown is my hometown!

No way, what area and which school?

 

[Thiele]

That's better than living in a town of 300 idiots and there is a lot more than that here, from drug dealers, to drug uses( there is a lot of them ), to the people you make their money rooting through peoples yards for bits of scrap, or your bank details if they are lucky, while they claim benefits obviously. I don't think I need to look up my town to know that it's a total dump, there is no doubt places worse than this too, I have just never been to any. So you can understand that I don't really care if it culturally significant, well I suppose it is, to the yob and drug cultures.

I don't know anyone that has anything to do with any of that. There's never been a major crime in this town since i've been here and probably never will be.

 

[homeforsummer]

Cracker: Daleside and 'John Fishers.

 

[Thiele]

No way, what area and which school?

Doesn't Famine live there too?

 

[Famine]

Err, no.

 

[TheCracker]

Cracker: Daleside and 'John Fishers.

Stonerings Lane and Ashville 👍

 

[daan]

My hometown holds the record for the world's worst E.coli outbreak, killing 20 people.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1999/feb/10/food.foodanddrink

Apart from that, and for giving the world John Higgins, (and me!) there is nothing else of note about it.

 

[TheCracker]

Apart from that, and for giving the world John Higgins, (and me!) there is nothing else of note about it.

Don't forget John Cleland!

 

[ExigeEvan]

My hometown is : -
> The wettest City in the UK!
> Was once nicknamed Copperopolis due to the abundance of smelting works.
> The founder was supposedly a Viking King from Denmark.
> The movie Twin Town is based in and around it.
> And where the first 6 sixes were hit in one over in a first class game. (Have that Yorkshire!)

 

[Kylehnat]

The most my hometown is good for is that we make excellent wine: Chateau St. Michelle, Colombia Winery. He have also Hosted Led Zeppelin and The Guess Who. Now let's play what city is it?! and Stiglettes can't guess.

You and I have the same hometown, apparently . My parents still live there.

 

[TheBook]

The only thing significant is that Verne Troyer (Mini-Me) was born in Sturgis, but considering he grew up in Centreville, it doesn't really count. Meh... I always knew this town didn't have much of anything.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

My hometown (Seixal):
Has its origins in a group of fisherman’s
It was in this city that Vasco da Gama and Paulo da Gama (who discovered the maritime way to India) constructed they’re ships.
It is one of the 5 most inhabited cities in Portugal (with more than 160 000 habitants)

I found this cool Music Videoclip that was made near my home:


To the East:
Home of a football club with most victories in the 2nd division.

To the south:
Important port of naval constructions

To the west :
Had one major Arab military square
Statue of Cristo Rei (Christ)

 

[WallRunner]

My Hometown was named after James Monroe.

As of 2000, there were 11,407 people, 4,287 households, and 2,983 families living in the city. This number has risen dramatically with recent growth however.

It's home to:

• Alfred H. Colquitt - Georgia Governor and Senator who served as a Confederate officer.
• Frances Conroy - Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning actress.
• Marquis Floyd - NFLer.
• Lonnie Hillyer - American jazz trumpeter.
• Henry Dickerson McDaniel - Governor of Georgia from 1883 to 1886.
• Prince Hulon Preston, Jr. - Member of the US House of Representatives.

Which may make it sound like alot at first glance, but it's not

From,
Chris.

 

[Touring Mars]

Cool thread 👍

My hometown of Edinburgh is a culturally rich city, boasting the world's largest arts festival (the Edinburgh Fringe), which in turn is part of the Edinburgh International Festival, one of the world's largest annual festivals. Edinburgh is also famous for it's New Year (Hogmanay) street party which used to get upward of 300,000 people until safety precautions led to the party being spread out over other venues within the city, but still attracts over 100,000 into the city centre... The city centre is renowed for its historic buildings and general beauty (as opposed to Glasgow, which is more, erm, "modern") as well as the Forth estuary and its famous bridges...

Edinburgh boasts a rich legacy of famous names, including former PM Tony Blair, actor Sean Connery, author Ian Rankin (a newly made buddy of mine ), olympian Chris Hoy and scientist James Clerk Maxwell. It is also currently home to author J.K. Rowling...

Edinburgh is also home to one of the world's top universities (which was once frequented by a certain Charles Darwin (whoever he was ), and from personal experience, it also has an enviable collection of quality pubs and "chippies"

To The West: Glasgow (where I live)

To The North: The Kingdom of Fife

To The South: There be monsters

 

[PARAGON GT]

My Town Has Cultural Significance!

Same here. But I'll just post a link. Too much to really list.
Dearborn, Michigan

I actually went to school w/ Derek Lowe. Granted he was a Senior when I was a Freshmen. So I didn't exactaly know him.

 

[YSSMAN]

I think you missed the big thing for Dearborn, the largest concentration of Arab-Americans in the country. To be honest, I'm very proud that is even here in our state. Then I stand around and wonder why they all chose Dearborn?

It seems like Michigan is pretty much defined by two cities, Detroit and Grand Rapids.