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slaveboyforyou -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 1:44:31 PM)

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My god, eight year-old buildings!  Is that safe?


Of course it's safe, they're made out of Legos. 



daddysprop247 -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 1:57:06 PM)

i come from a small, simple very rural southern town. aesthetically very beautiful...lots of trees and farms and fresh air, lots of long winding dirt roads and roadside food stands where you can buy pulled pork bbq, 100+ yr old churches, where a fish fry is considered a breakfast-only activity, and where a stranger sticks out like a three-headed elephant. there were many good, and a few bad sides to growing up in a place like that. on the good side, the natural beauty and respect for mother nature, mostly kind, warm and open people, no suburbia or rampant development to suck the soul out of the community. on the bad side, locals jobs are hard to come by, adult illiteracy is common, and race relations are a bit circa 1950-ish, with the whole sheriff's department still attending klan meetings every saturday at the railroad track general store.

if the area is famous for anything, it would have to be the case of Loving v. Virginia, which resulted in the overturning of all racially based legal restrictions on marriage. and Mr. and Mrs. Loving (a white man and black woman) went through heck and highwater in order to have their marriage declared valid and legal, just so that they could be together in peace in the county they still loved.



pahunkboy -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 2:35:26 PM)

those old country churches can be neat.   the former red cross chapter director is burried in a church graveyard. they sure have varried funerals over the years or regions.

at the moment the air pressure is [hurricane] wrecking my spine in circles.  The north-eastern weather pattern. I guess it isnt relevent as any place has barometer fluxuations.

On Jane Byrn, history sure forgot about her.  She is barely a footnote. lol.  At the time tho it sure was a grab for power.  and THAT version of mayor Daily had some refinining to do.  But then too when Bilandic disappeared after he lost at the time it seemed like a diss- but he was even less 'relevent"   then Jane.  :-)



Alumbrado -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 5:19:57 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl

i love the lakefront view to parks/musuems and shopping along the Mag Mile (Michigan Av) ...the sports and celebs ...the weekend nightlife at Crobar to Visions and Sound Lab ...public transportation ...food and movies that were made here (Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller's Day Offf to Dark Knight and Traitor starring Don Cheadle) and the diverse ethnic cultures and people.

edited to add - local music scene ...Fall Out Boy started here and so did Kill Hannah, Marty Casey and the Lovehammers, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Local H, Chicago, Styk, Koko Taylor, John Lee Hooker, and so many others


John Lee Hooker started out his performing career in Memphis (one of many as I mentioned earlier), was discovered by the Bihari Brothers in Detroit, first recorded hits (Boogie Chillun, Baby Please Don't Go) on their LA based Modern record label, and didn't record with Chicago labels Chess and  VeeJay until well into his career.

Now the incredibly talented and tragically short lived Earl Hooker had as much of a home in Chicago as he ever had anywhere....



youngsubgeoff -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 5:52:01 PM)

Mushroomhead, Chimaria, Nine Inch Nails, The Dead Boys, The Pretenders, Devo, Tim "Ripper" Owens (judas priest, iced earth, beyond fear). Basically, if you havent played here, your not a real band



Jeffff -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 5:58:09 PM)

Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

CarlSandburgDom

(we have a great lake front too)



pissthirstysub -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 6:03:28 PM)

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ORIGINAL: youngsubgeoff

Mushroomhead, Chimaria, Nine Inch Nails, The Dead Boys, The Pretenders, Devo, Tim "Ripper" Owens (judas priest, iced earth, beyond fear). Basically, if you havent played here, your not a real band

I was getting ready to say something similar but you beat me to it!



Vendaval -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 6:44:47 PM)

camille honey,
 
Hometown can be where you grew up, where you live now, where you feel most at home.  "Home is where the heart is"    [sm=hearts.gif]
 


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ORIGINAL: camille65

I'm confused (so what else is new eh).
Would 'hometown' be where one grew up? Or would it be where one now lives?

So what exactly is ones hometown?




sassylady53 -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 6:58:24 PM)

 I was born and raised in Milwaukee. It has it's ups and downs. Big plus is all of the Ethinic Festivals at the Lake Front. Infact I was at Irish Fest on Saturday.
Now I live in Minneapolis. The BDSM community is much bigger here. There are only two Munches in Milwaukee.  There are at least half a dozen around the Twin Cities.
I have learned alot since moving here. I also became a Switch and gained my fiisrt sub here. Also there are alot of Events during the year.
However I agree that, "home is where your heart is." All of my loved ones, expect for my husband, are back in Milwaukee , however I have made new friends
and have found people to love here.



Evility -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 7:12:40 PM)

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area. I had no reason to stay when I was there and never found a reason to move back. I really like Atlanta. The only olace I like more is Savannah.



newone11 -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 8:13:56 PM)

It has the only monument to fallen Union soldiers south of the Mason-Dixon line.  If religion interests you, it was founded in 1850 (give or take) but they didn't get around to building the first church until after 1900.



sklavinxandria -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 9:54:59 PM)


Birth place, Omaha, NE.  Home to the College World Series since the 50's.  College boys in tight white pants every summer can't be beat.  Henry Doorly Zoo, one of the best zoos in the country and rarely visited or talked about, we want that panda dang it!  Joslyn Museum; the Old Market and all the restaurants,bars and little shops down there.  Home to Union Pacific; ConAgra; Berkshire Hathaway.  Once the largest stockyards west of Chicago.  Home to Offutt Airbase, the center for STRATCOM and where the Enola Gay was built.  Omaha Community Playhouse is the largest community theater in the nation.  A great yearly production of "A Christmas Carol" done every year.  Manheim Steamroller is based here.  Bright Eyes have their home base here and studios down on Saddlecreek.  We have given the world: Malcom X,  Marlon Brando, Fred Astair, Henry Fonda and Peter Fonda, Gerald Ford (he was born here!), Montgomery Clift,  Jorge Garcia (Hurley from Lost).  The list can go on!  Warren Buffet still lives in the same house he bought 40 years ago, I drive by it daily, have yet to see him get the paper in the am. 

We have great steaks, sometimes the cows have escaped and walked into the steakhouses on their own power [:D]     We are home to Boys Town, and yes, the movie was truly filmed at the campus. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha   and     http://www.omahawiki.org/

Omaha is not just some middle of the country cow pasture.

Where my heart is  Home.   Aachen, Germany.  Home to Charlemange; a Cathedral that was built in the year 800 and still in use.  Printen cookies that i can devour for days.  Tank "speed bumps" that I find amusing in the fields with the cows.  The first city in Germany liberated during WW2, and just found this out.  First Jewish services performed there since the start of WW2  was held there in 1944.  Home to the hottests springs in central Europe.  And of course, home to Master!!  (until he goes to Munich)



Vendaval -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 10:53:57 PM)

Fast reply -
 
Folks, please include the name of your hometown in your replies so the rest of the readers know where you are talking about.
 
Thanks!



Satyr6406 -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 11:14:13 PM)

Welcome to Brooklyn! Fourth largest city in America (New York Aquarium, Coney Island, Brooklyn Cyclones). 'Nuff said!
 
 
 
 
Peace and comfort,
 
 
 
 
Michael



Hippiekinkster -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/18/2008 11:15:58 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sklavinxandria
Where my heart is  Home.   Aachen, Germany.  Home to Charlemange; a Cathedral that was built in the year 800 and still in use.  Printen cookies that i can devour for days.  Tank "speed bumps" that I find amusing in the fields with the cows.  The first city in Germany liberated during WW2, and just found this out.  First Jewish services performed there since the start of WW2  was held there in 1944.  Home to the hottests springs in central Europe.  And of course, home to Master!!  (until he goes to Munich)

Oh, well, if that is the criterion, home for me is Munich. What can I say about München? Unbelievable mass transit system (largest in the world). The Deutsches Museum (best science and tech museum in the world). The beer. The babes sunning nude down at Starnberger See. Day trip to the Alps.  Day trip to mad King Ludwig's castles. Killer museums. The Marienplatz. The streetcars. World's oldest brewery in Freising, just outside of Munich (1040 AD). Schwabing. Asam's Church (unbelievable - about the size of your average NY brownstone, but the interior architecture, wow). The foot-wide soft pretzels. The Weißwurst. The Viktualeinmarkt. Dachau. And much more. Absolutely my favorite city in the world.



Paulnz -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/19/2008 12:06:52 AM)

My adopted hometown, the place I now live, has a lot going for it. Outdoor recreation is at the doorstep; rivers, lakes, surf, beaches, mountains, forests etc., but in the city itself we have all the mod cons, and getting anywhere within it takes no more than 20 minutes. The weather is pretty good all year too. It's hard to beat as the cost of living is so low here as well.



NuevaVida -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/19/2008 12:26:14 AM)

I grew up in Sunnyvale, California, former home of Olsen's Cherries (best cherries ever).  It's also the birth place of Lockheed, and where NASA Ames Research Center is located.  When I was a kid I'd climb out onto the roof of my house to watch the Blue Angels air show at Moffet Field.

Now I live in a town outside Sacramento, which is 5 minutes from the American River, and is known for its chickens.  Chicken roam free down town and are a protected class here.  :)  The cool thing about the Sacramento area is it's 2 hours from the ocean and 2 hours from the mountains (Lake Tahoe!). 



Hippiekinkster -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/19/2008 1:07:56 AM)

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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

I grew up in Sunnyvale, California, former home of Olsen's Cherries (best cherries ever).  It's also the birth place of Lockheed, and where NASA Ames Research Center is located.  When I was a kid I'd climb out onto the roof of my house to watch the Blue Angels air show at Moffet Field.

Now I live in a town outside Sacramento, which is 5 minutes from the American River, and is known for its chickens.  Chicken roam free down town and are a protected class here.  :)  The cool thing about the Sacramento area is it's 2 hours from the ocean and 2 hours from the mountains (Lake Tahoe!). 
My ex had an apartment in this huge complex just off 101 right near Great American Parkway. Used to love going out and just hanging out. Especially since she could expense all my expenses. Cool. Bop down to paso Robles and check out the wines; go over to Pescadero for artichokes. Schaub's in Palo Alto for the best dry-aged beef ever. Love the Bay Area.



slaveboyforyou -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/19/2008 3:52:59 AM)

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thanks a heap, Reality. I just spewed coffee on the cat....

Thanks a heap too.  I find a girl from Pittsburg making fun of any city in America to be hillarious.  [:D]



sirsholly -> RE: What is special about your hometown? (8/19/2008 4:53:20 AM)

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

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thanks a heap, Reality. I just spewed coffee on the cat....

Thanks a heap too.  I find a girl from Pittsburg making fun of any city in America to be hillarious.  [:D]


it is spelled Pittsburgh [8|]



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