Is Your Hometown Famous For Anything?

[Rev. Powell]

Moe Moyteka dressed up in a gorrilla mask and fur coat waaaaaay back in the 60's and terrorized some farmers. He was drunk.People still think it was Bigfoot. A dead mexican was found in a brine vat at the old pickle factory back in 1970.I found a dead cow out in a field when I was a kid,It was wintertime.I kicked it-a possum ran out his a$$! 

Man, that is some classic small-town Americana.  Especially the possum story.    

[Trevor]

Bulawayo, Rhodesia (what is left of it is now called Zimbabwe  ) is famous for many things, not the least of which is spawning the pure hell that is me. 

It was the first city colonised by the British north of the Limpopo River
It was King Lobengula's capital.
The word means "place of the killing" or something like that.

Thou canst judgeth for thyselves......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulawayo

[flackbait]

Bulawayo, Rhodesia (what is left of it is now called Zimbabwe  ) is famous for many things, not the least of which is spawning the pure hell that is me. 

It was the first city colonised by the British north of the Limpopo River
It was King Lobengula's capital.
The word means "place of the killing" or something like that.

Thou canst judgeth for thyselves......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulawayo

Former Rhodesian? Where you still around when the Bush Wars happened or did your parents move to South Africa before it happened?

As for me my hometown is Holland,MI its only famous for two things, Tulip Time and our beaches. Tulip Time is supposed to be a celebration of the towns dutch history, to me it just an excuse to hold a festival and take tourists money.

[Trevor]

My folks were originally from SA and settled in what was then Rhodesia in the early 1960's where they were presented on one fine day with the strange child from Rosemary's Baby. 

My Dad served in the war from the late 60's to 1979 ~ he never talked about what he did in those years and I never asked him ~ but he did tell me that he still had nightmares and possibly quite a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder long after the war.

One thing he did tell me was once, on a patrol, they caught and killed someone from the other side (freedom fighter or terrorist, depending on your viewpoint). As a warning to others not to do the same, they chopped his body in half and hung the top half on the barbed wire fence. 

[Trevor]

to me it just an excuse to hold a festival and take tourists money.

[flackbait]

My folks were originally from SA and settled in what was then Rhodesia in the early 1960's where they were presented on one fine day with the strange child from Rosemary's Baby. 

My Dad served in the war from the late 60's to 1979 ~ he never talked about what he did in those years and I never asked him ~ but he did tell me that he still had nightmares and possibly quite a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder long after the war.

One thing he did tell me was once, on a patrol, they caught and killed someone from the other side (freedom fighter or terrorist, depending on your viewpoint). As a warning to others not to do the same, they chopped his body in half and hung the top half on the barbed wire fence. 

I can't really say I have a viewpoint. But I sure as hell know I don't like Mugabe or Nkomo though.
Thats a pretty brutal story from your dad Trevor! No wonder you dad didn't talk about the war much. He must have been one tough guy to make it through in one piece.

[Trevor]

He was a tough guy, right to the end of his life, stubborn, cranky, but also a loving husband and father ~ it's him that I have to blame for taking me to a weird place called The Cinema when I was seven. 

He was so damn stubborn that he even denied that he was very sick and defied the doctor's orders to have his dangerous medical condition attended to.  He actually told the doctor that "if I die, then I die." Dunno if I have even a quarter of his guts. One other thing ~ he insisted on no funerals for him: he wanted a party as his farewell and we had a party on him. 

The one memory I have of the war is Dad unloading his 9mm Uzi and handing it to me, saying: "Here son, go scare the sh*t out of the neighbours." 

[Mr. DS]

Nothing really, I'm from Western MA originally.  My home town was primarily know for it's mills during the early part of the 1900s.  My home town is more or less a place where people get off the highway to urniate or buy fast food.   

[InformationGeek]

I'm not going to say the name of my hometown, but I will say that part of The Giant Spider Invasion and Public Enemies was filmed in my area.

[RCMerchant]

I'm not going to say the name of my hometown, but I will say that part of The Giant Spider Invasion and Public Enemies was filmed in my area.

Wisconson? I love the local feel of that movie.The GIANT SPIDER INVASION,that is.

[indianasmith]

Greenville, TX, my birthplace, was the home of WWII Hero and film star Audie Murphy, and has a museum in his honor . . . . also, being located on the Northern Blackland Prairie, used to feature a sign at the west end of Main Street that said:

"Greenville, Texas - The Blackest Land, the Whitest People"

Old timers will still insist that there was nothing racist about it.

[LilCerberus]

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[lester1/2jr]

darksider are you from lowell?


my hometown and the next town over have the longest football rivalry in the country,  every thanksgiving for like 130 years or something the two terrible teams go at it

[InformationGeek]

I'm not going to say the name of my hometown, but I will say that part of The Giant Spider Invasion and Public Enemies was filmed in my area.

Wisconson? I love the local feel of that movie.The GIANT SPIDER INVASION,that is.

That's my state, but I will not tell you my town.  As a member of that state, I can certianly say we are not like the people in The Giant Spider Invasion... as far as I know.  I don't live in one of those areas.

[Mr. DS]

darksider are you from lowell?

A fine guess but no.   I lived in a small town outside of Springfield.