Post an obscure, but interesting fact about your town.

[greatauntoftriplets]

Mine has approximately 14,000 living, breathing residents.

And more than 550,000 dead ones. The other end of town from where I live is one cemetery after another...all old ones. The authorities know immediately from the election results if we vote early and vote often. This IS suburban Chicago, after all.

[Shine]

1. 75 silent movies and 25 talkies were filmed in my town during the 20's and 30's

Bette Davis, Ralph Bellamy, Mickey Rooney, Maureen O'Sullivan and Robert Montgomery were stars in these movies.

Cool! :hi:

[JVS]

2. My town was founded by people from and named after a town about 250 East of it

[thefool_wa]

3. I'm 80% sure this is true

The transitional leader of the occupation forces in Baghdad after the fall (Paul Bremer - they called him the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority) is the grandson of William Bremer, the man for which Bremerton (my home town) is named.

I read it locally around the time of the invasion and am not sure where to verify its accuracy. I've done a cursory search and find the two referenced together in several places, but can find no direct listing of their relationship.

Its not exactly something to be hip-skippy proud about, but it is obscure.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Our little town has the oldest continuously run yearly parade in the state of California

[YankeyMCC]

5. Birth place of Uncle Sam

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

[Gormy Cuss]

6. A clue to the Zodiac Killer is visible from nearly every street

in this town (and several others.) Mount Diablo, the largest peak in the East Bay/Contra Costa County area of San Francisco.

In one note, Zodiac wrote:
"The Mt. Diablo code concerns radians + # inches along the radians."

[mdmc]

7. Newburgh, NY (and NOT Edison, NJ) had the first electric street lights

Plus Tawanna Brawley did her thing here.

[Xipe Totec]

8. George H W Bush was born here.

God-dammed carpetbagger.

[thefool_wa]

9. That sucks

I'm sorry...

:hug:

[Xipe Totec]

10. Thanks. His house is a stone's throw away

I know this empirically.

:hide:

[thefool_wa]

13. So throw a stone

:)

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. My town=an odd mix of far-left liberals (like me)

and far right freepers that, miraculously, get by together.


is that interesting enough? because nothing really about my town is that interesting

[bedpanartist]

12. Robert Pollard drinks here

a lot. I can walk a block from my crib on a Friday night, and voila, there's Robert Pollard drinking beer.

[QMPMom]

14. It has been told, and I think there are verifiable pictures somewhere....

that over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, someone painted "Remember Pearl Harbor" on the sidewalk of the town school.

[William Bloode]

15. My town was mentioned as a big slave market center on an HBO documentary.

I was unaware of it at the time. After i did the research, located the spot of the slave market out of curiosity. Ironically the building and grounds that once sold all these slaves is now a church.