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Without naming the city where you were born, what is that city famous for?!
I had to cheat I knew coal was big in the area but a lot bigger then I thought but that was before I was born looks like and I have a few old tokens with the towns name or coal scrip form some of the mines any way .
when i was born at the local hospital I was told they had no baby beds / cribs so I was put in a dresser drawer in the room with my mom, no wonder I grew up afraid of the dark LOL
any way cheating with the internet I found this
throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, "my birth town " was one of the most productive coal fields in Kentucky and Tennessee
Some will die in hot pursuit
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Lead singer of the band Journey, Steve Perry was born here. Slim Pickens and Jan-Michael Vincent grew up here. (I was only born in this city and left at 6 months old)
Well, come to think of it, my little town started the annual possum festival in the spring and continues to this day. We have possum kabobs, stew, soup, and hind shank BBQ cookoffs. Still mostly a local thing but maybe someday we get big time.
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Largest shipyard in the world. I was born when the black out shades were drawn and "U" boats were on the prowl.------------------------------Ray
The only city in the US built in a known crater.
I had to cheat I knew coal was big in the area but a lot bigger then I thought but that was before I was born looks like and I have a few old tokens with the towns name or coal scrip form some of the mines any way .
when i was born at the local hospital I was told they had no baby beds / cribs so I was put in a dresser drawer in the room with my mom, no wonder I grew up afraid of the dark LOL
any way cheating with the internet I found this
throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, "my birth town " was one of the most productive coal fields in Kentucky and Tennessee
Being by....the Ocean......side.
Merc
Beaver..................
Not the Home of Country Music
turquoise
At one time it was the largest city between St Louis and San Fransisco.
George Attla.
Illegal alien entry point on the Southern border.
Gilbert Clocks , Waring Blenders
Cherry Capital of the World. Well, it used to be back when I was born. Now a tourist trap where visitors don't go home!
The book "Ben Hur" was written here.
Riddle Coach Company
Air balloon Festival.
Brass capitol of world and a couple more. Now, unbelievable.
Choo Choo
An all male liberal arts college.
Mayo Clinic
I'm pretty sure that "The Brothers Four" wrote their song "Poverty Hill" about my home town.
Poverty Hill - Bing video
Not today FBI!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Historic Calfee Park
Lead singer of the band Journey, Steve Perry was born here. Slim Pickens and Jan-Michael Vincent grew up here. (I was only born in this city and left at 6 months old)
Woody Guthrie and getting hit by a tornado
The most important thing to man kind, BEER
500 miles of auto racing
world largest Christmas tree
BBQ, East bottoms stock yards.
Radium Girls
1) It's found in the state that's simultaneously the furthest north, east, AND west.
2) Balto, Togo and the Fur Rendezvous.
Pres. McKinley was shot one mile from the hospital where I was born.
Car factories
The Space progam in the sixties when America was just starting to turning into socialism from our scholars in college.
serf
Absolutely nothing.
I would expect that coming from a Grasshopper. 😁 Are you sure there were no famous bait shops around your birthplace?
First urban below grade freeway.
Well, come to think of it, my little town started the annual possum festival in the spring and continues to this day. We have possum kabobs, stew, soup, and hind shank BBQ cookoffs. Still mostly a local thing but maybe someday we get big time.
Main campus of the University of Missouri, and of course, my birth.
Blennerhasett Island and a big conection to the Burr conspiracy.....
Medal of Honor winners Garlin Murl Conner & Sgt Alvin C. York just over the line .
Crabs
Star Spangled Banner
Murders
The place, I have been told, where the gypsum that was carved into the infamous Cardiff Giant, was extracted.