What Makes Your Home Town Unique? So, I thought it might be interesting to take a virtual tour of everyone's home towns, but not the usual, oh, yeah, we have a museum and a park and a so on and so on ... but weird, interesting, unique things that only your town has (to your knowledge). For example, in Minneapolis, at the station where I catch my train every morning (Franklin Avenue Station), there is a small silver box with a button on it. I call it the little box of surprises because you never know what you will hear when you press the button. One time I got a monologue about how some guy's uncle got hit by lightning 4 times. Yesterday it was a R&B song about time. We have a park with a model of a rocketship in it. The rocket is old and rickety. You used to be able to climb in it but kids kept getting stuck up there, and it isn't exactly safe, so it's been closed off. People actually raised money to build a new one. There are a lot of other oddities but I'll leave it at that for now ... what about your hometown? Please share!
Lamberts Cafe baby. Home of the throwed rolls. A guy (usually high school student) will come out of the kitchen every 15 mins. and throw rolls to anybody that wants some. Literally throw them across the room. Awesome.
Oh it has to be the Black Country accent that makes living in Dudley so special. The local's specialise in "Aynuk and Ayli jokes" (That's Enoch and Eli ... and you'll be getting the diea that the jokes don't translate well ... it's why I love 'em ) Try your luck here Sadly the man who has been playing Ayli on stage for years, died last year and will be sadly missed Link (there's a separate video link on that page)
where i live there is a big rock in the woods called Penedo do Corvo ( in english it must be something like crow rock). The rock is huge and it has a break in the middle... people say that with the book of S. Cipriano (is a book with spells and witchcraft) at midnight in penedo do corvo if we read a sort of a spell then God and the Devil will appear and the ground will open and there you will find a great treasure. Of course this is just a storie but the book is real and it does speak about penedo do corvo LOL i've read it myself when i was younger and i use to want to find a treasure but now i just don't believe in any of that, they are just stories.... or not :devil: eheheh
I love my City. Sydney Australia. I live a stone throw from the ocean. I have a choice of eight Beaches in my area. Hundreds of coffee shops. 40 Min's and I,m in the country. Beautiful Harbour. And very laid back. There is always something to do 24 hours a day. Regards moon
All very cool! This is exactly what I was hoping for. I mean, anyone can read the brochures, but only the locals know the town's secrets. We have Ole and Lena jokes, Mirelly, in which Norwegians like me make fun of our own heritage. (Some would say Ole and Lena are Swedish, either works.) Perhaps a bit like the ones you mention? In Minneapolis we have snow emergencies. That's when the snow is deep enough that the snowplows are called into action. If you park on the wrong side of the street on the wrong day you get towed. It's all very complicated. I got towed my first winter here. I had no idea there was even such a thing as a snow emergency. I'm from Wisconsin where we just tough it out, LOL. We also don't pay clothing sales tax in Minnesota, or tax on many food items. I've always found the clothes tax thing weird, but very nice nonetheless. You pay what it says on the price tag, no more, no less. So those are two oddities ... But I'd say the main attraction of Minneapolis is our many theaters, and I don't mean movies. We have a huge, thriving community and professional theater presence, so much so that when Sir Ian McKellan makes his US tour as King Lear this year (I can't wait!!), Minneapolis is one of only three cities he'll be visiting. But you could get that from a brochure, so I digress ...
LOL SBW. I was going to add a lot of stuff and then didn't ... The Black Country's huge number of micro-breweries ... Ma Pardoe's in Netherton, or The Lamp, or the Delph Inn ... Mad O'Rourke's Pie Factory (a pub that serves Cow Pies with pastry horns) ... Proper pork scrathings (not that sanitized pork crunch stuff, but proper great chunks of greasy pork rind) ... Faggots and Peas (traditonal fayre the peas are pronounced 'pays' and are cooked up from dried green peas ... though the dish is mushy when finished and is usually grayish ... a bland accompaniment to the rich rissoles in thick onion gravy that is a Black Country faggot (recipe for both here) It's totally yummy unless you're a vegetarian and yes ... hills. We have lots of hills. The Black Country is all hills. Locals call hills, 'banks' (pronounced bonk). We also have a lot of canals, which also have banks but they stop the water escaping The canals mostly go around the hills, but some go through (we got lots of lovely long canal tunnels) and some have to go over ... we got lots of fabulous boat-locks. There's a flight of 9 locks leading up to my nearest mall: Merry Hill ... the canal runs past the bottom of my garden and Merry Hill Waterfront is just 2 miles walk by canal towpath or 1 mile by road ... the road route goes over Brierley Hill and is thus more exhausting and less scenic than the waterway route which is flat apart from the half mile flight of locks. Oh yeah, we've also got a proper castle
Unique about my town? An immigration problem. --No, really now... my town is small--about 1 sq. mi.--and contains around 8,000 people. We have two separate Catholic churches--apparently, prejudices between the churches were high because they serve three different ethnic groups. --Oh! I think we are in a unique position where we have either a Church or a bar on every corner. --My town has a factory that made watches in 1912. Some of their watch cases were found in the wreck of the Titanic. --My town was once a resort for the Philadelphia socialites. ...not too many interesting things here. Other random things... whenever the rest of the schools in the area are closed, you can expect our district to be open at the normal time. They rarely like to clean more than the main roads (of which my town has two ) I live in the perfect location for everything on the east coast--Philly, NYC, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington are all within a reasonable distance. Just remember that in South Jersey, "Jeet" is a legitimate word (did you eat?=jeet?). It's always going to be "soda," never "pop." And if you ever visit us, never call it a Sub, Torpedo, or Hero--it's a Hoagie.
OMG Mirelly my arteries hardened just reading that recipe! This is great stuff, guys ... I want to visit!
Oh gosh what a coincidence! I had to write my final paper in English on my hometown! Knoxville, TN. All I could find, historically-wise, is that it was an outpost during the Civil War (not to mention split down the middle as to who supported whom), it's the headquarters for one of the New Deal ABC's, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and it hosted the 1982 World's Fair. That latter part was featured in an episode of The Simpsons (No, the Sunsphere is NOT the Wigsphere! ) and we townfolk still use the fairgrounds for stuff like concerts. I think the giant Rubiks Cube was found under a highway...maybe someone bought it...? Knoxville is also famous for the University of Tennessee, which I attend. On Saturdays in the fall it's always filled with orange clad football fans. I joked to my family during the Imus controversy that the Rutgers basketball team was getting more publicity than the Lady Vols. Unfortunately it was undesired publicity that the Rutgers were getting.
Now that you mention Rutgers... I guess I should say it's in my back yard. I live a hop, skip, and a half hour light-rail ride from the Rugters Camden campus. ...It's a school I'm considering. I've heard nothing but good things except for whatever what's his face said...
