My Town...

[RICHARD]

Van Nuys, California!

Birthplace of Bill Johnson, Olympian.
Home to a Budweiser brewery.
Home to Van Nuys Airport, 3rd largest regional AP in the country.
Home to rocker Nikki Sixx!

LOL, I had to stretch things there!

[Karen]

Oxford, Massachusetts

Birthplace of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross
Birthplace of Elliot Joslin, pioneer in diabetes treatment

other than that ...

Ummmm, had a huge flood-control project that works - the little league field within it has to wait for the waters to recede past home plate many years, but no homes are affected ...

It's where Dad lives!

[rosethecopycat]

Dearborn, Michigan

-Hometown of Henry Ford.

-First test drive of an auto (quadracycle) by Henry Ford.

-Largest community of Arabic people, outside the Middle East.

[Twisterdog]

Rock Springs, Wyoming ....

1. Where Butch Cassidy got his nickname ... he worked in a butcher shop here

2. Home of the world's largest pronghorn antelope herd and the USA's largest trona deposit (trona is a mineral mined as an additive for glass, fertilizer, laundry soap, etc.)

3. The location of the Chinese Massacre in the late 1800's, where Chinese immigrants working to build the UP Railroad were chased out of town and their villages burned (whether any were actually killed is debated)

4. An infamous "60 Minutes" report in the 1970's about the crime rate during a boom we had. Gained us our lovely nicknames of "Sin City" and "Murder of the Month Club". Defending a sheriff accused of murdering an undercover narcotics agent during this time was the start of the now nationally famous "cowboy lawyer" Gerry Spence's career.

Not particulary flattering things ... but it's all we've got.

[Suki Wingy]

Iowa City, Iowa
-First state capitol, until it was moved to Des Moines in the late 1800s
-University of Iowa
-Pedestrian Mall and fountains
I think that's about it, not too exciting, but still probably a nice place to live. I didn't live there long, but I visit a lot.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Carson City, Nv (my birthplace)
~dirt!
~Hwy 50, the lonliest road in America
~Silver mining

Eugene, Or
~Track: The summer olympic trials have been held here for many years. Its quite a facinating thing to watch
~University of Oregon

[joycenalex]

detroit michigan...born, oh a ...while back...*GRIN*
1-cars,
2-motown,
3-founded in 1701 by the french explorer antoine de mothe cadillac
4-north, yes north of windsor ontario canada
5-since canada day is july 1 and independance day is july 4,detroit city would pay for windsors holiday fireworks and windsor would pay for detroits fireworks, a nice gift to each other. as a child, i loved seeing the fireworks 2 times in one week, two picnics and singing "Oh Canada" loudly as we could so our canadian neighbors would "hear" us
columbus ohio...*CURRENT HOME*
1-park of roses, a mostly volunteer run park that smells like heaven in late may to mid june and again in late september to early october
2- excellent municipal library system, with a very easy easy to navagate web site
3-really nice system of metro parks with many educational programs
4-the health care system in columbus is first rate. the 3 major health care systems are very competive with each other, one public-ohio state university, and 2 privately based, ohio health (methodist church based) mt carmel health (catholic church based), but collectively give several million dollars of free/reduced health care as part of their mission. i work for one system, so i have an opinion about which one is 'best', yet i would not worry if my mom was being helped by one of the others.