My Town...

[mugsy]

I'm boring...I've lived the same place all 46 3/4 years of my life!

Fort Wayne, IN

1. TV was invented here (or at least the inventor lived here...cool house too)
2. We are at the confluence of the St Joe, St Marys, and Maumee River...only place east of the Mississippi where the rivers don't run to the Mississippi or a tributary there of. The Maumee (formed by the St Joe and St Marys) flows northeast to Lake Erie
3. Named for the original fort (built at the confluence) which was named for "Mad" Anthony Wayne the "hero" (for the whites at least) of the Battle of Fallen Timbers (fought by Amy's current home in Toledo)
4. The Three Rivers Festival (hard to believe THAT is a tourist attraction,but, I'm told it is)
5. Home town of Little Turtle and Chief Richardsville and Dick York (Darin #1 in Bewitched) and the character Frank Burns in M*A*S*H and Shelly Long and Carole Lombard...
6. Pawster Park (dog park)
7. Largest county (in area) in the state of Indiana (the county is 2/3 the size of the state of Rhode Island)
8. 2nd largest city in the state
9. Professional baseball started here
10. Zollner Pistons (later moved to Detroit)
11. on the top 10 targets for nuclear attacks because of all the classified government work done here...ITT, Ratheon, etc...
12. we have the 2nd largest shopping mall in the Midwest (which I avoid like the plague)
13. Coney Island Hot Dog Stand (in the same place since 1913)
14. A Tony Hawk designed skateboard park
15. The River Greenway (walking and biking path along the 3 rivers all though town)
16. Tony Dungy suggesting the Bears and Colts play the Super Bowl here

Ok, I'm done. I also don't follow directions very well...I had more than 4!

[Fuzzybuns]

My husband (David) and I both grew up in the same town we live in now. We met in
2nd grade and both graduated in '87. I married, had my son and divorced while David went to college. We got back together (we dated all through school, lol), married and had our daughter. Three years ago, we moved back here because we wanted our daughter to go to middleschool and highschool here.

Allen is a "wed-n-bed" community. It used to be run by the Baptist church and they even ran Wal-Mart out of town when the store wanted to go 24 hours. The Baptists also set the "No Play Sunday" rule...we weren't "allowed" to publicly play arcade games or shoot pool...that has since changed.

Allen, Texas
pop: 77,465 (2007), judging by the new students at my daughter's middleschool at the beginning of last school year, we're growing by leaps and bounds! Something like 32,000 in 7 years...

The Allen Eagle Escadrille (highschool marching band) is the largest in the world at over 650 members consisting of the band, drill team, and color guard. If you watched the 2006 Tournament of Roses Parade, we were the band that took forever to go by, lol.

First successful Texas train robbery on February 22, 1878 by Sam Bass and gang.

Some past and present residents:
Burton Gilliam, actor
Matt Barr, actor
Carly Patterson, gymnast, 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion and musician
Tony Dorsett, Dallas Cowboys player
Julie McCullough, Playboy Playmate
Alex Reyes, Texas Tech University punter, Minnesota Vikings punter
Amanda Dunbar, 2006 inductee into Texas Women's Hall of Fame[4]
Kathleen Baskin-Ball, clergy, nationally known preacher

There's also several artists and authors living amongst us.

Allen's first recorded tornado occurred on April 10, 2008-Not bad for being in Tornado Alley!

It's more info than you asked for but I love my hometown!