Name a City Game......... Geography anyone

[kokopup]

Norman, Oklahoma....nice college town, home to the University of Oklahoma...not far from the capital of Oklahoma City.

I was stationed in Norman exactly 50 years ago when the Navy had an Electronics prep school there. I remember going to Okie City on Liberty when it was the wet-est dry city in America. The Black Hotel sold more hard stuff than any other single place in America at the time. The only legal stuff
was 3/2 beer.

[Killearn Kitties]

I remember going to Okie City on Liberty when it was the wet-est dry city in America. The Black Hotel sold more hard stuff than any other single place in America at the time.

This was not a result of you being stationed there, was it?

[cassiesmom]

Innsbruck is a state capital city in Austria and hosted the 1976 Winter Olympics. There really is a river called Inn! So the city gets its name from the German words for the bridge over the Inn. It is famous for winter sports but also for hiking in the mountains.

Here's a beautiful picture from Wikipedia.

[sana]

Next up K!

Kazakhstan
officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It is neighbored clockwise from the north by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. The capital was moved in 1997 from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to Astana.

Next up N

[Randi]

Nice.

[kokopup]

The city of Edam Netherlands was founded around a dam crossing the river E or IJe close by the Zuiderzee now known as the IJsselmeer. Around 1230 the channel was dammed. At the dam goods had to be loaded onto other vessels and the inhabitants of Edam could levy a toll. This enabled Edam to grow as a trade town. Shipbuilding and fishing brought Edam more wealth.

I spent time In The Netherlands back in the late 50's when the body of water was called Zuiderzee or South Sea. It was at that time a salt water sea. When I lived there in the early 90's it was now called the Ijsselmeer. The word meer is lake, now fresh water. This was an accomplishment turning part of the Sea into a fresh water lake.

[Grace]

Munising, Michigan.

A city on the southern shore of Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula of the of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,539.

The name Munising is derived from the Ojibway language. 'Munissi' means island. 'Munising' means near the island. Grand Island is located one half mile north in Munising Bay.

When visiting Munising, be sure to take a boat ride along Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, and another ride, in a glass bottom boat, will give you looks at some of the shipwrecks along the northern coast of the U.P.


Next up - G

[Killearn Kitties]

Have we had Glasgow yet? Located in central Scotland, to the west of the country, it came to prominence as an industrial city in the Victorian age. Famous for manufacturing many things, but mainly famous for the ships built on the Clyde.