Whats your home town Famous for ?

[murphy7801]

I live in LA, famous for douche bags, famous douche bags, and alleged gangs (I've yet to see one gang member).

They all become actors to fill all the "gangsta" parts in TV and film.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Edmonton (London) actually had a few notable people, the two I can remember off the top of my head are Ray Winstone

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and Bruce Forsyth

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Pimpin' ain't easy bruce, Pimpin' ain't easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton,_London#Notable_people_educated_in_Edmonton

 

[Lyri]

Binge drinking, Tits on hats and The Blackpool Tower.

 

[murphy7801]

Milton Keynes - famous for the longest shopping centre in Europe, the Bowl that a lot of band (ie Green Day) play, and for generally being a place nobody wants to live in...

Ah one of the UK's grid system towns how pleasant, It could be worse you could live in luton.

 

[The_Prophet]

Alot of historical stuff and EXIT music festival.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Nothing in mine, but my grandparents live in them town with worlds largest horse shoe crab. It used to be where they held Church on Sunday.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Northampton is famous for Shoes, if you ask any thicky around here. We're traditionally a Cobblers town, hence the name of our football, or Soccer, team.

Ask anyone like me, who knows a thing or two, and I can take you to the place where Henry VI and the Lancasterians were beaten by the Yorkists in the War of the Roses in 1460.

I can also tell you that George Washington's great-great-great-great-great grandfather Lawrence Washington was Mayor here, and that the Washingtons moved to America from Northampton in the 1600s

 

[humanizer]

Cashew Chicken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! top that.
Oh and Brad Pitt and Lucas Grabeal went to high school here too.
Civial war battle-Battle of Wilsons Creek
and the United States first recorded shootout between Wild Bill and Davis Tutt jr.
Birthplace of Route 66
Bob Barker went to college here
Bass Pro. HQ
O'riely auto parts HQ

 

[sgtshock]

Voice of America, an old decommisioned radio station used in WWII for Allied propaganda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America_Bethany_Relay_Station

Apparently Hitler himself denounced it, so you know it was important.

 

[Hedberger]

Most bears per squarekilometer, in the world.

Edit: Strömsund in Jämtland in Sweden.

 

[TheLastCylon]

Adam Sandler.

Sorry.

 

[PerfectCherryBlossom]

My hometown is the fourth largest metropolitan area in Sweden, it's also Sweden's closest point to Denmark and the city of Helsingor. Also the famous football player Henrik Larsson is born here, and IKEA have their headquarters here.

you guessed it,
it's Helsingborg...

 

[InProgress]

Well, my hometown was the first European city to have electrically illuminated streets (At that time it was the place where the monarch of the Habsburg Empire resided), as well as the first Romanian city to have horse drawn trams. It's also the hometown of Johnny Weissmuller as well as Francesco Illy. If the name doesn't ring a bell, all I need to say is that he invented the coffee machine.

 

[HT_Black]

The Selma rally...rather dissapointing, I think.

 

[Taneer]

Uhhh...My hometown is famous for having a lot of potholes and pot addicts.

 

[DrunkWithPower]

captial wasteland Illinois, Abe Lincoln and a knife to the kidneys

 

[Spitfire175]

Well, everyone in my country knows my hometown because a "satanic cult" (drunk idiots who liked metal music) killed and mutilated a few other guys. It's a sort of a saying, like the "Texas chainsaw massacre", exept that it's "the Hyvinkää flensing murders"

 

[GoldenRaz]

Mine is famous for it's salmon-infested river. Or was it the beaches that made it famous?
Meh, guess it depends on which time of the year that you're there on...

 

[Kajt]

A Swedish politician comes from my town.