GTKY: Is your hometown famous?

JEChester · January 2014

Williamsburg, Virginia...Colonial Williamsburg, Busch Gardens, Jamestown, & Bruce Hornsby, pretty exciting :-S

biglewzer · January 2014

I'm from an extremely small town in South Jersey. Our only claim to fame is the Jersey Devil was spotted there. We also have the oldest log cabin in the Western Hemisphere (which is insane when you think about it) That's all I got.

The town I live in now (15 miles away) had a child murdered last year and it made national news.

middleschoolmommy · January 2014

JKGordon said:

Dallas, TX Home to: Dallas Mavericks Dallas Stars (Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers within 10 minutes) Famous for: The old "Dallas" TV show Population over 1 million Skyline Food, arts, and events Born here: Lance Armstrong George & Laura Bush Jason Castro Norah Jones Demi Lovato Dr. Phil Aaron Spelling Usher Luke & Owen Wilson and numerous athletes And of course, me.

Can't forget: Walker Texas Ranger was filmed in parts of Dallas! lol

AllisonLaurenn · January 2014

Indianapolis: Capital city of IN, Indy 500 and Brickyard 400, the Colts (Super Bowl XLI Champions), the Pacers, Indianapolis Children's Museum (world's largest), hosted Super Bowl XLVI, parts of Parks and Rec (TV show) filmed here

. I love Indy!

INmommy871278 · January 2014

sekis said:

Hometown: Indianapolis/Greenwood - so, uh...not a whole lot. Indy 500, a few random "celebs" passed through, etc.

Current town: Bloomington - Home of Indiana University, known for limestone.

Damn, my life is entertaining. haha

Pure life bottled water is bottled in Greenwood, true story says so on the label of the bottle. I told my sister this who lives in the greenwood area and was buying pure life bottled water. DH informed me of this.

SweetTamale38 · January 2014

My hometown is Gardena, CA...the only thing we are known for, I think, is Eddie Munster. lol

ashtonblair123 · January 2014

Um, Johnny Depp was born here. And President Clinton came here to eat BBQ once at our semi famous BBQ joint (if you watch the travel channel) and a lot of people come here for the BBQ festival we have annually.

klynne924 · January 2014

The only things, well people, my hometown is famous for are Luke Bryan, Buster Posey, and Phillip Phillips.

KateH2013 · January 2014

Maybebaby7575 said:

The Office. So since moving away from the area I sometimes watch reruns when I'm feeling nostalgic and look out for local references.

I work with the guy who Andy Bernard's character was based on! His name is really Andy Bernard

Nothing special about my small hometown in VT. It was so small we didn't have a high school. I went to high school in the town where the Simpsons movie premiere was!

TricksyPixie · January 2014

A girl was on the today show because she said "hell" or "damn" or something in her valedictorian speech a couple years ago and our stupid jack wagon of a principal said he wasn't going to give her her diploma. So I guess that's famous. Other than that, we are just a sleepy little town between Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

Myanswer true · January 2014

alyssa719 said:

Myanswer true said:

Not exactly my hometown (I grew up in the country), but home to the #1 party college (until recently) in the US, where greatness is learned and couches are burned. No one has ever heard of my actual hometown, haha.

I think this is where I grew up... if the couch burning happened in the "canyon".

Most of our couch burning occurred in Sunnyside... lol. Also car flipping and dumpsters being lit on fire.

snysilver · January 2014

Buffalo, NY. Home of the chicken wing! (known elsewhere as a Buffalo wing, but here they're just chicken wings).

andyandrachel · January 2014

snysilver said:
Buffalo, NY. Home of the chicken wing! (known elsewhere as a Buffalo wing, but here they're just chicken wings).

Me too! Hi!

alygoo615 · January 2014

The only thing I can think of my hometown being infamous for is the Montgomery County Snipers. That was a terrifying time to live here.

Most of the band, OAR went to my high school. I don't know how big they are outside of our area, but I love them.

alygoo615 · January 2014

Al Capone used to run through the town I grew up in. My grandma dated one of his cronies. She has crazy stories. I grew up right outside of Chicago city limits, on the southwest side. Chicago has too many to name

Your grandma sounds like a badass!

sarahdallen · January 2014

@biglewzer where in South Jersey? I was born in Clayton and grew up in Wenonah but live in Philadelphia now.

youreggoispreggo · January 2014

@biglewzer, are you talking about Autumn P?

@sarahdallen - I grew up in Pitman - close to both of you ladies!

Pitman isn't known for much other than recently there being a lot of hullabaloo about a "Keep Christ in Christmas" banner hung downtown. And it made national news last year for a double murder/suicide.

Where I live now (Winston-Salem, NC) is known for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company - Joe Camel, Winstons, Salems, Pall Malls, etc. Also the hometown of CP3! Maya Angelou teaches a course at Wake Forest University.

ARCory · January 2014

Home of Marshall Univ. Movie filmed here based on the 1970 MU plane crash killing the whole football team, staff, fans. We Are Marshall..

Huntington, WV

Mrs.DeRuysscher · January 2014

stompin' tom connors wrote a song about my hometown : Tillsonbrug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGVx86TQss

AnotherPreggo · January 2014

We are Whip City... "famous" for whips in the 19th century.

drunkenhandstand · January 2014

Houston!

Largest city in Texas and 4th largest city in the country

The Texas medical center including MD Anderson Cancer center - No.1 in the country.

NASA

Strong economy

And of course... all us cowboys and cowgirls live on ranches and ride our horses everywhere.

biglewzer · January 2014

youreggoispreggo - Yes, Autumn

sarahdallen - I'm in Clayton now, but I'm from Gibbstown and went to GCHS. I've lived in a few places in between, Greenville, NC, Cape May Court House, and Mantua.

From what I could tell, there are at least 5 ladies from this area in this group.

marathonmom823 · January 2014

The town I live in is famous for: A big ol' Museum of Glass, Corningware, Pyrex, and Wine! And Aniello's pizza (though I prefer Atlas).

rb- don't forget about the awesome waterfalls and amazing hiking up there

beff12 · January 2014

My hometown had the Little League World Series! Then we moved south to BBQ central, also home of Richard Childress and the Childress racing museum if you're into nascar and Dale Earnhardt. Zach Galifianakis grew up where we live now and we also win the award for the county with the most meth lab busts in our state in 2013. Represent.

beff12 · January 2014

ashtonblair123 said:
Um, Johnny Depp was born here. And President Clinton came here to eat BBQ once at our semi famous BBQ joint (if you watch the travel channel) and a lot of people come here for the BBQ festival we have annually.

I think we may be talking about the same BBQ!

abunai523 · January 2014

Not much has come from Okemos Michigan... Tom Welling (from Smallville) graduated from my high school, but that's all I know of.

briemulligan · January 2014

My hometown is famous for being the turning point of the Revolutionary War- Saratoga National Battlefield is a mile from my house, and we found some musket shot in our yard this summer with metal detectors probably from that era. Apart from that we are close to lots of famous stuff, but we don't even have a stop light or a store of any kind in my little hamlet.

KnockedTheEffUp · January 2014

Chicago. You may have heard of it.

lowen83 · January 2014

Food lion(grocery store chain) started in my home town and it's where their main offices are. Cheerwine(a soft drink) originated here. Hootie and the blow fish band member lived here and that's pretty much it. NC