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Old Reliable · 12-28-2002, 07:53 PM

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SW-14 · 12-28-2002, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cameltoe

houston is known for mexicans, oil and porn stores galore

Heh, come to think about, there are a lot of porn stores...and Mexicans....

Static · 12-28-2002, 07:56 PM

Bristol ,I.K. Brunel - Famous Engineer
something like that anyway , my history sucks oOo:

Coleman · 12-28-2002, 08:32 PM

EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA:

well, i think it was the second or third spot where the new Declaration of Independance was read to the public from the original document.

It was the richest place in the US before they had a railroad boom. It had the most millionares because of that. It was supposed to be the New York City but then the damn Railroads ruined it! mad:

We are #2 in the country in High School Wrestling

ermm some other stuff..i'll post later.

Xorcist [USA] · 12-28-2002, 08:39 PM

[quote="Old Reliable":77e5b]Midland, Michigan....headquarters for Dow Corning Corporation and main plant for Dow Chemical...home to the Gerstacker family...inventor of Silly Putty from here....creator of the "Cathy" cartoons....Alden B. Dow famous architecht whose styles are from Frank Lloyd Wright's...oh and there's also a 3 way bridge in town cool:[/quote:77e5b]

damn old reliable, i live in saginaw. famous for logging (back in the day), fort saginaw used by civil war era troops, heinz pickle factory, general motors parts plants, thompson ball and screw, (manufacture parts for the m-1 abrhams tank) and the saginaw river river which is basically a dividing line between the races in our town. truely sad. birth place of stevie wonder, jason richardson, (NBA Golden State Warriors) blah, blah, blah, blah....

Alias · 12-28-2002, 08:40 PM

erm at one point my town, wallingford, had the most bars per square mile or something. Was in the guiness book of world records. Dunno who holds that title now.

descry · 12-28-2002, 08:42 PM

I live in N. Falls now but i was born in Kingston Ontario Canada which was the first capital of Canada.

KTOG · 12-28-2002, 09:05 PM

Pittsburgh:

-Used to be famous for steel, not much of that anymore (damn japanese).
-Discovered Cure for Polio here
-Home town of Bruce Springsteen and Micheal Keaton
-Construction 24/7 on our roads
-The show "The Guardian" is made here

Pyro · 12-28-2002, 09:22 PM

Anti Hero...if you see this...you live America or Canada? ... you say you live in Canada but used to live in Michigan

BUT there is a Midland Ontario and a Midland Michigan

SO I am confused now...especially since your msn profile says Michigan.

Brampton - known for uh...I really don't know...

militiaboy · 12-28-2002, 09:50 PM

Cedar Rapids, Iowa- Largest Quaker Oats plant and I beleive we are on the list of the top 10 places that enemy countries want to blow up since we have a engineering place that develops stuff for the military and we also have a nuclear power plant nearby. Not completely sure about that though.

Coleman · 12-28-2002, 09:55 PM

[quote="Garry Coleman":8040d]EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA:

well, i think it was the second or third spot where the new Declaration of Independance was read to the public from the original document.

It was the richest place in the US before they had a railroad boom. It had the most millionares because of that. It was supposed to be the New York City but then the damn Railroads ruined it! mad:

We are #2 in the country in High School Wrestling

ermm some other stuff..i'll post later.[/quote:8040d]
ah yes.....we have the Crola Factory here....it's a big hit. We have the oldest running to date highschool football rivalry--99 years i think it is. We play against Philipsburg directly accross from the Delaware river. It's an awsome sight really. About 10,000 people show up to see it and it was on ESPN once.....that was cool.

Vance · 12-28-2002, 10:15 PM

[quote="SW-14":09073]Hmm...what's Houston known for?[/quote:09073]
Sam Houston. If you dont know who he is you should be slapped. [url="http://www.shsu.edu/~smm_www/"]http://www.shsu.edu/~smm_www/[/url]

SW-14 · 12-28-2002, 10:18 PM

Houston isn't really "known" for Sam Houston. It was just named after him... I think what the guy who started this topic meant was "what features of your city is it known for".

cameltoe · 12-28-2002, 10:25 PM

oh yea SPM is from houston.. man texas is just loaded with mexicans. anyway was your house flooded when those huge rains came thru a while ago. i wasnt in the US when that happend so i didnt manage to see how much of houston was underwater. oh yea houston is also full of mosquitos.

geRV · 12-28-2002, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyro

Anti Hero...if you see this...you live America or Canada? ... you say you live in Canada but used to live in Michigan

BUT there is a Midland Ontario and a Midland Michigan

SO I am confused now...especially since your msn profile says Michigan.

Brampton - known for uh...I really don't know...

He's originally from canada, moved to america then moved back to canada when he was 12.