why is your hometown special?

[GMN]

I was thinking what makes the places where we live special?

I think our town is special because it is small, rural, where people are friendly and nice. How about your town?

GMN

 

[Lammie]

I haven't lived in my home town since I was in high school, but I was born and raised in Granbury, TX. At the time, it had about 2500 people, but most of the time I was growing up, it was a small town than that. What makes it special is the Courthouse, I believe. When we moved to town from the ranch, we rented a house on Cleburne Street and it was right across from the lake and beach. I would walk my dog every day that summer down the street and into town. Lots of big old houses. Mainly old folks living in them. I talked to them and they talked to me. Then we would circle around the locker plant just off the square and go baclk home. Sometimes we went down Count's Alley, and if I saw a snake sliver across the road, I'd turn and run back home with my dog on his leash.

That is one of my favorite set of memories, that summer. I couuldn't swim at the beach because I had stitches in my leg from cutting it on a pop bottle. No one sued the store where it happened. That was back when there were real stores on the square, and not tourist traps. Back in 1971. You could hear the Courthouse clock tower chime at night. It was very comforting.

 

[oscar p]

We are over fun with mexicans. Have 9 chicken plants inside city limits. we are Albertvilel Alabama. But the mexicans call it Villa Alberto. Our schools dont teach english they teach spanish. Hell! I cant understand my own kid sometimes. Whats this state coming to.

 

[BlackBaldyMan]

Tenino, WA....small, rural like mentioned already but its main attraction back in the day was a Sandstone quarry

 

[Alice]

On the courthouse square...

 

[cattleluvr18]

there is absolutly nothing special about our town. we too have chicken houses for MBA Smart Chicken and its over ran here too with mexicans. so ofcourse we get taught spanish but even though ive been takin it for 3 years but i cant even translate a sentence. i think we have 1700 people or so. so pretty much everybody knows everybody which can be a bad thing sometimes. we have one grocery store 2 gas stations a dollar general and then some minor local businesses but thats about it.

 

[warpaint]

My little hometown is famous or infamous whatever the case may be. I won't go into it here, but you can look it up in your history books.

I have traveled quite a bit with the military, my job, etc., but I always ended back at home. The majority of my family is there and I guess it's my safe place.

 

[MillIronQH]

The most special thing about my home town was the road out of it.Z

 

[Alice]

My little hometown is famous or infamous whatever the case may be. I won't go into it here, but you can look it up in your history books.

Whoa...I see what ya mean... :shock:

Alice

 

[VanC]

I really like where I live. It's a relatively small town of just under 5000, and has everything a small town has to offer. We are only 15 min from the University of Illinois and all that a major university has to offer. Sports, art, music of all kinds, good food of all types, Broadway shows, comedy acts, etc. You can go to the Assembly Hall and see George Strait one night and the hottest rock band the next(whatever that might be now). ;-) You name it, they've got it.

If you're looking for more, such as what a bigger city has to offer, we're only 2 hours from either Chicago or Indy, and about 3 1/2 hrs from St Louis. I feel very fortunate.

 

[mnmtranching]

I don't know, can't figure it out. This is one of the fastest growing area's in MN [population wise], Winters are to long, lots of snow, taxes high, roads can't handle the traffic. high fuel prices, dry, dusty Summers. :stop:

 

[ga. prime]

I don't have a hometown. But if I did, there wouldn't be anything special about it. It would be just like every other town in the region.

 

[ga. prime]

I'd like to read the history on warpaint's hometown, but I missed the name of it.

 

[Ryder]

Shooting and feuding. First dead man I ever saw had been shot between the eyes. Things had eased up somewhat by the time I came along, but piney woods folks were still on the 'serious' side.

 

[chrisy]

because I live there I can't think of anyting good about where I live, I am hopeing to move within the next 18 months, when we retire and Rob is sorted, we are off. The area was a very good one but it has gone down over the past 20 years.

 

[john250]

http://www.filmpr.com/madison/viral-tra ... ailer4.htm

Racing big boats (unlimited hydroplanes) using at first old WWII Allisons and Rolls Royces. V-12's tuned within an inch of their lives. Today with Turbine engines from helicopters.
The link is to a film clip from a movie made about the 1972 race when Miss Madison won a huge race. Nobody went to work on Monday.
The guys who race these things are true racers, because they sure aren't getting rich.
They are something to see up on a plane at 180 mph.
Unfortunately, my home town is lacking in visionary folk to lead and we tend to hammer down those who rise up. Lots of retired folk who don't want anything to happen which might cause more traffic or noise or etc!
We grow tobacco and cattle and a few hogs. Corn and beans too, but we are by no means part of the corn belt.

 

[GMN]

Now where I live now is not my hometown. My hometown is in Manitowoc, WI, it is famous for the shipbuilding company there and Burger boat company that builds yachts. Also my hometown is right on the lake so there is alot of fishing and boat business.

GMN

 

[chrisy]

My Home Town as a child was London, a big metropolis, I lived in a place called BOW...it was within walking distance of the Tower of London or a short tube train ride, (it was about a 30min walk), I spent many a time there as my Brothers friends Dad was a Yeoman of the Guard (Beefeater) and he used to let us in for free. We used to go on boat trips up the river Thames, from Westminster to Greenwich, at Greenwich there is a ship The Cutty Sark in it's day it was the fastest tea clipper on the sea, and the Maritine Museam, and the Observatory where time begins, the maridian line is marked by a brass line and if you can balance on it your feet are in no time, stand on one side and you are in a different zone to the other, no time difference though. fun when you are a kid or have never been there before. I have been all over London, visited all the sites been to all of the museams, London is a very interesting place, but curtain parts are not so nice to live now. Bow being one of them. We moved to the Country when I was a teenager, that was the best, and I would like to move there again. Clean unpolluted air and open spaces. not to many cars etc. and the Cows and Owls to wake you up in the morning, plus the odd Cockerel. Heaven.

 

[mitchwi]

Now where I live now is not my hometown. My hometown is in Manitowoc, WI, it is famous for the shipbuilding company there and Burger boat company that builds yachts. Also my hometown is right on the lake so there is alot of fishing and boat business.

GMN

That's where I went to college!

Michele

 

[Horse Guy]

I have spent most of my life on the road. For years home was a truck or anyplace I happened to be. Then I got so that home felt like anywhere west of the mississippi and east of the great divide.
Then after a while home started to feel like anywhere in Alberta, Montana or Wyoming.
But for the last quite a few years, home feels like a 30 mile radius around the outfit where we live. Nearest town is 45 minutes away. About the only good thing about going to town or any other place is that it makes me appreciate home all the more.
I sure have changed over the years. I used to love to travel. Now I dont want to go anywhere.
What makes this place special is that its still cow country for the most part. But things are changeing