Whats Your City/town Famous For....

If I choose the city I live closest to, Grand Rapids, MI...

ArtPrize, a gigantic international art competition.

We are also home to Festival of the Arts, the largest all-volunteer arts festival in the country

We also have a high number of community and professional theatres, including Michigan's only professional ballet company, and opera company, and a symphony orchestra.

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, botanical gardens and sculpture park with a summer concert series, home to one of two existing DaVinci horse sculptures

Grand Rapids was one known asFurniture City, USA. Home to Steelcase, Haworth, Baker Furniture, American Seating, and Widdicomb Furniture Company, among several others. Made in Grand Rapids on your wood furniture is a sign of quality and endurance to this day.

Gerald R. Ford was from East Grand Rapids, and his Presidential Library and Museum is downtown on the river

We also have two Frank Lloyd Wright homes, theAmberg House and the Meyer May House

Our city symbol is a sculpture by Alexander Calder, La Grande Vitesse

Several large corporations are headquartered here: Steelcase, Herman Miller, Haworth, Alticor (formerly Amway), Wolverine World Wide, Meijer, Gordon Food Service, Bissell, Spartan Nash, National Heritage Academies, and Zondervan.

Last, we're currently known as Beer City USA, with more than 80 craft breweries including Founders Brewing, Perrin Brewing Company, Grand Rapids Brewing Company, and HopCat.

We also house what's known as the Medical Mile, with Spectrum Health hospitals, the VanAndel Institute, and university medical colleges from Ferris State University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Grand Valley State University. We have an incredible number of research and medical facilities throughout the city and general area, including something like 10 major hospitals.

 

https://www.acdfestival.org/

 

My home town is roughly 2 hours drive from the big smoke of Melbourne.

Bendigo is famous for being one of the richest gold mining towns in Australian history......not that that did me any good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendigo

 

A hole drivers lol.

 

my city of birth, corona, california, usa, was well known back in the 1910's for its circular race track
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2009/07/27/corona-california-the-city-that-doubled-as-a-race-course/

and though it may never be in the history books, the corona hospital. that i was born in, { october 1958 }
was so old and dilapidated, that the doctors sent my mom and me home after only 1 day due to safety concerns.
i was told that 2 days after we were sent home, a demolishing crew arrived to tear down the hospital.

i was also born during the 6th game of the 1958 baseball world series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_World_Series
i don't think my mom will totally forgive the doctors for bringing a TV into the room so they
could watch the game while my mom was in labor and giving birth to me.

reality TV ain't got nothing on real life

 

I live in a rural area. A few miles down the road is a sleepy little town with a population of 1500, a elementary school, a few churches, two gas stations, a Subway, a pizza place, a diner that is only open about 4 hours a day 5 days a week, post office, two banks, a denist office, a medical clinic but no doctor, a Dollar Store, a insurance office, and not much else not even a grocery store. So nothing interesting ever happens here.

 

From August 1861 to mid-1862, Tucson was the western capital of the Confederate Arizona Territory, Copied from Wikipedia
There may be more.

 

The county I live in uses the slogan "Welcome to Bay County. Home of the World's most beautiful beaches."
The beach and the gulf here is real pretty. As it is across most of the panhandle!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g34543-Panama_City_Beach_Florida-Vacations.html

 

Our City is famous for many things including these below.

1 Leeds’ motto of ‘Pro rege et lege’ is latin and means ‘For king and the law’.
2 Leeds railway station has 17 platforms and was used by 24.5 million people last year – two-and-a-half million more than the year before.
3 The Golden Triangle – commonly used by estate agents to refer to the area of West and North Yorkshire lying between Harrogate, York and North Leeds – includes Whinmoor, Swarcliffe, Cross Gates and Garforth.
4 Former Leeds MP Denis Healey is the only Chancellor of the Exchequer to have appeared on The Morecambe and Wise Show.
5 Leeds comic Leigh Francis’s character Avid Merrion isn’t named after the shopping centre but Laimonis Mierins, his former lecturer at Leeds College of Art.
6 Architect Cuthbert Brodrick won £200 for his design for what would become Leeds Town Hall.
7 No one seems to know how big Leeds is. A national newspaper recently put it at 430,000, while Bargain Hunt presenter Tim Wonnacott described it as the UK’s ‘ninth biggest city’ when the show was filmed here. Leeds metropolitan district’s current population of 798,800 actually makes it the second biggest in England after Birmingham. London boroughs are counted separately.
8 The city’s coast of arms has three stars taken from the coat of arms of Sir Thomas Danby, its first mayor; fleece to symbolise the wool industry and three owls taken from the coat of arms of Sir John Saville, who was the first Alderman of Leeds.
9 Leeds is home to the country’s most northerly commercial vineyard – Leventhorpe Vineyard in Woodlesford.
10 The late Jimmy Savile claimed he staged the world’s first disco in Leeds in 1943 when he used a microphone and twin turntable decks at a venue in the city.
11 The average house price in Leeds 10 years ago stood at £84,550. Today it’s £164,713.
12 The A58(M) inner ring road was the country’s first urban motorway. The Westgate tunnel also lays claim to being the longest unventilated road tunnel in Europe.
13 Jelly Tots were accidentally discovered in 1967 by Leeds scientist Brian Boffey, from Horsforth. He was trying to come up with a way to produce a powdered jelly that set instantly when it was added to cold water.
14 Leeds is ranked sixth in the list of Britain’s ‘greenest’ cities based on environmental performance and quality of life.
15 Brazilian Soccer Schools started in Leeds in 1996 and now has 600 schools worldwide.
16 Temple Works in Holbeck, home to John Marshall’s 19th Century flax empire, was inspired by the ancient Egyptian Temple of Horus at Edfu. Architect Ignatious Bonomi studied watercolours of Egypt, painted by his brother, to get the design just right.
17 Leeds-born structural engineer Edmund Happold, worked on the construction of international landmarks including the Sydney Opera House, the Millennium Dome and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. His firm Buro Happold now employs 1,600 staff in 30 offices around the globe.
18 Leeds city centre has 3.5 million square feet of retail floorspace, five miles of shopping streets and one of the country’s largest pedestrianised shopping areas.
19 Over two-thirds of the Leeds Metropolitan District is designated green belt land and the city centre is less than 20 miles from the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
20 Leeds is a golfers’ paradise with 21 public and private golf courses. They include Moortown Golf Club, which hosted the 1929 Ryder Cup where the teams included the legendary American Walter Hagen and Percy Alliss, father of BBC commentator Peter.
21 Leeds attracts more annual visitors than traditional holiday destinations including Brighton and Torquay.
22 The Leeds Carnival, which started in 1967, is the oldest Caribbean carnival in Europe.
23 Pablo Fanque, the first black circus proprietor in Britain, is buried in St George’s Fields, now in the middle of the University of Leeds campus. Largely forgotten after his death in 1871, he became famous again as a result of the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! on the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, where the Henderson family is described as ‘late of Pablo Fanque’s fair.’
24 Charity worker Sue Ryder, who was born in Leeds, was made Baroness Ryder of Warsaw for her efforts for Poland. Her charity operates more than 80 homes worldwide, has about 500 high street charity shops and more than 8,000 volunteers. There is a Sue Ryder charity shop as far afield as the Ascencion Islands.
25 The village of Barwick-in-Elmet has the tallest maypole in Britain at 86ft. There have been several attempts to steal it. Villagers from nearby Aberford once tried to carry it to their village but were forced to abandon it on Aberford Road.
26 When BBC local radio came to Leeds in the mid-1960s, boss Phil Sidey resorted to buying a greyhound and calling it Radio Leeds to ensure the station got a mention in the hostile Yorkshire Evening Post which felt this new competition was unfairly subsidised by taxpayers.
27 Leeds firm JW Myers was the last flat cap manufacturer in Britain before production was moved to Panyu in China in 2000.
28 Popular children’s puppets Sooty and Sweep were invented in Guiseley by Harry Corbett, nephew of fish and chip tycoon Harry Ramsden, who had a spell playing piano in his restaurant.
29 The 71-mile-long River Aire passes through Leeds city centre and 38 other settlements on its way to the River Ouse.
30 Leeds United was formed in 1885 by one Leonard Cooper and played its early matches at Kirkstall and Leeds Albion on Brudenell Road.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/30-things-you-probably-didn-t-know-about-leeds-1-4524301

 

Tucson, AZ. i know where that is

both my mom and dad [ born during the 1930's ] are from a small mining town in arizona named bisbee.

besides a huge open pit copper mine, one thing bisbee was famous for, around 1900 or there about, was something called a bisbee divorce. when a woman was tired of her ornery husband, she just shot him dead. the judge in the town reckoned that he probably deserved it, so the woman was never arrested or tried or anything.

the other thing bisbee is known for, has been documented in a new film called bisbee 17.
synopsis is below. my mom says that event was a forbidden topic in the town and no one ever talked about it.

from: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bisbee-17-2018
"Bisbee '17" is a film about a 1917 labor strike against Phelps Dodge, a copper mining company based in Bisbee, Arizona, a town seven miles from the Mexican border. The labor action was cut short when 2,000 strikebreakers and hastily deputized citizens rounded up 1,300 protesters, many of them members of the radical, sometimes violent Industrial Workers of the World, aka The Wobblies. The strikers were taken across state lines by train and dumped in the New Mexico desert with a warning to never return. The event tore apart families and created divisions in Bisbee and the surrounding county that linger to this day. One of the most harrowing anecdotes recounted here finds a sheriff's deputy arresting his own brother, a striking union member, at gunpoint in his own home.

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