Your Hometown

[PandaMan]

North Brunswick, NJ:

Tim Howard went to our school. (Goalie for Manchester United / Back-Up for US team)

Other than that, mostly a boring town with some small, positive, quirks here and there. (Robotics ) We also have a large number of pizza places here (14), which is quite a lot for a town of 40,000 people. (Kind of crowded for an area of about 12 square miles.)

Calhounian's Request: We also have 9 Car dealerships [In this tiny town].

[xzvrw2]

Pontiac:

-We have had a couple of athletes come out of here that didn't get thrown out of their college and actually make something of them selves...Grant Mason(Pittsburgh steelers) and Lester Abrams(Michigan University basketball) and a couple others that i don't know their names but got sent to the NFL.
-We have 5 FIRST teams (65, 33, 47, 1, 68)
-In those FIRST teams we have 2 national championships, one national chairmans award, a crap load of regional wins, and 5 legendary teams that everyone knows.
-We hosted the World Cup along time ago...I don;t exactly know when but every time you come into Pontiac from Woodward there is a sign that that says "Pontiac where the World comes to play."
-oh yeah...and i was born and raised there...that is an accomplishment in its self..haha

[Mike Shaul]

I'm originally from South Bend, IN.

NOTRE DAME!!

Go Irish!

(I know, I'm not supposed to say that since I currently live north of Ann Arbor).

[Pat Fairbank]

Milton, Ontario - the place where the Robertson screw (the square-headed screw, which enjoys immense popularity in Canada) was invented.

[JaneYoung]

Austin's official slogan is:
The Live Music Capital of the World

One of its unofficial mottos is:
Keep Austin Weird

It's a mix of cultures, politics, lobbyists, arts, parks, springs, state employment, technology -

My mother-in-law told me that she remembered when the main street, Congress, was a cattle drive up to and around the state capitol.

oops, sorry - forgot - Austin City Limits is based here.

[xzvrw2]

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

1994 - you probably don't remember it, do you?

That was when I first realized just how big the WC was outside the US. Switzerland was playing, and someone had rented two giant cranes to raise a Swiss flag over the Silverdome - which couldn't even be seen from inside!

I was a young one then haha.
Oh and speaking of Texas...there is a town there that has my last name as its name...Alvarado, Tx...interesting fact yes i know haha.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by MattD

Meriden, CT

- Location chosen for the filming of Jacknife (1989 film staring Robert DeNiro)
- Known as the home of the first steamed cheeseburger
- Home of Hubbard Park, the largest municipal park in all of New England
- Home of the National Shaving & Barbershop Museum
- Known as the "silver city" during the 1800s due to the large amounts of silver products manufactured

Here's a few more about Meriden, CT:

- Birthplace of Tomie dePaola, renowned children's book author.
- Was named "The Nation's Ideal War Community" in 1944 due to the strong and patriotic war effortr displayed by our town and its companies.
- Actually we are still known as "The Silver City of the World", because of such companies as International Silver (Insilco), New Departure, and Napier all originated in our town. (Chances are that if you own real silverware from before the 1940s, it was likely made in Meriden.)
- Home of East and West Peaks, the highest mountain within 25 miles of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Maine.

[kjhobin]

Montclair, NJ

Home to Buzz Aldrin, who went through the Montclair public school system
Home to Yogi Berra
Home to the New Jersey Jackals of the Can-Am League (baseball).
The Jackals play at Yogi Berra Stadium.
Right next door to the Yogi Berra Museum
Filming location for the hit TV show, The Sopranos
Filming location for tons of commercials (its common place to see a film crew in Montclair)
For the girls. Home to Bobbi Brown, who has her own successful makeup line
Also Home to:
* Montclair Art Museum
* Howard Van Vleck Arboretum
* Presby Memorial Iris Gardens
* Van Vleck House and Gardens
* Montclair High School

We are basically a mid sided town where every one goes to NYC a lot.
For more information, check our Wikipedia reference
For More information on MHS and the Montclair public schools see those wikipedia refrences

[Booger]

Montville, NJ

Pete Yorn used to live here
other than that nothing much, its just a boring town

[i like dirt]

Orlando, FL

Tourism Capitol of the world. That's a fact, tourists from all over the world come here to be dazzled by the advances in engineering, and of course
to meet the mouse.

[nparikh]

Originally Posted by PandaMan

North Brunswick, NJ:

Tim Howard went to our school. (Goalie for Manchester United / Back-Up for US team)

Other than that, mostly a boring town with some small, positive, quirks here and there. (Robotics ) We also have a large number of pizza places here (14), which is quite a lot for a town of 40,000 people. (Kind of crowded for an area of about 12 square miles.)

Calhounian's Request: We also have 9 Car dealerships [In this tiny town].

Mr. Panda also forgot to add that we have a very booming industrial sector in our town. Companies such as J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb, etc, have had their facilities in or bordering North Brunswick. As he noted, I think that Raider Robotix is one of the only real 'claims to fame' our town has, besides Tim Howard of course.

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Budda648

Plain and simple...

What sets your hometown apart from others? What's your town's claim to fame?

Bedford, NH -- Hmm, this isn't what I would normally indicate is my hometown's claim to fame, but on Chief Delphi, there's only one possible answer...

Dean Kamen lives here! (at Westwind)

Now if I could only afford to live in the same neighborhood...

[savage301]

Dearborn, MI
-The Henry Ford a great place to visit and half of my team goes to school inside Greenfield village(the outdoor part).
-The TPC but this year was its last.
-Ford (enough said).

[Jay H 237]

Watertown, CT (includes Oakville, southern section of Watertown)
Located in Northwestern, CT. Part of Litchfield County.

Originally part of Waterbury but "spun off" in 1800's
Population about 25,000 last I know of (has grown dramatically last 15 years because of many subdivisions built)
Taft School located here, containing students from around the world (Mary Chapin' Carpenter graduated from here)
We have MANY car dealerships here, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Volvo, Mitsubishi, BMW, Saturn, Volkswagon, Lotus, Pontiac, Subaru, Isuzu, Jeep, Buick, Nissan
We also have two salvage yards
Several farms still active, many became presaid subdivisions though, one of which where I live (I don't have a septic tank but my grass still grows very well )
As of this week we now have 3 Dunkin' Donuts
Watertown had a thriving manufacturing industry at the turn of the century and there are still many companies located here and we have one industrial park
We used to have a microbrewry here, "Hammer and Nails"
We used to also have a drive in but it's been closed for about 20 years now.
We have a state park, Black Rock (less than 5 minutes from where I am)
We have a mall, the Brass Mill Center located 10 minutes from here
We are minutes from the junction of two major highways, Rt 84 and Rt 8. Rt 8 actually goes through part of Watertown
Main part of Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, "Grace and Glory" filmed here (I bought some of the props afterward and still have them, movie also filmed in Litchfield and Goshen)


Team 38, Nonnebots, who helped 237 get going are the next town over from us in Woodbury located to our West. Two teams we helped get going, 716 Who's Cteks and 1784 Litchbots are also in Litchfield county located North and Northwest of us, respectively.

When I think of more I'll add to this unless Elgin or the Shaws beat me to it.

[Wayne C.]

Sayreville, NJ-

home of Jon Bon Jovi and Greg Evigan if thats worth anything.

The town was built on/around the Sayre Fisher Brick Company- the supplier of bricks for many of the buildings in NYC including the Empire State Building. The entire town is covered with bricks and old clay pits. Toxic waste dumps are also pretty common.

The world's oldest amber deposits are here and fossils of the rarest Cretaceous age insects, birds and reptiles have been found in recent years. Amber used to be common (if you knew how to look for it). This is the stuff that Michael Crichton based Jurassic Park upon. The same pits also hold the oldest marine fossils of the Mesozoic on the East Coast.

I rarely go back to the old town these days because it has been largely ghetto-fied and I dont recognize the place anymore.

WC