Tell us a strange fact about your hometown

[Mistral]

My hometown had a kennel that was known throughout the Hollywood community. I have no idea why, since it was in Arizona, but it was. It was about a half mile from one of the places I lived. When the stars traveled without their pets they'd put them up in the kennel. It was weird walking down the side of a dusty road on a Saturday morning, going to the park or the local 7-11 and seeing Clint Eastwood or Zsa Zsa Gabor drive by with their dogs.
Oh, and despite a quarter million population the then mayor(now Honorable Representative in Washington) was my Economics teacher in high school. Biggest little small town you could hope to live in, I guess.

 

[Lookingglassman]

Dayton Ohio - Nuns don't play. The Hospital, where I was born, was owned by some convent. It was a pretty good hospital, but the nuns had one standing rule, never turn away anybody who cant pay.

Well the nuns started dying off and the cost to maintain the hospital was getting too expensive so they decided to sell the hospital to a group of doctors, but they wanted them to maintain the rule of helping those who couldnt pay. The doctors refused so the nuns told them to get lost and now the hospital sits un-used. There is a smaller heart/rehab center next to it, but the main hospital is closed.

 

[B.J.]

The city also has the highest percentage of 20 to 25-year-olds of the entire country (more than 15%).

So, did your city have a long power blackout sometime in the late 80s?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Omaha also had one of the last Cinerama theaters in the country. Although we hadn't shown an actual Cinerama movie there in many years.

 

[Ruaidhri]

This picture says it all:

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

My hometown has a circular street near the city center that was originally a racetrack from 1913-1916. It was one of the first popular destinations for professional roadster racing, until a horrific accident killed several dozen spectators and forced its closure.

My Jr. High was built on the starting line. The peculiar layout of the town center due to the former racetrack gained the city the nickname "The circle city", a nickname it still wears proudly on the city seal.

Also, one of founding members of my hometown proposed to name it after himself. When he was overruled by other founding members, he disappeared in a huff and later killed himself.

 

[Owain Taggart]

In connection to my previous post, we have a monument, a big nickel actually, made to symbolize the 200th anniversary of the isolation of nickel as an element. I think I've posted it before in another post.

 

[TribbleFeeder]

philly was the first in the US to have a bank, hospital, art museum, zoo, university, mint, botanical garden, and penitentiary. : )

 

[Guartho]

I heard a certain Starfleet Admiral is from here... or maybe it's just some guy on a message board... Can't be sure.

 

[JiNX-01]

Oswego, NY: Arthur Godfrey was a native son and his mother was buried in a local cemetery. He ended up having to move her to get away from the gawkers when he came to town visit her grave.

Hey, my slo-pitch team is named after the Oswego Starchboxes, the worst baseball team in Western New York during the 1886 season.

OK, that's even weirder than what I submitted.

 

[Mark de Vries]

The city also has the highest percentage of 20 to 25-year-olds of the entire country (more than 15%).

So, did your city have a long power blackout sometime in the late 80s?

Nothing so interesting, I'm afraid. Just a major university

 

[K'Ehleyr]

This picture says it all:

My Horsham, UK, is 'rainer' than your Horsham

I'm not sure why I'm pleased about that

 

[TribbleFeeder]

This picture says it all:

MY SISTER LIVES THERE!
she really likes it : )