So what things is your city famous for?

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: RedArmy
Where I live is known for:

The birthplace of IBM
Carousel Capital of America
Origin of Spiedies

You forgot the original location of Dick's Sporting Goods. That's why I'm currently plagued by the super fun Dick's Open right now . Stupid golfers causing traffic jams :|.

EDIT:

You also forgot that Rod Serling grew up in the area as well .

 

[ParStyles]

Gallo wine
Birth place of: George Lucas, Mark Spitz
Scott Peterson
Chandra Levy
#1 automotive thefts per capita rate in country 5 out of last 6 years

Yep, you're jealous, you want to come live here now.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: joesmoke
sacramento: meth

Cake

One of my favourite bands.

 

[coldmeat]

So they claim

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
According to WikiAnswers:

the Pacific Ocean, great Asian cuisine (sushi, robata, izakaya), falafel and shawarma, great seafood, excellent philharmonic orchestra, temperate weather, rain, Stanley Park and the Seawall, Wreck Beach (nude), great nightlife, heavy traffic, foreign language students on temporary visas, Granville Island Market, Robson Street, urbanism, yoga,
Host of the 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS!!! (which a lot of Vancouverites oppose)

Not very exciting.

KT

Lululemon

Trooper
D.O.A.
Skinny Puppy
Moist
Swollen Members
54-40

Paul Kariya
Hayden Christensen
Arthur Erickson
Nardwuar the Human Serviette
Jason Priestley
Seth Rogen

Downtown Eastside
Kitsilano
Whistler, Seymour, Grouse, Cypress mountains

c'mon dude...that's just from a few minutes on Wikipedia.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
According to WikiAnswers:

the Pacific Ocean, great Asian cuisine (sushi, robata, izakaya), falafel and shawarma, great seafood, excellent philharmonic orchestra, temperate weather, rain, Stanley Park and the Seawall, Wreck Beach (nude), great nightlife, heavy traffic, foreign language students on temporary visas, Granville Island Market, Robson Street, urbanism, yoga,
Host of the 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS!!! (which a lot of Vancouverites oppose)

Not very exciting.

KT

Lululemon

Trooper
D.O.A.
Skinny Puppy
Moist
Swollen Members
54-40

Paul Kariya
Hayden Christensen
Arthur Erickson
Nardwuar the Human Serviette
Jason Priestley
Seth Rogen

Downtown Eastside
Kitsilano
Whistler, Seymour, Grouse, Cypress mountains

c'mon dude...that's just from a few minutes on Wikipedia.

Shhhh, dude, I'm trying not to advertise this place. It's already getting too busy here.

KT

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Shhhh, dude, I'm trying not to advertise this place. It's already getting too busy here.

KT

Oops, I shouldn't have listed Lululemon first then .

Sorry.

 

[RedArmy]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: RedArmy
Where I live is known for:

The birthplace of IBM
Carousel Capital of America
Origin of Spiedies

You forgot the original location of Dick's Sporting Goods. That's why I'm currently plagued by the super fun Dick's Open right now . Stupid golfers causing traffic jams :|.

EDIT:

You also forgot that Rod Serling grew up in the area as well .

I actually had that in my original post but I took it out because I doubt anyone cares about Dick's Sporting Goods. I totally forgot about Rod Serling though.

 

[xanis]

cheesesteaks
hoagies
Rocky
the Liberty Bell
being the "birthplace of independence"

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Coffee
Microsoft
Nirvana/Grunge
Space Needle

Amazon
Boeing
Teriyaki
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Gabe Newell
Ryan Stiles
Rainn Wilson
Jimi Hendrix
Quincy Jones

Frasier
Gray's Anatomy

Precipitation

 

[BurnItDwn]

Wauconda holds the record for the worlds biggest snowball fight, over 3000 participants.

The Beach Scene for the movie Blues Brothers was filmed at the beach for Bangs Lake in Wauconda.

 

[judasmachine]

Beaches, Dali Museum, Kerouac residence.

 

[SuperSix]

Tampa = Mons Venus strip club.

 

[octopus41092]

Cupertino, CA
Apple
HP
Symantec

In neighboring cities there's Google, Yahoo, McAfee, AMD, Nvidia

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

Beer? We have a CDC facility on the outskirts.

Also, apparently the dude from Napoleon Dynamite...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Collins,_Colorado

 

[marincounty]

San Rafael, CA. Came up with 420.

 

[schneiderguy]

Tree City USA 2001.

Yeah we're pretty important.

 

[Chaotic42]

My hometown:

-Almost completely destroyed by Katrina
-Eight flags have flown there
-Used to be the Seafood Capital of the World
-Barq's Root Beer was created there
-Jessica Alba lived there
-Myrtle Erkel is from there
-It is the last home of Jefferson Davis, Beauvoir, which is a historical site
-It has several casinos

That's all I can think of.

 

[Crusty]

Live music capital of the world apparently.

 

[S Freud]

Beavers
One of the states universities-Linus Pauling graduated from.

From Wiki:

According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency report on its ?green power communities,? Corvallis buys more power from renewable resources than any other city in the nation.
Corvallis has a higher education rate per capita than any other city in the State of Oregon.
Randy Couture lives here.
Dick Fosbury lives here.
Mike Riley and Craig Robinson both coach teams here.
The maraschino was created here.
On February 18, 2008, Corvallis was named the fifth smartest city in America by Forbes Online Magazine

Some pretty cool stuff.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: S Freud
Beavers
One of the states universities-Linus Pauling graduated from.

From Wiki:

According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency report on its ?green power communities,? Corvallis buys more power from renewable resources than any other city in the nation.
Corvallis has a higher education rate per capita than any other city in the State of Oregon.
Randy Couture lives here.
Dick Fosbury lives here.
Mike Riley and Craig Robinson both coach teams here.
The maraschino was created here.
On February 18, 2008, Corvallis was named the fifth smartest city in America by Forbes Online Magazine

Some pretty cool stuff.

I think I'd like Oregon if I could find a job there.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Green Day song, and the squirrel bridge.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: dud
The tourist capital of the world.

Also the lightning capital of the world.

Nice?

I didn't know so many tourists visited Rwanda.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: BoomerD
BTW, since none of the other grammar nazi's have mentioned it yet...

Topic Title: So what things is your city famous for?

things is a plural word...so it SHOULD read:
"So what things ARE your city famous for?"

OR, "What THING is your city famous for."

I suppose the OP's title MIGHT be acceptable somewhere down south...but not in the English speaking part of the country.

if you were a true grammar nazi you'd never approve ending a sentence with a preposition

ZING! Got me there!

 

[OpenThirdEye]

Nothing really big happened in the city I live in now.

However, the city where I was born/grew up was the place where John Dillinger escaped from jail using a gun made out of a bar of soap and shoe polish (they actually filmed that part of the new movie "Public Enemies" at that same jail).