What’s cool about where you’re from?

[dodgedifferent2]

My first and only marriage was in Thamesville. Grew up in Dresden & +18 in Chatham. Small world.

Grew up in Thamesville and still there milking cows

 

[Skytrooper]

Home of Eastman Kodak
And also the Finger Lakes. One of the most beautiful places in the U.S.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

We gave you John Wayne

 

[yella71]

nothing......I m from jersey

 

[67440chrg]

I spent a large part of my early years in southern Okla. We lived just a few miles from Lake Texoma. In the little town I lived in there was a nice clear water creek with a dam that water spilled over most all the time. We would spend all summer swimming and fishing and running through the woods. Just simple life but as you grow up if you arn't a ranch owner or one of few families that have successful businesses you have to move away to make a living.

 

[Dennis H]

I spent a large part of my early years in southern Okla. We lived just a few miles from Lake Texoma. In the little town I lived in there was a nice clear water creek with a dam that water spilled over most all the time. We would spend all summer swimming and fishing and running through the woods. Just simple life but as you grow up if you arn't a ranch owner or one of few families that have successful businesses you have to move away to make a living.

Love the stories. I was born in a small town, my parents live in the same small town, small communities...good places to be from.

 

[whosnext]

I live in North Conway NH. My house is actually in the white Mountain range. The best cruising roads throught the notches and Scenic byways. Cruise into maine in 20 min, vermont 2 hrs, Canada 4 hrs. all through the beautiful great white north. We always head north from here, then west or east depending on the roads we're heading for. it's the perfect home base if your into cruising nice scenic roads. I may do a video this fall of the foliage and few roads up here, it really is a beautiful area to live. Some of the people are oxygen deprived if you know what I mean, but for the most part it's awesome. Moved up here from the seacoast area, really miss the ocean and ocean roads from salisbury Mass to Rye NH (RT 1A) road also wicked early in the AM before anyone gets out on a nice handling bike, blasting through the corners and pullin the front wheel over the suttle rises in the road. But we always said when I retire we're heading north.

 

[BBishere2]

Springfield Illinois has nothing to brag on. They ran off ‘The World of Wheels’ after totally pissing everyone off. As the cars pulled off the fairgrounds property, the cops were waiting and pulled over every car that squealed a tire, which many of them did considering the horsepower they were pulling. They shut down the kids cruising the lap years ago. Illinois has some of the highest real estate taxes in the country and one of the highest exodus rates of people leaving the state. Governor Hog Jaws has never met a tax or tax hike he didn’t like. The state is almost bankrupt yet it’s a sanctuary state. We, like thousands of others are moving out of state.

 

[Bb70charger500]

FL sucks !
It's hot! Till winter then it's freezing balls ,then hot the next day !
Cars rust away on the beach you can drive hours and see the exact same thing nothing!
Everyone here doesn't know how to drive ! (Witch raises all of our rates) in the city's it's so built up with apartments and condos there's just to many people in one area now. I might as well move to n y. Less traffic!!!

 

[Kern Dog]

I am in a donut hole....The county I live in is VERY Conservative. If I didn't listen to the news or read the political forum here, I'd think everything is okay in the world.

 

[O'l geezer]

Eastern Iowa,,,,,Fly over State..... But I have 4 drag strip's within 2 to 2 1/2 hours from me... How about that ???

 

[Dennis H]

Allentown. Great place to be from. Real Town. Parades. Corner Drug Stores. American. Pop 150k. Mack Trucks. Americana.

Whelan Drug. Take me back.

 

[Photon440]

Here's something else that goes on every year...the local corn maze.

Just down the road from me...
https://bosecornmaze.com/bose-farms-corn-maze/

 

[66plysat]

I grew up in Hawthorne California. It's the home of the Beach Boys and Chris Montez, he had a couple of big songs "Let's Dance" being one of them. Great place to grow up in the 60's and 70's. Lots of great cars cruising Hawthorne Blvd and hanging out at the A&W. or surfing at Redondo, Hermosa or Manhattan Beaches, just a few miles away.

 

[Rockland71GTX]

The place where I grew up was a little town in Rockland County NY. We had a reservoir across the street complete with ropes for swinging out into 'the lake'. there were also plenty of woods to play around in.
While there was not much historical in my town, we lived close to Stony Point, a battle site during the revolutionary war. It is also where Benedict Arnold met with Maj. Andre.

Another interesting site is the house that local artist Edward Hopper painted called 'House by the Railroad'.


This painting was the inspiration for a very famous house in American film.... the 'Psycho' house.
https://nyacknewsandviews.com/2014/10/nsl_hitchcock_meets_hopper/

 

[Photon440]

I'm in Cloverdale, B.C. which is the area that the city of Surrey began. It was a rail hub over 100 years ago, some of the main roads here were originally tracks.

Like a lot of the area surrounding Vancouver, there is a lot of film work going on. Countless movies have been made here, most of which were decorated to look like small American towns. Like when Danny Devito was here to film the movie "Deck The Halls", it was a scorching hot July, but part of the town was covered in fake snow to make it look like winter. View attachment 830419

When the show 'Smallville' was made, Cloverdale actually had a sign that proclaimed it:
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The local theatre (first one built in Surrey in the 1940s) is called The Clova, but it wore a Talon sign for Smallville filming.
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That same theatre has been repainted in its original colours and is now home of a church:
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There used to be an electronics repair shop, been in town since 1929.
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The television show 'Sabrina' was filmed here, much of the town was used as Greendale. Dann's radio shop is now used as the set of the bookstore for that show. All those leaves on the ground were props, it was springtime when this shot was taken.

All in all, a quiet place to walk around, since the main highway has bypassed the old town center. This is just about six miles from the US border crossing.
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A new town just popped up. A few months ago this was an empty field.
This is the new "Smallville" set being built.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Thinking............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Still..thinkin'..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Got nothin!

 

[F4R/T]

Wally burgers, ski soda , cherry ski in Breese Il. Wally’s the original fast food in town.. been in there since the car hop days and still rocking out the BEST burgers! Ski is bottled by Excel bottling in town and it blows Mountain Dew out of the water.. it also doubles as a hangover cure!

 

[440 4 speed]

A really cool place to live in the winter is Sahara`s home town.

 

[Builderguy]

I am from/grew up in Ironwood, MI and we have this. The Copper Peak ski jump sits 469-feet-high and looks over 2,500 square miles. When I was just a kid, I was marking distance of the Ski Flyers.
Great times and many memories!