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[OrganizedKhaos]

This is totally depressing to me....
BUT here's the town where I grew up, (I've lived in Indiana, Michigan, and Florida besides in Kentucky)

For family related reasons, I'm back in Salyersville, Kentucky...biding my time until its time to go back to Florida.

anyway...

Here's the link to Salyersville Kentucky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyersville%2C_Kentucky

[Head Wreck]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burry_Port

still there now

on the note of piracy. i used to work in a pub where it had a hidden cellar to stow the loot

[Kidthorazine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville%2C_Kentucky

[Senior_Diablo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburndale%2C_Florida
not much on my town..lol

[mystoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph_Ontario

[SyntheticShock]

The town I spent most of my growing up...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding%2C_california

[Senior_Diablo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph_Ontario

canadian! ::points:: gasp!

[OrganizedKhaos]

This is totally depressing to me....
BUT here's the town where I grew up, (I've lived in Indiana, Michigan, and Florida besides in Kentucky)

For family related reasons, I'm back in Salyersville, Kentucky...biding my time until its time to go back to Florida.

anyway...

Here's the link to Salyersville Kentucky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyersville%2C_Kentucky

This is a pic of the entire heart of town.





Here's one set of cabins that were historically preserved. Where the Founders Day festivities are held.



If you visit my home town, you're likely to see a lot of these ... randomly left lying ...anywhere.

[Lilly]

Here's my home town - well home city,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%2C_Western_Australia

And my town

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassend...tern_Australia

No pretty pictures unless you go to the actual town website though.

[Wickedanima]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryson_...North_Carolina

I'm utterly shocked to find the teeny tiny place I live on Wiki! Even like, a pitiful half-hearted kind of entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bear_Lake,_California

There's alot more on my hometown tho. ^_^

[Pull~My~Hair]

i too am shocked to see stuff on my town..though the picture is way way way way old

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Grove%2C_Oregon

[Black Spiral Dancer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead


The block of flats in the background is where I live, on the top floor.

[evilstonermonkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Awamutu
the town i was raised is also the town the Finn brothers were raised. Te Awamutu, rosetown. beautiful place. huge rose garden in the middle.

as for where i live now, its wikipedia page is literally 2 lines long.

[J. Babington]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedalia,_Missouri
I was born in Sedalia, Missouri... but ill make a map of where I moved to

Indianapolis->Sedalia/whiteman AFB->Indianapolis->EllsworthAFB-> Indianapolis->Offutt AFB->Indianapolis-> Indianapolis-> Indianapolis-> Indianapolis->Frostproof

[Black Spiral Dancer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead


The block of flats in the background is where I live, on the top floor.

The picture is of the "world famous Get Carter Car Park".

I love the entry about author JB Priestley...

Dr Johnson passing through with James Boswell described it as "a dirty little back lane out of Newcastle" while JB Priestley, writing in his "An English Journey" (1934) said that "no true civilisation could have produced such a town", adding that it appeared to have been designed "by an enemy of the human race".

[mystoo]

This is my other home. I MUST get back there soon!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texada_Island

[VoltaireBlue]

there's too much to copy and paste on wiki about greenland, lol.

[Bacchus88]

Kingsport Tennessee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsport,_Tennessee
Read the Odd history part.. We hung an Elephant in 1900s...

Maybe I need to fix this on wiki, in our history of the town/ county. 1780s, battle of King's Mountain, Overmountain Men as we where called, 1,000 plus militiamen nearly half the men came from Sullivan County and Kingsport area.. Without orders, formal military training, uniforms or provisions, and with no promise of pay—against the superior forces. Matches out and met, half of Cornwallis army under the command of col. Ferguson.

Only one hour, the American Patriots totally decimated Ferguson's American Loyalists, with every last man of them either dead or taken prisoner, and the Colonel himself left dead on the battlefield. Having signed his own death warrant less than a month earlier when he sent a message from his camp in Gilbert Town, Rutherford County, North Carolina, to the officers on the west of the Blue Ridge that if they did not desist from their opposition to the British army, and take protection under his standard, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword.

It did not have the expected results: The message was delivered to Sullivan County, North Carolina (now Tennessee) Militia Colonel Isaac Shelby of Sapling Grove (present-day Bristol, Sullivan County, Tennessee), who immediately rode out to confer with neighboring Washington County, North Carolina (now Tennessee) Militia Colonel John Sevier. The two men agreed that the best solution was to "march with all the men we could raise, and attempt to surprise Ferguson, by attacking him in his camp, or at any rate before he was prepared.

I had family that fought at Kings Mountain, its a little more of family pride. Still Wiki needs a little help now and again

[Mr Karl]

caledon east
Caledon East is a small community in the greater "Town of Caledon" within the Region of Peel, Ontario.

Population: 2, 604 (Town of Caledon Population Distribution: June 30, 2005)
Households: 858 (Town of Caledon Population Distribution: June 30, 2005)
Location: Just west of Bolton and Palgrave
Latitude: about 43o 52' N
Longitude: about 79o 51' W
Area code: +1-905

thats it thats all

[Camby Savelle]

No article title matches

lol, the population here is 60 and we don't even have our own zipcode.

[athenahollow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis

One of the top 25 most populated cities, yet it's still like a small town. No real forms of public transportation, sidewalks on maybe 1/4 of all the streets, a handful of bike paths, and shitty air. Oh yea, but we have the new stadium! : Whopdifreakingdoo :

[Dishuman]

First Latino to Post in here eh?
At least First Puerto Rican that's for Sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico

Well I live in the City of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Second most biggest city (out of the Metropolitan area) in the Island.
I was impressed to see so much about it in Wikipedia, but yeah a lot of stuff went down in this city during the Colony period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M...ting_Ponce.svg

[TheCosmicSheriff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California

Charles Manson Family Members Living in Stockton
Lynette Fromme, Also knowen as "Squeaky Fromme", moved to Stockton, California, with friends Nancy Pitman and Priscilla Copper, a pair of ex-convicts named Michael Monfort and James Craig, and a couple, James and Lauren Willett. When the Willetts died within days of each other in 1972, the housemates were taken into custody on suspicion of murder. However, she was released due to a lack of evidence.

The 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting
On January 17, 1989, the Stockton Police Department received a threat against Cleveland Elementary School from an unknown person. Later that day Patrick Purdy, a mentally ill resident, opened fire on the school's playground with a semi-automatic rifle, killing five children, all Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees, and wounding twenty-nine others and a teacher, before taking his own life. This event received national news coverage and is sometimes referred to as the Stockton Massacre.

Real estate crash
Stockton was disproportionately affected by the collapse of the sub-prime lending market in 2007, and led the United States in foreclosures for that year, with one out of every thirty homes posted for foreclosure.[14].

Central Connecticut State University surveys from 2005 and 2006 ranked the city as the most illiterate of all U.S. cities with a population of more than 250,000

A number of motion pictures have been filmed in Stockton
All the King's Men (1949) [5]
Always
Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
The Big Country (1958) [6]
Big Stan (2007) [7]
Bird (1988) [8]
Blind Man Sees First
Blood Alley (1955) [9]
Bound for Glory (1976) [10]
Cabana Time
Coast to Coast (1980) [11]
Cool Hand Luke (1967) [12]
Coyote (1997) [13]
Day of Independence (2003) [14]
Dead Man on Campus (1998) [15]
Death Machines (1976) [16]
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) [17]
Dreamscape (1984) [18]
Fat City (1972) [19], based on Leonard Gardner's acclaimed 1969 novel Fat City. It is set in Stockton in the late 1950s, and was filmed by director John Huston.
Flubber (1997) [20]
Friendly Fire (1979) [21]
Funky Fresh
Glory Days (1988) [22]
God's Little Acre (1958) [23]
High Time (1960) [24]
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) [25]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Inventing the Abbotts (1997) [26]
Oklahoma Crude (1973) [27]
Pop Dat Booty
Porgy & Bess (1959) [28]
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [29]
Rampage (1988) [30]
Return Fire/Jungle Wolf II (1988) [31]
R.P.M. (1970) [32]
Skipping [33]
The Strawberry Statement (1970) [34]
The Sure Thing (1985) [35]
Valentino's Return (1989) [36]
The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) [37]

[Dishuman]

wow so many films in stockton?
That's amazing. Never been to california, maybe I will next summer

[TheCosmicSheriff]

wow so many films in stockton?
That's amazing. Never been to california, maybe I will next summer

IF yould like i could give you some recomended locations to visit that dont include Stockton, for your benifit not mine. LOL

[grebo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Victoria
Kulin people lived in Euroe Yroke (the area now known as St Kilda) for up to 30,000 years. Evidence has been found of shellfish middens and huts along Albert Park and Lake and axes which were most likely sharpened on the sandstone cliffs behind the main beach. Corroborees where held at the historic tree which still stands at St Kilda Junction.
St Kilda was first settled around 1839 by Ben Baxter, a settler from Melbourne, on a grazing lease. The high ground above the beach offered a cool fresh breeze during Melbourne's hot summer months. In 1840 St Kilda was the home to Melbourne's first quarantine station for Scottish immigrants. The area was named St Kilda by then governor Charles La Trobe in 1841.
Within a few years of its founding St Kilda became a fashionable area for wealthy settlers and the indigenous peoples were driven out to surrounding areas.


the most well known and best pub in stkilda

The Esplanade Hotel is an iconic public house in St Kilda, a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is situated at 11 Upper Esplanade, overlooking Port Phillip Bay on a rise opposite the St Kilda Pier, making it a significant landmark of St Kilda. It is commonly known locally as "The Espy

[helcyon]

The Esplanade Hotel

Yeah I get down the espy when I get down to melbs. I hear they've bought new couches and all sorts of stuff which is a major surprise given that it was all looking mighty unchanged in there for the previous nearly 30 years

Anyway....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annandale,_New_South_Wales
"Annandale's main street... is notable for being the first 30m wide street in Sydney"
I totally lost my load when I read that. Can it get more exciting?

Actually no but there are a few USA style "Gothic Revival" mansions about here that are locally known as the "Witches Houses" that are cool

The Abbey - built by John Young "the house incorporates gables, arches, gargoyles, lions, quatrefoils, chimneys, turrets, a cloister and a tower with copper cladding (it was rumoured that Young may have stolen gargoyles from St Mary's Cathedral, which he [also] built, but there was no proof)"
... except that he now burns in hell


Kenilworth


Somewheres hereabouts



ok this is really Glebe but you could nearly call it Annandale - never bothered eating at this (now) restaurant. The house just out of frame next to it in the same grounds is definitely one of the spookiest around here:

Reussdale - there is not anyone who isn't spooked by this place when it's dark. It still looks like this. The Abbey restaurant in the picture before this (that Reussdale is next to) used to be similarly spooky and derilect - a few fun & games stories in there from when we were younger hehe. Now the only thing that's scary is the bill at the end of the meal.

[soma_stardust]

wow, everyone comes from much more interesting places than i do. ^_^;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California
boring-ass place.
i much prefer living in the east bay now.
this is kinda interesting: "Despite the rising crime, it is still ranked as the safest city with a population over a few million people"

[Toe Cutter]

The picture is of the "world famous Get Carter Car Park".

I love the entry about author JB Priestley...

I LOVE that parking ramp. That's the best skyline I think I've ever seen!

[Dusk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown - where I live now


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor,_New_South_Wales - where I lived then