What is your city known for?

[wallyb]

Okay - I'll try to do this with out making it a boring history lesson...
Boston - Boss town - Bean town - Love that dirty Water.

March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the very first phone call

On January 15, 1919 the Great Molasses Flood occurred in the North End of Boston - a tank burst at the Purity Distilling Company, dumping over 2 million gallons of molasses into the streets and killing 21 people

The Boston Cream Pie was invented at the Omni Parker House

Rock groups: Aerosmith, Boston, Amy Mann, James Taylor, J. Geils Band The Cars.

Other notables: Fannie Farmer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Winslow Homer, Paul Revere, Edgar Allan Poe, Uma Thurman, Barbara Walters

Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897.

The start of the revolution.

The Boston tea party.

The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Home to 50 + colleges including MIT, Harvard,

 

[Saxton]

The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

My head hurts.

 

[MonorailMan]

I'm directionally challenged, and usually wind up getting lost in my own bathroom, so I guess I should stay away from Boston.

I'm from Buffalo, NY so here are a few things:

Wings - chicken wings/Buffalo wings were created at the Anchor Bar
Niagara Falls - it’s actually a separate city but it’s just minutes away.
Architecture - we have some beautiful buildings including some designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
The Natural starting Robert Redford was filmed here, the hotel lobby is actually an office building. A few other movies have also been filmed here but Bruce Almighty wasn’t even though it was supposed to be based in Buffalo.
Snow - Syracuse gets more but for some reason everyone thinks of snow when they think of Buffalo
President McKinley - assassinated here during the 1901 Pan American Exposition
President Teddy Roosevelt - inaugurated here after the assassination
Mark Twain - lived here for a while and worked on a local newspaper

I've always wanted to try the Anchor Bar. Wings=happiness.

 

[MonorailMan]

The Boston Cream Pie was invented at the Omni Parker House

I thought the Food Network recently stated that the pie was NOT created in Boston despite its name.

 

[wallyb]

I thought the Food Network recently stated that the pie was NOT created in Boston despite its name.

Created by French chef M. Sanzian at Boston's Parker House Hotel, opened in 1855,
this pudding/cake combination comprises two layers of sponge cake filled with vanilla custard or crème pâtissière.
The cake is topped with a chocolate glaze (such as ganache) and sometimes confectioner's sugar
or a cherry.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Don't know about roads to IKEA, but the city with the most ridiculously hard to navigate roads for me is.......................BOSTON.....

Only city where I had to take a cab (after giving it a try on my own)...

I have lived and driven a lot of places and I do agree with this. Absolutly the worst place I have ever driven! Otherwise a fantastic city (and so easy to avoid driving in). Wally you are making me "home" sick

 

[Saxton]

I've always wanted to try the Anchor Bar. Wings=happiness.

Well if you ever come to Buffalo I'll take you there! Anytime people visit our office from out of town we have to take them there ... it's a neat place but nobody here will tell you their wings are the best.

 

[Saxton]

I forgot to mention this but it's kind of a strange thing that lots of famous people are from Buffalo: Harold Arlen (“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”), Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer, the Goo Goo Dolls, Rick James, Brian McKnight, Grover Washington Jr., Christine Baranski, Michael Bennett, Wendy Malik, Jesse L. Martin, James Whitmore and many more.


Oh, and Wally ... we can sort of claim Lucy ... she's from a town kind of near here.

 

[wallyb]

James town?

 

[Saxton]

I think technically she was from Celeron but it's probably one street over from Jamestown since both are really small.

http://www.lucyfan.com/jamestownmuseum.html

 

[Saxton]

Hey Wally - did you see this picture on that website? Wow! Who knew that Lucy had another side?

 

[wallyb]

Hey Wally - did you see this picture on that website? Wow! Who knew that Lucy had another side?

That is so wrong.

I bet it was a dare from Ethel!
Hope she got a snazzy new hat out of it.

 

[MonorailMan]

Hey Wally - did you see this picture on that website? Wow! Who knew that Lucy had another side?

Was Lucy a Rockette?? Who knew she had those gams!

 

[rpmdfw]

Who knew she had those gams!

Um. . . . Ricky?

 

[wallyb]

Um. . . . Ricky?

... And Fred.
The missing episode.
Rick is on tour - Ethel is visiting a sick aunt in Albuquerque.
An old bottle of Vitameatavegamin....

 

[rpmdfw]

... And Fred.
The missing episode.
Rick is on tour - Ethel is visiting a sick aunt in Albuquerque.
An old bottle of Vitameatavegamin....

It was SO awkward when Mrs. Trumble walked in on them and they asked her to join in!

 

[Saxton]

... And Fred.
The missing episode.
Rick is on tour - Ethel is visiting a sick aunt in Albuquerque.
An old bottle of Vitameatavegamin....

Luuucy ... you got some 'splaining to do!

 

[wallyb]

It was SO awkward when Mrs. Trumble walked in on them and they asked her to join in!

And Then Betty Ramsey blabbed the whole thing.

But Ricky didn't get mad cause he was plucking
the harpist in his orchestra.

 

[MonorailMan]

I'm much too young to know who this "Lucy" person you're referring to is.

 

[wallyb]

I'm much too young to know who this "Lucy" person you're referring to is.

right.