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City of Menasha WI (southern suburb of Appleton right on the NW border of Lake Winnebago.)

.... about 17,000 people
.... Doty Island is actually half Menasha/ half Neenah
.... Eric Hinske (Boston Red Sox) was 5 years ahead of me in school; former AL Rookie of the Year (Toronto Blue Jays)
.... Don't be confused with the Town of Menasha with also about 17,000 people.. its a long standing political battle... between the town and city
.... Indian Point (a peninsula adjacent to the Menasha d*m, the water NEVER freezes..... the statue has fallen into the water on numerous occasions because of pranks, now it stays in the water... historians say is the magic of the statue)
.... Home of what was Banta Corporation, now RR Donnelly
.... Part of the Fox Valley.... the fastest growing area in the state
.... Menasha derived from Menominee Indians ("islands")
.... Home of Heckrodt Wildlife Reserve

bocanuts wrote:Authors Barry Hannah... Tom Franklin ...Larry Brown and ...Richard Ford

Four of my all-time favorite authors. But you forgot to mention another. Don't know if he was from there, but he had lived there and had taught there at the university, Brad Watson.

Manistee, MI

Sleepy small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Just about straight across from Green Bay. Grew up listening to all those big radio stations from Milwaukee and Chicago. My entertainment was hanging out at the two big beaches in town (not much has changed ) When I was small there was only one place that served pizza, so that was a big event. Even when I left for college, the only fast food joints were A&W and Burger Chef. Just now are the developers starting to build condos on the lakefront. Unemployment is off the charts, a casino was built a few years ago one mile from where I grew up so that's the big thing now.

Fun Facts:

James Earl Jones got his start at the downtown Ramsdell Theatre. He had such a severe stutter as a child that he became a mute. A high school teacher got him started in public speaking.

Dave Campbell was born there. Short baseball career in the late 60s-early 70s, but more famous now for his role on ESPN's Baseball Tonight.

The World's Tallest Man, Robert Wadlow, died there in 1940. He still holds the record at 8'11".

There's a Morton Salt plant still there. The original Morton Umbrella girl (when it rains, it pours) was based on a local little girl in 1914.



still searchin' for her lost shaker of salt....

W.C.Fields was born in my hometown!

z-man wrote:Carmel, Indiana

was a little farm town north of Indianapolis while I was growing up, with a population of under 8,000.

Is now the fastest growing, and highest median income city in Indiana with a population of over 70,000.

Quarterback Mark Herrmann is about the closest to a famous person from town.

John Daly won the 1991 PGA at Crooked Stick golf course in Carmel

In 1924, Leslie Haines invented one of the Country's first automatic stop-and-go traffic signals. It was located at the intersection of Main Street and Range Line Road.

You're originally from Carmel, thats neat. I just moved there two months ago. I am originally from Anderson.

sunseeker wrote:

CaptainP wrote:

sunseeker wrote:

CaptainP wrote:

sunseeker wrote:

CaptainP wrote:What state?

Mount Airy, NC.... Close to Pilot Mountain (Mt. Pilot), lake Meyers (Meyers Lake) , about 2 hours from raleigh.....yep...all of 'em real places...

You didn't mention that it was also the home of Chang and Eng Bunker!!!

LOL...forgot that two...yes..the home of the famous Barnum and Bailey Siamese twins....who were married and fathered 21 children ( yes pholks eng and Cheng were conjoined their ENTIRE LIVES)

Conception must've been interesting.

They were married to two different women, by the way...

Yes...and they died within just a few hours of each other....makes sense but its creepy that one was still alive with his dead brother attached to him....

There were two conjoined twins, sisters, who came around later (they are the twins in the movie "Freaks") and ended up living in either NC or SC at the end of their lives. Conjoined their whole life, one died of the flu and the other one lived for another two or three days. Ick.

Back to the question. Plainville, CT. The name says it all. Incorporated in 1869, was originally part of Farmington, one of the earliest founded towns in CT. Population when I was a kid was 19,000, but it's moved up to close to 30,000 by now. The only famous person (other than me, eventually ) to come out of Plainville is an artist named Don Maitz. he has designed numerous covers for sci fi and fantasy books, but there is one other creation of his y'all might be familiar with:

Hoosier PH wrote:

z-man wrote:Carmel, Indiana

was a little farm town north of Indianapolis while I was growing up, with a population of under 8,000.

Is now the fastest growing, and highest median income city in Indiana with a population of over 70,000.

Quarterback Mark Herrmann is about the closest to a famous person from town.

John Daly won the 1991 PGA at Crooked Stick golf course in Carmel

In 1924, Leslie Haines invented one of the Country's first automatic stop-and-go traffic signals. It was located at the intersection of Main Street and Range Line Road.

You're originally from Carmel, thats neat. I just moved there two months ago. I am originally from Anderson.

we moved there on my fifth birthday (in 1960 )
My brother and I both graduated from Carmel High School
my parents still live there, and have had the same phone number for 47 years now
(third house; same town and phone# )

where in town are you?

z-man wrote:

Hoosier PH wrote:

z-man wrote:Carmel, Indiana

was a little farm town north of Indianapolis while I was growing up, with a population of under 8,000.

Is now the fastest growing, and highest median income city in Indiana with a population of over 70,000.

Quarterback Mark Herrmann is about the closest to a famous person from town.

John Daly won the 1991 PGA at Crooked Stick golf course in Carmel

In 1924, Leslie Haines invented one of the Country's first automatic stop-and-go traffic signals. It was located at the intersection of Main Street and Range Line Road.

You're originally from Carmel, thats neat. I just moved there two months ago. I am originally from Anderson.

we moved there on my fifth birthday (in 1960 )
My brother and I both graduated from Carmel High School
my parents still live there, and have had the same phone number for 47 years now
(third house; same town and phone# )

where in town are you?

151st and US31. I'm on the Carmel/Westfield border.

Hoosier PH wrote:

z-man wrote: where in town are you?

151st and US31. I'm on the Carmel/Westfield border.

Clay Terrace over in that area seems like a nice place

z-man wrote:

Hoosier PH wrote:

z-man wrote: where in town are you?

151st and US31. I'm on the Carmel/Westfield border.

Clay Terrace over in that area seems like a nice place

Yep, I'm probably a mile or two from Clay Terrace. Very nice, lots of shopping/eating/drinking.

I grew up in the quaint little seaside resort of Margate, NJ. The estimated population, in 2003, was 8,328, I lived there til 1990. Margate is located on Absecon Island, same island as Atlantic City.

Our famous Historical Landmark happens to be an elephant named Lucy.

There use to be a really great hot dog place called Lennies right next to Lucy, it's now a hip Oceanfront bar, The Green House. There was also a great bar on Washington Ave. by the name of Maloneys, it was recently sold to developers for condo's. My brother bought the name and is using it on his place in Atlantic City, Maloney's Uptown.

The most famous person I know from Margate is my childhood friend Butch Bradley, he's a comedian and has been working the different casino's both in Vegas and AC.

Here's a small list of individuals known to own homes in Margate

Philip (Crazy Phil) Leonetti
Joseph Merlino
Edward J. (Rick) Casale
Joseph F. Abate
Angelo Bruno

thebeachbumm33 wrote:I grew up in the quaint little seaside resort of Margate, NJ. The estimated population, in 2003, was 8,328, I lived there til 1990. Margate is located on Absecon Island, same island as Atlantic City.

Our famous Historical Landmark happens to be an elephant named Lucy.

There use to be a really great hot dog place called Lennies right next to Lucy, it's now a hip Oceanfront bar, The Green House. There was also a great bar on Washington Ave. by the name of Maloneys, it was recently sold to developers for condo's. My brother bought the name and is using it on his place in Atlantic City, Maloney's Uptown.

The most famous person I know from Margate is my childhood friend Butch Bradley, he's a comedian and has been working the different casino's both in Vegas and AC.

Here's a small list of individuals known to own homes in Margate

Philip (Crazy Phil) Leonetti
Joseph Merlino
Edward J. (Rick) Casale
Joseph F. Abate
Angelo Bruno

Lucy was on the History/Discovery/Travel channel a while back.

dose guyse dere, dey frenz of youse?

Alamosa, Colorado.

From Wikipedia: "Alamosa was established in May, 1878 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and quickly became an important rail center. Alamosa is now a notable tourist town with many nearby attractions including the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve."

They also say that 2006 census estimates have the population at 8,682. Other websites list the population as high as 16,000.

I don't know of any notable people from here, Jack Dempsey (the Manassa Mauler) was from Manassa, which is about 20 miles south of here...

And Kent Rominger, the astronaut, is from Del Norte, which is about 25 miles west of here.

That's pretty much it. We've got a lot of ski areas within decent driving distance. Monarch Ski Area, Wolf Creek Ski Area, and Taos Ski Area are all within about an hour and a half drive from here.

We do have a Wal*Mart Supercenter though

IrishPirate wrote:W.C.Fields was born in my hometown!

Ditto here, 10900 residents there presently. Just went back there recently, and it was really sad, town is in financial trouble. Our former home was recently burned down, sail on old home

RinglingRingling wrote:

thebeachbumm33 wrote:
dose guyse dere, dey frenz of youse?

I actually went to school with some of their children.

This is fun! Keep 'em coming!

thebeachbumm33 wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote: dose guyse dere, dey frenz of youse?

I actually went to school with some of their children.

so they are folks who might have known Guiseppi Columbo?

Torrington is the largest city in Litchfield County, Connecticut and the northwestern Connecticut region. It is also the core city of the largest micropolitan area in the United States.[1] As of the 2000 census, the city population was 35,202, but a July 1, 2004 estimate put the city's population at 36,248.

Torrington is a former mill town, as are most other towns along the Naugatuck River Valley. It is currently competing with the neighboring city of Winsted to recreate a pleasant Main Street environment. Downtown Torrington is home to the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, which trains world-class ballet dancers and whose Company performs in the Warner Theatre, a 1,700 seat auditorium restored in 2002 to its original 1931 glory. The theater, while originally built as a cinema by the Warner Brothers film studio, has been reborn as a performing arts venue and arts instruction organization, and will serve as a cornerstone of the city's downtown revitalization project.

The daily newspaper in town is The Register Citizen, a Journal Register Company publication that serves Torrington and Winsted, in addition to most of the Northwest Corner.

The current mayor of Torrington is 24-year-old Ryan Bingham.

Torrington Twisters Baseball

The Torrington Twisters have been a member of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) since 1997. Torrington’s Fuessenich Park has generally seen the club be one of the larger crowd generators of the NECBL. Fuessenich Park was also the host of the NECBL All-Star Game in 1998. While they have never won an NECBL championship, the Twisters have placed high in their division and appeared in the post season many times. In addition, many Twister players have moved up to professional baseball ranks.

Abolitionist John Brown was born in Torrington in 1800.
Notable Maine sportscaster Frank Fixaris (1934-2006) was also born here in 1934, and grew up on Prospect St. Ironically, Fixaris' adopted son, Michael, is a direct biological descendent of John Brown.
Karl Swenson (1908–1978) was an actor who died in Torrington.
Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports, was born in Torrington.
Carl Clinton Van Doren (1885-1950) a critic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and brother of Mark Van Doren lived in Torrington.
Mark Van Doren (1894–1972), a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and brother of Carl Clinton Van Doren, lived in Torrington.
W. G. Curtis, a homesteader and politician, lived in Torrington and later named the town of Torrington, Wyoming after his former residence

RinglingRingling wrote:

thebeachbumm33 wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote: dose guyse dere, dey frenz of youse?

I actually went to school with some of their children.

so they are folks who might have known Guiseppi Columbo?

Your guess is as good as mine

thebeachbumm33 wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

thebeachbumm33 wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote: dose guyse dere, dey frenz of youse?

I actually went to school with some of their children.

so they are folks who might have known Guiseppi Columbo?

Your guess is as good as mine

"because to talk of another member of our thing is a bad thing"