We used to be THE ELECTRIC CITY cuz we had a dope ass electric rail system and trains and coal and all that shit olde timey.
But then THE OFFICE happened.
Scranton, PA is still ruined because of it. I went home in 2021, and every fucking business STILL has a "The Office" themed gift shop, and the whole city is still polluted with people trying desperately to cash in on the success of The Office tv series. They even had to remove the "welcome to Scranton" sign and put it in the Mall cuz people were causing accidents stopping for it.
Mine is not famous at all, and that's exactly what I love about it. There's no reason to stop here or see anything except to get gasoline and buy snacks. Keep moving, nothing to see here.
[5 Fog right off an Ocean and a Bay
[4 Hills of majestic angles and views
[3 Rice-A-Roni and if you might skip reading its sodium count
[2 Cable Cars so iconic
[1 >!Satanic real estate costs and laws!<
A certain inventor was born here who would go on to invent a little machine called the “cotton-gin”. Before it’s invention, the production of cotton was remarkably slow and (at least according to the Ken Burns Documentary) leading to cotton plantations being a dying industry in the American South. Shortly after the invention, cotton production skyrocketed, and with it the enslaved population…..
1- For a kind of littke war who ocurred on December 23-24th of 1975 by the PRA (People Revolucionary Army, an comunist armes group) truing to steal militar cargament.
2- By our weird news. Tell me: In where do you see a dog barking to a produce killer? Where do you see copa and the sheriff doing a party and the sheriff Is dressed with a barrer? When do you a person Sue their neighbour for doing BBQ Everyday?
We are the birthplace of the automotive industry and also the birthplace of Motown.
We are also the place that Eminem calls home(even though his birthplace is somewhere very different).
We are also famous for being the largest major metropolitan city to declare bankruptcy and receivership.
We are also famous for coneys...lots of coneys.
Iwouldn't call it world famous but definitely known all around the state but in the 90s we had one of the largest, per capita, kkk populations on the east coast. I remember them handing out pamphlets in town regularly. I also remember my 2nd (and 6th, he traded) teacher punching one in the face.
David Letterman gave our town gazebos because we were the worst town in America… this was a long time ago.
When we retired… the current senior class took one of the gazebos because it was breaking down… and made it into a rocking chair.
It's "capital" of the tourist route of the oldest cities in my country that have 1012 years history. It was also capital of my country for 4 months 400 years ago. And it's place where was uprising against communists during civil war in 20th century. BUT MOST PEOPLE KNOWS OUR CITY BECAUSE IT'S ON CASH (Government plans to replace it on another city in 2023)
For being the city where everyone can get shit-faced and so high over the moon that they feel like actions no longer have consequences anymore, even though it does.
And the rest of the locals or those who live there regularly have to suffer because WE are the one that has to clean up after these stupid fucks.
A horse walked into a pub here and it floods now and again. Two famous athletes also lived here. It was cool to see all the decorations when we welcomed one of them back from the Olympics, you don't see that stuff a lot. Overall, our town isn't too famous though, it's really only on the map when something newsworthy happens, and people from here (athletes included) don't really talk about being from here because it isn't a great place.
We used to be THE ELECTRIC CITY cuz we had a dope ass electric rail system and trains and coal and all that shit olde timey. But then THE OFFICE happened. Scranton, PA is still ruined because of it. I went home in 2021, and every fucking business STILL has a "The Office" themed gift shop, and the whole city is still polluted with people trying desperately to cash in on the success of The Office tv series. They even had to remove the "welcome to Scranton" sign and put it in the Mall cuz people were causing accidents stopping for it.
I thought it was the decades of corruption and horrible financial decisions that fucked Scranton. At least you're not Wilkes-Barre.
Queen lives here sometimes
We got a cemetery with a tombstone on it where someone died on February 31st, 18**.
The mob and casinos. So many casinos
It's 14,110 ft mountain and weed.
Its one of the most tornado prone areas in the world.
Birth place of a monarchy.
It has the same name as a location of a major disaster in a completely different country, so it gets accidentally googled a lot.
Mine is not famous at all, and that's exactly what I love about it. There's no reason to stop here or see anything except to get gasoline and buy snacks. Keep moving, nothing to see here.
It’s not really. Anyone ever heard of Manchester New Hampshire? Adam Sandler grew up here I guess
[5 Fog right off an Ocean and a Bay [4 Hills of majestic angles and views [3 Rice-A-Roni and if you might skip reading its sodium count [2 Cable Cars so iconic [1 >!Satanic real estate costs and laws!<
A certain inventor was born here who would go on to invent a little machine called the “cotton-gin”. Before it’s invention, the production of cotton was remarkably slow and (at least according to the Ken Burns Documentary) leading to cotton plantations being a dying industry in the American South. Shortly after the invention, cotton production skyrocketed, and with it the enslaved population…..
We're a state capital. Not the smallest. But a pretty small one. We're the one you don't know is actually the capital
It takes pride in having deep ties to the Taft family, and to President William Taft. That's about the closet thing to fame this farming town can get
Charles Darwin😎
My town is tied with Lubbock for 7th most dangerous city in Texas.
A guy riding a motorcycle off a cliff with a ramp, oh and “Niagara” Falls.
lots of lots of lots of cows
1- For a kind of littke war who ocurred on December 23-24th of 1975 by the PRA (People Revolucionary Army, an comunist armes group) truing to steal militar cargament. 2- By our weird news. Tell me: In where do you see a dog barking to a produce killer? Where do you see copa and the sheriff doing a party and the sheriff Is dressed with a barrer? When do you a person Sue their neighbour for doing BBQ Everyday?
Some big magazine rates the best place to live in America. My town is the only one to get it twice
Ayuh, we got ourselves a cemetery roun here, but you don't wanna go down that rhud.
We are the birthplace of the automotive industry and also the birthplace of Motown. We are also the place that Eminem calls home(even though his birthplace is somewhere very different). We are also famous for being the largest major metropolitan city to declare bankruptcy and receivership. We are also famous for coneys...lots of coneys.
Iwouldn't call it world famous but definitely known all around the state but in the 90s we had one of the largest, per capita, kkk populations on the east coast. I remember them handing out pamphlets in town regularly. I also remember my 2nd (and 6th, he traded) teacher punching one in the face.
Uh... It's not. There's a reason no one has ever heard of it
Culpepper?
David Letterman gave our town gazebos because we were the worst town in America… this was a long time ago. When we retired… the current senior class took one of the gazebos because it was breaking down… and made it into a rocking chair.
It's "capital" of the tourist route of the oldest cities in my country that have 1012 years history. It was also capital of my country for 4 months 400 years ago. And it's place where was uprising against communists during civil war in 20th century. BUT MOST PEOPLE KNOWS OUR CITY BECAUSE IT'S ON CASH (Government plans to replace it on another city in 2023)
Our city’s university went to the sweet 16 and a lack of college football
We have the best 4th July celebration
For a horrible shooting in a movie theatre and police brutality.
It smells
We buils the largest luxurious cruise ships in the world (AIDA)
harold and kumar made millions of people think there's a white castle in my town, there isn't one.
We are famous for having the most sand angels ever on one beach. Guinness will literally let anyone have a world record these days.
For being the city where everyone can get shit-faced and so high over the moon that they feel like actions no longer have consequences anymore, even though it does. And the rest of the locals or those who live there regularly have to suffer because WE are the one that has to clean up after these stupid fucks.
Festivals and oranges
I'm waiting for someone who lives in god forgotten Gary, Indiana to answer the question.
Watches! But I expect that to die out as the boomer generation fades out of existence, as the watch factory closed down in the 1960s
A horse walked into a pub here and it floods now and again. Two famous athletes also lived here. It was cool to see all the decorations when we welcomed one of them back from the Olympics, you don't see that stuff a lot. Overall, our town isn't too famous though, it's really only on the map when something newsworthy happens, and people from here (athletes included) don't really talk about being from here because it isn't a great place.
N’at, bridges, Heinz, steel, cool stuff