What's your home town famous for?

[Yardgnome]

You left off a biggie--*I* was born there Thank goodness Mom and Dad had the good sense to eventually move to Columbus, Ohio before my gentle Buckeye psyche was permanently scarred

Could be worse, you could have stayed here and turned out to be a Wolverine fan. Or you could have turned out to be a contributing, decent member of society and been a Spartan like myself.

[Shaybo II]

Rich people and the Flagler Museum

[Unklescott]

...been a Spartan like myself.

That's okay pumpkin, we still love you.

[Newfherder]

I have three siblings who are Spartans. They're very . . . special.

[Ana Bannana]

My current home town of Grand Rapids, MI:

It's the second largest city in MI and used to be the furniture capitol of the US.
It's home to Meijer (the grocery store chain) and Amway/Alticor Corp (anyone up for a nice pyramid scheme?)
The premier of the movie "The Polar Express" was held here because the author is from here.
It has one of the largest historic urban districts (Heritage Hills), the houses are just gorgeous around here.
Gerald R. Ford was from here and he is actually buried at his museum downtown.

Some other notables:
Gillian Anderson (X-Files)
DeBarge
Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)- Last year I took an LSAT class from his brother-in law
Andy Richter
Al Green

This past November, I had the pleasure of spending 4 days in Grand Rapids at a conference. What a fun town - and most of the people were really friendly! I stayed at the Amway Grand, dined at the eatery at the very top of the hotel, shopped downtown, ate at a little Irish pub, went to the science museum and spent a fair amount of time at the Gerald R. Ford museum. It was a wonderful visit and one I hope to repeat.

[Yardgnome]

This past November, I had the pleasure of spending 4 days in Grand Rapids at a conference. What a fun town - and most of the people were really friendly! I stayed at the Amway Grand, dined at the eatery at the very top of the hotel, shopped downtown, ate at a little Irish pub, went to the science museum and spent a fair amount of time at the Gerald R. Ford museum. It was a wonderful visit and one I hope to repeat.

I really like it here, I've lived on this side of the state for over 5 years now. Recently I just moved right downtown to be close to school and it's been very enjoyable. The Black Rose (the Irish Pub) is half block away from my school and very good. I still haven't made it to the Gerald R. Ford museum but I plan to soon.

[daffylouie]

My home town is also hometown to Emitt Smith ( gators & Dallas Football), Roy Jones Jr (boxer),Derrick Brooks (Tampa football) and Jusitn Gatlin (runner). So we are famous for producing athletes,
I guess

[barefootdyke]

I really like it here, I've lived on this side of the state for over 5 years now. Recently I just moved right downtown to be close to school and it's been very enjoyable. The Black Rose (the Irish Pub) is half block away from my school and very good. I still haven't made it to the Gerald R. Ford museum but I plan to soon.

i lived in GR for a couple of years in high school ... went to central high, right up the road from you. but that was back in '79-80.

[Yardgnome]

i lived in GR for a couple of years in high school ... went to central high, right up the road from you. but that was back in '79-80.

It's actually about half a block from me. I know exactly where it's at. Small world.

[MRD]

Rich people and the Flagler Museum

I was going to say that Mama Rose Kennedy used to live there, but that kind of falls under rich people.

My home town is also hometown to Emitt Smith ( gators & Dallas Football), Roy Jones Jr (boxer),Derrick Brooks (Tampa football) and Jusitn Gatlin (runner). So we are famous for producing athletes,
I guess

LOVE Emmitt and Derrick Brooks. Brooks does a LOT of great charity work.

Don't forget that Pensacola is also home to the Naval Air station-the cradle of Naval aviation, the Blue Angels and the Naval Air museum.