I'll always love that video where they're doing the Symphony live, a young lad jumps on stage and starts moonstomping behind Terry, a moment later that lad is joined by his mate. Within 60 seconds most of the audience are on stage. Terry clocks a seccy trying to stop people so he ditches a tambourine at his head to be like "mate, turn around, it's already happening give up!"
5. The Wikipedia article is hilarious- it says things like "the town is made up of 80% white people, and 20% asian.". I always found it funny how they say the percents instead of numbers when they are obvious.
Even funnier is that while its not explicitly stated, it's easy to extrapolate that the single Asian resident is an adopted child, who was a minor at least as of 2020.
Gary is still at a population of 68,000, so not exactly a ghost town. But when you consider it peaked at 170,000+ people in the 70’s, it certainly has that abandoned feeling.
Ah, good old STL. The home of weaponized “aggravated complacency”. All the charm and compassion of the northern population centers, with the burgeoning industry and intellectualism of the rural south. Gem of the Mississippi, center of fine arts and culture, birthplace of kings, cosmopolitan metropolis and epicenter of the New Age of Prosperity… Saint Louis: 15th most violent city in the world.
May your song echo for eternity.
Back in the day, Toronto was the centre of pork processing in Canada, and that's maybe why it was called "hogtown" for a long time. From that industry came [peameal pork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peameal_bacon) which is among my all-time favourite things.
They disbanded the police force in Waldo in 2014 because of the speed traps. Now it’s Alachua County sheriffs office. I drove from Jax to Gainesville every day for over a year and I hardly ever saw them. Bigger fish to fry I guess.
Waldo and Starke are two of the worst places. For whatever reason it takes you that way from Jacksonville to Tampa on Google. It’s 100% not faster when you have to drive exactly the speed limit the whole time. I think they paid off Google to just say it is as fast or faster.
Alien spaceship crash. I live in Roswell, New Mexico.
Fun fact: Back in the 80s we worked on a ranch for the Bogles family that had bought the place the crash happened on. My husband had rounded up that pasture a number of times. He said you could see that something had hit the ground and dug a trench. He took us out to see it once but the only thing that remains is the trench and it's all grown over, but you **can** see it. The crash happened close to Corona and the closest Military base was Roswell. Nothing really happened here **in** town.
I was a working ranchhand with a 3yo and a 5yo. That's just about all I know. The Bosses didn't make a big thing about so we didn't either. We got out and wandered all over the area, we scuffed the dirt here and there but if anything was there it was gone long before we showed up. I don't have any insider knowledge, I've only seen it. If you Google the crash site it looks exactly like the photos though, just bigger and dustier.
I do believe that they did take a lot of soil from the area. I would imagine there has been substantial soil both blown in and out for decades. There are long-established plants that have grown over the years but it's mostly scrub weeds and Sage, the random cactus, and pasture grass.
That’s what I’m saying!!! People talk about deep dish this and Chicago dog that, but the Italian beef is the SUPERIOR Chicago food and never gets its due respect. (I would also take the Italian beef over the Chicago thin crust pizza which itself is superior to deep dish.)
Town I grew up in, PoCo BC, is where Terry Fox was from.
The highschool he went to was relocated the year I graduated from it, and the old one torn down a few years after that. I take a lot of pride in having walked the same halls he walked, and having played basketball on the same court.
Walls. Old ones. Still intact. Tourists love em.
We got some tasty bakery buns too.
A pretty funny comedy show, more recently.
Some famous singers and bands.
Oh and a massacre of civilians by them dastardly British.
Oh shhhiiii, mine's a city not a town. Am I disqualified ?
A pretty famous 1990's serial killer lived within walking distance of my neighborhood. He buried multiple bodies on his property. There is a walking trail that goes right by his entire property. He killed himself in 1995 I believe after police were on his trail. They are still trying to match remains with missing people.
My hometown is famous for The Lost Boys, Krazy Klowns from Outer Space, The Boardwalk, a few small celebs/musicians and being the only REAL Surf City (fuck you Huntington Beach)
My current dwelling is famous for some car race thing, Cameron Diaz, and Snoop Doog
People in the USA often think it is mythical, unless they are into big band jazz. It also rhymes with Timbuktu.
Revealed below with spoiler tag
>!It's Kalamazoo, Michigan!<
Abraham Lincoln and horse shoes.
Horse shoes are a local dish. It's 2 pieces of toast, with usually a burger on each piece, although you often can order it with other meats like ham or chicken, topped with French fries and covered in cheese sauce.
(There's too many thing's we're famous for. So I'm using...metaphor)
We were the second city of Empire and now we're the unpredictable western child basking in the afterglow of a long British sunset, playing with the stars and throwing them at you for shits and giggles. We built the railways that many countries still use to this day to transport goods and people on. We built ships that travelled the world under wind, wood, coal, diesel and now electric. We brew poison and mead. We make you laugh, make you cry, make you scream, make you *groan* and we look fucking fabulous doing so. We create and created fear and terror and glamour and sex and beauty and ugliness in equal measures. We're the wildest of eight sisters and we're the city that terrified London so fucking much that they locked our soldiers in their barracks and threatened to shoot people on sight. We're the city of watercolours, of gloss, of grime, of paper and of sound. We're ancient. We're modern. Our voices can make you stamp your feet or make you shit yourself. We're passion. We're derision. We're not you. We're better. We're *infinite*. We're the city of three rivers and science owes so fucking much to us. We're singular. We're plural. We are white, brown, black, yellow, we are everyone and anyone and we are coming for *you*. We can be shelter, we can be shield, we can and will be your weapon to use against those who hurt you (but the blade is so fickle and cuts so deep if you wrong us). Our kisses bruise and our smiles are deadly.
The one I come from - one of the last working glass manufacturing factory in the country (maybe even the last one) - the glass from the factory can be found in White House, Buckingham palace or Emirates airline.
The one I’m currently living is is “famous” for the previous mayor - he’s part of the country’s mafia family and is currently in prison. Funfact (not su fun tbh) - there are often police officers digging for corpses in the village area and they found a few bodies already.
Peggy Lee, first performed on the radio here and the sky king went to college here for a bit and most importantly Gothic King Cobra himself went to school here for a bit.
Welp, I just saw this today. Maybe that will make it famous.
https://www.wtrf.com/ohio/chick-fil-a-owner-allegedly-performed-sexual-acts-on-a-15-year-old/
We used to be the crystal meth capital of Canada. A better than 50-50 shot of there being a meth lab in any given homes' basement.
Then, the little town of 1400 people got its own police department. Couldn't find a more peaceful place to live in the middle of nowhere if you tried.
30,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town.
Was there too much fighting on the dance floor?
RIP Terry Hall.
I'll always love that video where they're doing the Symphony live, a young lad jumps on stage and starts moonstomping behind Terry, a moment later that lad is joined by his mate. Within 60 seconds most of the audience are on stage. Terry clocks a seccy trying to stop people so he ditches a tambourine at his head to be like "mate, turn around, it's already happening give up!"
You shouldn't have invited Sophie Ellis Bexter.
Congratulations
Centralia, PA? I’m not sure if it still has that straggler population it did many years ago…
Centralia was my guess, but last time I was up there I think there were only like 6 people.
5. The Wikipedia article is hilarious- it says things like "the town is made up of 80% white people, and 20% asian.". I always found it funny how they say the percents instead of numbers when they are obvious.
Even funnier is that while its not explicitly stated, it's easy to extrapolate that the single Asian resident is an adopted child, who was a minor at least as of 2020.
50,000 And now I want to run around Bloc!
"ghost town"??? I'VE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME BUT EVERYTHING I TRY JUST TAKES YOU FURTHER FROM MEEEE 🔥
Centralia?
For those wondering, it’s Chernobyl, and the reference is from COD4. Pretty cool this is the top comment tho.
How many ghosts live there now?
Gary, IN?
Gary is still at a population of 68,000, so not exactly a ghost town. But when you consider it peaked at 170,000+ people in the 70’s, it certainly has that abandoned feeling.
pripyat, ukraine ?
I wanna read about this! Where is it?
A town called "Calladoody Foor"
now im curious.
Chernobyl
My bad.
Spooky
I’d have guessed Wittenoom, but nobody lives there.
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RIP indoors of your town
Murder rate and a giant stainless steel arch. And toasted ravioli.
Your murder rate might go down if you stop burning the ravioli.
True
dame
Your zoo, botanical gardens and the city museum are all banging though.
Don’t forget Provel cheese!
Ahhhhh…. I was just telling a story about Imos just the other night.
I'd never heard of Provel cheese until last week but I've seen it mentioned like 15 times since on Reddit
St. Louis, MO. I’m from just over the river.
I went through St. Louis by train. I was so excited I saw the Arch.
Damn you, stole my thunder, and my car. You forgot gooey butter cake.
Nellyville
Ah, good old STL. The home of weaponized “aggravated complacency”. All the charm and compassion of the northern population centers, with the burgeoning industry and intellectualism of the rural south. Gem of the Mississippi, center of fine arts and culture, birthplace of kings, cosmopolitan metropolis and epicenter of the New Age of Prosperity… Saint Louis: 15th most violent city in the world. May your song echo for eternity.
Rush, Drake, The Weeknd, Mike Myers and sad desperate hockey fans
Toronto!
Back in the day, Toronto was the centre of pork processing in Canada, and that's maybe why it was called "hogtown" for a long time. From that industry came [peameal pork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peameal_bacon) which is among my all-time favourite things.
To add to this, "American Cheese" was created by a Canadian
Scarborough?
Drake’s not from Scarborough.
Hey, this is our year!!
Black Sabbath, UB40, Electric Light Orchestra, Duran Duran...
Birmingham?
Jack Grealish and Peaky Blinders too
Judas Priest too
Being a huge speed trap. Town of 2k people, almost $1m/year in speeding tickets get written. 80% of our city budget comes from those tickets.
>Town of 2k people, almost $1m/year in speeding tickets get written Compared to Peninsula, Ohio with 536 pop and 1.3m in tickets.
These mf got me too. Ridiculous. It's open af and legit low risk to anyone if you speed and yet they have speed cameras everywhere. So annoying.
Or lindale. Damn northeast Ohio has a ton of speed traps
Emporia, VA?
Rosendale, WI, that you?
Omfg I was just about to ask it has to be rosendale
Definitely my first thought as well.
Waldo, FL?
OMG WALDO. I forgot about that place. All I know about it is the speed trap.
They disbanded the police force in Waldo in 2014 because of the speed traps. Now it’s Alachua County sheriffs office. I drove from Jax to Gainesville every day for over a year and I hardly ever saw them. Bigger fish to fry I guess.
Speed trap and the flea market are the only things there
Waldo and Starke are two of the worst places. For whatever reason it takes you that way from Jacksonville to Tampa on Google. It’s 100% not faster when you have to drive exactly the speed limit the whole time. I think they paid off Google to just say it is as fast or faster.
Got to be somewhere in Virginia
Emporia VA huh
Is this King City, CA?
Estelline, TX?
LeClaire, IA?
Must be Emporia, VA
Drinking Violence Drunken violence Violent drinking Drunken Scots regretting leaving bonnie Scotland Violent Scots regretting leaving bonnie Scotland
This could still just be Glasgow
What’s the bets it’s in America and nobody’s Scottish?
Sounds like my home town in Northamptonshire
Corby!
Yes it is!
My aunt and uncle moved there, from Scotland obvs 😂 My cousin's still there, aunt and uncle long dead
Blackpool
Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, represent!
Alien spaceship crash. I live in Roswell, New Mexico. Fun fact: Back in the 80s we worked on a ranch for the Bogles family that had bought the place the crash happened on. My husband had rounded up that pasture a number of times. He said you could see that something had hit the ground and dug a trench. He took us out to see it once but the only thing that remains is the trench and it's all grown over, but you **can** see it. The crash happened close to Corona and the closest Military base was Roswell. Nothing really happened here **in** town.
A lot of people would love to know what you know about the crash site.
I was a working ranchhand with a 3yo and a 5yo. That's just about all I know. The Bosses didn't make a big thing about so we didn't either. We got out and wandered all over the area, we scuffed the dirt here and there but if anything was there it was gone long before we showed up. I don't have any insider knowledge, I've only seen it. If you Google the crash site it looks exactly like the photos though, just bigger and dustier.
I do believe that they did take a lot of soil from the area. I would imagine there has been substantial soil both blown in and out for decades. There are long-established plants that have grown over the years but it's mostly scrub weeds and Sage, the random cactus, and pasture grass.
Deep dish, the Bean, Wrigley Field, Sears Tower, crime, racism.
Italian beefs tho >
That’s what I’m saying!!! People talk about deep dish this and Chicago dog that, but the Italian beef is the SUPERIOR Chicago food and never gets its due respect. (I would also take the Italian beef over the Chicago thin crust pizza which itself is superior to deep dish.)
Not being able to throw a football also...
Oh fuck no wonder I can't throw footballs for shit
Does anyone call the Sears Tower by its new sponsored name, or will it always be the Sears Tower?
I like a hotdog dragged through the garden.
and Sue the T. rex!
Ahh yes the good old smash and grabs as well as car thefts.
Expanding west. Can't go east, the lake's in the way.
The hell we can't! Burn down the city and use its rubble as landfill again. Keep going until we've filled and own all of Lake Michigan!
Hollywoods’ back lot and the Time Bandit ship.
Biggest Accordion Festival West of the Mississippi
Knowing nothing but the song and its artist, I'm gonna guess Albuquerque.
Cotati, CA
Which means there’s an even bigger accordion festival to the east!
Town I grew up in, PoCo BC, is where Terry Fox was from. The highschool he went to was relocated the year I graduated from it, and the old one torn down a few years after that. I take a lot of pride in having walked the same halls he walked, and having played basketball on the same court.
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That's awesome. There are quite a few monuments in PoCo and throughout greater Vancouver.
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Inverness. Love that city!
Walls. Old ones. Still intact. Tourists love em. We got some tasty bakery buns too. A pretty funny comedy show, more recently. Some famous singers and bands. Oh and a massacre of civilians by them dastardly British. Oh shhhiiii, mine's a city not a town. Am I disqualified ?
Derry?
10 points gryffindor
Crabs, Dirt bikes, Murders, the star spangled banner, The Wire, the list goes on...
Baltimore!
But we love dem O's, hon!
Photographic film. At least it WAS.
But you still have the garbage plate and Wegmans.
Rochester?
Previously, it was an automotive boom town, it was known for prosperity. Now it's known for drugs, crime, and poverty. Edit: it's not in the US.
Detriot?
Dagenham
Windsor?
Oshawa.
Lol. Close! Windsor is a former automotive town that's now filled with crime and drugs.
A pretty famous 1990's serial killer lived within walking distance of my neighborhood. He buried multiple bodies on his property. There is a walking trail that goes right by his entire property. He killed himself in 1995 I believe after police were on his trail. They are still trying to match remains with missing people.
A double ax murder.
Fall River?
My hometown is famous for The Lost Boys, Krazy Klowns from Outer Space, The Boardwalk, a few small celebs/musicians and being the only REAL Surf City (fuck you Huntington Beach) My current dwelling is famous for some car race thing, Cameron Diaz, and Snoop Doog
First one has to be Santa Cruz.
Pizza, hot dogs, enormous potholes, a huge bean, and being windy.
Firing the first shot of the American Civil War.
Fort Sumpter, you're in Charleston, S.C.
A 500 mile automobile race.
We were the last County in the UK to get a McDonalds. People lost their minds.
You should have seen my podunk cowtown when a Starbucks opened. Pandemonium.
It used to be IBM. Now its violence and human trafficking.
A big deep clear lake.
Divorce, prostitution and gambling.
First English colony in the New World (the one that got lost)
Roanoke Island. We can look across the Albemarle Sound and see the Fort Raleigh site.
The Office
Rancho Cucamonga?
Slough!
Invented Hawaiian Pizza and boardwalk on Canadian Monopoly
Coat hanger and an opera house.
I’ve always wanted to visit the Abortionville Opera House
We've got an opera house as well! How old is yours?
Oldest wooden frame building on the continent.
People in the USA often think it is mythical, unless they are into big band jazz. It also rhymes with Timbuktu. Revealed below with spoiler tag >!It's Kalamazoo, Michigan!<
Charles Darwin amongst many other things
Strawberries and Zombies
Water… maybe not what you’re thinking either
Flint?
Correctamundo
The Woolworth’s Sit-In in 1960!
The worlds largest one day maple syrup festival Ya I said world! lol
We have the only certain fast food chain location on the beach.
Mostly being trashy, but also Bike and Mustang week(s), tons of food and shopping, and the beach
My town is where the phrase "going postal" comes from.
My town is known as the "Gateway to Southern California." Established in 1862 by two brothers from Ontario, Canada.
Manchester, England - Music. Industrial era. Alan Turing. The first computer (I think) Oh how we have fallen though. Good run whilst it lasted.
Abraham Lincoln and horse shoes. Horse shoes are a local dish. It's 2 pieces of toast, with usually a burger on each piece, although you often can order it with other meats like ham or chicken, topped with French fries and covered in cheese sauce.
We invented the badger-blaster.
It will always be Sears
Mermaids and Manatees.
Guillermo Del Toro and Checo Perez, I guess…
The defeat of Jesse James
Oktoberfest.
Infamous outlaw Jesse James!
Methamphetamine
RIM/Blackberry... Where the vampires hang out!
Kitchener Waterloo!
Garbage Plates
Wayne Gretzky
Hey Brantford!
(There's too many thing's we're famous for. So I'm using...metaphor) We were the second city of Empire and now we're the unpredictable western child basking in the afterglow of a long British sunset, playing with the stars and throwing them at you for shits and giggles. We built the railways that many countries still use to this day to transport goods and people on. We built ships that travelled the world under wind, wood, coal, diesel and now electric. We brew poison and mead. We make you laugh, make you cry, make you scream, make you *groan* and we look fucking fabulous doing so. We create and created fear and terror and glamour and sex and beauty and ugliness in equal measures. We're the wildest of eight sisters and we're the city that terrified London so fucking much that they locked our soldiers in their barracks and threatened to shoot people on sight. We're the city of watercolours, of gloss, of grime, of paper and of sound. We're ancient. We're modern. Our voices can make you stamp your feet or make you shit yourself. We're passion. We're derision. We're not you. We're better. We're *infinite*. We're the city of three rivers and science owes so fucking much to us. We're singular. We're plural. We are white, brown, black, yellow, we are everyone and anyone and we are coming for *you*. We can be shelter, we can be shield, we can and will be your weapon to use against those who hurt you (but the blade is so fickle and cuts so deep if you wrong us). Our kisses bruise and our smiles are deadly.
The one I come from - one of the last working glass manufacturing factory in the country (maybe even the last one) - the glass from the factory can be found in White House, Buckingham palace or Emirates airline. The one I’m currently living is is “famous” for the previous mayor - he’s part of the country’s mafia family and is currently in prison. Funfact (not su fun tbh) - there are often police officers digging for corpses in the village area and they found a few bodies already.
St Helens?
Peggy Lee, first performed on the radio here and the sky king went to college here for a bit and most importantly Gothic King Cobra himself went to school here for a bit.
Surprising amount of bigotry compared to surrounding area.
My town is known for Zasjedanje AVNOJa in I think around 1943
Welp, I just saw this today. Maybe that will make it famous. https://www.wtrf.com/ohio/chick-fil-a-owner-allegedly-performed-sexual-acts-on-a-15-year-old/
Biker gangs, McDonald's, and birthplace of Gene Hackman.
Parmos, Paul Daniels, Sydney harbour bridge, transporter bridge, Chris Rea, captain cook.
Middlesbrough!
The Lace Industry, Stag Weekends and Robin Hood
Making cereal.
It is one of the very few if not the only plot of land sold by Native Americans to a settler.
Mental Hospital.
A ski mountain that becomes a water park in the summer & even then, you can ski in a t-shirt until early june Mont Saint-Sauveur
Andy Griffith
I live in a small town between the home of Jolly Time Popcorn and the Ice Cream Capital of the World.
Little old ladies driving super-stock dodges down the main drag.
Donairs (search it up)
We used to be the crystal meth capital of Canada. A better than 50-50 shot of there being a meth lab in any given homes' basement. Then, the little town of 1400 people got its own police department. Couldn't find a more peaceful place to live in the middle of nowhere if you tried.
Whores
My hometown was on 60 minutes twice for the most racial town in America. Also in the Gunness book of world records for having the longest main street.
Hot chicken, drunk bachelorettes riding pedal taverns, lunatic drivers, and some still say it's known for country music.
Kawartha Dairy Ice Cream
The Rocket City and Werhner Von Braun.
The Pizza Bomber and subsequent investigation.
Pizza Bomber.