What is your city famous for?

[Salty]

In 1926, Syracuse inventor Charles Brannock patented the Brannock device, still used today as the standard measurement for shoe sizes.



2) 24 second clock

3) Dentist Chair

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There's No Other Traffic Light In America Like This One In New York

Famous people from Syracuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Syracuse,_New_York

 

[Reformed]

My home town, Kearny, NJ, is known for soccer and fish and chips. LOL. The 1994 U.S. FIFA World Cup team featured three Kearny-born players: John Harkes, Tab Ramos, and Tony Meola. The fish and chips mention is because of the large immigration of Scots from the Glasgow area in the early 20th Century. The Clark O.N.T. Thread Company moved from Scotland to the United States in the late 19th Century and many Scots left their homeland for life in America, settling in Kearny.

 

[Marooncat79]

A bunch of Neer do wells starting w me and my family

seriously

wild Bill Anderson
Mohammad Ali’s mother
Frank Ramsey
Alfred Sonny Collins
Travis Ford
The Happy Goodman Frauds
Dr Kawas she’s been on 60 minutes
A couple of no name NFLers
An MMA dude
Professional female WWE
Oh, the big ear guy from Lawrence Welk I think


Edit- I forgot about Mark Dever of 9Marks ministries. We knew each other back in the day. He was a year older than me in school and beat me in the Chess Finals

maybe more

and most well known. I grew up for 1st 5 yrs in the town of the Everly Brothers

 

[Squire Robertsson]

The Golden Gate Bridge.

 

[JonC]

The Masters. Lawrence Fishburne, Hulk Hogan, James Brown and Woodrow Wilson

 

[Mike McKinney]

Home of The Alabama Gang, actor, R.G. Armstrong, Western star, Johnny Mack Brown.

 

[kyredneck]

Ale8 One

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

The M & M candy company

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

The Masters. Lawrence Fishburne, Hulk Hogan, James Brown and Woodrow Wilson

Wasn’t Wilson from Jersey?

 

[Reformed]

Wasn’t Wilson from Jersey?

Yes. Another stain on the Garden State.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Wasn’t Wilson from Jersey?

Nope, he was born in Virginia.

 

[Revmitchell]

Orange Blossom Trail

 

[Reformed]

Nope, he was born in Virginia.

Born in VA, but became the 34th governor of New Jersey. He was one of the most despicable men to ever hold that office.

 

[Alcott]

Motion pictures, maybe. Off had, I know the original Benji movie was filmed here, and An American Story (Hallmark movie), the TV speculative history movie, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald. Some scenes from Dallas and Walker, Texas Ranger were done here. I watched one scene filmed around the old town square, but never found out what movie or show it was from [Does anyone know of such a photoplay with a town named Page, which was on the police cars in that shootout scene?]

Otherwise, we are the town mentioned in the Guiness Book of World Records for "the word's worst driver," who, one day in the late 1960's, had something like 3 wrecks and got 5 tickets in one day.

 

[JonC]

Wasn’t Wilson from Jersey?

His childhood home was in Augusta. I thought he was born in VA....but I can't remember.

 

[JonC]

In 1926, Syracuse inventor Charles Brannock patented the Brannock device, still used today as the standard measurement for shoe sizes.



2) 24 second clock

3) Dentist Chair

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There's No Other Traffic Light In America Like This One In New York

Famous people from Syracuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Syracuse,_New_York

The traffic light is very interesting.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Born in VA, but became the 34th governor of New Jersey. He was one of the most despicable men to ever hold that office.

Yea…I’m not claiming him However Storming Norman was from here

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Jim Magreevie leads in the despicable category

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

New Jersey is the foul mouth state


See f-bomb post in political forum

 

[Salty]

The traffic light is very interesting.

I took one of my driving students thur it - and he ran the red light - So I slammed on the brake - and then said - "thats right - you are color blind" he got very upset - then I explained the light to him - we went around the block and then I showed him the statued of the boy with a sling shot in his back pocket.....