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Post by billhammond on Jun 14, 2021 12:52:32 GMT -5
A high-speed train through the tunnel would be nice. Might get a tad warm going through the core, but then, you are used to the heat. |
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Post by theevan on Jun 14, 2021 13:14:14 GMT -5
There's a street in Wichita partially nam6for my grandpa, Elpyco Dr. Elmer-Pyle-Coleman. The Coleman of lantern fame. It runs adjacent to the VA hospital. I'm wondering if has something to do with his WW1 service. No other connection to the other two I can think of.
Freeze, you guys with stadia, towns, Pulitzers...I've got 1/3 of a minor side street.
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Post by Marshall on Jun 14, 2021 13:38:29 GMT -5
There’s always Marshalltown, Iowa.
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Post by Cornflake on Jun 14, 2021 13:49:45 GMT -5
I live at Dontown Abbey.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Jun 14, 2021 13:52:22 GMT -5
Two blocks north of my house is Roselawn Boulevard, an east-west Roseville street that is smack dab on the 45th parallel. I'm not sure where a hole drilled would wind up on the other side of the Earth (and how do you keep it plumb?), but it would probably be easier to fly to the general vicinity and then take a ship to the precise spot. From Wikipedia: "In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it. A pair of points antipodal to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through Earth's center. Antipodal points are as far away from each other as possible. From WeatherGraphics.com 'June 2019 update -- Ross Finlayson writes: "The town of Rudyard (Montana) would have to be the only community in the United States that sits on top of a non-oceanic antipode. This is true for the contiguous U.S only. Hawaii is antipodal to parts of Botswana, in Africa: link Also, I believe, parts of far-northern Alaska (including the town of Utqiagvik (formerly named Barrow)) are antipodal to coastal Antarctica."' Rudyard sits opposite Kerguelen Island. |
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Post by drlj on Jun 14, 2021 14:15:16 GMT -5
I used to work in Hammond, IN. It was kind of seedy.
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Post by howard lee on Jun 14, 2021 14:32:16 GMT -5
By all rights, Freddie Mercury should have grown up in Queens.
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Post by Dub on Jun 14, 2021 15:07:43 GMT -5
I used to work in Hammond, IN. It was kind of seedy. Hammond is where I saw Porter & Dolly. In the high school gymnasium/auditorium. |
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Post by billhammond on Jun 14, 2021 15:12:09 GMT -5
I used to work in Hammond, IN. It was kind of seedy. And ... what were they doing? |
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Post by Don Clark on Jun 14, 2021 15:39:15 GMT -5
Time for petitions and letters to the editors. Look out, Bill…..here they come! |
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Post by Dub on Jun 14, 2021 15:57:16 GMT -5
Hammond is where I saw Porter & Dolly. In the high school gymnasium/auditorium. And ... what were they doing? |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 14, 2021 17:33:09 GMT -5
Vinton should have an Idiot Street that intersects Soundhole Avenue. They don't? We would, but there haven't been any new streets that have needed naming for years. Same for Garrison. If either do, your idea has my vote. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 14, 2021 18:15:41 GMT -5
There’s always Marshalltown, Iowa. Marshalltown, Iowa has the best Maid Rite place in the state. www.maidrite.com/ Maid Rites only, specify wet only if you want them that way. Chips, soda, and a variety of malts. And if you dine in, you're sitting at the counter with everyone else.  |
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Post by Cornflake on Jun 14, 2021 19:33:46 GMT -5
"We would, but there haven't been any new streets that have needed naming for years."
We've had some old ones that got renamed but I suppose you wouldn't have any streets named for Confederate generals.
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Post by drlj on Jun 14, 2021 19:40:51 GMT -5
And ... what were they doing? Was it at the Civic Center which was between Hammond High and Hammond Tech? I saw a lot of concerts there. |
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Post by theevan on Jun 14, 2021 20:32:53 GMT -5
There’s always Marshalltown, Iowa. Marshalltown, Iowa has the best Maid Rite place in the state. www.maidrite.com/ Maid Rites only, specify wet only if you want them that way. Chips, soda, and a variety of malts. And if you dine in, you're sitting at the counter with everyone else. Is it safe to sneak in a can of Tony's or a bottle of Tabasco? |
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Post by theevan on Jun 14, 2021 20:35:50 GMT -5
"We would, but there haven't been any new streets that have needed naming for years." We've had some old ones that got renamed but I suppose you wouldn't have any streets named for Confederate generals. Plenty of Lost Cause names here. There's a short street adjacent to the streets dept called Plum Broque. Slums. |
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Post by jdd2 on Jun 14, 2021 22:16:29 GMT -5
I was born in marshalltown, stayed thru kindergarten. I just looked up the house on google--east side of town, close to lennox. It's still there, looks very much like the old pics, and there's still a field across the street. (kind of a time capsule of the mid 50s)
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Post by Dub on Jun 14, 2021 22:17:31 GMT -5
Was it at the Civic Center which was between Hammond High and Hammond Tech? I saw a lot of concerts there. I can't be sure. That was nearly 50 years ago. I remember there were basketball hoops and bleachers and the stage was a mobile platform arrangement constructed for the show. We sat in a balcony of sorts along one side of the room. It was a great show. |
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Post by howard lee on Jun 15, 2021 12:23:25 GMT -5
There's a university in Washington named after me.
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