US Claims to Fame
Jun 13th 2005, 8:46 pm
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Re: US Claims to Fame
I've just remembered another claim to fame. Whoopie Goldberg has a summer place here and to pass the time works as a barmaid in a local place. It's weird to have her serving your wine and beer but there ya go.
Jun 13th 2005, 8:48 pm
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Re: US Claims to Fame
Originally Posted by cabritpop
Who?
Jun 13th 2005, 9:20 pm
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Interesting stuff - thanks!
A couple more from me - this time nearer to home - just down the road in fact.
Earl P. Halliburton started his now world famous (or infamous?) oil services business in Duncan, Oklahoma many years ago.
The main parts of it were moved out to Houston a few years ago ( the town fathers must have been less than pleased!)
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Duncan has the Largest Garage Sale in the World - on a date in July I think, when (apparently) every house has a garage sale, and the place is heaving.
Must make a note to be out of town that day!
A couple more from me - this time nearer to home - just down the road in fact.
Earl P. Halliburton started his now world famous (or infamous?) oil services business in Duncan, Oklahoma many years ago.
The main parts of it were moved out to Houston a few years ago ( the town fathers must have been less than pleased!)
and
Duncan has the Largest Garage Sale in the World - on a date in July I think, when (apparently) every house has a garage sale, and the place is heaving.
Must make a note to be out of town that day!
Jun 13th 2005, 9:27 pm
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Re: US Claims to Fame
We live about 500 yards from the route that Washington and his troops marched and about a mile from Princeton Battlefield. Washington Crossing is about 5 miles away where Washington crossed the Delaware River and defeated the Brits.
Also Grovers Mill which is the landing site in War of the Worlds is about 4 miles away from us.
A Beautiful Mind was filmed in Princeton and the Fox series House was based in Princeton too.
That's all I know about this area.
Also Grovers Mill which is the landing site in War of the Worlds is about 4 miles away from us.
A Beautiful Mind was filmed in Princeton and the Fox series House was based in Princeton too.
That's all I know about this area.
Jun 13th 2005, 9:53 pm
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Hillsborough Va......
The birthplace of the mother of the Wright Brothers.... clutching at straws indeed.
The birthplace of the mother of the Wright Brothers.... clutching at straws indeed.
Jun 13th 2005, 10:29 pm
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The Last battle of the American revolution was fought, just across the street from where I live, In Yorktown Virginia, Oh and the first Expats that ever came over here, lived just up the road in the Jamestown settlement.
Jun 13th 2005, 10:47 pm
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Originally Posted by britvic
The Last battle of the American revolution was fought, just across the street from where I live, In Yorktown Virginia, ...
Jun 13th 2005, 11:06 pm
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Originally Posted by ImHere
Did you watch it from your porch? I bet it caused havoc with the rush hour traffic.
Jun 13th 2005, 11:14 pm
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Originally Posted by ImHere
Did you watch it from your porch? I bet it caused havoc with the rush hour traffic.
there always doing those reinactments here.
Jun 13th 2005, 11:33 pm
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Originally Posted by britvic
LOL, there always doing those reinactments here.
there always doing those reinactments here.
Jun 14th 2005, 12:08 am
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Utica, NY.......Why wait till death
Jun 14th 2005, 12:09 am
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Originally Posted by SeveredNeurons
Utica, NY.......Why wait till death
Jun 14th 2005, 12:19 am
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Originally Posted by SeveredNeurons
City of Possibilities......apparently
Jun 14th 2005, 12:47 am
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Originally Posted by ImHere
Boca Raton here in Palm Beach County is apparently the Spam Capital of the world...and not the tinned variety either, which is nice at least all the spam mail I get doesnt have far to go to get to me.
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Jun 14th 2005, 1:39 am
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Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Yours is a claim to infamy, don't you think?
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Tis the best I could find. Oh that and Donald Trump has a place in West palm Beach up t'road.