If You Visited In My HomeTown...

Originally Posted By Lady Starlight

0o0ooo, FoDD, good choice.

<--likes Rutabagorz

 

Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt

I share the same hometown as Johnny Appleseed!

 

Originally Posted By LadyKluck

^ I am originally from the town where he's buried...Ft. Wayne, IN

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

LadyKluck,
Growing up, WOWO was one of the only radio stations we could get after dark, and I live in WV.

 

Originally Posted By LadyKluck

That was the only station I was allowed to listen to when I lived with my grandma as a kid!! How funny!

 

Originally Posted By amazedncal2

Restaurant: We would take you to Thai Cuisine, we love their food but can't quite figure out how they are still in business, hmm. Or for breakfast we'd go to Marvins, a tiny, funky place that my mom used to go for "soda's" in high school.

Sight seeing: Probably General Vallejo's Old Adobe or if you are into it, venture out a tad and go to a winery/vineyard.

Hometown: Petaluma, CA (North of San Francisco, Sonoma County)

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

We'd go to the Riverwalk downtown and dine at one of over 50 downtown restaurants --
Rosebuds for Italian / Heaven on Seven for Cajun / Hugo's Frog bar ( part of Mortons) for Steak or Catch 35 for Seafood
NOTE: All these restaaurants have big brother rest's in Downtown Chicago also.

You be in a town named Money's top 5 places to live multiple years winner- you'd be in Naperville, Illinois

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Originally Posted By DyGDisney

amazedncal2 -- my dh and I lived in Petaluma for awhile. It was my favorite place I ever lived!! We always had a hard time finding good restaurants there though, especially mexican food (this was 12 years ago though).
Our favorite place to eat there was Old Chicago Pizza! YUM!

 

Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

<<KT, we made snow ice cream this weekend at the ski hut and were discussing Sugar on the Snow, all of us being from the west. How do you make it? Do you just get a pile of snow and pour maple syrup on top or do you mix it or is there something else involved?>>

Your put maple syrup in a pan and using a candy thermometer you boil it to "hard ball". Once you get the syrup to that temperature you simply drizzle it out onto cookie sheet full of snow. You twirl it with a fork and eat it off the snow.

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Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

<Rosebuds for Italian >

I love Rosebud!

 

Originally Posted By DyGDisney

I'd take you to Favela's for a burrito because it's my fave.

As far as things to see, I guess I'd take you around and show you all the closed businesses, including the Nut Tree Family Park.

Vacaville truely is the model in poor city management. So many old businesses left empty after they close, but they still keep building and building -- then can't rent out the new spaces either!!!!

 

Originally Posted By mater4

>>Hey mater4 -- spent many a summer vacation in Reno -- my grandparents lived there from 1969-1999.<<

Jim,
I have only lived here for almost 4 years now. We are in the north valleys and there is still not much around. Most of the develpoments have been downtown and south Reno. I have been happy with living in Reno so far.

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

>>>Lots of good memories of Reno. John Ascuaga's Nugget, The May Museum, Idylwild Park, The MGM Grand, Reno Silver Sox Baseball -- fun stuff. And back in the day it was still a cow town trying grow up. <<<

you forgot Bertha and Tina (I too lived in Reno for a while and even spent some of my honeymoon at the Silver Legacy - we married at Caesar's Tahoe).

 

Originally Posted By FenwayGirl

If you visited my town I would take you to "Cheers" (where everybody knows your name...for a more "liquid" type lunch and the we would travel to my second favorite place on earth, Fenway Park, for either a tour or a game...

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

Hmmm, interesting one. I have travelled around so much my whole life (went to 9 schools before the age of 18). So I guess my hometown is where ever the wife and children are.

If you came to our hometown, we could go to Choudery's for some of the finest Indian food (though we are spoilt for good Italian too, with the biggest italian population in the UK).

For tourist spots, this could be tough? Do we go for the Cecil Higgins Museum and Art Gallery with several Monet's and Van Goughs, as well as antiquities of the area and a mummy (free). Or maybe RAF Twinwoods where Glen Miller's last train took off from? Maybe the Airship sheds near our house where we have an airship occassionally fly over (and was the sound stage used to recreate gotham city in Batman Begins). WE could opt for Elstow where John Bunyan (author of Pilgrims Progress) was born, studied and worked) But I think we would opt for St. Paul's square on the embankment of the River Ouse where there is a mix of gothic and georgian architecture overlooking the beautiful 11th Century High Church with a 12 bell tower. The Corn Exchange is here, where Glenn Miller played his most famous dances. There is great 17th century statuary, and a wonderful Gellati place where it is hand made.

You would be in Bedford, England

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

If we go for birthplace, then I would take you for champagne brunch or dinner at the Top of the Mark.

And for a picture spot, well that's a good place too, or down to the Golden Gate Bridge.

That's right, I was born in San Francisco.

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

And the place I have lived the longest in my life (except Bedford), would have the following:

We would either dine at the Depot restaurant, a wonderful fine dining experience that used to be a railway station.

For that picture moment, I would take you to Mooney's Grove, a wonderful park that has old trees, where the original End of the Trail statue used to live before they moved it to a WEstern Museum in the South somewhere (there is a copy there now), and wonderful views of Mt Whitney and the Sierra Nevadas.

You would be in Visalia California

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

Here is St Paul's

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Here is End of the Trail:

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Originally Posted By ophellia

dwb...I lived in Ivanhoe near Visalia for a while, I loved The Depot! and Shagnasty's...

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

Cool, iasw!