Tell me about your home town

[Gemmi]

Lisbon, Md.

An elementary school (was a 1-12 school up until two years before I started going there), a gas station/hardware store, a general store, and the local fire department. A DeSoto/Chrysler dealership that had room for two cars in the showroom and about four on the lot. And a small automotive paint and repair shop run by an ancient guy with no teeth that was located on ..White Fools Alley, said alley a shortcut between the general store and the fire department building.

The alley was renamed many decades ago.

Imagine that. I live 5 miles from Lisbon. It really is a small world.

 

[DipStick]

Lisbon, Md.

An elementary school (was a 1-12 school up until two years before I started going there), a gas station/hardware store, a general store, and the local fire department. A DeSoto/Chrysler dealership that had room for two cars in the showroom and about four on the lot. And a small automotive paint and repair shop run by an ancient guy with no teeth that was located on ..White Fools Alley, said alley a shortcut between the general store and the fire department building.

The alley was renamed many decades ago.

You'll be glad to know it hasn't changed too much.

 

[DipStick]

Hometown: Ft. Myers, FL.

Lots to do, plenty of time on the water. But I enjoy the diverse weather and diverity of people that Waldorf, Md has to offer. Every place I've lived (Ft. Myers, Woodbine/Lisbon area, Hampton and Waldorf) has had its positives and negatives.

 

[mamatutu]

...and

here we are...

It is not so bad. Don't be sad. SoMD is an extremely beautiful place; and anywhere we are is what we make of it. I am still a work in progress, but I know where I am now is a visually beautiful place; my soul is catching up to where I am. I know, that is weird; my kids always thought I was an alien. I always think of Calvert Cliffs as the US version of the UK's white cliffs of Dover. I love this history about Darnestown. Did you ever buy It's A Darne Good Cookbook? I have a recipe in there! My claim to fame!

http://www.darnestown.net/about

 

[DipStick]

Imagine that. I live 5 miles from Lisbon. It really is a small world.

I lived up there for a while to go to school. At first, I thought Carroll County was Bum#### Nowhere, but it grew on me after a while.

 

[MarieB]

Pittsburgh, PA

Grew up and lived in the suburb of Penn Hills until 11th grade and then lived in the city in Bloomfield and Regent Square until I moved out of state.

Pittsburgh is a beautiful city with friendly people and lots of history. I still miss the ethnic "regions" and of course the food.

Of course I'm a football fan

 

[MarieB]

Born in Grove City, grew up in Butler, spent tons of time with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins in Slippery Rock & Harrisville.

Proud Clarion University of PA grad (it was Clarion State College back then).

Butler, PA, pop at that time (60's & 70's) was somewhere around 25,000. Major industry was 2 steel mills. One huge high school (my grad class was 920 people). Two public swimming pools -- we'd walk across town to get to one of them in the summer. Wonderful downtown - Woolworth's, Allen's Toy Store, Cummings Candy Shop (real honest-to-God soda fountain, still there -- made the best cherry cokes!). Wonderful parades down Main Street for Memorial Day and the Friday after Thanksgiving. Wonderful ethnic communities with food festivals (Italians, Irish, Polish). South side was mostly Italian -- oh and Natili's restaurant & Serventi's

Close enough to Pittsburgh if you wanted the "big city" experience, Monroeville for the Mall. Nature lovers had plenty of places close for fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. - McConnell's Mills (covered bridge), Moraine State Park (lake - boating, swimming, etc.).

Wonderful place to grow up!!!!

Dammit, now I'm homesick!

VisitButlerCounty.com | Visit Butler County Pennsylvania

I spent many days at Moraine with my family and McConell's Mill when I was "older"

I loved McConell's Mill

 

[acommondisaster]

Small town in Wisconsin, population 15k. There was a real Main Street, where all of the stores were. The area had a big german influence and corner taverns and bars dotted the neighborhoods. They were the kind of bars that served a lunch and small homecooked dinners, and it wasn't unusual for people to take their kids with them to the tavern (my parents never did).

Friday night fish fries were traditional, and the big event on Friday nights was the high school football or basketball game. Once a month, they'd shut down the side streets adjacent to Main Street and they'd hold Fair Day - everything from produce to rabbits and dogs, pigs and calves were sold. We brought home mice, rabbits and even a puppy from fair day as I was growing up. Teens would get in their cars and "drag Main", which meant driving up and down the Main Street in their cars for hours.

Public swimming pool was the place for a kid to be during the summer - on Sundays and evenings you had to pay a dime to get in, but the rest of the time it was free. Older kids would ride their bikes outside town to the rock quarries to swim. Winter was ice skating on the river. We had talent shows to raise money for a new hospital - as I look back it was a fairly Norman Rockwell kind of existence.

Not much has changed in the 30 plus years since I've been gone. They still have a parade for 4th of July, the population has stayed about the same, everyone still goes out for Fish Fry and the bad kids still hang out in front of one particular store in the summer. They dont drag Main anymore, but in the evenings they park in one gas station and raise the hoods on their cars to brag.

 

[Mabus]

Tehran

 

[Larry Gude]

The beach. Nuff said.

Wow!

That took care of that.

 

[xobxdoc]

Born in Philly. Lived outside Philly until I was ten. Our playground was the woods. We would be there all day and at night we got checked for tics. It's hard to get tics anymore playing video games.
Moved to central Florida for my middle and high school years. I remember school stopping so we could go outside to watch the rockets launch at the Cape. Daytona was a short hour drive.The day we turned 16, we had our license and most Saturdays in the spring and summer we were at Daytona. Our spot was in front of Whitehall. Coke wraps became popular once they banned beer on the beach. Cocoa Beach was a nice alternate. It was required to get a Ron Jon t-shirt before going home.

 

[GopherM]

Jacksonville, FL

When I was a kid there were only 2 bridges across the St. Johns River, 3 major Navy bases and a big Navy Reserve Center on the south shore of the river. Most of the water front was old piers for cargo shipping, there was no expressway or interstate. It was a hard working blue collar town supported by shipping and some industry like the Ford factory on the river near where Alltel (the old Gator Bowl) stadium is now. I am one of the rare old native Floridians from about 4 generations of Floridians (mostly from the backwoods areas where they made their own cane syrup and turpentine). Look up Worthington Springs on your Google Earth to see what backwoods Florida is like...that's where I spent a lot of weeks and weekend with Grandma.

It is still pretty much a hard working blue collar town and has managed to remain redneck country no matter how hard folks try to import culture. I am always depressed when I go back for visits. It is the true demonstration of urban sprawl with little or no control over growth.

 

[Bann]

Jacksonville, FL

I lived in Clay County for 7 years (1998-2005) It's grown immensely in the nearly 7 I've been gone.

 

[Vince]

Born in Philly. Lived outside Philly until I was ten. Our playground was the woods. We would be there all day and at night we got checked for tics. It's hard to get tics anymore playing video games.
Moved to central Florida for my middle and high school years. I remember school stopping so we could go outside to watch the rockets launch at the Cape. Daytona was a short hour drive.The day we turned 16, we had our license and most Saturdays in the spring and summer we were at Daytona. Our spot was in front of Whitehall. Coke wraps became popular once they banned beer on the beach. Cocoa Beach was a nice alternate. It was required to get a Ron Jon t-shirt before going home.

Had the same playground. We lived in the woods during our childhood and Mom had to yell for me to come home for dinner. And you better get there on time or you had to deal with Dad.

 

[xobxdoc]

Had the same playground. We lived in the woods during our childhood and Mom had to yell for me to come home for dinner. And you better get there on time or you had to deal with Dad.

It seemed like we would spend our days coming up with ways to avoid beatings. We weren't too successful.

 

[EmptyTimCup]

We left one to move here, movie theater that dated to the mid 1800's, a butcher shop... and a handful of gourmet and by gourmet I mean a few well know chefs who had decided to call the burbs home.

Patton, where mom grew up, was like this ........

Warfield'ss on Main St, Bank, Movie Theater, Fire Hall ..... 4 bars, State Liquor Store, ..... an A&P on the edge of town on an out bound road towards Caroltown .. as many Bars as Churches ...... Patton was home to a large Clay Works, that shipped terra cotta and bricks all over ... the story goes WW II service men from the area, found Patton Pavers in Germany in several of the towns

 

[desertrat]

Yuma, AZ. It was hot.

Great Mex. food though.

 

[EmptyTimCup]

Had the same playground. We lived in the woods during our childhood and Mom had to yell for me to come home for dinner. And you better get there on time or you had to deal with Dad.

Ditto .......


You'd Better Be Home Before the Street Lights Came On ........

 

[xobxdoc]

It seemed like we would spend our days coming up with ways to avoid beatings. We weren't too successful.

Building "Evil Knievel" ramps for our bikes was a bad idea!

 

[yankee44]

Unadilla, NY Very small town population 1,128. Village Main Street with 2 stop lights and the township (where I grew up) mostly dairy farms. We had 3 towns put togather to make up our High School and only graduated 54.