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This Weeks Theme: "Claim to Fame"

Description: "Every town has a claim-to-fame. What "claims-to-fame" are around you? Difficulty, must satisfy a quantifier like biggest, smallest, oldest, greatest, most expensive, only, unique, etc."

Thanks to egg_salad for this week's theme.

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Before Ketchikan Alaska was known for "The Bridge To Nowhere", we were known for fishing, the Tongass National Forest, Misty Fjords National Monument, an annual rainfall of about 160 inches, and Alaskan native arts.

Bridges? We don't need no stinking bridges.

1of3 Chum/dog salmon

jackson hole mountain resort, wy

greatest vertical rise of any ski area in the US (4139')

i'm posting 3 for staplermofo tonight
here's 1/3



A typical street musician playing the blues in Chicago.
(unique to Chicago)

2of3 Totem Park

grand teton national park, wy

only national park with an airport within its boundaries

yellowstone national park, wy

first national park in the US

The only thing I can think of is that the name of our town is unique. We are supposedly the only town named Divernon in the USA.

3of3 We had 4 inches of rain in the 48 hours before I took this picture:

2/3 from staplermofo



If you look really close, the papers read "O RLY?"
(Harold Washington Library, largest library by floorspace)

3/3 from staplermofo


Mayor Daley, to honor the memory of Jane Addams, is now kicking out
all the poor people living within a 4 block radius of the Hull House
to make room for condos and shopping for upper-middle-class folks.
(Hull House, unique historic site)

mosey on over to the photo tech thread if you've got a hankerin' for some photo knowledge.

Oldest Park in America! Boston, MA (Boston Common)

/mods please delete last post, don't know what happened!
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we have the goofiest looking tugboat in the world, i present:
Theodore Tugboat:

Is that for real idle_hands? I love Theodore!

lol staplermofo I just noticed the saxamaphone!

York Minster
Largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe

we have the deepest container berths on the whole of the eastern seaboard




port of halifax

York also retains about half of the medeival walls that surround the city.

the only lighthouse with a post office and it's own postal code. peggy's cove lighthouse:



it was really hard to narrow it down this week i kept coming up with more so, the rest of them are
here

idle_hands: the only lighthouse with a post office and it's own postal code. peggy's cove lighthouse:

oh, idle, that's beautiful!

monkeybort: oh, idle, that's beautiful!

thanks monkey, the b/f was delegated to throw bread till i got the shot :o)

Wow. This is shaping up to be an awesome thread, and it's only just begun.

Just got back from Vegas....This one is from the MGM Grand.

Olympia is the capital of Washington State...

amongst the many things in san francisco is a carnaval street fair, there's a bidge too, but here's a selection from the fair

And this one is the famous ceiling at the Bellagio. All the flowers were handmade and imported from Italy.

This 12' totem stands in front of Evergreen State College's red square. Evergreen is undoubtedly the most liberal college this side of the Cascades. Former alumni include Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, and Michael Richards of Seinfeld fame...

wink at GalleyWench for the comment under my drumming woman :)

This pagoda is located in the Yashiro Japanese Garden which, to my knowledge, is the only park of its kind in downtown Olympia...

oooh gorgeous Lar!

yay! veruca's here

*proffers empty glass* :o)

Nation's first public library on First Night 2005, Boston Public Library.

2005-12-14 08:51:09 PM ch4r7ie
I thnk my husband just drooled a little on himself. Haha. Nice photo!

which one?

ty, kidding of course, nice to remember peggy's cove, saw it in the summer of 69, looks the same

Ch4r7ie The one veruca referred to. 2005-12-14 08:51:09 PM

egg_salad: Pittsburgh, PA, the home of Fred Rogers and where every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was taped (WQED 13).

nice one egg_salad!

Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, MA. Oldest cemetary in Massachusetts.

idle_hands: the only lighthouse with a post office and it's own postal code. peggy's cove lighthouse:

Beautiful :)

GalleyWench: 3of3 We had 4 inches of rain in the 48 hours before I took this picture:

There were ooh's and ah's in the household. That's very beautful.
Your fish photo scares me. Look at those teeth!

ch4r7ie: ty, kidding of course, nice to remember peggy's cove, saw it in the summer of 69, looks the same



hi ch4r7ie, it's rare to see peggy's without people swarming all over the rocks, you have to get up *really* early.

here's one at 6:30 a.m.