Ricky Baby Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 (edited) okie i wanna see if abyone lives where famous poeple or major brands come from your town well ill start - the origional Hovis (bread) factory was in macclesfield and we were at one time one of the major silk produces in the UK o and David beckham use to live a few miles away - and alderly edge where merlin supposedly hid the white nights that will comeout when england is in danger - theres a face on a rock in a alderly edge wood thats suposed to be merlins face Edited December 7, 2003 by Blaise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orphic Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 I live down the street from former founder of Sam Walton's sister. He was the founder of Wal-Mart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted December 7, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2003 i was born here :D oh wait, i'm not famous... :pinch: john deer lived around here for a while, had a few houses, and the company still employs thousands of people in the area, as well as having one of their major global network hubs here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanman Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 my suburb is famous for it's large amounts of junkies and drug dealings lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 I live in Wolverhampton, which is in the West-Midlands of England, UK. Famous people from Wolverhampton and/or Birmingham (very near Wolverhampton)... Goldie - The World Is Not Enough, Celebrity Big Brother, Snatch Noddy Holder - The Grimleys, and also sang "Merry Christmas" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted December 7, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2003 Carl Linder....founder of UDF,Great American Insurance Company, Owner of the Cincinnati Reds....and my zip code 45243 is second in donating money to the republican party for president in the country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadworthy Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 Gloucester, UK - famous for serial sex attackers/ mass murderers Fred and Rose West.... and more recently, suspected Al Qaeda terrorists... oh, and apparently "The Tailor of Gloccester", who may or may not be a mouse (dont ask me about that one lol)... And i spose Double Gloucester cheese, so its not all bad :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsgeek Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 I live in Allentown, PA... During the Revolutionary War, the US hid the Liberty Bell in a church on Hamilton Street. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dragon Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 Mississippi is famous for quite a few authors, more than it's share of football (American-Style, it should go without saying) players, and a few rock stars. I mean, everyone has heard of Elvis, haven't they? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCoz Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 i live like 15-20 min. from kelly ripas weekend house. my friends from st. louis live near nelly and they always see nice cars going by and stuff. when i was in minnesota i met laura innes (dr. weaver, shes the one with the krutch she doesnt have one in real life) from ER and she has a summer house there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanGreal Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 Do people who live there now but werent born there count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cq_ Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 Mini Me from Austin Powers is from my home town :o I'm going to school in Miami, Pdiddy, Missy Elliot, JLo, and MANY more have houses on south beach and star island... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 a lot of famous people live in Chino Hills most noticable is Snoop Dogg and B2K if you want, during football season Snoop coaches his little league football team every wendesday at community park :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 from the dayton, ohio, area off the top of my head: guided by voices, the deal sisters from the pixies/breeders (kim and kelly), martin sheen, allison janney, rob lowe, ming tsai from foodtv, wright bros, inventors john patterson and charles kettering, ncr corp, mead corp, paul lawrence dunbar, mike schmidt, jack kamen (cartoonist and dean kamen's dad), jonathan winters, gordon jump & gary sandy (wkrp), phil donahue, erma bombeck, nancy cartwright... the wright bros invented and built the first successful airplane here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpshiznid Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Mike Epps is from my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. The movie 'Hoosiers' of course... I have met the all famous Bobby Knight on multiple occasions. Sandy Allen (Worlds tallest woman) lives about 5 minutes away from my house.... My mom brings her a tray of cookies once a week. My dad made the diving boards for the Mexican Olympic Teams. My dad's machine shop used to own the patent for the mahine that takes the stuff from the pumpkin and puts it in Libbey's Pumpkin Pie cans. If you ever ride in an elevator in the United States, chances are it was built partly or entirely by Otis Elevator Corp. My dad makes some of the grids and every day parts used in the elevators. That's about it for famous stuff in my small town... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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