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Explore America With The Official Small City/ Town Thread

This here is Waynesboro, VA, population like 20k or some ****. Deep in the Appalachian mountains, that is the only picturesque part of this meth lab explosion. On either side of that street are crumbling strip malls, rundown houses, and an abandoned Du Pont factory that took just about every job in the town with it when it went under. Now its only claims to fame are African levels of STD infection and my old military school, and let me tell you we didn't see girls for months but we still never touched those toothless hicks.

https://static.trulia-cdn.com/pictur...4b68a93f49.jpg

Oh hey look there's the entirety of my school. **** you, school.

P.S. That red brick building at the very top of the pic is not my school. I believe that is the crematorium that regularly stunk up the whole area.

https://mob42.com/logos/FMS-campus.jpg

Nice town The Batlord :cool: Too bad about the Du Pont company.

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St.Cloud, Minnesota
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp
http://pics2.city-data.com/city/maps/fr519.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Cloud,_Minnesota

Population • Estimate (2018) 68,043

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2083155)

Nice town The Batlord :cool:

No, no it's ****ing not. If they didn't have a Walmart they'd probably all starve.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2083159)

No, no it's ****ing not. If they didn't have a Walmart they'd probably all starve.

I mean it wouldn't be a tragedy.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2083163)

I mean it wouldn't be a tragedy.

I used to shop at target a lot but I stopped because the Dollar General thats really close now.

I spent most of my childhood in Mariposa, a Gold Rush town close to Yosemite. The people deliver on all of the humility, self-reliance, and rampant racism that you would expect from a small town. The town part where all of the shops and **** are is about 2-3 miles long.

https://planningforwildfire.org/wp-c...CA-400x284.jpg

There's a place there called Pizza Station that has burned down and been rebuilt 4 times

https://californiathroughmylens.com/...12-640x427.jpg

There are a lot of fires there. In 2004 (I think), there was a bout of insane fires started by an arsonist that almost destroyed the town and my area got evacuated. There was ash everywhere, **** was like a volcano. Seems like small news compared to last year's fires though. They had a pretty bad one last year as well, but it didn't threaten the town part.

One of the shops in town was a Chevron next to the high school. They'd let us go off campus during lunch and my group of friends in my freshmen year would always hit that place up. When we would go in, we would have one of our friends (who was one of the ~20 black people out of the city's 2,000 citizens) act sketchy like he was going to steal stuff. Then all of the rest of us would load up on snacks and **** while the racist cashier and owner or whatever were keeping an eye on him, then we'd leave without them noticing. Then he'd buy something small and we'd all share the bounty.

So ja I like the rural environment there and the weather's nice, but the people suck. And the restaurants in the town are like a bad joke. But otherwise it's alright I guess.

Nice town Frownland^...I didnt type much about Davenport, Iowa but I grew up there.

New Haven, CT
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http://pics2.city-data.com/city/maps/fr183.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut
Population• Estimate (2018) 130,418

Fiending for citydata hard, are we mindfulness?

I do not understand why he cares so much about posting random pictures of generic ****ty towns.

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2083181)

Fiending for citydata hard, are we mindfulness?

https://boxden.com/smilies/dZQ5Tm2.png Yeah

https://townofdubois.org/ImageReposi...C56%2FPath.jpg

https://cdn.jacksonholewy.net/images...Wyoming_lg.jpg

https://res.cloudinary.com/resortsan...5/original.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yVuqYRX.jpg?1

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Dubois is a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 971 at the 2010 census, although this nearly doubles in the summer with many part-time residents.

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The original residents of Dubois, Wyoming wanted to name the town Never Sweat. However, the postal service found the name unacceptable, so it endowed the town with the name Dubois after Fred Dubois, an Idaho senator at the time. In protest, the citizens of Dubois rejected the French pronunciation, instead opting for Du, with u as in "Sue"; bois, with oi as in "voice". The accent is on the first syllable.

https://images.findagrave.com/photos...1438869446.jpg

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Fred Thomas Dubois (May 29, 1851 – February 14, 1930) was a controversial American politician from Idaho who served two terms in the United States Senate. He was best known for his opposition to the gold standard and his efforts to disenfranchise Mormon voters.

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In the landscape surrounding Dubois are visible the remains of many wood flumes constructed by the tie hacks who provided the railroad ties that helped to develop the American West. These Scandinavian immigrants cut logs into ties and sent these via the flumes to the Wind River where they floated to Riverton, about 70 miles east, for processing.

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The Dubois Museum preserves and interprets the natural and social history of the Upper Wind River Valley as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center focuses on public education about the biology and habitat of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep with specific focus on the currently largest herd of Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep in the coterminous United States that winter in the Whiskey Basin of Whiskey Mountain adjacent to the Fitzpatrick Wilderness[15] in the Shoshone National Forest. The Center preserves and interprets the relationships of the Bighorn sheep.

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The town is on U.S. Route 26 and is the beginning of the Wyoming Centennial Scenic Byway, U.S. Route 26 crossing the Continental Divide at Togwotee Pass.

https://i.imgur.com/alObFUt.jpg?2

Wyoming seems really rural, Montana too. I have two family members in Montana now. Wyoming though is home to Kanye West sometimes I think. Wonder if he lives by Dubois.

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2083196)

Wyoming seems really rural, Montana too. I have two family members in Montana now. Wyoming though is home to Kanye West sometimes I think. Wonder if he lives by Dubois.

Yeah, he bought property in Jackson Hole, which is down the mountain from Dubois. Sandra Bullock and Harrison Ford own homes there too. That's where I was born, because Dubois doesn't have a hospital lol.

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2083198)

Oh wow, the mountains look nice.

The town I currently live in is really small like 4000 and has no hospital, but there is a health clinic 15 mins down the road :o:

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2083191)

https://i.imgur.com/alObFUt.jpg?2

I'd ask if you're the one with the double chin but either way the answer is yes.

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2083248)

i'm on the left lol

I like how your friend is sneaking in the white power signal.

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2083248)

i'm on the left lol

So you had the bigger double chin.

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2083248)

i'm on the left lol

"version of cheerleaders" :afro:

Knowledge Is Over-rated Anyway

Just loving this thread with all its pics and insider info about where you guys are from. Batlord’s school and the posts by WWWP and Frownland I found particularly interesting. Great thread, Mindfulness :thumb:

I’ve only ever spent about 3 weeks in the USA, but I’m going to regard that as a minor disadvantage, not as a disqualification. After all, who better to provide an impartial take on small-town America than someone who knows nothing about it?

The Walrus and the Carpenter

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A little to the north of the Golden Gate Bridge is Stinson Beach, where I stayed one night in the eighties; a friend and I had hired a car and were on a short motor-tour to look for America. (© Paul Simon)
On a bright January afternoon we arrived at Stinson and walked along the wide, flat beach for ages. Inspire by the open sea view, during a lull in our conversation I very nearly recited that poem by Lewis Carol which begins,

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The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking close at hand
They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand
If only this were cleared away, they said, it would be grand.
"If seven maids with seven mops swept it for seven years,
do you suppose" the Walrus said,"that they could get it clear?"
"I doubt it " said the Carpenter, and shed a bitter tear.

As Brits we were surprised at how quiet this picturesque seaside village was on such a beautiful day. In England, that combination inevitably means crowds of tourists, deck chairs and ice-cream vendors, but here the beach, and the town, were inexplicably empty. In the evening, we mooched around looking for, but failing to find anywhere that was open. An uneasy feeling began to creep over both of us: the blight of Londoners away from London, the feeling that we had washed up in a backwater and that life was going on elsewhere without us.

So, despite its charm, I for one was relieved to be on the way again next morning, to be comforted by the every-day bustle of traffic on the highway. Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstacy - Bob Dylan could've been singing about me on that morning ;)

Imagine My Surprise

Imagine my surprise when about a year ago I was reading a collection of rock journalism entitled "The Rock History Reader" and came across this extract from Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test":-

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The third Acid Test was scheduled for Stinson Beach, 15 miles north of SanFrancisco. Stinson Beach was already a gathering place for local heads -you could live all winter in little beach cottages there for next to nothing- but at the last minute that whole deal fell through and they shifted the event to Muir Beach, a few miles south. The handbills were already out, all over SanFrancisco, advertising Cassidy & Ann Murphy Vaudeville and the celebrities who might be there, the Fugs, Ginsberg, Roland Kirk.

Anyway, at the last minute they headed for Muir Beach instead. The fact that many people wouldn't know about the change and would go to Stinson beach and never find the right place -somehow that didn't even seem distressing. It was part of some strange analogical order of the universe.

Muir Beach had a big log-cabin-style lodge for dances, banquets and the like. The Grateful Dead piled in with their equipment and the Pranksters with theirs, which now included a Hammond electric organ for Gretch and a great strobe light.
The strobe! To people standing under the mighty strobe everything seemed to fragment. Ecstatic dancers-their hands flew off their arms, frozen in the air- their glistening faces came apart- a gleaming ellipse of teeth here, a pair of highlit cheeks there- all flacking and fragmenting.... Then in comes Kesey, through the main door....

And that's how I very nearly attended an acid test with Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia - it was just that I was in the wrong village and twenty years too late.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2083343)

Just loving this thread with all its pics and insider info about where you guys are from.

Hey hey hey I am not from that incest fest! I just went to boarding school there.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2083343)

Thanks, Nice post too. I didn't know you were British also :beer:

(Springfield tire fire not pictured)

That one's in Oregon.

Photo of Downtown Davenport, Iowa at the start of the Bix 7 race. Photo from Quad Cities facebook page :beer:
https://i.imgur.com/FTXerod.jpg
I've ran this race when I was about half my age now, but I want to train to for it again do it again.

Are they all fleeing Iowa?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2084467)

Are they all fleeing Iowa?

No, those are thousands of people running up a hill in Davenport.. https://boxden.com/images/icons/dZQ5Tm2-compressor.png

Are they at least fleeing Davenport?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2084470)

Are they at least fleeing Davenport?

Nope, it's about a half mile up a good hill and then 7 miles through middle of the city. No ones fleeing. Joe Biden was just there after the debate ;)

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2083083)

Davenport, Iowa (One of the Quad Cities)
https://i.imgur.com/mzd9IUE.jpg
Population • Estimate (2018) 102,085
https://i.imgur.com/mzd9IUE.jpg
https://www.city2map.com/images/city...port_16_us.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uptb0T6Pv5k
NowThis, just released a video on downtown Davenport, Iowa flooding :shycouch:

bro what the ****ed happened to canada while i was at work?