Where exactly were you born, and what was/is interesting about living there?

[SATW]

born in erie, pa

[Crumpets]

Salem, Massachusetts. I am often asked if I am a witch. I am not okay with this.

So Christine O'Donnell's commercial was aimed at you? I've always wondered...

[DINGO Joe]

Salem, Massachusetts. I am often asked if I am a witch. I am not okay with this.

Well?

[DINGO Joe]

Kansas City, Mo though we actually lived in Prairie Village, KS.  Was five when we left, everything looked smaller when I returned during collage for a visit.  Historically, it probably had a more vibrant music scene than you might expect.  Also has not just one, but apparently multiple worlds of "fun" though I really can't vouch for that.

[The Arizonan]

I was born at Saint Mary's Regional Hospital in Reno, Nevada.

Reno was actually the gambling capital of Nevada before it was soon overtaken by Las Vegas and Reno was going to have it's equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip but then the Great Recession happened.

Some famous people were born there like former Senator Paul Laxalt and the anti-communist former Senator Pat McCarran. I was born during Laxalt's last term in the Senate.

Governor Brian Sandoval worked as an attorney in Reno before he got into politics and he was my father's lawyer.

Barbara Vucanovich, who was my congressperson when I was born, lived in Reno before she passed away in 2013.

The lawyers in Reno were said to be so corrupt that they had to bring in lawyers from Minnesota (can someone verify this please?)

In the movie Ocean's Eleven (2001), Don Cheadle's character says "Unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we are in Barney".

[Badger]

I was born at Saint Mary's Regional Hospital in Reno, Nevada.

Reno was actually the gambling capital of Nevada before it was soon overtaken by Las Vegas and Reno was going to have it's equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip but then the Great Recession happened.

Some famous people were born there like former Senator Paul Laxalt and the anti-communist former Senator Pat McCarran. I was born during Laxalt's last term in the Senate.

Governor Brian Sandoval worked as an attorney in Reno before he got into politics and he was my father's lawyer.

Barbara Vucanovich, who was my congressperson when I was born, lived in Reno before she passed away in 2013.

The lawyers in Reno were said to be so corrupt that they had to bring in lawyers from Minnesota (can someone verify this please?)

In the movie Ocean's Eleven (2001), Don Cheadle's character says "Unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we are in Barney".

I thought Reno already had a strip of sorts.

[Torie]

Salem, Massachusetts. I am often asked if I am a witch. I am not okay with this.

Well?

I'm as it were a male Salem witch, directly descended from the uncle of perhaps the most famous of such witches. She was exonerated posthumously after her hanging, but in retaliation for her wrongful death, still haunts the Fruited Plain, and in particular this forum, using my body to do it. And I am proud to put my body into service for her. She is the only woman in fact for whom I enjoy doing that.

[VPH]

Interesting thing about the NE side of Wichita: Koch is headquartered there.

[Tender Branson]

There:

http://www.kh-zellamsee.at/index.php?topic=departments&subTopic=gyn&page=gyn_ambulances

[The Arizonan]

I was born at Saint Mary's Regional Hospital in Reno, Nevada.

Reno was actually the gambling capital of Nevada before it was soon overtaken by Las Vegas and Reno was going to have it's equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip but then the Great Recession happened.

Some famous people were born there like former Senator Paul Laxalt and the anti-communist former Senator Pat McCarran. I was born during Laxalt's last term in the Senate.

Governor Brian Sandoval worked as an attorney in Reno before he got into politics and he was my father's lawyer.

Barbara Vucanovich, who was my congressperson when I was born, lived in Reno before she passed away in 2013.

The lawyers in Reno were said to be so corrupt that they had to bring in lawyers from Minnesota (can someone verify this please?)

In the movie Ocean's Eleven (2001), Don Cheadle's character says "Unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we are in Barney".

I thought Reno already had a strip of sorts.

The closest that Reno has to a strip is Virginia Boulevard and the casinos on it.

Pete Sferraza, who was Mayor of Reno, also ran for Congress against Barbara Vucanovich. She was newly elected the same year as former Senator Chic Hecht.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

And in January 2015:



Łódź, Poland. I love this city so much (no sarcasm)

[Mr. Smith]

The Black Panthers started here, the Fenton's from Pixar's Up is in this city, Homer Simpson suggested swimming to it instead of San Francisco in a Simpsons episode where the Simpsons get taken to Alcatraz, Amelia Earhart did her world-long voyage starting at this airport.

That should be enough clues.

[Vosem]

I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst, which was an incredibly diverse neighborhood, which had notable populations of immigrants from China, the former Soviet Union (us), along with many Italian- and African-Americans. It was an organized crime haven back in the early 20th century when it was a pretty uniformly Italian-American neighborhood (18th Avenue, a few blocks from my old apartment building, is still called 'Christopher Columbus Way' and there are still a number of Italian-speaking businesses on that street). There were some racial tensions in the bad days of the 1980s; a black youth named Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death by a white mob in 1989, and when the Rev. Al Sharpton led a march through the community, there was an assassination attempt on him.

[DKrol]

North Adams Regional Hospital, North Adams, MA.

Fun Fact: The hospital closed on my 16th birthday.

North Adams is the hometown of former Massachusetts Acting Governor Jane Swift, who went to high school with my mom.

North Adams is the smallest municipality in Massachusetts that is chartered as a city.

Our former Mayor, John Barrett, III, held office for 26 continuous years and was the "Dean of Mayors". He also appeared in an ad for the Obama Campaign in 2012.

[The Arizonan]

It should be interesting to note that they bulldozed Park Lane Mall in Reno in order to build a Beverly Hillbilly-themed casino that ultimately wasn't built.

That's one of the problems with eminent domain.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Daytona Beach, FL lol. The place where all the residents want to flee but all the tourists want to visit lol. I mean, you can hear the NASCAR races all over town and see all the loopy things tourists do when they're here. Also we get a lot of Quebecers here doing the winter.

[anvi]

I was born in St. Joseph's Hospital in Dickinson, North Dakota, and lived in that town for my first 22 years.  There are a number of things about North Dakota I still value greatly.  But I still can't bring myself to say that Dickinson was interesting.