Is your hometown famous for anything?

Hometown: Mesa, Az
Cultural attractions

LDS Mesa Arizona TempleHoHoKam Park Cactus League spring training home of the Chicago Cubs and former summer home to the now defunct Mesa Miners professional baseball team of the Golden Baseball League.
Mesa Arts Center
Mesa Amphitheatre
Mesa Arizona Temple, a large LDS temple, where an elaborate Easter Pageant is held every spring.
Museums
Arizona Museum for Youth
Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aircraft Museum - B-17 Sentimental Journey
Mesa Historical Society and Museum
Arizona Museum of Natural History
Public Libraries
Main Library (MN)
Dobson Ranch Branch (DR)
Red Mountain Branch (RM)
Part of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was filmed in Mesa at the Golfland/Sunsplash waterpark on U.S. 60.
Mesa is the home of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team during Spring Training.


Also The mall part in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was filmed in the Metro Center Mall in Phoenix, AZ

Also
Alternative/pop-punk band Jimmy Eat World is from Mesa.
Punk band Authority Zero is from Mesa.
Actress Courtney Simpson is from Mesa.
Actress Danielle Fishel is from Mesa.
MLB Players Adam Hyzdu and Russ Ortiz reside in Mesa during the winters.
Country music legend Waylon Jennings is interred at the Mesa City Cemetery.
Many scenes from the film The Kingdom were shot in Mesa, including segments on Loop 202 and the ASU Polytechnic Campus.

The Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day ( my birthplace).
But where I was raised is famous for Disneyland, the Mighty Ducks and the Angels.

Tower Records, Raley's Supermarkets and Java City coffee started here. The Kings (NBA) play here. A couple of famous serial killers once plied their trade here. Arnold Schwarzenegger spends a good deal of time here and Ronald Reagan used to maintain a home here. The Oakland A's Triple-A affiliate plays here. We have more trees in our urban area than any other city in the U.S. An alliance of about a half-dozen automakers maintains a fuel-cell research and development center here. Tom Hanks went to college here. Our shabby system of levees controlling the two rivers that run through the city is going to make us the next national disaster story (a la Katrina).
Oh yeah, and we've given the world the following bands: The Cramps, Cake, Steel Breeze, Tesla, The Deftones, and my personal favorite: The Groovie Ghoulies.

Birth place of the Republican Party
Home of the Cascades Falls
Hometown of Tony Dungy, coach of the Indianapolis Colts
Home to the Michigan Shakespeare Festival
Home of what used to be the biggest "walled" prison in the world.

Also:
Tommy's Hot Dog Stand
Hinkley Doughnuts
Schlenker's Hamburgers
The biggest Juvenile Diabetes Walk in the state.

Yes - Manchester United (Best footie team in the world!)/ Madchester scene troughout the late 80's - early90's (including Hacienda)/ Oasis/ Shameless/ Coranation St./ Take That, just a few reasons that Manchester UK is well known.

I'm proud to be a MANC!

Yes. Nationally, Cincinnati is famous for the basketball great Oscar Robertson. He went to UC and still lives in Cincy.

Locally, Cincinnati is famous for it's Cincinnati Chili.

Mostly for the Branch Davidian Siege but Steve Martin was born in my hometown as well.

Presidential caucuses.
Insurance companies (headquarters for Principal Financial Group).
Better Homes and Gardens is published here (Meredith Corporation).

I suppose you could count that we're the home of the Chicago Cubs AAA team.

Cloris Leachman is from Des Moines. I went to the same high school she did. Author Bill Bryson is from here. Crazy Tana Goertz from the Apprentice is from here, and her husband is a meteorologist here (we like him a lot more than we like her). The Chicago Bears current quarterback, Kyle Orton, is from near here. The current Superman, Brandon Routh, is from just south of here (Norwalk). The entire band of Slipknot is from here, and some of the band members' kids go to school with my nieces and nephews.

What else?

Interstate 35 and interstate 80 meet here.

We have one of the biggest and longest skywalk structures in the world, I think. You can get around to most of the buildings downtown without having to go outside.

Ronald Reagan did some of his radio work here as a sports announcer.

We have one of the best known state fairs in the country.

Yes, a food from animal is famous in my hometown.

Kittery/Kitttery Point, Maine.Known as the "Gateway to Maine", it's the oldest incorporated town in Maine. there's a ton of history...IDK about famous stuff though We have the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard that built the first submarines, I guess that pretty infamous. And the home of the USS Thresher incident: On 10 April 1963, after the completion of this work, Thresher began post-overhaul trials. Accompanied by the submarine rescue ship Skylark (ASR-20), she transited to an area some 220 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and started deep-diving tests. As these proceeded, garbled communications were received by Skylark, indicating trouble aboard the submarine. It gradually became apparent that she had sunk, taking the lives of 129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians. My Grandfather was scheduled to go on this voyage, due to unforeseen circumstances at the time of deployment (my grandmother being diagnosed with MS) He did not get aboard this sub.