The Hometown Thread!

[Tinatulips]

I promised Linda and Karen a tour of Heemskerk.
I hope this works. Just click on below and follow the instructions.

web page (http://www.heemskerk.nl/)

the picture of the mud whole is an archaeological site. The foot prints are a man and a horse and re 2000 years old!! It is from before the Ice age. (Karen and Linda ,no regular mud, lol!!)

click on the left hand side “Wonen en leven”
then click on “Recreatie en ontspanning”
then click on “Bijzondere locaties”
Click on each red lettered link.
Slot Assumburg is around the corner from my house, like 3 minute walk, it is also the place I got married.
The huldtoneel, is the place where in the middle ages offers were made and later people were knighted on this little symbolic hill.
After visiting all these links go back to the left hand side and click on “Virtuele tour door Heemskerk”. It will take you on a tour of our fine city.

I hope you guys enjoy the tour Virtual Tour of Heemskerk.

[bizz]

Here's my hometown, Melbourne

http://www.aamas-conference.org/images/melbourne.jpg
Melbourne my home

http://www.dalesview.fsnet.co.uk/summerdiary/images/melbourne.jpg
skyline with tennis centre in the foreground

http://bama.ua.edu/~cricket/Melbourne.jpg
The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)

http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/Melbourne/images/shrine.jpg
The Shrine of Remembrance

http://www.interlog.com/~wwhite/gifs/imgxau04.jpg
The 12 Apostles along the Great Ocean Road

http://www.milamba.com/australia/States/vic/vic02.jpg
Melbourne Royal Botanical Gardens

http://www.buyphoto.co.uk/assets/oz/flindersst.jpg
Flinders St Station

http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/images/database/sp105.jpg
Albert Park Lake, this is where the F1 race is held and also has a fantastic wlking/running track around it.


Okay I know I got a wee bit carried away, but I do love Melbourne

[bizz]

This is the left overs from the first post

http://www.autopiatours.com.au/images/penguin1.jpg
fairy penguins at Phillip Island

http://www.kipmultimedia.com/clients/bio21/img/casino.jpg
Crown Casino

http://www.aulich.com.au/images/football-game.jpg
Aussie Rules

http://members.tripod.com/posaune_jms/vic/image/cooks_cottage.jpg
Captain Cooks Cottage

[cpeterson]

I have to use Little Rock because the city where I live doesn't have a website.
http://www.littlerock.com/images/postcards/lrcvb_skyline.jpg Little Rock Skyline
http://www.littlerock.com/images/postcards/lrcvb_rivermarket.jpg The River market
http://www.littlerock.com/images/postcards/lrcvb_old_mill.jpg The Old Mill in North Little Rock

For more info and pictures, go to this website Little Rock Arkansas (http://www.littlerock.com/general_info/default.asp)

Cinna

[bizz]

Cinna, the Old Mill looks awesome!!!!!!!!!

[GrahamCracker]

Here's a virtual tour of Pinellas County where I live and Tampa where I work@

http://www.pinellascounty.org/park/airftd.jpg
Pinellas County - Home of me!

http://www.cscu.net/images/2003AnnualMeeting/beach.gif
This is where I got married. The landmark in the water is the St. Petersburg Pier. I got married at the tip of the land area in a park called Straub Park. We had The Pier and a sunset in the background - really gorgeous!

Here's some of our nicest beaches:
http://www.reservetravel.com/hotelphotos/wes/PropImage_252_4.jpg
The Don CeSar - Our famous pink haunted castle on Pass-a-Grille Beach. I stayed here for my 10th school reunion but never got to see the resident ghost!

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/06/21/beachesphotos/Pass-a-Grille-seaoats.jpg
Sunset at Pass-a-Grille Beach

http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/photos/Skyway.jpg
The Skyway Bridge (I used to live a mile from here!

http://www.collegeprofiles.com/images/tampa-skyline.jpg
Tampa Skyline - See the building that looks like a staircase? The glass building behind it is where I work - the Tampa City Center.

[Tinatulips]

Oh Gram, You forgot the causeway! LOL!!!!!! and Ybor City and..............
I can't find any pictures, but i will look. web page (http://www.sheratonsandkey.com/popup_index.html)
My favorite place in Clearwater.

[WhereForArt]

Okay, folks, I got the idea for this from Tina's thread -- so line up to post photos of your home town! I've got some dandy shots of Cincinnati!

By the way, if you're having problems finding a picture, check out Google Images (http://images.google.com/) -- just type in the name of your city or town and Google will show you any images out there.

http://www.gdm.com/CM/UploadedImages/CincinnatiPhoto.jpg
Cincinnati skyline at night

http://www.mtadamstoday.com/images/Mona.jpg
View of Mt. Adams -- one of Cincinnati's seven hills.

http://www.worldexecutive.com/cityguides/pics/cincinnati/cincinnati_6.jpg
Music Hall in Over-the-Rhine (home to the Opera where I used to work)

[GrahamCracker]

Tina: Per your request - here is a picture of Clearwater Beach by the causeway - home of, my brother!

http://www.clearwater-fl.com/images/WelcomeToClearwater.gif http://www.videorealestate.com/cb855b.jpg
Clearwater Beach

http://www.awesomeflorida.com/images/st_pete5_big.jpg
My favorite Beach - St. Petersburg Beach is a seven mile beach of beautiful white sand and lovely sea oats!

http://www.tamparox.com/Images2/bay_city1.jpg
YBor city is our famous cigar city outside of Tampa, it was almost burned to the ground a few years ago. Some buildings cold not be restored as they were here long before the Cuban immigrants. If you are looking for a wonder plate of chicken and yellow rice, or a wild and wooly party, you won't find better than here.

[nancyny]

OK, you're on. Though you know we're creating a thread that will take forever for some buddies to load - and should not let it get too big!

It appears that some of the photos I found are protected from being served to other sites (displayed here as photos). I can link to them, but the image won't display here. So click away!

Here's a view of downtown Owego NY (http://www.gaslightvillagegazette.com/owego21_tour.jpg) that looks at lot like like this
old postcard. (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytioga/frontow.jpg) Many of the buildings are still there.

Here's an aerial view (http://www.gaslightvillagegazette.com/evergreen_view_one_spring.jpg). The bridge on the left is gone, this is the new bridge. (http://communitypress.crosswinds.net/courtstbridge/DSCN3691.jpg)

This one was taken near the top of the hill I live on. (http://www.visittioga.com/imageuploads/evergreen_view_three.jpg) The view is pretty in all seasons. Yes we get fall colors!

And this is my church (parts are over 100 years old): http://www.tier.net/~stpauls/churchfront.jpg

[GrahamCracker]

Nancy: I was thinking the same thing so I went and removed a few of my pics. Your church is beautiful, such old world charm! I love stone and brick buildings, something we have very few of in Florida. Almost all our houses are wood frames, masonary block, or a combo of both. No charm there. We do have some quaint cracker homes that they've restored. These are tiny homes, fairly ugly, but still got lots of charm!

Bizz: Melbourne is absolutely gorgeous. I'd move there in a minute if it wasn't so dang hot! But a visit will certainly be in order. I wonder if I can talk my cross-stitching buds into a week in Australia!

Cinna: I love the mill. There's a mill not far from my Mom and Dad's place that's inside the Smoky Mountains. I always stop there for white corn meal. Little Rock's skyline looks pretty decent. Almost bigger than Tampa's. Did you notice a lot of us have big city skylines on water?

Mardee: Cincinnati is really pretty. I can remember driving to my uncles funeral in MI a couple years ago and since we were driving straight through it was late at night. I saw this big glow off in the the distance and asked my sister what it was. She said it had to be Cincinnati it was the only town we were near. We both just stared as we passed by - it was huge! But your buildings remain gorgeous and quaint too!

[WhereForArt]

Everyone's hometowns look so pretty -- it makes me want to jump in a car or plane and visit them all! Gram, you're right -- many of the skylines are on water. Cincinnati sits right on the Ohio River. Of course, the problem with that is occasional flooding, something you don't have to worry about with the ocean.

[Duchess Talks Too Much]

There weren't many images to be found of Brighton, but here's what I did find...

hugs, Lisa

http://www.ci.brighton.co.us/images/Cityhall_med.gif
Brighton City Hall

http://www.colorado-dui.com/parts/Images/Adams.JPG
Adams County Courthouse

http://www.morrisonhomes.com/images/denver/comm/den_c_indigo_trails_1.jpg
Mountain view from Brighton

[lindalou9]

Here's good old Eugene! Just a few pics, I may add a few later. Picture of the Eugene skyline always includes Spencer's Butte (better picture updated 8/5) title says Skinner's Butte, where the pic was undoubtedly taken from, but that is Spencer's Butte in the photo:

http://eugene.com/travel/tour/tour_images/skinner.jpg

This is the University of Oregon Museum of Art - the view could have been taken from my office window. This is what I get to look at every day:

http://www.hbra-arch.com/Institutional_files/museum_files/oregon-01.JPG

Oldest building at the UO, Deady Hall:

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/images/pict-or/000018b.jpg

Linda

[frustrated]

http://www.edabc.com/99region/photos/prince-george.jpg

You can tell I'm real new at this posting pictures thing. This is an over all view of Prince George.

Chrysilis :D
(Janice)

[bizz]

This is great, thanks for starting it Mardee, just love checking out where everyone lives graemlins/bcbsalute.gif

[hillsidegal]

This is a fabulous idea. Here are some images from my hometown, Squamish, British Columbia Canada,which holds the title of 'Outdoor recreation capital of Canada'.



http://www.squamishrealestate.com/shannon/images/boats.jpg
A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR

http://www.seatoskyadventures.com/images/howe_sound.jpg
LOOKING DOWN AT THE TOWN AS YOU APPROACH IT ON THE HIGHWAY

http://www.planetfear.com/climbing/features/travel/squamish/StawamusChief1.jpg
THE 'STAWAMUS CHIEF' THE MOUNTAIN THAT I DRAGGED MYSELF UP LAST SUMMER

I can't find any pictures of downtown but will keep looking.

Take care buddies

Mandy graemlins/bcbkick.gif

[darkscore]

OK, let me see if I can figure out how to do this.

Here is Calgary downtown:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:mJgVavdIw_kC:www.stix-billiards.com/images/calgary.jpg

Here's the city hall:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:bE5VIAeqKr0C:www.pawstravels.com/calgary%2520/%2520images/calgary%2520city%2520hall.gif

This will give you a little idea of how flat the land is here:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BpLSXNzrhw4C:www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et9t-kwtn/canada/calgary.jpg

However, this is the tiny village in Ontario that I grew up in:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:vSgXlxei2dwC:www.sunsets.com/paisley/images/mainstreet1.jpg

Lots of rivers and trees:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:oX71fGAGOA0C:www.tap.net/~daver/shane%26sam.jpg

Quite a difference between where I grew up and where I live now, huh?

[june2003]

Great idea! This is such fun looking at everyone's home town. I actually don't live in Austin (anymore), but my town is so small, it's hard to find great pics of Marble Falls. So, I'm doing the Austin area -- which was my home for 20 years and where I still work (with an hour's communte each way).

Shot of the Texas state capital:
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d624b3127cce8c713eed5fae0000001610

The infamous 6th Street -- party central:
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d624b3127cce8c713ed75f940000001610

Pennybacker Bridge going over Lake Austin (there is actually quite a bit of building that has taken place around this area since this picture was taken):
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d624b3127cce8c713ee4de970000001610

Bluebonnets - the state flower - cover the state during the spring. Absolutely spectacular:
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d624b3127cce8c713e095f4a0000001610

And this is from atop Mt. Bonnell, where my DH proposed:
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d624b3127cce8c7178a3def30000001610

Austin is really a lovely city and unlike what most people vision Texas to be like.

[Duchess Talks Too Much]

Now you've done it, June! You've gone and made me homesick graemlins/sobbing.gif (just teasing) I do miss it though :(

hugs, Lisa

[Duchess Talks Too Much]

sorry for the double post!

[frustrated]

Mandy: graemlins/wave.gif

Thanks for the terrific pictures of my old home town. I forgot how beautiful is was. We might be passing thru there in the next couple of weeks. Maybe I could give you a call?

Chrysilis :D
(Janice)

[WhereForArt]

Mandy, I have to say your town is absolutely, drop-dead gorgeous... I'm adding it to my list of places to visit. smile.gif

[jammom59]

Hi buddies, thought I would add my hometown.
I live in Canfield now, but grew up in Youngstown. I'll try and add a few pics of both.

Here is a drawing of the gazebo that stands on the Canfield town green. The green is home to the 4th of July parade, craft shows and summer concerts. It's really beautiful. I couldn't find a real picture, so this drawing will have to do.

http://www.svata.org/cards/9.jpg

This is what Youngstown looked like when I was growing up. That was before Black Tuesday. When the steel mills closed down and many people lost jobs.
http://www.calmspirit.com/Youngstown%20Ohio%20Republic%20Steel%20Corporation .jpg

Youngstown now:

http://www.aaroadtrips.com/ohio/i-680_sb_youngstown_skyline.jpg

The Butler Art Musuem. Quite a nice place for Youngstown. It is located on the campus of Youngstown State University. Home of the Penguins football team. Jim Tressels old team.

http://kaywilsonstudio.com/ywbutler72.jpg

http://www.fpa.ysu.edu/CISP/images/ysu1.jpg

The old Mill in Mill Creek Park.

http://members.aol.com/fixtron/mill.gif

These pictures are of Idora Park, an amusement park in the heart of Youngstown. It has gone through some good and bad times before finally being closed down in 1984. This ball room was burned down in the late 80's, more than likely due to arson.

http://members.aol.com/idorapark8/ballback.jpg

http://kaywilsonstudio.com/15idora72.jpeg

Well, Youngstown doesn't compare to some of these other places, but it is home.

Linda

[WhereForArt]

Linda, I know what you mean -- Cincinnati isn't the best or biggest city in the world (that would be London, with Rome a close second!) ;) , but it's my home and I love it...

[nancyny]

Remember this thread? The local paper did a feature on my hometown last week. Here's a photo featuring the new bridge:

http://www.pressconnects.com/special/owego/stories/ow091003s28774p2.jpg

[Bkindsm]

Thought I would give this a whirl and this is all I could find for my hometown Van Meter, Iowa. It is a small town, population of just under 1000. The first one is the Bob Feller museum. Which is located right across the street from my house.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:wdzPYFI_-ugC:www.hallowedground.org/images/feller.jpg

This is a picture of my church. It is a small country church about 3 miles south of town.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WfOcGh47w2EC:www.lutheran-hymnal.com/trinity.jpg

And this is a picture of the raccoon river located about 1/2 mile north of my house.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:UUEeU2zLdBkC:www.crh.noaa.gov/ncrfc/forecast_groups/des/vnmi4/usphoto.jpg

[trishvan72]

I live out in the middle of nowhere....We are literally surrounded by cornfields on four sides of us....So I am including pics from around the county....

http://www.crawfordsville.org/lew_seangle2.jpg
General Lew Wallace was the author of Ben Hur. This is about 10 miles from where I live.

[ http://www.crawfordsville.org/lane_speed.jpg
Cabin used in the underground Railroad located in Montgomery county

http://www.crawfordsville.org/jail2.jpg

The old jail museum. The first of seven rotatin jails built in the United States and the only one still in operation.

http://www.crawfordsville.org/canoe2.jpg

A common sight along the Sugar Creek River which winds through Montgomery COunty and several state parks.

http://www.countryhay.com/cornfieldpics/growingcornfield.jpg
And alas a common site in Indiana....Corn....

Trish

[bizz]

Wow, I've got such itching feet, would so much love to travel and see all these places and of course my buddies living in them. Mandy and Trish you sure live in out in the hicks :D Don't know if I'd cope, arrrggghhh no shopping, a good way for me to actually save!!!!!