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and america too, interesting, fun, beautiful small towns, you have been to and loved, which are the ones you have loved the best?

same definition as UK, less than 20,000 people i think

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Coronado, I love you, even if you are attached to a city via a bridge:

http://www.princetondaytrading.com/resources/coronado-bridge.jpg

Carmel, I also love you, full stop:

http://www.carmelcalifornia.com/air/carmelaircover1.jpg

Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands, you rock:

http://www.nancymoon.com/Friday%20Harbor%20Airport%201.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Boonville, California: beautiful Mendocino Valley, good beer, kooky old hippies (the town was the inspiration, I think, for Pynchon's "Vineland"), and the inhabitants made up their own weird dialect back in the nineteenth century, called Boontling ("horn of zeese" is "cup of coffee," but that's all I remember).

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Grafton, Massachusetts where I spent my younger years. Great small town.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one of em: orrington, maine. dirt roads and innocence

― kephm, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

pella, iowa, where i grew up, is touristy and conservative and way wierd. i've talked abt it in a number of places on the boards here.

other small town in iowa that i like: decorah, grinnell, keokuk (these are nowhere near each other).

taos, new mexico is also pretty touristy, but it's been a magnet for artists since ca. the 20s. the surrounding landscape is gorgeous (the skiing is good apparently) and the town is dumpy and charming. the art is mainly garbage (there was this woman named georgia o'keeffe, see...); by the end of my time there the totally bankrupt faux indian art (bronze brave on his pony, painted ceramic wolfhead) was the most interesting thing

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

SEARCH: Augusta, Kentucky - the only place where you can take a ferry across the Ohio River

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Marfa, TX - interesting little artists' colony in West Texas
Archer City, TX - setting of the Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry now owns most of the land, has an unbelievable used bookstore

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hf.uio.no/iba/amciv/gfx/RhodeIsland/RI%20Little%20Compton%20Store%20793.jpg

My town.

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hf.uio.no/iba/amciv/gfx/RhodeIsland/RI%20New%20Eng%20style%20church%20765.jpg
My church.

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I would love to go to Marfa.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

heh. Shirley Jackson had quite a different view of small towns, one that Stephen King wound up adopting...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Augusta from the ferry:

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You can see Grafton here.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

hello Wonder Lake IL, old home

http://user.mc.net/~dwonder/pictures/Wlake3.jpg
http://user.mc.net/~dwonder/pictures/enhanced/wonder_lake1.JPG

and in lieu of better pics, a photo of our celebrated water ski team

http://www.wonderlakeskiteam.org/artwork/indexBoat.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Silver City, New Mexico, the birthplace of Billy the Kid: http://www.sunspiritpostcards.com/images/silver.jpg
http://www.sunspiritpostcards.com/images/downtown.jpg

Nearby is Mogollon is a referred to as a ghost town, but actually has about 6 or so permanent residents. Doesn't get much smaller than that. One of the residents lives in a bus, and another is supposedly very ornery in that typical Old West "get offa my land!" way.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artincontext.org/images/IMI/0000/IMI0002B.jpg

Skowhegan, Maine.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the 02093

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Gualala, CA
ex's parents have a vacation home there and it's really beatiful. Homes on cliffs overlooking the Pacific.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) was born on the East Coast wasn't he?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe. and Silver City was where he grew up?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

" William Henry McCarty (aka Billy the Kid) was born in New York in 1859...Between 1866 and 1869, Catherine McCarty and her sons moved three more times (Indiana, New Mexico and back to Kansas). Along the way, Catherine met William Antrim, who originally hailed from Huntsville, Indiana. The couple married in 1873, and young William Henry McCarty and his younger brother Joe were reportedly witnesses to the ceremony. The new family relocated to Silver City, New Mexico; Catherine felt the drier climate in the west would help ease the symptoms of her tuberculosis. She worked at a boarding house and Antrim worked in the mines"

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Skowhegan looks beautiful, i've never been to maine, i'd like to though.

i havent been to many small towns in america, but i think my favourites are brattleboro, vt, it was the turning of the leaves and there were good bookstores, and a pretty view across the river into another state. the bridge was good too, iconic seeming

jim thorpe, pa, is apparently something of a tourist destination? markets self as the switzerland of pa or something? anyway, it was in a deep valley, with wooded hills all around, it reminded me of hebden bridge, west yorkshire more than switzerland. i dont necessarily think this is a good thing, but, in this case, i do

wildwood, nj. so many motels! so many pretty colours! i had a nice time there

i think i like my small towns to be wooded.

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 28 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Staunton, VA

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

In 2001, it was one of The National Trust for Historic Preservation's Dozen Distinctive Destinations (not to be confused with its annual list of the 11 Most Endangered Places).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

lets talk about ones in az, nm, ut and co

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Logan, Utah may be a bit too large, but the setting is utterly spectacular. Neither photo here does it justice.

http://resourcemodeling.org/conferences/2001utah_usu.gif

http://images.motels.com/hotelimages/s/040000/040707F.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i was wearing green-tinted sunglasses in Moab Utah once and I passed by two girls on the way out of a poster store where i'd just bought a Ren and Stimpy poster and they were like "hey. hey!" so i stopped and turned. "nice shades, bro." "thanks." "they're the color of the kind." "i'm sorry, what?" "they're the color of the KIND."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i turned and kept walking.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You missed out, man.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

regrets, i've had a few.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't travel to these states for towns! But...

In the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern CO, Telluride is wonderful but probably too touristy durin* ski and festival seasons. Also in the re*ion - Duran*o, Silverton and Ouray. I

― abbnab, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

bisbee AZ is nice.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
Wait, you were buying a Ren and Stimply poster right? And wearing green-tinted shades... wait a minute....

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Not certain if they're under 20K, and I've never been, but in NM, I'd want to visit (the other) Las Ve*as (tho not sure one would want to stay there when Santa Fe and Taos aren't far) and *allup, one of the bi* cities of the Navajo Res.

― abbnab, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, but is your G button broke?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ok lemme see how this works:

WHAT U R MISSING:

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/tagluchi/000_01251.jpg

[this is not co az etc]

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

DIDNT WORK FUCK

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is that?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, but is your G button broke?

That's a rather forward question.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

THAT IS SOMEWHERE IN WESTCENTRAL IL PP

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My * button is broke. I am without *.

― abbnab, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Here you go: G g

Now you can copy and paste!

(Nice picture, JOHND.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

EASY FOR U 2 SAY

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

{EZ 4 U 2 SAY), rather

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img137.exs.cx/img137/2950/00johndill2th.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Better?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in Marfa last week and loved it there!

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

THANK U PP

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

lets talk more about marfa. how is it between el paso and marfa, what about big bend?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 40 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

that one with 'honk for service reminded me of this:

http://users.wpi.edu/~wcoppock/worc4/inspection1.jpg

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Saturday, 15 January 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

i didnt realise gabbneb had mentioned staunton, va earlier in this thread, or that it was high on the list of places to preserve.

did you go there gabbneb? what did you think? anyone else? we went there in the spring,

http://photos5.flickr.com/9143599_788233cb87.jpg

it felt quite empty, but did have some of that faded main st charm, it was definitely heritagized though

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

what towns have the smallest corporate retail presence, that aren't heritagized zones?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I went there towards the end of high school, not as a tourist, and didn't see much if anything of the town, but what I did see of the area nevertheless struck me as distinctive

I think you might like the Mad River Valley or other parts of Vermont

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

The Warren Store

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 August 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm rather fond of Flemington, NJ, which happens to have been the home of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial. Press stayed in the still-standing Union Hotel:

http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/photos/towns/unionhtl.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 18 August 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

which small towns do you think are right for 2006?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

lets talk about towns that have that wonderful spring feeling

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

perhaps spring is too far away, for us to think about this just yet. but it will be here soon, and there is no harm in thinking about it ahead of time

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

some of my favorite springtime small towns are in the Finger Lakes area of upstate NY: Fairport, Skaneatles.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I was thinking that too, and also identifying springtime destinations generally along the Southeast Coast, the lower Blue Ridge, and around the edges of the Colorado Plateau

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

adirondacks ahoy! (i'm kinda itching to travel northward... i haven't done that in a while, unless you count very cursory train rides.)

― oh ilx my lionheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see some small coastal places, if I make it over next year. Like that pic of Carmel Ned posted, it looks nice.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

check out this list of All-America Cities

lets talk about towns that have that wonderful spring feeling

St. Michaels, MD
Ocean City, MD
Chincoteague, VA
Nags Head, NC
Ocracoke, NC
Seagrove, NC
Georgetown, SC
Jekyll Island, GA
Fernandina Beach, FL
Plains, GA
Selma, AL
Demopolis, AL
Yazoo City, MS
Clarksdale, MS
Hot Springs, AR
Muskogee, OK
Paris, TX
Fredericksburg, TX
Del Rio, TX
Marfa, TX
Pine Springs, TX
Alamogordo, NM
Silver City, NM
Safford, AZ
Jerome, AZ
Flagstaff, AZ
Grand Canyon Village, AZ
Oatman, AZ
Barstow, CA
Paso Robles, CA
Salinas, CA
Yosemite Village, CA
Virginia City, NV
Eureka, NV
St. George, UT
Kanab, UT
Mexican Hat, UT
Ganado, AZ
Gallup, NM
Santa Fe, NM
Las Vegas, NM
Cottonwood Falls, KS
Council Grove, KS
Marysville, KS
St. Joseph, MO
Hardin, IL
Cairo, IL
Vincennes, IN
Madison, IN
Maysville, KY
Charleston, WV
White Sulphur Springs, WV
Lexington, VA
Washington, VA

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 25 December 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i forgot about the 20,000 rule, which eliminates Hot Springs, Muskogee, Del Rio, Flagstaff, Salinas, St. George, Santa Fe, St. Joseph, and Charleston

Substitute Eureka Springs, Eagle Pass, Sedona, Soledad, Kanab, Chimayo, Excelsior Springs, and Bluefield

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Amory, Mississippi, you're pretty, you're quiet and your air is clean, but you're a lifeless corpse that the mortician did a great job on. I'd visit your grave every now and then if I could get away, but for now, I'm locked in the coffin with you.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Barstow has a wonderful spring feeling? Who knew!

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles4080.jpg

Running Springs, California. About halfway between Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains on Highway 18. I visited two weekends ago and stayed in a nice tiny room at the Great Oaks Lodge. $89 for fall rates. We drove up through the steep pass coming out of Riverside and down into the Mojave desert the next morning. We ate dinner at Running Springs' famous Mexican restraunt, Don Pepe's. Cheap pitchers of Bud Light, enchiladas, chile rellenos, and spanish rice WITH PEAS IN IT!!!

― ath (ath), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

spring apparently is prejudiced aganist the PacNW and Rockies. Bigots.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Sunday, 25 December 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Barstow has a wonderful spring feeling? Who knew!

well, ok. i'm trying to illustrate a path through a temperate region in the season. and picking at least arguably gareth-style places along the way.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

gabbnebs list is suspiciously roadtrip shaped

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Monday, 26 December 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

This is an excellent guidebook on the topic; I pack it every time I take a long road trip:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0028605772/102-9165302-9327358?v=glance&n=283155

Also very useful: The NY Times Friday Escapes section (generally way more than the way more high fallutin NY Times Sunday Travel section). I keep a clip file of stuff on small towns within a couple days drive that I might want to drive to or through someday (honest!)

― xhuxk, Monday, 26 December 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm shocked at how many of the towns on gabbneb's list I've been to already

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Castine, Maine

http://www.viewsfromabove.com/vfaPublishing/CFeilwebsite/pixs/KCB%20photos/KCB.079.jpg

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.viewsfromabove.com/vfaPublishing/CFeilwebsite/pixs/KCB%20photos/KCB.022.jpg

Wood Isle, Maine

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

There are plenty of little towns in Oregon (almost all of the towns in Oregon are under 20,000) that are in perfectly gorgeous natural settings. I'm not so sure there are many where an ILXor would feel at ease, due to the abundant quantities of retrograde ignorance in the Oregon hinterlands.

I am not speaking of mean-spiritedness, mind you - just your garden variety, backwater know-nothingness. Lots of those folks are friendly enough, if you don't look or sound too outlandish. Even this is not universal, just preponderant.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm shocked at how many of the towns on gabbneb's list I've been to already

"shocked"?

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mullings.com/casablanca10-18.jpg

gabbnebs list is suspiciously roadtrip shaped

what? roadtrip? me?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

When I was born, my home town had a population of 400 people. Today it has a population of around 500 people. 20,000 is insanely big.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

I was just back there for Christmas, for the first time in a year and a half. I never want to go back again.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm not sure if it's your style, gareth, but how about Helen, GA?

I didn't realize until now that it makes a bit of an appearance in one of my favorite Indigo Girls songs

maybe we'll make texas by the morning
light the bayou with our tail lights in the night
800 miles to el paso from the state line
and we never have the money for the flight
i'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel
we played our hearts out all night long in new orleans
and i'm dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black
when the first breath of texas comes in clean
and there's something bout the southland in the springtime
where the waters flow with confidence and reason
though i miss her when i'm gone
it won't ever be too long
till i'm home again to spend my favorite season
when god made me born a yankee he was teasin'
there's no place like home and none more pleasin'
than the southland in the springtime

in georgia nights are softer than a whisper
beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand
with the farmland like a tapestry
passed down through generations
and the peach trees stitched across the land
there'll be cider up near helen off the roadside
and boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers
and the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky
with a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers
and there's something bout the southland in the springtime
where the waters flow with confidence and reason
though i miss her when i'm gone
it won't ever be too long
till i'm home again to spend my favorite season
when god made me born a yankee he was teasin'
there's no place like home and none more pleasin'
than the southland in the springtime

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been to Helen since I was a little kid. I miss it. :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

which small towns do you think are right for 2007?

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

lets talk about towns that have that wonderful spring feeling

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps spring is too far away, for us to think about this just yet. but it will be here soon, and there is no harm in thinking about it ahead of time

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps you have been thinking about the following, i know i have

bedford, in
seymour, in
wall, sd
clayton, nm
timpson, tx
ely, nv

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

You might consider columbus, in while you're in the area, although it has 40K people...lots of nice architecture.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking of the one in ohio and i thought that must surely be bigger than 40, i didnt realise there is one in indiana, it is close to both seymour and bedford

i wonder what small towns people are excited for in 2007. there haven't been many responses yet, so i can only assume that its difficult to decide this year, and there must be many that have that 07 air about them

― Storefront Church (688), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

you're a madman

― shanghaied by the dragon lady (get bent), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeah columbus, in would be a great place to check out, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.noxapater.com/images/lg-noxapatersign2.jpg
lived in noxapater, mississippi, for a year. '85-86 schoolyear. pop. a bit over 400. lived next to a working cotton gin, which was interesting but pretty unpleasant. it snowed cotton dust and smelled like burning sweat stains. i don't think the gin is operational now. nearest little city is louisville. you pronounce the "s" in louisville, as crumpw probably knows.

wasn't a great year there, but the only restaurant, the mason jar, had great froglegs. and the hardware store downtown was pretty rad.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

let talk about small towns that have that fall 07 feeling

― Filey Camp, Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

how about more pics of these, i want to sit at my puter and dream moving to a small town in the us.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:20 (sixteen years ago)

Astoria OR! (Goonies! Kindergarten Cop! Uh, Free Willy!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AAstoria-Megler.JPG

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

Saugatuck, MI:

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/7/6/5/0/ar120320367405673.jpg http://teliczan.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/saugatuck6mss2.jpg

― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

lived a good chunk of my childhood (the elementary school years) in branchport, n.y.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3836514871_711ab6f413.jpg

that red&white store is where i used to go buy comic books. wooden floorboards, spindly rotating comic rack in the back. jar of pretzel sticks on the counter, next to the jar of atomic fireballs, each 3 cents apiece.

it's called branchport because it's at the end of the shorter branch of y-shaped keuka lake.

http://www.nyfalls.com/lakes/images/keuka-map.gif

penn yan was the bigger town, where we'd go to buy groceries and so forth, but still qualifies as a "small town," population just 5,000 or so.

http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles38366.jpg

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

and in either place, you're never more than a short drive from this:

http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles5159.jpg

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

penn yan is also home to the still-operating birkett mills, which makes excellent buckwheat flour

http://www.ilovethefingerlakes.com/lakes/images/Birkett-Mills.004.jpg

big event each year was the fireman's parade and carnival

http://www.yatesdemocrats.org/vote_float.jpg

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

later (middle school/high school years) we moved to honeoye falls:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Honeoye_Falls.jpg

i'm taking my 5-yr-old back there this month to trick or treat, it's a perfect village for halloween

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:01 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

cairo, IL, the most depressing city in america #happy4th

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39039

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:50 (eleven years ago)

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