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Just thought I would share things about my hometown.

 

Xerox was started here.

Kodak was started here.

And now with them both not doing so well, many people are being layed off. I just saw a musical in Kodack, the theater used for presentations is now used for performing arts. That entire building was empty. Empty caffeteria, empty everything.

 

Its the home of the eastman school of music, a big music school, started by George Eastman.

 

It is where Susan B Anthony died, and was a big part of the underground railroad, and now we have a bridge called the "Fredrick Douglass Susan B Anthony Bridge"

 

It is the home of what was Frozencpu.

 

It was the only location on the east of the US to service the 20th Aniversery Mac.

 

 

Yeah, thats it.

Just thought I would share.

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I thought this was going to be about the Bruce Springsteen song :(

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Kodak, Xerox and FrozenCPU? 

Remind me to never start a business in your hometown. 

 

I was also crossing my fingers for a thread about either Bruce Springsteen to Adele, so I'll be leaving a bit dissapointed.

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Kodak, Xerox and FrozenCPU? 

Remind me to never start a business in your hometown. 

 

I was also crossing my fungers for a thread about either Bruce Springsteen to Adele, so I'll be leaving a bit dissapointed.

Yeah...

 

Never mind, it was Rochester, New York.

Yeah

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Pfft, the first locomotive was built here. 

What do they know of England, who only England know?

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Here's some stuff about my home town:

 

It was an important centre in the medieval period, as the site of <town name> Abbey

 

Began life as a Saxon settlement (6th Century) 

 

Oscar Wilde was imprisoned there. 

 

By 1525, *** was the largest town in Berkshire, and tax returns show that *** was the 10th largest town in England.

 

Just that should be enough to find out where it is. 

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Rochester, right?

Yup

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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My Hometown... Welcome to Houston? Everything bigger in Texas? 

 

I give up.

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My town: nothing happened here

Yeah, your town wikipedia is really short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura,_Finland

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Yeah, your town wikipedia is really short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura,_Finland

well atleast its 30 km away from a pretty big city, atleast in finnish terms

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My home town:

 

It was important before the Roman Empire.

 

Home town of some famous Italian poets such as Sandro Penna.

 

Home town of a few famous painters, such as Bernardino di Betto aka Pinturicchio.

 

Perugina (most famous Italian chocolate factory) started here, and was then bought by Nestle.

 

 

 

That's pretty much it.

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Wow, that's a nice photo. Looks like a nice place, actually.

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Yes. 

 

Kind of a weird mixture of new and old now. Ruins of Reading Abbey from 1121 aren't far from a skyscraper.

 

That looks really cool.... Man I wish we had more interesting architecture here. 

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Wow, that's a nice photo. Looks like a nice place, actually.

It has some good things about it. Other things are not so good. 

 

 

That looks really cool.... Man I wish we had more interesting architecture here. 

That building is very new. A lot of the town is very old, with a few modern bits around:

 

reading1905-620x413.jpg

 

Reading_broad_street.jpg

 

The_Oracle,_Reading,_riverside_dusk.jpg

 

It also floods a fair bit.

 

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It has some good things about it. Other things are not so good. 

 

That building is very new. A lot of the town is very old, with a few modern bits around:

 

It also floods a fair bit.

 

I thought you were in a far more rural area now. 

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It is ugly here

 

Dirty

 

Famous for the Concorde and Rolls-Royce aircraft engines

 

Random traffic gridlocks

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It is ugly here

 

Dirty

 

Famous for the Concorde and Rolls-Royce aircraft engines

 

Random traffic gridlocks

Midlands obviously.

Also average speed cameras and roadworks that last for years/decades.

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Midlands obviously.

Also average speed cameras and roadworks that last for years/decades.

My turn is it?

It is not in the Midlands

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