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  • Importance of towns named " City."

    From elblondeetw@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 20 18:23:59 2018
    On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 7:56:14 PM UTC-6, stéphane dumas wrote:
    Virginia City, NV
    ...which would presumably have been founded by expatriates of the
    Commonwealth, but where is it? I've been to Nevada before, and don't
    remember
    seeing it on any map of the state.

    I remember at the opening credits of the western tv series Bonanza showing a map of the Ponderosa, who show the location of Virginia City located somewhere between Reno and Carson City

    --PL"either way, you still can't get there from here :-)"H

    Stéphane Dumas

    Not only was it the home of the fictional Ponderosa Ranch, but it was home of the 1940's film Virginia City and the novel by Louis L'Amour - Comstock Lode (during the silver rush.

    Ellen S.

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  • From elblondeetw@gmail.com@21:1/5 to towelie on Sat Oct 20 18:36:45 2018
    On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 7:44:01 PM UTC-6, towelie wrote:
    Exile on Market Street managed to find two functioning brain cells to
    rub together and came up with the following:


    You have probably never heard, for instance, of Missouri City, MO. It
    is a small town (pop. ~450) on the Missouri River in Ray County, about
    30 mi NE of downtown Kansas City. The place doesn't even register on
    most Kansas City-area residents' radar screens, except when about two inches of snow falls -- enough, it seems, to close the schools in the
    tiny burg but not in the much larger Missouri city nearby.
    Nonetheless, such incidents would cause falsely raised hopes among
    KC-area school children when the radio announcers announced that "all Missouri City public schools are closed."

    Of course I've heard of it, it's just down the road! Speaking of that great booming mecca, why was the western part of old MO 210 closed when the bypass was built? It gives the town a weird "end of the road" feel to it.

    Well, they don't have "City" in their names, but they are nonetheless sources of confusion:

    California, PA
    Indiana, PA

    Why? Because each has a State System of Higher Education university
    campus in it, which means that the people associated with them have to
    take pains to explain that they're from "California University of Pennsylvania" or "Indiana University of Pennsylvania."

    Good thing that Columbia, rather than California, was selected as the site for MU.


    --
    Don't forget to bring a towel!

    You left out Alabama, NY which was named after the state of Alabama by a French fur trader.

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