Gotcha lol

Its a small town.........beers are cold

Some good feed back , hey nothing wrong with small towns at times they are the best nice and quiet. But they all have a bit of history.

"Cowtown" Served As Trading Center
Fort Worth's wild and wooly past began in 1849 when Major Ripley Arnold led a small detachment of U.S. Dragoons to the banks of the Trinity River and established an outpost to protect early settlers from Native American attack. The garrison was named for General William Worth, a Mexican War hero. It was more of an encampment than a fort, but after several years the natives ceased their opposition to the settlement. When the soldiers left, the settlers stayed, and in 1860 Fort Worth was chosen to serve as Tarrant County seat.

Its location on the Old Chisholm Trail, the route along which ranchers drove their herds, helped establish Fort Worth as a trading and cattle center and earned it the nickname "Cowtown." Cowboys took full advantage of their last brush with civilization before the long drive north from Fort Worth. They stocked up on provisions from local merchants, visited the town's colorful saloons for a bit of gambling and carousing, then galloped northward with their cattle.


To this day down in the Stockyards (the old part of town) they still have a cattle drive twice a day. There are Cowboys that dress in the style of the old west riding there horses in that area for the tourist and at noon and 4pm they have the cattle drives for the tourist to see.

And of course we have BILLY BOB'S country bar were you can go see a lot of the Country Singers.

I would have told her, "I'll be running for office in the next election and when I become Mayor of this "fine town" the first thing I'll do is send you into exhile. Then I'll change our name and motto to Whitby City "The city with no crabs!". I'm sure that will be taken several ways!"

Seattle has plenty of funny history. This is just a sample:

In its early years, when Seattle was a very young city, and indoor toilets were new, one needed to time ones trip to the thrown by the tide tables. If you were sitting on the pot when the tide came in, you might get wet. To correct this issue after a huge fire burned most of the downtown area to the ground, the new buildings were built with a first and second floor entrance because of a plan to raise the street level by one story.

The next phase was to build a wall at the curb on both sides of the street and fill in between the walls. At that time, one needed to climb a ladder on one side and climb down the other side to cross the street. Horses were falling down on the sidewalk, so they added a roof with skylights above the lower sidewalks at the new street level. The skylights allowed for daytime light on the lower sidewalks and the store fronts on the lower level.

During the day, there were always crowds of men hanging out on the lower sidewalks under the skylights. This created congestion on the lower walkways. Many complained so many of the retailers and shops opened the upper entrances even though they did not yet have services on the upper level. It seems the men were getting a free peep show as women walked over the skylights above. Once this was discovered by the women, new skylights were ordered that were opaque, thus ending congestion on the lower walkways.

The streets were filled in with ballast from the ships coming o Seattle for lumber, dirt, junk trash and just about anything they could find. This created some huge mud puddles when it rained. There was even a story about a young boy drowning in one of these puddles printed in the local newspaper. This created a public outcry to pave the streets downtown. But how to pay for this? The city enacted a tax on every property owner along the streets as well as a tax on all businesses. Census takers were hired to go to each building and record the type of business and how many businesses were in each building.

There were an amazing number of seamstresses in the downtown core. This made someone the city council wonder just where all these garments were going as there was always a shortage of clothing available in the local shops. Further investigation revealed there was not a single sewing machine to be found in the downtown core. How could this be they wondered.

It turns out, the women downtown working in the world’s oldest profession had listed themselves as seamstresses to the census takers. One can honestly state that most of the streets in Seattle were once paid for by taxes on prostitution.

This part of the story also brings up one of Seattle’s most notorious founding fathers, Henry Yesler. Henry did not ant to pay the taxes he owed the city as a major property owner in the downtown area. So Henry set his lawyers to work to find a way out. After several weeks they found it. It seems Seattle was in the Washington Territory, which was not a state. Since no city in a territory could have a city charter to enact a tax by federal law, the city charter was found to be void, thus making the taxes illegal and Henry did not have to pay for the street paving in front of his property.

After the fire there were to men that owned adjoining properties. Lets call them Bill and Dave. They were competitors in the same business and as Bill started to rebuild his structure, the Dave just sat back and watched until the building was complete. All the while Bill wondered why his competitor had not yet begun to rebuild and was still operating out of a tent on his lot.

Well when Bill finished his building, he got his answer. It seems he had constructed his new building one foot over the property line. Dave now informed Bill he needed to remove his building. Bill offered to buy the one foot. Dave refused. So Bill tore down one wall and rebuilt it two feet back.

Dave now built his building up against the wall of Bills new building, using the common wall to save material and expense. Once complete, Bill informed Dave that he had moved the wall back two feet and Dave’s new building was one foot over the line on Bills property. To this day, the owner of Dave’s building pays a lease fee to the owner of Bills building.

Lake Mannawa was called the "CONEY ISLAND of the midwest."
Great place to live or visit.

Facts about this town

1. People are fat
2. BBQ is #1
3. It's almost impossible to get a date

Discovered on May 26th 1770, by Captain James Cook.

Came ashore for fresh water, and to scout the area.Met with Indigenous and observed the country side.

Population today of 2500 permanent residents, swells to 10 000 during summer, surrounded by National Parks, and is 35 nautical miles from the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.

Indigenous, used this area as a burial ground for the 'naughty' women of their mob...they believe this area, is still not 'ready' for European settlers..it is 'wild' country, and they won't settle here.


( I tend to believe them.)

Kristi...

Believe me when I tell you nothing has happened in Elmont, NY

Home of the 2010 Olympics


...and yes, the athletes will sleep in igloos and they can advance their medal standing by wrestling a polar bear....

Wareham, Massachusetts.... Was the home to the oldest running nail factory in the country and the home of actress Geena Davis

Afton....home of the worlds largest elkhorn arch and one of two intermittent springs in the world, and the largest




and also..a misdemeaner ..."to be seen out and about on the sabbath with a woman of ill repute"


men afraid to take their wives out to town on sunday...

In Chester (just down the road from my home town) it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow after midnight.

Boise is called the city of trees but I've been to New Hampshire and they have more trees in their city.

In 1689 the factory where i work started. And then there were nothing

state of famous serial killers

Besides being known as The Pro Football Hall Of Fame City, Canton, Ohio back in the 1920`s through the 1930`s was known as Little Chicago. Famous crooks would hide out from the law here.In example: Al Capone, John Dillenger, and other known hoods of that day.

dogs dont use trees or fire hydrains here ....lol

We are over run with Californians.....

lots of cannibalism more than one time