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Post by Leda EmBorr on Dec 10, 2004 19:56:04 GMT -5
...and if we lived there it would cease to be Normal. I grew up in New Providence, NJ and now I live about 30 minutes north. I guess I like it here, but the grass is always greener elsewhere, ya know...
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Post by JediKai on Dec 10, 2004 23:12:55 GMT -5
Grew up in Imlay City, MI...that's between Flint (think Michael Moore) and Port Huron, just 40 miles from Canada. My school looked very much like yours, JediMom.
Undergrad at Central Michigan in Mt. Pleasant. My best friend at Central was from Grand Blanc! Grad school at Michigan State in E Lansing.
Than worked as a DOD civilian for the Army in Germany for 5 years. Moved to SoCal for 14 years (Huntington Beach) and then transferred to Seattle 4.5 years ago.
My mother attended a "Normal" school and was a teacher before she married my father. The Normal schools were far beyond the turn of the century....my mother attended in the late '20's-'30's.
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Post by Calaveylon Angavel on Dec 11, 2004 8:25:36 GMT -5
Hmmmm....... I was born in Bayside, Queens, NY and lived there until I was 2 years old, when my parents moved upstate to Mahopac, NY. Mahopac is about an hour north of the urban sprawl called New York City.
I went to college in Oneonta, NY where I attended SUNY Oneonta for 4 1/2 years (because I was taking a dual major). Oneonta is 20 minutes west of Cooperstown, NY where the Baseball Hall of Fame is. After graduation I tried to stay in Oneonta, but couldn't find a job, so I came back to Mahopac where I still live.
Leda, you know that there's really a place called Weird, NJ, right?
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Post by Ree-Wi Zar'Whi on Dec 11, 2004 9:03:47 GMT -5
I was born in White Plains,NY. I lived there until I was eight. We the moved to Somers,NY where we lived for eleven years. We the moved to Yorktown,NY where we have lived for the last seven years.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 11, 2004 10:51:30 GMT -5
Born and raised in Grand Blanc Mich. But spent many summer travelling to Neb. and Texas. to my grandparents house. I've been to Grand Blanc many times. I stay at the AmeriHost hotel every weekend during the Michigan Renaissance Festival in Holly, Mi. I am a performer out at the Festival.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 11, 2004 10:58:33 GMT -5
Also, for those of you who do not know,
HELL freezes over every winter here in Michigan, yes thats right. Hell, Michigan, a real town here. We also have "Climax, Mi. Also in the Detroit area, you can take I-75 and "get off" at exit "69" (Yes, thats right) onto "Big Beaver Road" and go down the Big Beaver to you come to "Mound" Rd. I am not kidding you either. And if you keep going down "Big Beaver Road" you come to Van "d**e" Rd. Michigan is a sick state, I tell ya. LOLOLOL But, this is all true, of what we have here.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 11, 2004 10:59:51 GMT -5
Sorry, that was Van "d**e" Rd.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 11, 2004 11:00:55 GMT -5
Ok my keyboard is messing with me. Thats Van d**e Road.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 11, 2004 11:01:49 GMT -5
Ok, for some reason it won't let me type the word D-Y-K-E Van D-y-k-e Rd.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 11, 2004 11:02:54 GMT -5
Yes, that is the name of the Road, Van D-y-k-e
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Dec 11, 2004 11:30:32 GMT -5
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The area I grew up at was 10 Mile and Ryan in Warren.
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Post by mooglar (Malim Vincible) on Dec 11, 2004 12:38:34 GMT -5
jedimom:
There's a pumpkin festival in Centerville? I didn't know that. But I haven't lived in Ohio since 1996 and I wasn't into most of the local events, so I might just have not been interested and therefore didn't pay attention. Interesting.
Jaiven:
I go to Detroit every year for AmberCon, and one of my fondest memories is the year we were in a new hotel and trying to find it. The sun was glinting off a sign so it was hard to read, but finally it resolved into: EXIT 69 BIG BEAVER ROAD. I said to my friends, "That doesn't say exit 69, Big Beaver, does it?" They thought I was kidding, making it up, but I wasn't. That was a hoot.
I sometimes have to use my road atlas to prove it to people I've told the story to (the atlas' closeup of Detroit shows exit numbers and you can plainly see that exit 69 is at Big Beaver Road).
Funny.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 12, 2004 7:55:17 GMT -5
Yeah Mooglar, Usually when I tell people about it they think I am joking with them. But then they look it up on mapquest or something, and see I was serious. Only in Michigan, Exit 69, Big Beaver Rd. Mound Rd. Van D-Y-K-E Rd. and Hell, Michigan and Climax, Michigan.
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Dec 12, 2004 10:54:34 GMT -5
LOL. That brings back memories. We lived at 14 Mile and Dequindre, not too far from Oakland Mall. So whenever someone would come to visit we'd take them up to the next exit, which was 69 - Big Beaver. I always loved the looks on their faces when it registered.
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Post by jaiven on Dec 12, 2004 17:41:33 GMT -5
Yup, I know that area very well.
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