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Bandirola
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 02:04 am: | 
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when the McDonalds opened in Juneau, AK in 1982 there was a line out the door for more than a month with people making trips from all of the neighboring towns just for a big mac. |
Light_keeper
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 10:06 am: |
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Yes but the State of RI has the longest name of all.
When I first lived in Kodiak the Airsta used to bring back MacDonalds from Anchorage. Boxes and boxes of them. and we all flocked to the Airsta to get some. Now they have their own Micky D's and real cable TV as well. In the 70's Alaskan TV was unique to say the least. |
Bomber
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 12:32 pm: |
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Our Police Department opened for bidness two years ago -- three person force, to start with, was patroled by the County Moutnies before that --
I read that it was gonna open for business, then promptly forgot, being a law-abiding kinda guy ;-}
was shocked when I turned down our driveway on the MaDeuece, got halfway down, and realized I was being followed by a big old SUV with lights and sirens and buzzard bars and the like . . .
turned out the new LEO was the Sarge of the force, and she rode a sporty, and like the looks of the Buell, and wanted to get aquianted --
swallowed my heart outa my throught (though I might be old and law-abiding at this point of my life, some Skinnerian responses are easier to gain that to loose), and found she was a real plus for the community --
No Mickey D's yet |
Bandirola
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 04:06 pm: |
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The presence of a McDonalds is the dividing line between small town and the big city. |
M2nc
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 12:47 am: |
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Grifton has one stop light and we are moving if it gets a second. I born in San Juan PR and grew up in Cincinnati OH. I had my fill of big cities. Nice place to visit but I would not want to live there again.
Our small town has a population of around 2200 people. The school is a K-8. The principle thinks he runs the school but the Mom squad really does.
We have a chief of police and a couple of Barneys. Actually we are advanced because we have Bernette. I use to work with one town commissioner and the other is a neighbor. The mayor's and city secretary's daughters play Basket Ball with my daughter.
My poor daughter. If she gets into trouble at school, we know about it before she gets home. I coach the soccer team, a friend coaches the Basket ball team.
Yeah, I know small town. No McDonalds here. |
Diablobrian
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 02:12 am: |
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my home town is larger than a bunch listed here, but most of the above check list still applies.
we are the county seat and therefore rate the only Wal-Mart (a supercenter) for around 40 miles. |
Xb9ser
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 08:51 am: |
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Giltch is the Glen Alpine you refered to in NC? |
Moboy516
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 02:53 pm: |
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Diablobrian,
I used to live in Paris, MO (pop. 1400). We used to go to Wal-Mart in Mexico all the time. I used to think that was a big town until I moved to the "big city"-Jefferson City |
Darrell_ks
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 03:20 pm: |
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You called it Duff. Only difference was we hung out in front of the lumberyard. Total of 32 kids in my senior class, and I think 30 of us actually graduated. Senior skip day was a caravan of muslecars and farm trucks to Winfield Lake where we had a keg party that most of the high school attended. Nobody ever got cut from any athletic team. One of the reserve police officers actually drove the "van pool" that my dad and a bunch of the other Boeing workers rode in every day. Everyone knew if you got in trouble, but on the plus side if you did get caught, the police would just call your parents instead of actually arresting you or writing a ticket. |
Buellin_ri
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 03:21 pm: |
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Ducxl, warren maybe the smallest town, but I think central falls is the smallest city in RI. I also think centeral falls is smaller than warren. Of course in this state its like splitting hairs. |
Biker_bob
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 04:24 pm: |
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I don't know about the difference in town and a city being a McDonalds, my home town of Richmond Mo has a McDonalds and its only 6000, maybe not city-like yet  |
Bigblock
| | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 05:22 pm: |
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I live in the only town on the CA coast where the population is lower than the elevation (according to the official town sign posted on Hwy 1 entering: OLEMA, POP 55 ELEV 60 ) |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 10:43 pm: |
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Buelgirlie-
Doesn't Norwich have 2 or 3 stoplights?
i had a goilfriend who studied there, and I could swear there was a traffic light atthe intersection of 5 and 10a, and 10a and River, and 10a and mont-something or other.
I could definitely be wrong, but I remember the one at River rd. being really annoyingly long. |
Kootenay
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 12:35 pm: |
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Where I live, there is a combination gas station/grocery store, a cafe, the "hippy store" (organic groceries and such), and...and...well, no stoplights!
Down the road about 20 minutes though is the city of Nelson, pop 9000, where there is a Wal-Mart which is AFAIK the ONLY Wal-Mart in existance with no McD's in it (city won't allow a McD's franchise in town). Not that I care, seeing as I refuse to eat at McD's anyway... |
Diablobrian
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 12:52 pm: |
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We must be really uptown then, Our wal-mart has a subway in it, not a mcDonalds. The old wal-mart, pre-supercenter (how we measure time now, pre- and post-supercenter) had a McDonalds in it though. |
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