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Straight outta Akron

SoBeCuse said:
It's way better now obviously. Downtown has a come a LONG way. Way better than a place like Dayton and on par with Rochester. Reminds me quite a bit of Rochester. A friend who has been on prominent band tours everywhere said it reminds him of a smaller version of a Buffalo/Milwaukee mix.
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I love that whole area primarly east of Akron , west of Youngstown. Except for oil derricks in everyone's backyard and 3 out of 4 houses made out of bricks, it reminds me a lot of here. Alliance reminds me very much so of Auburn.
 
SoBeCuse said:
You probably should know a little more about this before posting general fallacies. I agree about discussing Akron on a hoops board but what's true is true. Perhaps I'm biased having gone to middle/high school in Akron and having my folks still there. I've seen the transformation of the city. The list above of Akronites CERTAINLY trumps the list of important people hailing from Syracuse. We're talking people who are from there. Not alums of the universities or anything.
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My only excursions into Akron have been on the way from the Citation Air station trhu No Canton and then on to Alliance. That stretch of town looked fine to me. What stuck out in my mind was the huge Hoover factory and there was one BIG cemetary. What I saw did not reflect the rust belt slum that I had seen Akron portrayed as.
 
Capt. Tuttle said:
Bobcat Goldthwait and Grace Jones.vv

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Damned we could start comparing Presidents : Grover Cleveland vs. William McKinley (kinda sorta)
 
SoBeCuse said:
You probably should know a little more about this before posting general fallacies. I agree about discussing Akron on a hoops board but what's true is true. Perhaps I'm biased having gone to middle/high school in Akron and having my folks still there. I've seen the transformation of the city. The list above of Akronites CERTAINLY trumps the list of important people hailing from Syracuse. We're talking people who are from there. Not alums of the universities or anything.
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Think of just the football legacy that runs thru there (from a native standpoint). If you expand that to say the Canton-Akron-Youngstown metro area and compare to CNY, the discrepancy will expand further. Though both areas were ground zero for the American Industrial Revolution, there was a lot more capital flowing thru NE Ohio than here, primarily due to the Vanderbilts, Morgans, Rockefeller's et all.
 
Col. Bleep said:
Not sure Bobcat Goldthwait is something to be proud of.
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Gawd, he has to be on the top 5 annoying "entertainers" for 99% of America (that is if anyone remembers him).
 
Col. Bleep said:
Fireball...you missed a few big ones:
I've never even been to Akron but I know it was hometown for former heavyweight champ Michael Dokes...Challenger astronaut Judy Resnick... and White House counsel John Dean.
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You are correct, my brotha from anotha Yiddisha motha, I was going to include Dokes and Dean, and I coulda thrown in R.W. "Johnny" Apple Jr., Rachel Sweet, Ara Parseghian, Michael Wadleigh (Google that), David Allen Coe (abject racist), Hugh Downs, and Gene Woodling, but, what the hey, screw Akron, I'm all about the 585 (nee 716).
 
I've been living down here a year. First job out of school. Very similar to syracuse. Definitely some sketchy spots downtown. Overall though, I don't mind it. Some nice surrounding towns.
 
SoBeCuse said:
You probably should know a little more about this before posting general fallacies. I agree about discussing Akron on a hoops board but what's true is true. Perhaps I'm biased having gone to middle/high school in Akron and having my folks still there. I've seen the transformation of the city. The list above of Akronites CERTAINLY trumps the list of important people hailing from Syracuse. We're talking people who are from there. Not alums of the universities or anything.
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Um...Tom Cruise = win...Jon Fishman...I think Richard Gere...
not a trump but at least equal. As far as the burning rubber, well those who live close enough to B-M-S can tell you how much it sucks when they package amoxicillin.
 
Ken Stewart's grill is the best! Bring customers customers there during golf tourney.
 
LennX6 said:
Think of just the football legacy that runs thru there (from a native standpoint). If you expand that to say the Canton-Akron-Youngstown metro area and compare to CNY, the discrepancy will expand further. Though both areas were ground zero for the American Industrial Revolution, there was a lot more capital flowing thru NE Ohio than here, primarily due to the Vanderbilts, Morgans, Rockefeller's et all.
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All true. Canton has that Timken corporation which manufactures still I believe ball bearings for various cars/truck companies. Youngstown has never recovered from the steel industry collapse. Half of the city is boarded up, desolate, and very dangerous. Similar to Flint, I think. Akron is coming around. There are some amazing old rubber/tire money homes on the west side by Stan Hywet Hall (The Seiberling house). The new addition to the art museum, new convention center, and library all in downtown are really impressive buildings.

You're right about the football legacy. Think about the players and coaches who are from those areas. Off the top of my head, from those areas, you have Massillon, Canton McKinley, Walsh Jesuit, Archishop Hoban, St. V&M, Akron Buchtel, Akron Garfield, Boardman, Cardinal Mooney, Warren Harding, Warren JFK. Then there's Cleveland...
 
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