Welcome to #checkin for Sunday, July 6, 2025!
Bonsoir/Bonjour and welcome to today's #checkin. Today was the second and last day of the folkmetal festival here in Janzé in France. A couple of great bands and also very welcoming people. Today there was also a local group who did Brittonic Chansons in the Bretonic language. All the staff people were totally excited when we told them that we had come all the way from Germany to their little village to attend their festival.
A little quirk, the village is known for their quality chicken meat, and they have a statue of a chicken:
So what quirky thing is your city/village known for? Can be positive or negative, for example most traffic jams in the region or some (famous) person who lived there or an unusual mascot?
For example, Paderborn is either known as Partyborn or Paderboring among the students and also sometimes known as Ampelborn (traffic light) because of the many red lights you encounter.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •I was stumped at first. I mean we have sooo many people and things and.... but I think... The Naked Cowboy. Truly committed to the bit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Co…
American street performer
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Healesville is famous for it's Australian native animal sanctuary. It's one of only two places where platypuses have been successfully bred in captivity.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •My city ( area ) is mostly known for corrupt politicians. But also GoGo music, a DC style
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in reply to Christoph S • • •en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mus…
statue at Denver airport
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in reply to Christoph S • • •@Mark Wollschlager Here is the lineup arvranfest.fr/programmation/
@Deb Zaccaro-Rojas sheep? Now I am curious
@Kenny Chaffin Oh yes, Denver Airport, I love the conspiracy theories about it
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Hmmmm --- Santa Cruz is in a war with the pretender city, huntington beaach, over the title "Surf City". Santa Cruz is mentioned in the song Surfin USA, which to me is slam dunk proof. Santa Cruz is also home to "The Lost Boys". And Alfred Hitchcock lived in the county - and the events that lead to "The Birds" actually happened here, and the inspiration for the Psycho house is here as well.
But enough about Santa Cruz...
Did you know that Petaluma, California is (or was) the Chicken Capital of the World, and also the Arm Wrestling Capital of the World?
But Castroville (not far from Santa Cruz) is the "Artichoke Center Of The World" (I don't know why it isn't the Artichoke Heart) and it had as its 1947 Artichoke Queen and unknown actress, named Norma Jean - later Marilyn Monroe (she also went to my high school in LA.)
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in reply to Christoph S • •This city's official mascot is the Bear, not often in the LGBTQ style but all over the place as Buddy Bears. Friendly, colourful bears in about life size, either upright or on all fours, adorned with a local motif, kid's art, by a paid artists or embassy emblems because often the bears grace their entrance.
Other than that, an icon is the East Berlin TV tower. Not an animal, but it is ev-ery-whe-re in logos, silhouettes, and whatnot.
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stefani banerian
in reply to Christoph S • • •Olympia is the capital city, so it has government stuff here.
As for quirks, you can easily find out where Kurt Cobain lived when we was in the city.
Also, there is an evangenital church "Come as you are"
FWIW, those are hints to the musical lyrics that i posted in a previous checkin.
Olympia was one of the "Riot Grrl" homes
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Don't forget about Gilroy California, the Garlic Capitol of the World.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •@Rod Mesa - There was some sort of soil based garlic blight in the Gilroy area, so much of the garlic growing moved elsewhere. I don't know if it has come back. There used to be a large garlic processing factory in Gilroy - and it smelled really great! A tad further south is King City, which sometimes has a wonderful onion scent from the onions grown there.
And then there is Lindsay, California - which has (or had) as a slogan - "Lindsay, Great Town, Greater Olive" (or something like that).
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