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What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by NateNate60@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In the United States, I'd probably name Oregon City, the famous end of the Oregon Trail and the first city founded west of the Rocky Mountains during the pioneer era. Its population is only 37,000.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Pueblo, CO from tv commercials or maybe Walla Walla, WA from Bugs Bunny.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I haven't seen a TV ad in years; who's out there talking about Pueblo?

[–] JoeDyrt57@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Walla Walla Washington! It was one of ten airports (not sure exact number, but few!) in the first release of MS Flight Simulator. Also Yakima.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Walla Walla, it was also a lyric in an Offspring song.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Also in this song

Witch Doctor - Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Doctor_(song)

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pueblo, CO

Mostly because it is (or was) a publication distribution hub.

A few days after that, I open up the mail And there's a pamphlet in there from Pueblo, Colorado, and it's addressed to Bill Jr., and it's entitled Do You Know What the Queers Are Doing to Our Soil?

Virtually no one outside of the US will have heard of it, though.