Where were you born?

[Pryderi]

Bristol Twp, PA

[cbdo2007]

1. Are you trying to hack into my email account or something?

Independence, MO

[Lucinda]

54. Me too :)

Small world.

[amerikat]

2. Trenton,NJ

live in upstate NY now.

[amerikat]

3. The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol when

they do the Bristol stomp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qdHY5sy-Lw

[david13]

108. You know you are not to play that song in the gymnasium! You take that

song off right now.
dc

[elocs]

4. I was born in a hospital.

You asked.

[struggle4progress]

15. Wow! Me, too! What a coincidence! Howdy, neighbor!

:hi:

[Ptah]

59. I was born in a small town because

I wanted to be near my mother.

[annabanana]

5. Ann Arbor, Michigan

A long long time ago.

[1gobluedem]

61. Me too

I live less than a mile from the hospital where I was born. But I didn't grow up here, I moved back. And it's not a hospital anymore.

[annabanana]

68. My folks moved me out of there very young...

Eastward..
Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, NY

But hells bells.. It was ALWAYS "Go Blue" at our house.

[rug]

6. Manhattan, NYC

[tabbycat31]

7. Mount Kisco, NY

[femmocrat]

8. SW Pennsylvania.

I live about 50 miles from where I was born.

[flvegan]

9. I was born down in a dead man's town

First kick I took was when I hit the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZD4ezDbbu4&feature=related

[seabeyond]

10. phoenix, az. but it was a cool state way back then.... now. not so much. nt

[triguy46]

11. Under a bad sign

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVlB3WMGng

[Suich]

12. Eugene, Oregon n/t

[Orangepeel]

13. in a cross-fire hurricane

I never knew what that was. Is it any different than a regular hurricane?

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. I was born in a small coastal California fishing village called Oakland

[Silver Swan]

16. In a doctor's office

My parents' family doctor delivered babies in his office. Afterward, Mom and I went to a convalescent home for two weeks.

My younger sister was the only one of the four of us kids born in a hospital.

[bluesbassman]

17. in a dump, mammy died and my daddy got drunk.

left me here to die or grow
in the middle of tobacco road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnvqMCFXDI

[Inchworm]

18. I was born by the river

in a li'l tent.

And just like the river I been runnin ever since

;)









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQU4torUz-Q

[auntAgonist]

19. Edinburgh, Scotland. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Ripon, WI

[david13]

109. Why did they used to say Right On Ripon. ? dc

[Petrushka]

21. 2 blocks north of the blast furnace mentioned in S-1 L-3 --->

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
. . . . . . . . by James Wright . . . . . . . .


In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.


All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home,
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.


Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies.

[Quantess]

22. In the kitchen. Seriously.

Or was it the dining room?

My parents were dissatisfied at how the hospital birth of my older sibling turned out, in an American hospital in the 1960s. I am the 2nd child born in the USA, out of 6 siblings. I am a "first generation American".

[mokawanis]

23. Leavenworth, Kansas

I'll always be grateful to my parents for getting us the hell away from there by moving to Wisconsin, where I remain 30 years later.

[trackfan]

24. Glendale, CA n/t

[petronius]

25. In a manger

Well actually, it was a hospital in California...

[Bucky]

106. Uh, why didn't your folks just find an inn? I mean, duh, what are they... cheapskates?

[Gormy Cuss]

26. In a wagon in a traveling show

My mother used to dance for the money they'd throw.

[Capn Sunshine]

27. Hollywood, CA

Because the hospital was there (Hollywood Presbyterian)

[IMATB]

28. I was born and raised down in Alabama

On a farm way back up in the woods
I was so ragged that folks used to call me Patches
Papa used to tease me about it
'Cause deep down inside he was hurt
'Cause he'd done all he could


My papa was a great old man
I can see him with a shovel in his hands, see
Education he never had
He did wonders when the times got bad
The little money from the crops he raised
Barely paid the bills we made


For, life had kick him down to the ground
When he tried to get up
Life would kick him back down
One day Papa called me to his dyin' bed
Put his hands on my shoulders
And in his tears he said


He said, Patches
I'm dependin' on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you


Two days later Papa passed away, and
I became a man that day
So I told Mama I was gonna quit school, but
She said that was Daddy's strictest rule


So ev'ry mornin' 'fore I went to school
I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on
I wanted to leave, just run away from home
But I would remember what my daddy said
With tears in his eyes on his dyin' bed


He said, Patches
I'm dependin' on you, son
I tried to do my best
It's up to you to do the rest


Then one day a strong rain came
And washed all the crops away
And at the age of 13 I thought
I was carryin' the weight of the
Whole world on my shoulders
And you know, Mama knew
What I was goin' through, 'cause


Ev'ry day I had to work the fields
'Cause that's the only way we got our meals
You see, I was the oldest of the family
And ev'rybody else depended on me
Ev'ry night I heard my Mama pray
Lord, give him the strength to face another day


So years have passed and all the kids are grown
The angels took Mama to a brand new home
Lord knows, people, I shedded tears
But my daddy's voice kept me through the years


Sing
Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you


Oh, I can still hear Papa's voice sayin'
Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son
I've tried to do my best
It's up to you to do the rest


I can still hear Papa, what he said
Patches...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sk7OycjdI&feature=related

[pokerfan]

29. The planet, Krapton

Kyrpton's lesser known twin.

[Mendocino]

30. Back seat of a Greyhound Bus

rolling down Hwy 41.


Actually in Toledo, Ohio.

[abq e streeter]

31. Born in Chicago

[GoCubsGo]

46. Me, too.

Near West Side.

[abq e streeter]

70. West side too but grew up (using the term loosely) on the north side and Evanston

[hobbit709]

32. Saalfelden an Steinemen Meer, Oesterreich

[era veteran]

120. Beautiful area

I have been pretty close to there in Kitzbühel.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

33. Manhasset (LIJ Hospital), NY

Dr, Broke my Collarbone during birth. Great joh, bud,

[ArnoldLayne]

34. Wheeling, WV

[NuclearDem]

35. Indianapolis, IN

St. Vincent's IIRC

[Heidi]

36. Near Little Rock, Ark. (nt)

[xchrom]

37. i have some awesome Gay Powers -- but not enough to

make Peoria Fabulous.

[jannyk]

38. Plaistow, London, E.13

[madmom]

39. In my grandparents living room.

[TK421]

40. I live in the borough! :) right on Mill Street

NE Philly

[LiberalEsto]

41. Brooklyn, NY nt

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

42. In a van down by the river!

tiny little town called Exeter, California. Hospital doesn't exist anymore.

[Tikki]

43. Eastern Washington State.....

The Tikkis

[woofless]

44. Malden, MA

[lumpy]

45. Born in my Grandparents log cabin in Alaska on a very chilly

clear December night.

[realisticphish]

47. Newark, OH

[av8rdave]

48. Jamestown, NY

[Pool Hall Ace]

118. hometown of Lucille Ball !!

[Old Troop]

49. Boston

[alsame]

50. NYC. nt

[stuntcat]

51. North Carolina!

woooot NC in the house! :headbang:

[laylah]

52. Avon, IL...the very, very,

VERY tiny "blip" on the map, sw of Peoria, due south of Galesburg, north of "who the f*** knows"

Jenn

[Iggo]

53. In bed. (n/t)

[blockhead]

55. about 6 blocks away from my house

[Odin2005]

56. St. Luke's Hospital in Fargo.

[bigwillq]

57. New Haven, CT (nt)

[warrior1]

58. El Paso, Texas

[old mark]

60. Kenya, in the country of Africa.....nt

[KamaAina]

65. Nice post, Obama!

:P

[old mark]

72. Hoo did you guess....you liberals must be smarter than I thought!!!...nt

[Oceansaway]

62. Dubuque, Iowa...nt

[Demoiselle]

63. Minot, North Dakota.

[WinkyDink]

64. Carbon County, PA, hard by the #9 Mine.

[KamaAina]

66. Bawlmer, Merlin

You rollin' or strollin', hon?

[pink-o]

87. first shout-out for my birth-town!!!

I can't believe I had to scroll so far down to find a fellow Balmerian!

I was born in Union Memorial Hospital, right by the old Colt's stadium. Since it was in December, there might have been a game going on. There certainly HAD to be a bunch of icky snow.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

113. You a Baltimoron???

:rofl:

Only thing that comes to mind in my case about Baltimore is Edgar Allan Poe and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

[pink-o]

116. LOL! Moved to SF @ age 5.

I remember doing a 5th grade report on "a different state" so I chose Maryland, figuring I could pick my Dad's brain. Guess what the only two things we could come up with were???

Yup. Johns Hopkins and Poe!!

Soooo glad my mom dragged us back to the Left Coast. Especially right now, seeing as Santa Cruz was 72 degrees today.

[pepperbear]

67. Bitburg, Germany

[hibbing]

69. St. Cloud, MN

Hi,
Fun thread.

Peace

[hayu_lol]

71. Hollywood Hospital...

Hollywood CA circa 1935

Great place to grow up in.

[MattSh]

73. Long Branch, NJ

Live thousands of miles east of there now.

[raccoon]

74. Pangaea. nt

[Deep13]

75. Arakis nt

[ceile]

76. Houston

[Joe Fields]

77. Coffeyville Kansas.

[JenniferJuniper]

105. That's a cool place to be from

Everytime I hear something about Coffeyville, I hear Joe Strummer in my head singing "Daddy was a bankrobber, but he never hurt nobody...."

[ScreamingMeemie]

78. Milwaukee, WI

[nolabear]

79. Sylacauga, Alabama. But I got over it.

Actually I was only there for my first year of life. My mother's parents lived there. It's an eensy cotton mill town.

[SCantiGOP]

80. Nashville, TN

But moved to SC before I was a year old.

[bif]

81. Detroit, MI

[melman]

82. Poughkeepsie, New York

Haven't been there since I was about 18 months old.

[blueknight]

83. ft, thomas, ky.

st.luke hospital

[Rob H.]

84. Rota, Spain

I grew up a Navy brat. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

85. Brooklyn.

[El Supremo]

86. KCMO

[Ahpook]

88. Reston, VA

Not sure if anyone here lived there when the community started? It was magical! My first school was Terraset, which was solar powered. The school was mostly underground, which was huge for the community in terms of progressive thought.

We had biking/jogging paths that could easily take you anywhere. Extremely friendly atmosphere, hardly any crime. Reminds me of the Tolkien books when he described The Shire.

So clean, so pure, so innocent!

[BuddhaGirl]

89. St. Vincent's Hospital - Los Angeles, CA

n/t

[Zavulon]

90. Laval, QC (NT)

[JTG of the PRB]

91. Boulder, Colorado

Even though I didn't live in Boulder until I was 3 1/2, I was still born there.

[Bertha Venation]

92. Santa Monica, California

I am SO glad both sets of grandparents moved to Southern California!!

[Luciferous]

93. Racine WI

[Rhiannon12866]

94. Albany, NY

:)

[solara]

95. Mission Hospital, Huntington Park, Calif.

:hi:

[Martysbestcatch]

96. Pittsburgh, PA n/t

[6000eliot]

97. Not far from you.

Abington, PA.

[meow2u3]

98. Brooklyn, NYC

Raised in Queens, NYC. I left (or better yet, was run out of New York by "reverse" racists--yes, I'm white) when I was 20 and never came back except to visit. Priced out.

[Blue_Tires]

99. Norfolk, VA

[PRETZEL]

100. Sewickly Valley Hospital

but we lived in Coraopolis, PA.

[Mad_Dem_X]

101. Woodbury, New Jersey

In a hospital that is no longer there.

[brendan120678]

102. Binghamton, NY...

and I lived in that same general area (not counting stints away from home for college/grad school) until I was 26 and got married.
Live in Waterbury, CT now.

[gizmonic]

103. Sheffield, England nt

[Courtesy Flush]

104. Baton Rouge nt

[david13]

107. I have no idea. I was not aware of what was going on at the time. dc

[MilesColtrane]

110. Memphis, Tennessee

Famous as the home of W.C. Handy, the man who codified the form of he blues, and of course Elvis...

*thankya thankyaverrymuch*

[BlueCollar]

111. London, England

[edbermac]

112. Intercourse, Pennsylvania

You know what they say about the Amish...

[WilliamPitt]

114. Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Washington D.C.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

115. Malpractice capital of the United States.

Pasadena, Texas. Where they drop you on your head at no extra charge.

My aunt was supervising my delivery. She was smarter than the doctor. She had a Master's in Nursing from Yale. Only Ivy League graduate in our family.
She said that the doc decided to drag me out with forceps before mom was fully dilated. That doesn't surprise me.

That said, at least Momma was a live bearer instead of an egg-layer. :D

I shudder to think what would have happened back then if Mom had needed a C-section. Sounds like it was already a disaster in the making.

[era veteran]

117. I am Zoneless in America

Panama

[Pool Hall Ace]

119. Veteran . . . born in Panama . . . is that you, John McCain??

[era veteran]

121. No, I was born at Ft Clayton

McCain is a Coco Solo boy, from the wrong side of the canal.

[Blue-Jay]

122. I don't remember.

That was a long time ago.

[mvd]

123. Washington, D.C.

But lived in Maryland until I was 14. Have lived in PA ever since then.

[ChazII]

124. State of confusion.... n/t

[Name removed]

125. Deleted message

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[blue neen]

126. Warren, Ohio.

We moved to PA three years later.