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Emmetsburg is not in Emmet County.
Webster City is not in Webster County.
Iowa City is not in Iowa County.
Sioux City is not in Sioux County (though Sioux Center is).
Greene is not in Greene County.
Iowa State was almost founded in Marshalltown. There was a debate between which town got the Veteran’s Home and which got the college. Marshalltown “won” the coin flip and chose the Iowa Vet’s home and Ames got the college.
EDIT: I stand corrected, I was told this while working at the Vet’s home..apologies
EDIT: I stand corrected, I was told this while working at the Vet’s home..apologies
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Shucks I thought the Iowa Quirks was the name of a new sports team. I'm disappointed.
I believe its a chain. All I remember was my Omaha friends talking about how hilarious it was that Carter Lake, Iowa had a strip club. Then I stayed in a hotel by there a few years later.
KidSilverhair
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Nevada, Iowa, is pronounced nuh-VAY-da instead of nuh-VAA-da.
Buena Vista (at least the college, maybe the county, too) is pronounced BYOO-na VIS-ta instead of BWAY-na VIS-ta (they get angry up there if you pronounce it like it's Spanish).
Madrid, Iowa, is pronounced MAD-rid instead of ma-DRID.
Fun fact: when I was an air traffic controller in Cedar Rapids some years back, a pilot checked in for VFR flight following. I asked what his destination was, and he said "Mack-uh-WEE-ta." It took me a second to figure out he meant Maquoketa.
Buena Vista (at least the college, maybe the county, too) is pronounced BYOO-na VIS-ta instead of BWAY-na VIS-ta (they get angry up there if you pronounce it like it's Spanish).
Madrid, Iowa, is pronounced MAD-rid instead of ma-DRID.
Fun fact: when I was an air traffic controller in Cedar Rapids some years back, a pilot checked in for VFR flight following. I asked what his destination was, and he said "Mack-uh-WEE-ta." It took me a second to figure out he meant Maquoketa.
It was in iowa city according to this atricle. It did close about a year after opening as the space was too large to make sense though.
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The expansion to the u.s. was thanks to an investor from burlington. Article section quoted below.
Aldi expanded to U.S. from Essen, Germany via an undisclosed investment in Benner Tea Co., a Burlington, Iowa grocer with origins in the early part of the century. That company had been first acquired in the 1960s by Charles C. Fitzmorris Jr., who himself would go on to noteworthy things.
According to Wikipedia it was Burlington. Which I had read several years ago. Wikipedia still has it as Burlington. I do remember Benner's grocery stores. Later they were known as Giant grocery storesIt was in iowa city according to this atricle. It did close about a year after opening as the space was too large to make sense though.
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The expansion to the u.s. was thanks to an investor from burlington. Article section quoted below.
Aldi expanded to U.S. from Essen, Germany via an undisclosed investment in Benner Tea Co., a Burlington, Iowa grocer with origins in the early part of the century. That company had been first acquired in the 1960s by Charles C. Fitzmorris Jr., who himself would go on to noteworthy things.
kcbob79clone
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Full-time RVers really like quirky stuff. Didn't really know Iowa until I left and came back as a tourist. Here are some of the quirky
Brandon's Largest Frying Pan
Crystal Lake's World's Largest Bullhead
Burlington's Snake Alley is Crookedest Street
Walcott's World Largest Truck Stop
Exira's Plow in the Oak
Riverside's birthstone for Captain James T. Kirk and Star Trek Voyage Museum
Brandon's Largest Frying Pan
Crystal Lake's World's Largest Bullhead
Burlington's Snake Alley is Crookedest Street
Walcott's World Largest Truck Stop
Exira's Plow in the Oak
Riverside's birthstone for Captain James T. Kirk and Star Trek Voyage Museum
And, according to the google machine, the first serviceman killed in WWII, Robert Moffat Losey, was also born in Iowa.
