What's Unique About Your City?

What’s Unique About Your City?

This is a response to Sire’s recent post, Sharing Something Unique About Where You Live. After reading the post i was encouraged to really think about my city and how it stands out from the rest. I live in San Bernardino California, right in the heart of the valley area, called the Inland Empire. To help you gain perspective, it’s about 60 miles or a little over an hour away from Los Angeles.

As with all cities, it has it’s share of attractions and events put on by the city event members in an effort to bring more tourists and residents into the city. The famous Route 66 in California runs through SB and we often get large motorcycle gangs that ride through. Once a year SB holds an event right in downtown San Bernardino called the Route 66 Rendezvous where hot rods and antique vehicles in general that have been remodeled are shown off and awards are given out. It’s a lot of fun and the cars look amazing.

In 1940 Dick and Mac opened up a small food joint called McDonald’s Bar-B-Que on E st. in San Bernardino. It was later renovated and the menu streamlined to just nine items. It’s main selling point was the 15 cent hamburger. Little did Dick and Mac know, McDonald’s would grow to become the largest fast food chain in the world. In-fact, you probably have a Mickey-D’s not more than a couple blocks away from you. Presently the first McDonald’s building is a historic landmark and acts as a museum.