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Title: Chattanooga Post by: Combe Down on Friday, July 17, 2015, 06:27:33 Chattanooga is a twin city of Swindon. Discuss.
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: janaage on Friday, July 17, 2015, 06:31:57 Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga choo choo?
Title: Re: Chatanooga Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Friday, July 17, 2015, 06:33:25 Chattanooga Tennessee? How random. I went there once, stayed at the Holiday Inn Chattanooga Choo Choo which is the old railroad station. Some of the rooms are converted railway carriages. Nice place from what I can remember (it was a few years ago), no similarities with Swindon whatsoever as far as I could tell you.
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Friday, July 17, 2015, 07:30:17 Maci from teen mom is from there!
Not that anyone else on this forum watches 16&pregnant/teenmom/teenmom2 etc :-[ Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Bob's Orange on Friday, July 17, 2015, 07:34:07 I didn't know that, knew it was twinned with Saltzgitter which I think is Austria?
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: ronnie21 on Friday, July 17, 2015, 07:46:03 I didn't know that, knew it was twinned with Saltzgitter which I think is Austria? It is also twinned with a place called Ocotal which i think is in Central America or south America, never heard of it being twinned with Chattanooga!Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: 4D on Friday, July 17, 2015, 07:48:05 Track 29, straight down the line. A train theme?
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: ronnie21 on Friday, July 17, 2015, 08:17:36 It is also twinned with a place called Ocotal which i think is in Central America or south America, never heard of it being twinned with Chattanooga! Apparently Ocotal is in Nicaragua! Guess that is where Ocotal Way takes its name from!Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Berniman on Friday, July 17, 2015, 08:22:34 Twinned with Walt Disney World too, bizarrely.
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, July 17, 2015, 08:43:58 Apparently Ocotal is in Nicaragua! Guess that is where Ocotal Way takes its name from! The Ocotal twinning was an early 80's thing achieved by the then Labour run SBC.....Nicaragua, had democratically elected the left wing Sandinista government, much the same way as had happened in Chile with the Allende government. Uncle Sam wasn't having any of this democracy lark, and organised a covert campaign to destroy the Sandinistas. Happily, for the people of Nicaragua, the Contra campaign failed, and Daniel Ortega is now back as El Presidente, after years, in democratically decided, opposition. Tories are definitely more Disney World, than Sandinista.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1LhlVtbW_U Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Leggett on Friday, July 17, 2015, 08:45:19 Maci from teen mom is from there! Not that anyone else on this forum watches 16&pregnant/teenmom/teenmom2 etc :-[ My other half watches it, so i play Football Manager. The one who did porn looks like she would do porn. Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Ginginho on Friday, July 17, 2015, 08:58:09 I didn't know that, knew it was twinned with Saltzgitter which I think is Austria? Germany. It's 40 years this year since we've been twinned with Salzgitter, so Arkells have developed a German beer to commemorate it - Bock. http://www.arkells.com/our-beer.html http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=2&s=2378&ss=2426&c=14087&t=Twinning+Toast! Might have to give it a go, Germans do ace beer :) Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: RobertT on Friday, July 17, 2015, 09:04:23 The Disney link up was for a year in 2013 I think, so no longer twinned. It was from a local resident entering us into a competition and resulted in a plaque in Epcot being erected for that calendar year. Chattanooga is a Sister City relationship, there was something in the Adver about it not too long ago due to a tree being there or something like that, as a present from us. Linkage was due to the trains.
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, July 17, 2015, 09:21:54 Germany. It's 40 years this year since we've been twinned with Salzgitter, so Arkells have developed a German beer to commemorate it - Bock. http://www.arkells.com/our-beer.html http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=2&s=2378&ss=2426&c=14087&t=Twinning+Toast! Might have to give it a go, Germans do ace beer :) Salzgitter, was pretty much on the Cold War frontier....the Iron Curtain just a few kilometres away, I'm sure the burghers of the town, slept more soundly in their beds, knowing that Swindon would have come to their aid had the Red Army rolled. Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Skinny Pete on Friday, July 17, 2015, 09:22:43 Another slow day on the football news front, then
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: 4D on Friday, July 17, 2015, 10:50:09 Four US marines murdered there today.
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Flashheart on Friday, July 17, 2015, 10:57:37 Nothing gets past 4D, nothing.
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Peter Venkman on Friday, July 17, 2015, 10:57:56 Nothing gets past 4D, nothing. :DTitle: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Combe Down on Friday, July 17, 2015, 11:09:51 The Disney link up was for a year in 2013 I think, so no longer twinned. It was from a local resident entering us into a competition and resulted in a plaque in Epcot being erected for that calendar year. Chattanooga is a Sister City relationship, there was something in the Adver about it not too long ago due to a tree being there or something like that, as a present from us. Linkage was due to the trains. 'Sister City' is something different. Swindon is a 'twin'. Chat's sisters and twins gave trees to be planted in a park in Chat. The Swindon gift being an Elm. Can we do a feature on the twins of the places we play game by game please? Petersfield's twins are Barentin in France and Warendorf in Germany. Or can we think up some good twins for our local rivals?! Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Skinny Pete on Friday, July 17, 2015, 11:19:07 (http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag351/rickrose1204/stop-snoring-home-remedy_zpsletqijpn.jpg) (http://s1372.photobucket.com/user/rickrose1204/media/stop-snoring-home-remedy_zpsletqijpn.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Chattanooga Post by: Berniman on Friday, July 17, 2015, 13:32:32 The Disney link up was for a year in 2013 I think, so no longer twinned. It was from a local resident entering us into a competition and resulted in a plaque in Epcot being erected for that calendar year. Chattanooga is a Sister City relationship, there was something in the Adver about it not too long ago due to a tree being there or something like that, as a present from us. Linkage was due to the trains. Fair enough, I bow to your knowledge on Mickey and friends :D |