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All of that, exactly. The show's both unfortunate and a blessing.
This is the most damaging storm we've had in fifty years and it's a shocker. Even newscasters don't have a word to say when viewing the helicopter shots of the Jersey coast. So sad.
Coney Island is great, a little… sadder looking than it had been. Its past its glory days but it's still there and still a popular attraction.
This is actually a good topic we got on. Though NJ started boardwalks, NYC's Coney Island has been world famous for over 100 years. We are well known for our boardwalk/summer scene culture and I'm sure inspired other places.
Depends.
It's just a little tease Chandler, heavens say you enjoy a good joke every now and then too. As for my superhero comments, well when I was growing up I would watch a lot of super friends, smallville, justice league, and read lots of marvel comics. Always enjoyed seeing NYC in both 2D comics in cartoon and in movies. It made the city stand out as a dynamic place for me. In TV shows involving tweetie bird and Sylvester the cat, in cartoons NYC still looked good. Cat trying to nab the bird from an apartment window 40 stories up, looks down, begins sweating and acting like a buffoon almost tripping but makes it through the window and somehow gets knocked out and falls 40 stories while holding a picket sign reading "help". I just don't see this with other cities, Hollywood sometimes has a role as a backdrop in those cartoons but it's rare.
If it makes you feel any better, worst case is that both cities are tied as cultural exporters. I still think its debatable and that's the fun of these debates, so far neither have pulled away.
Don't underestimate them. They'll move to Hollywood, write their scripts, and use NYC as their backdrop.
If spiderman was in LA, he would be swinging from palm tree to palm tree on 3rd street promenade instead of skyscraper to skyscraper in Manhattan.
You should try giving LA more credit sometime.
LA holds cultural, economical, and social ties with 25 sister cities
Eilat, Israel
Nagoya, Japan
Salvador, Brazil
Bordeaux, France
Berlin, Germany
Lusaka, Zambia
Mexico City, Mexico
Auckland, New Zealand
Busan, South Korea
Mumbai, India
Tehran, Iran
Taipei, ROC [Taiwan]
Guangzhou, PRC [China]
Athens, Greece
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vancouver, Canada
Giza, Egypt
Jakarta, Indonesia
Kaunas, Lithuania
Makati, Philippines
Split, Croatia
San Salvador, El Salvador
Beirut, Lebanon
Ischia, Italy
Yerevan, Armenia
A city with as many ties from all parts of the globe is not culturally insignificant.
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Sister Cities International was created at President Eisenhower’s 1956 White House conference on citizen diplomacy. Eisenhower envisioned an organization that could be the hub of peace and prosperity by creating bonds between people from different cities around the world. By becoming friends, President Eisenhower reasoned that people of different cultures could celebrate and appreciate their differences, instead of deriding them, fostering suspicion and sowing new seeds for war.
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LA holds cultural, economical, and social ties with 25 sister cities
Eilat, Israel
Nagoya, Japan
Salvador, Brazil
Bordeaux, France
Berlin, Germany
Lusaka, Zambia
Mexico City, Mexico
Auckland, New Zealand
Busan, South Korea
Mumbai, India
Tehran, Iran
Taipei, ROC [Taiwan]
Guangzhou, PRC [China]
Athens, Greece
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vancouver, Canada
Giza, Egypt
Jakarta, Indonesia
Kaunas, Lithuania
Makati, Philippines
Split, Croatia
San Salvador, El Salvador
Beirut, Lebanon
Ischia, Italy
Yerevan, Armenia
A city with as many ties from all parts of the globe is not culturally insignificant.
There are random small towns throughout America you've probably never heard of with sister cities. There are smaller scale cities with sister cities. There are large cities with sister cities. I'm not saying LA is irrelevant culturally, obviously it's relevant, but I am saying that having a sister city doesn't matter.
There are random small towns throughout America you've probably never heard of with sister cities. There are smaller scale cities with sister cities. There are large cities with sister cities. I'm not saying LA is irrelevant culturally, obviously it's relevant, but I am saying that having a sister city doesn't matter.
Well, it matters more for LA because those sister cities generally have large populations of immigrants with fairly significant cultural exchanges. Also, those sister cities are generally really big cities or capitals.
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