Four cities: guess what's in common (game) (calculation, areas)

[bbtm100912]

Originally Posted by edsg25

No kings....in fact you're not even carrying a pair of 2's in your hand

ROTF! I have to go shopping for a new chair for that dunce corner, (and maybe a new hat) that was awfully uncomfortable. So I'll be back in a bit.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Not without a clue

Oh, sorry. Here's the clue then: These cities all shared a singular status in the 19th century, but no longer have that status:

Mobile, AL
Cincinnati, OH
St. Paul, MN
Richmond, VA

[Bluefox]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Oh, sorry. Here's the clue then: These cities all shared a singular status in the 19th century, but no longer have that status:

Mobile, AL
Cincinnati, OH
St. Paul, MN
Richmond, VA

They used to the be largest cities in the state? They used to be the fastest growing cities in the state?

Couer d'Alene, ID
Salt Lake City, UT
New Orleans, LA
Cleveland, OH

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Nobody gonna try to guess this one?

Nobody tried to guess mine either, so I am just moving on.

[MassVt]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Oh, sorry. Here's the clue then: These cities all shared a singular status in the 19th century, but no longer have that status:

Mobile, AL
Cincinnati, OH
St. Paul, MN
Richmond, VA

The largest cities in their respective states, at that time...

[slowlane3]

Originally Posted by slowlane3

Washington, DC

Albuquerque, NM

Atlanta, GA

Roanoke, VA

Canton, OH

Hickory, NC

and possibly ? ? these also:

Portland, OR,,,,,,Everett and Olympia, WA...... Calgary and Edmonton, AB

I will give the answer. All of these cities are divided into 4 quadrants. Street addresses in them, are always followed by N.E., N.W., S.E,. or S.W.

There are other cities that have the quadrant listed before the street address, for example Miami, FL, and Minneapolis, MN, maybe St. Pete, FL.?

[Saintmarks]

Here is one exclusive to these four cities.... at least for another year. All the hint I will give.


Arlington, TX
Glendale, AZ
Tampa
Atlanta

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

The only remaining cities whose professional basketball team was originally in the ABA before they joined the NBA?

Someone got it a few pages back, but yes, the cities of the four remaining ABA teams that merged with the NBA.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by bbtm100912

ROTF! I have to go shopping for a new chair for that dunce corner, (and maybe a new hat) that was awfully uncomfortable. So I'll be back in a bit.

You're a good boy. I'll throw you a bone: look at the cities' names

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Oh, sorry. Here's the clue then: These cities all shared a singular status in the 19th century, but no longer have that status:

Mobile, AL
Cincinnati, OH
St. Paul, MN
Richmond, VA

19th century and Richmond's on the list. i'm probably grasping at straws here, but I'll go with the Civil War. Richmond, of course, was the main capital of a the South. Mobile would have served as the port for the original CSA capital of Montgomery. Besides Mobile harbor was blockaded.

The two northern cities prove more troublesome. Cincinnati was an important first stop of the Underground RR in the free states north of the Mason Dixon and the Ohio...but so what. Thus Cincy looked south across the Ohio to the slave states....but since Kentucky stayed in the union...so there is nothing strategic about Cincy....another so what.

St. Paul would be the toughest so The biggest stretch here. St. Paul is close to the source of the Mississippi and the point where the river becomes navigable. That would make it a staging point. The North's Anaconda Plan was to cut the Southit in two,by way of the Mississippi.....St. Paul being the only real port in the north on the Mississippi (St. Paul being the real city and Mpls a backwater to launch this. Missouri, like Kentucky, never seceded, but St. Louis with its split loyalities could not have been used to launch.

So I have two grey cities and two blue

Do I think I'm right on this one? Sadly not. So I think I went throgh my long, convoluted concocted story for nothing