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Scotia, CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California It is a “company town”, but it is not incorporat
by SllX 3y ago
Scotia, CA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California
It is a “company town”, but it is not incorporated.
You can also find a company town near you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_U...
- echelon 3y agoI was hoping there would be one in Georgia, but we're one of the 8 states without one. These are fascinating. Of course Walt Disney owns the most famous instance of these.
- jagged-chisel 3y agoThe Walt Disney Company does. I realize the shorthand is valid, but it just reads like Walt is still alive. I guess I’m being pedantic for my own sake…
- ghayes 3y agoBeing even more pedantic, he maybe still is, by some definition.
- SllX 3y agoYou're going to have to explain that one. My first guess is you mean his legacy but a man's legacy is not the same as his life.
- HankB99 3y agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/
- thatguy0900 3y agoThere's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future
- SllX 3y agoAh. Let's generously say that did happen and it works out for him at some indeterminate point in the future. Would you then consider the frozen and completely inactive head disconnected from a living body vital for sustaining the living processes of the head of Walt Disney still living in the present? If this thread is to be completely pedantic, we have to go all the way here.
- k12sosse 3y agoNot living. But liveable. Not alive but not dead. Sort of pre- death, but post- life. How about: statically being
- calamari4065 3y agoDead until proven otherwise
- biztos 3y agoI don’t think this question can be properly answered without asking someone thus revivified.
- SllX 3y agoSo is it like naming rights for discoveries then? The first guy to get pulled out of the freezer gets to decide if he was alive or dead during his tenure as a popsicle?
- biztos 3y agoIMO all we need is one successful reanimation and suddenly those popsicles will be presumptively "alive" in a legal sense. But in a philosophical sense, yeah, every voice will count but the first voice will count most, until it's overtaken by a more eloquent one. Assuming they can even communicate.
- staticautomatic 3y agoI’d add Sinclair, WY to that list. I stumbled upon it while driving cross country. It’s kinda surreal.
- SllX 3y agoIt's Wikipedia. Go ahead and add it. :)
- jimmaswell 3y agoThe Sinclair facility I saw at night full of hundreds of white lights was beautiful in an odd way, like a kind of Christmas tree.
- dhosek 3y agoI was surprised from the list to learn that Gary, Indiana was originally owned by U.S. Steel.
- cronix 3y agoAnd now US Steel is owned by Japan!
- o0-0o 3y agoThat's just incorrect information. There is a bid, which needs to go through a variety of functions to succeed. Also, it's not a bid by Japan. It's a bid by Nippon Steel. Just clearing up the hogwash here.
- sparky_z 3y agoNamed after US Steel found Elbert Gary, back when "Gary" was almost exclusively a surname. Later, a burgeoning young actor named Frank Cooper needed to change his professional name to avoid a conflict with other Frank Coopers in the industry, and his agent suggested the name of her hometown, to give him some blue collar cred. "Gary Cooper" became a household name and people have been naming their children "Gary" ever since.
- nadermx 3y agoInteresting to know there is a company town named Hazardville.