Population trivia: Which has a larger population? Hoover, AL, (where Eric lives)? Or Pensacola?

no googling allowed. The winner gets lunch at Jerry's Cajun or Wintzell's, your choice.

No Googling? Damn. I guess Hoover. It's a middle-class yuppie area with a shopping mall that claims the world's largest skylight and the #1 tourist attraction in Alabama.

Definitely Hoover...definitely....BTW isn't there a big dam there too?

From Wikipedia (not Google) Hoover 62,742; Pensacola 51,923

Joanimaroni wrote:Definitely Hoover...definitely....BTW isn't there a big dam there too?

There's a big damn idiot... me! But no big dam, Joani.

ButtMan wrote:no googling allowed. The winner gets lunch at Jerry's Cajun or Wintzell's, your choice.

Hey, wait a minute... they're closed, aren't they?

That is pretty damn funny. Got right by me. LOL

I know there is a big dam, dammit. Hoover Alabama Dam.

Joanimaroni wrote:I know there is a big dam, dammit. Hoover Alabama Dam.

AKA Boulder Dam in Boulder, Colorado...

Yomama wrote:From Wikipedia (not Google) Hoover 62,742; Pensacola 51,923

That's an old figure. Actually Hoover has grown quite a bit percentage-wise since that.

http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-Alabama.html

at the same time P'Cola has lost population...

http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-Alabama.html

Hoover is now the 6th largest city in Bama. And P'Cola is so far down the list in Florida that it's pathetic.

Just think, at one time Pensacola was THE largest city in Florida.

Even Dothan now has a larger city population than Pensacola. We oughta hang our heads in shame.

You seem to have forgot that we have a new Ball Park. Soon we will be big as Atlanta, Just wait. Trust me.

hallmarkgrad wrote:You seem to have forgot that we have a new Ball Park. Soon we will be big as Atlanta, Just wait. Trust me.

I dunno about that. But once the newness of that baseball wears off and the sales of the 6 and 8 dollar beers start to decline, we'll soon have a larger per-capita bonded indebtedness than Atlanta ever thought about having. lol

Yomama wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:I know there is a big dam, dammit. Hoover Alabama Dam.

AKA Boulder Dam in Boulder, Colorado...

I know that ....but they moved it to Hoover Al and changed the name to Hoover dam. They have inner-tube water polo there.

Does Hoover have a Maritime..er..Ballpark?

She was right! Here is the Hoover Ala dam

UPS wrote:Does Hoover have a Maritime..er..Ballpark?

Yep. The Birmingham Barrons have played there for years. Birmingham decided to build a new park for them, though. The Hoover "Regions Park" is truly a multipurpose park, centered on baseball, but they play football and soccer there as well.
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Damn! Of all the photos I have the only football images I have from there are low res movies of high school football. The other images I can find on the net of football or soccer there are copyrighted.

hallmarkgrad wrote:She was right! Here is the Hoover Ala dam

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hallmarkgrad wrote:She was right! Here is the Hoover Ala dam

Yeah, but... taint a big un.

Hoover's Regions Park has a large parking lot, adjacent fields for practice, and a nice R/V park... excellent for tailgating!!!!

The SEC has held a lot of baseball tournaments there.

Its gotta be Hoover, Hell, thats where the vacuum sweeper was invented.

The town used to be Podunk until Herbert Hoover spent the weekend there once during a campaign stop. He won a hotdog eating contest and they named the town after him.


I expect Eric has even more Hoover trivia.

Yella wrote:Its gotta be Hoover, Hell, thats where the vacuum sweeper was invented.

The town used to be Podunk until Herbert Hoover spent the weekend there once during a campaign stop. He won a hotdog eating contest and they named the town after him.


I expect Eric has even more Hoover trivia.

Yella, your trivia trumps my trivia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

ButtMan wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

Hooverville should have had a dam, dammit.

ButtMan wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

After reading this link over and over I now believe Herbert Hoover invented the vacuum sweeper.