Starship built their city on Rock and Roll. What'd YOU build YOUR city on?

[tuvor]

[KamaAina]

1. Jazz!

Still my city (one of 'em, anyway) after fiteen long years.

[sendero]

2. Quirky.

... art rock. :)

[Telly Savalas]

3. Smog.

[derby378]

4. Crap and bricks.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Stumps and lattes. n/t

[Fuzz]

6. Cigars and mayonnaise

[5thGenDemocrat]

7. First furs, then timber, then autos, now medicine

Saginaw was once (1870-1890) the largest producer of lumber in the USA. Pine from the Saginaw Valley largely rebuilt Chicago after the Great Fire. If you drive a GM car, the steering components were likely built here. And we are today, outside of Detroit, one of the leading centers for heart, brain and cancer surgery in Michigan.
John
After the timber was cut down, the Saginaw Valley was converted to farmland. If you order a bowl of bean soup in the cafeteria of the US Capitol, the beans were grown here. This is a little tradition that dates back in 1910 or so when our then-congressman, "Sugar Beet" Joe Fordney (chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee), got it attached to some obscure legislation before that august body.

[ForrestGump]

8. Jimmy Hoffa

Lots of dead people, anyway ("lot of holes in the desert"), and where I live used to be "the desert" Las Vegas' bosses and their underlings used as a means for disposing of their problems....

[Arkham House]

9. butterscotch ripple ice cream...

...which you can't get anymore...which is why America is in such steep decline...

[CrushTheDLC]

10. Shitty beer?

[LeftyMom]

11. Flood plain.

Whoops.

[LaraMN]

12. A giant mini-golf range.

It really ruined things for the golfers.

[Briarius]

13. the backs of immigrant workers

and kittens