You Know You Are From Lima If....

Al Jardine a founding member of The Beach Boys

Al Snow a professional wrestler and actor

Ann Hamilton a contemporary artist

Ben Roethlisberger a football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Brad Komminsk a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues

Bud Collins an journalist and television sportscaster

Charles N. Lamison a politician, soldier, and lawyer who was a two-term United States congressman from Ohio

Charles William Fulton a United States Senator from Oregon

Cullen Chambers has worked in over 3,000 film, TV shows, commercial, and video productions

Donald Richie an author who has written a number of books about the Japanese people and Japanese cinema

Gene Stechschulte a former Major League Baseball player who pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals

Gloria Foy a dancer, singer, vaudeville performer, and star of musical revues

Helen O'Connell a singer, actress, and dancer

Hit The Lights a pop punk band signed to Triple Crown Records

Hugh Downs a retired broadcaster, television host, producer, and author

James R. Black an American film and television actor, and former professional football player

James T. Begg a U.S. Representative from Ohio

Jeff Mullen a football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the West Virginia Mountaineers

Jerry Byrd a musician who played Lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music

Jim Lynch a football linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs

Joe Henderson a jazz tenor saxophonist

Jim Baldridge a news anchor for WHIO-TV

Joe Morrison a football player for the New York Giants and a coach at USC<

John L. Cable a U.S. Representative from Ohio

Jon Niese a pitcher for the New York Mets

Justin LeHew a highly decorated United States Marine serving in the War on Terror

Marilyn Meseke was twice crowned Miss Ohio (1931 and 1938) and Miss America in 1938

Matthias H. Nichols a U.S. Representative from Ohio

Michael Winkler a poet and artist

Mike Current a college and professional offensive lineman in the 1960s and '70s

Pamela Kyle Crossley a leading historian of modern China, northern Asia, and global history

Paul Shuey a free agent Major League relief pitcher

Phyllis Diller a Golden Globe-nominated comedienne

Ryan Drummond an actor, comedian, and clown, the former voice of Sonic the Hedgehog

Thomas L. Sprague an admiral who served during World War II as commander of the USS Intrepid

Tom Barrington a former football running back for the Washington Redskins and New Orleans Saints

Walter Baldwin actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles

William Alfred Fowler 1983 recipient of the Noble Prize for Physics for his work on stellar reactions

William E. Metzger, Jr. a United States Army Air Forces officer and a recipient of the medal of Honor

William White a football safety who played in the National Football League

~ You think of Fat Jack's as dining out.

~ You know that Dave Thomas copied Wendy's from Kewpee's

~ Februcherry and Marchocolate are part of your vocabulary

~ You think LCI is Lima Correctional Institution, not a long distance company

~ You said, "Kalida with a K"

~ You wonder why the TB Hospital closed, and that its haunted/inhabited by the homeless drug dealers

~ You have called Lima "The Bean, Beantown, Bean City" and know that we have a city mascot named "Beanie" that is a giant green Lima Bean with a red hat displaying his name

~ You got hurt sledding at the Reservoir or Farout Park

~ You went to The MacDonell House for an elementary school field trip ( and JDC)

~ You miss Chi -Chi's

~ You wish the American Mall still had the cheap theater and the cool arcade (with air hockey and laser tag)

~ You say Square Fair is for squares, but you always end up going anyways because there's nothing else to do

~ You know where C'ville is

~ You immediately conjure up a picture in your mind when someone says a person is from Shawnee, Bath, Elida, Lima Senior, LCC. Perry, or Delphos

~ You still wonder what happened to the big fountain in the middle of the Lima Mall

~ You use directions to emphasize you're traveling somewhere. Phrases such as "going up to Cleveland, or "going down to C'bus"

~ You went to the "Vortex" aka Night Moves with the 14 year olds (or was one fo them) that sneak in because there was nothing better to do

~ You've ever done donuts in a parking lot for an extended period of time

~ You catch yourself singing the "Pat's Donuts and Kreme" and "Yarger can do" jingle

~ You know that Kewpee has the best hamburgers on the planet

~ You actually know what LIMA stands for LOST IN MIDDLE AMERICA and that there's a movie about it

~ You go away to college and think it's weird that Jerry Lewis doesn't own all the McDonalds

~ In August everyone is singing "The Allen County Fair is here."

~ Every time you turn a corner you run into "preacher man, batman, or superman."

~ You are driving back into town at night and you use the glow from the refinery to guide you home

~ If you have ever been late because you got stuck by a train, either Cable Rd or Cole St because it crept along slowly, then backed up, then pulled forward, then backed up

~ If you know that Bowling Green State University was originally supposed to be built there, but we chose the insane asylum instead

~ You think all milk comes from Hefner Dairy

~ If you know what Thunder Alley is and actually went