These are some random facts about Corvallis that even I didnt know :P.
Our Community of Corvallis, Oregon
Harvard Business Review’s “Creative Index” - February 2004 placed Corvallis in the
top fifteen cities for Technology, Talent & Tolerance.
On NBC's the Today Show - March 2004, authors Pete Sambert & Burt Sperling in their book
“CITIES RANKED & RATED” recognized Corvallis in the top ten.
Mens Journal - April 2004 rated the Community as the seventh best place to live.
USAToday - January 2002 listed Corvallis as 4th in the nation for the numbers of patents issued.
OTHER RECOGNITION:
BIZ Demographics placed Corvallis as 7th in the nation for great places to do business.
BikeUSA listed Corvallis, 9th in the nation as a Bicycle Friendly City
National Arbor Day Foundation awarded Corvallis "Top Tree City" in 2002
Orange County Register picked Corvallis "Best Pac10 Campus" in 2002 (I still think most of OSU looks like a dungeon.. and LB looks like a prison..)
MORE FACTS ABOUT CORVALLIS:
Corvallis has the highest education level in the state
Corvallis has the second highest income level in the state
Corvallis is the birthplace of computer inkjet printing technology by Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis is home of Nobel Prize winner, Linus J. Pauling (LOL was that for re-building Highland?)
A graduate of Oregon State University invented the computer mouse (Now, we besta get recognition for that! Imagine no computer mouses :P)
NOW, lets take a virtual tour around the city.. (click on pics to make them bigger)
This here is a very old picture of one of the main shopping centers.. There is a lot more built now.. but ya.. its on the corner of Kings and Walnut.. kings = street with masjid on it.
This is the all so famous court house downtown.. on an all too typical over cast day
This is the new Highland Muslim(named such due to the amount of Muslim students that once attended it :P) school.. renamed..
This is an arial of what looks like the 53rd street area, right hina? The edge of walnut and stuff..
This is part of OSU. You can see Reeser Stadium.. the Hilton "garden inn".. basball field (does that even have a name?) and some other stuff..
This is a bit of the riverfront and sorta an overall view of part of the city..
" If I hit the jackpot tomorrow", writes Gary Warner, in the Orange County Register," I'd quite the rat race and move to Corvallis. You'd find me at the New Morning Bakery with a big mug of coffee and a cinnamon roll, scanning the local real estate listings." LOL! this is the bakery.. its pretty good if you ask me..
Anddddd this is the library..
Have I bored you enough? how about another two pictures or so.. I'll try to find one of the masjid.. and one of the prison and dungeon :P.. I have lots of dungeon but cant find one of the prison :(.
ok these are the best pics of the prison, aka LB campus, that I could find:
This is an arial of OSU campus area
This is one of them dungeon buildings :P
and ya, this is a really small pic but you can see a few of the campus buildings in it..
And finally, I'll end of with a nice picture of the riverfront..
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