Random City, USA

Most of us despise where we live, if your looking for a new city to move to, this page is for you.  Each week a new city will be selected at random as our Random City of the week, we will give you the upsides and downsides to living in Random City, USA.

 

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This Weeks Random City . . .

 

 

 

Population (2000) – 2,278

 

Eureka Springs is a quaint town nestled in the Ozark Mountains.  The entire town is actually on the National Register of Historic Places.  It is the second most popular tourist area in Arkansas, right after the bleachers Bill Clinton lost his virginity underneath.  The town which was once a bustling city of over 10,000 is now inhabited by just over 2,000.  2,278 people to be exact comprising 1,119 households.  The census took the liberty of breaking down Eureka Springs vastly diverse residents, 93.94% are White, 0.04% Black or African American, 0.70% Native American, 0.79% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 2.28% from other races, and 2.15% from two or more races. 3.99% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.  This fantastic melting pot allows the city to have four diversity weekends each year.  During these weekends the residents consume “diversity foods and drinks” such as fried chicken, corn, fried rice, tacos and Hawaiian punch.

 

The census also tells us that in Eureka Springs of 1,119 households, 54 are unmarried partner households: 36 heterosexual, 10 same-sex male, and 8 same-sex female households.  Despite that however the city claimes that “Visitors to Eureka Springs can expect to see hippies, artists, bikers, local residents, preachers, a highly visible gay and lesbian population.”  Well I guess most of the actual gay community of Eureka Springs did not report themselves to the census.  This of course can be explained, since much of Eureka Springs actually believe in aliens and UFO’s and we all know about the constant feud between homosexuals and Aliens.  Hippies love the area because of the two nearby lakes and rivers where the annual “Eureka! Where are my clothes? Skinny Dipping Festival” occurs.  The festival draws most of the locals including hippie/former Mayor Richard Schoeninger who also posed nude in the Arkansas Times in 1984.  Bikers love area because of its unique landscape.  Buried in the mountains the towns elavation varies between streets including one street which is actually a staircase.  This hilly landscape was actually used in some of the street racing scenes in Fast and the Furious.

 

The city does actually have a spring that is mystical powers.  It has been said that it can cure many crippling diseases including, the cold, flu, constipation, tummy aches, headaches, fevers, tennis elbow and athletes foot.  Eureka Springs is also home to a religious theme park that is not yet built.  It has been in its planning stages since 1964 when controversial Minister Gerald L.K. Smith began the construction.  Smith only had one part of his theme park finished at the time of his death, a 7-story 2 million pound white concrete statue of Jesus known as Christ of the Ozarks.  It sits on the top of Magnetic Mountain and can be seen from hundreds of mile away.  Locals will tell you that the concrete was carried to the top of the mounatin on the backs of the residents very similar to ancient Egyptians building the pyramids.  This sculture was made possible by Emmet Sullivan who was one of the lesser known sculptors of Mount Rushmore.  Emmet later went on to sculpt the infamous 12-Story sculpture of David Hasselhoff in Berlin, which of course was ripped to shreds by the Germans so everyone could have a piece of the massive ‘Hoff.

 

The city is the home of famous childrens book author Crescent Dragonwagon, Muralist Louis Freund, Painter Tommy Thomas, Actor Eddie Edwards, Pilot Johnny Jonathan, Chef Jenny Jennifer, and of course famous R+B group Tony! Toni! Tone!

 

 

For more information on Eureka Springs, visit their homepage.

 

*** Some of the above information may not be factualy acturate, we apologize for any misconceptions we may have brought to the city of Eureka Springs, it really is apperently a beautiful city, we don’t know though we’ve never been there. ***