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Shouldn't it be listed about the first ever Ponderosa opened in Kokomo in 1968, if you go to the "Ponderosa/Bonanza Steakhouse" page on wikipedia it says that on there, also on the Ponderosa page it has the sources that would be nessesary for it to be added here —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dustin4528354 ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
I chopped out a lot of material that was not appropriate for an encylopedia/almanac. Road construction projects, shopping center store lists, and "minor parks" do not belong here. This is stuff that belongs on a chamber of commerce Web site or personal Web site. -- Tysto 07:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC) HELL0? First mcdonalds diner in Kokomo Indiana in 2000? O RLY?
Or first pneumatic rubber tire? Not hardly, by about fifty years and 3000+ miles. —Preceding
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07:44, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, was on the list of people who had lived in Kokomo. I've found no reference to him living in Kokomo, Indiana. Sorry.
Reason for invention contradicts reason given in the entry for Elwood Haynes
Also, Elwood Haynes not mentioned in article "Stainless Steel" as an inventor of that substance. Most information points to Mr. Haynes being the first to use stainless steel to craft dinnerware. —Preceding
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Kokomo IN Real Estate - Howard Co Real Estate points to http://www.athomeinkokomo.com/ which is just some REALTOR'S® website. It should point to http://raci.org which is the website of the Howard County Board of REALTORS® which has the entire MLS database online. I'm not able to edit this page so someone more important than me will have to do it.
Gregmess37 04:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Kokomo is listed as origin of the Cat in the cartoon Cats Don't Dance. Sean Cleary 71.189.135.118 14:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Not Sure if reference is for Kokomo, IN - But I recall an old (1939) Movie called The Kid from Kokomo. Seems it would have more relevance than a cartoon. --
Caveman.otr (
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One other movie reference I can think of is in the (1989) movie Assassination, if someone can verify. Charles Bronson & the First Lady get off a passenger train, in a small town with mountains in the background.. I believe that town was referrd to as Kokomo..-- Caveman.otr ( talk) 15:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a reference to the Ryan White business here? Maybe under KKK? SidiLemine 14:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)---
Check under "Famous Kokomo residents...I mean "Notable residents"... Baldwin91006 02:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
The Notable People from Kokomo is just getting out of hand with people who very few would ever consider famous. Unknown sports teams and musicians. Come on people. Just stick with a core list, it's getting out of hand. -- 74.132.94.122 ( talk) 05:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I think that the list has gotten way out of hand (either again, in reference to the earlier statement, or never changed). I think it either needs to be cut down or removed and made its own page with a link on Kokomo's main page. I'm betting we can get rid of about 90% of these "notable" people. Any suggestions? ( Rapierce ( talk) 21:28, 23 January 2012 (UTC))
I was reading over the article for Kokomo, and I was getting very bored with all the information about the "famous" people and all the information about having the firsts in different restaurant chains do not really say very much about the city. I was maybe suggesting some more information about the culture such as the Seiberlings, Elwood Haynes, Big Ben and the Sycamore Stump would be more suitable for an encyclopedia than having the first starbucks in a non municipal area. The section with all the external links would be a great place to start writing sections on the local culture and history, reference them. -- Rapierce ( talk) 20:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Theres a reference to some obscure line from Band Of Brothers listed on the page, but NOTHING about the Beach Boys song? What gives? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.183.51.43 ( talk) 21:18, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
The Beach Boys song was about a bar in Florida, not about the town in Indiana.
See
Kokomo_(song) —Preceding
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And yet we have zero proof of the claim about the song being about “a bar in Florida,” and “not about the town in Indiana.” You need to show proof via a reputable source instead of going around making unsubstantiated claims. AdG2K22 ( talk) 02:16, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
All the links to the town website in this article are dead. Perhaps a Kokomo editor can fix them? -- BHC ( talk) 02:01, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
The Klan was a powerful force in Indiana and Kokomo, so I’ve added more material. I also left the estimate of the Melfalfa Park rally at 200,000 since all the sources I can find accept that number. Nicmart ( talk) 16:09, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:49, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Someone made a change today to the bit in the history section about the Palm Sunday tornado. I called up the reference to verify it and much to my surprise there was nothing on Kokomo in the cited article. I will try to search, but web search for a reliable source for something that happened in the 60's is usually not too efficient. If I don't succeed, perhaps a local could trek to the library and cite the local paper? I tagged the info as dubious, but left it intact, as my personal recollection was that Kokomo did sustain some pretty heavy damage in that storm. It still should be properly cited. Thanks! Gtwfan52 ( talk) 22:40, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Would someone please purge this section of its complete & utter bullshit, or at least qualify it in terms of USAnian parochialist beliefs.
These inventions are associated with Kokomo:[9]
1894 – Elwood Haynes makes the first successful trial run of his "horseless carriage" on Pumpkinvine Pike, which is now Boulevard east of U.S.31. 1894 – The first pneumatic rubber tire was invented by D.C. Spraker at the Kokomo Rubber Tire Company. 1895 – The first aluminum casting was developed by William "Billy" Johnson from the Ford and Donnelly Foundry. 1902 – Kingston carburetor developed by George Kingston. 1906 – The first Stellite cobalt-base alloy was discovered by Elwood Haynes. 1912 – Stainless steel tableware was invented by Elwood Haynes as a response to his wife's desire for tableware that wouldn't tarnish. 1918 – The Howitzer shell, used in World War I, was created by the Superior Machine Tool Company. 1918 – The first aerial bomb with fins was first produced by the Liberty Pressed Metal Company. 1920 – The mechanical corn picker was created by John Powell. 1926 – Carl Molin developed Dirilyte golden-hued tableware. 1928 – The first canned tomato juice was created by Walter Kemp from Kemp Brothers Canning Company in response to a physician's need for baby food. 1938 – The first push-button car radio was created at Delco Radio Division of General Motors Corporation. 1941 – Globe American Stove Company manufactured the first all-metal life boats and rafts. 1947 – The first signal-seeking car radio was created by the Delco Radio Division of General Motors. 1956 - Delco Radio Division of General Motors produced a transistorized signal-seeking car (hybrid) radio, which used both vacuum tubes and transistors in its radio's circuitry. This transistorized car radio was available as an option on the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette car models.[30][31] 1957 – Delco Radio Division of General Motors produced an all-transistor car radio, as standard equipment for the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham car model.[32]
People monitoring this page doesn't do a very good job and i refuse to waste my time editing things on here. So i think the following things need added: 1. A climate chart like most cities do showing the typical weather conditions you may find in Kokomo. 2. Corrections about the City-Line buses and how there is now 5 bueses, not 2. 3. A list of more stores under Entertainment. Old Navy, Best Buy, McDonalds, Arbys, Hot Topic, Chipotle, among other top stores should be listed, either that or no stores should be. 4. In the Transportation section when it mentions the US 31 bipass it should be add the current US 31 is going to be called Indiana State Road 931. sweepout ( talk) 09:22, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that someone culled Tod Sloan from the "Notable Persons" section on the ground of lack of notability. My question is how a person who merits his own Wikipedia article and who has a biography published about him (by Yale University Press no less, a book which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) is not notable enough for Kokomo? And if having a Wikipedia article is not enough to warrant notability, then how is an obscure, former Christian punk group (with an unsourced Wikipedia article) or a circus performer who quit the Barnum Circus when she was 12 or a beauty pagent/reality TV contestant notable enough? AnthroMimus ( talk) 22:07, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
The climate part that I added back in around September seems to be missing now? I have went back to mid November, but i can't find who made the destructive edit to where i can undo it. If anyone happens to see where the edit happened please let me know. Jacobjimmy2000 ( talk) 01:35, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Nevermind, I think that the information in the climate chart isn't showing because i have the beta Wikipedia for the visual editor running? Jacobjimmy2000 ( talk) 01:40, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Why does it list county schools under Education in the Kokomo article? North Western, and Eastern need to be on Howard County, Indiana's page not here. Western covers Pine Valley and other parts of Kokomo, and Taylor covers an extinsive south eastern portion including Indian Heights so those can stay, but shouldn' the others go? Just checking other peoples opinion before i make changes, maybe possible all the systems touch the little bits of Kokomo's boundary? Jacobjimmy2000 ( talk) 13:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
I added a new section env problems and it was promptly tagged as "undue". a reliably sourced article expansion to cover a 20 year existing groundwater plume is hardly undue. Not mentioning it is undue and suppressing the info is whitewashing-- Wuerzele ( talk) 04:49, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
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@ Historianbuff: We are only supposed to include pop culture appearances if those appearances portray the town in any notable way or have significantly influenced how the town is perceived. From what I am reading in the entry you added, it does not seem like the film Cats Don't Dance has done either of those things, since it sounds like the town is only mentioned a few times in passing. If you have a reliable source that indicates the references in the movie have significantly influenced how people perceive the town, then, by all means, your addition is welcome. Otherwise, I am not convinced that it adds anything constructive to the article. -- Katolophyromai ( talk) 22:36, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Does anyone else think this is unusual? I've never seen that in any other city article, and think it does not do the city's history any justice. I would propose that this list, which IS still valuable, might be a better fit as a subheading of Culture, since they are architecturally significant places that one might visit, in addition to being a part of the city's history. Unless there are objections, I can make this change. If there are objections, does anyone have a better idea? The status quo, in any event, does not work. 1980fast ( talk) 05:57, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
If we can't change the info heading for the 2016 tornado, I see no reason why we can't add wikilinks, to the "Notable tornadoes" section. While I understand that a wikilink should generally only appear once in any given article, it also says hat it can be helpful to readers if wikilinks are added to another section. Some thoughts?-- 2601:153:900:43F0:4030:5257:78E8:CB2E ( talk) 22:15, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
I've revered my own edit until a consensus is reached.-- 2601:153:900:43F0:4030:5257:78E8:CB2E ( talk) 22:29, 27 January 2019 (UTC)