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Saturday, February 2nd 2008

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Mike: Hairsy-I'd love to ask my Uncle Frank about these things. Unfortunately, he passed away last year. I remember Bill Bronkel, but the other names don't ring a bell. Look forward to reading your postings.

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

Dino: I worked in Tarrytown for 15 yrs.Started in Hard Trim,then Soft trim after the 1982 layoff. I use to be a floater when I first started and I really enjoyed it a lot.I worked in all the departments and met so many people.My father started in 1958 and my...

in response to Abandoned General Motors Plant

jeeff: no problem, but i would suggest you see it for yourself. only avoid the creepy guy in the forest.

in response to Across the Wintry Valley

Mike Tess: I agree that when parrots bite it is usually with warning and a reaction to the bitten person's actions. I just got home and had to google parrot bite in response to what happened today. I just got home from my favorite pet store in New York. I won't say...

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CE: These photos are wonderful. I especially like the red escalators!

in response to Trees, Wires, and Mysterious Buildings

Rachael: where can i get the myspace for the store?

in response to Taxi Taxi

_-*Infamou$*D: Pac and Mod and whoever else are doing the crazy kta shit around the hammer are the craziest artists around. keep up the good shit. i have some pics of some in the hammer

in response to Graffiti in the Hammer

george: i remember when the west side highway was still elevated that far down. past the intrepid. im 28 now but this was like 1983 maybe? that truck was still there back then but it had an american flag painted on it!!!

in response to Ugliest Building in New York?

Michelle: EvilGentleman - The storms we get nowadays in Toronto are not really severe, nor do they put our city at a standstill like everyone likes to pretend. I think people took advantage of the moderate amount of snow to have a day off from work, etc. I remember much larger...

in response to Snow Day!

Dave: Hi, To all who wished to know where Sparrow Park is, it is the small piece of land at the side of the Nags Head Pub and in front of Irlam Library.

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

NervaVels: I lived on the block of Green/Evergreen/Harman for almost 20 years; prior to that, I lived on Jefferson St between Knickerbocker and Irving (still remember getting picked up by the bus to go to a private school called Junior Academy). I remember when it was an Italian neighborhood and...

in response to A Rare Ruin in Bushwick

Andrew Smith: Cheers for those Marrissa - they're great. The block of flats just to the left of centre in the second pic, just below the school field, is where I lived for the first 13 years of my life. The top part of the photo is like a map of my childhood...

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Guy McLaren: I tried but there was just too much

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Marissa Chaplin: The "Bullring" on the Margarine Estate

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Marissa Chaplin: Bottom of pic, new houses on site of old margarine works middle of pic Fiddlers Lane Community Primary School 2007

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Marissa Chaplin: Here are some pics you might like to see. My Uncle took them when we went up in a little plane. Irlam & Cadishead Community High School 2007

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

Barbara Schneider: My Grandparents had the first store on Barron Island the Hilinski General store and butcher shop. in the early 1900's. I have and old picture of it, but I have heard there is a picture of it in a book about Barron Island I want to find the book. All...

in response to Barren Island

Rob Tynan: Hi Nat Im afraid its already gone. It has been replaced by apartments /rabbit hutches / executive homes or what ever you would like to call them about 4 years ago. Developers get more money for apartments/rabbit hutches, its as simple as that. If that farm was in the cheshire countryside, it...

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Rob, thanks so much for the pics. Do you kno whats to become of Hulme farm? it could be restored to a guest house, or a grand family home. WHAT A WASTE !!!!

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Hey! This is really your Work?! Cool! I never earlier did not see sites like this! Tnx!: Hey! This is really your Work?! Cool! I never earlier did not see sites like this! Tnx!

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Pam: How about Gravesend? Is it a safe neighborhood?

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma, Greetings from Adelaide ( arrived here in september 1980 ),and many thanks for your condolences on the passing of our much loved son Brian.He leaves his wife Jen and their 2 lovely children, Chris 7 and Janet 9. The party in our flat above the shop must have been while...

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

its me: yeah Hoboken is where i would want raise my kids...lol you have to be kidding. Staten Island is a great place to raise kids, LOW crime and good schools. do Staten Islanders a favor and move back to Brooklyn.

in response to All of Staten Island

hairsy: i know you uncle frank he was the bartender on saturdays we used to play cards in the back of the bar he should know me. some other guys from the bar was jerry shaw bill bronkel jack delaney gillis jimmy addison lou duffy joe quinn so many more to...

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

Rob Tynan: Heres one!! Does anyone in Cadishead remember the "Bettaware" man who used to bring samples of "revoluntionary" household gismos round to your house, I remember he drove a 1960s Ford Classic.

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

Rob Tynan: Does anyone remember the concrete octagonal paddling pool in the park at Lords Street Cadishead, and the concrete tunnel. It was always full of glass, I was never allowed near it as a kid because of the glass. I remember the slides there were quite high.

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

Rob Tynan: Hi Norma again, Yep I remember Mr Samson The Pru Man, Apparently he is still living in Essex Gardens. He used to come and collect the insurance money from my parents.

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Rob Tynan: Hi Norma, Yep, I remember Mike and Sheila, I can remember me and my dad giving mike a lift home once after a band concert. Correct me if I am wrong, but Mike played the cornet, and so did sheila. As for Len the milkman, he had an old grey...

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Andrew Smith: EvilGentleman - that sounds very, very cold. Deadly cold. Would you do a holiday house swap with some desert folk? An extreme-exchange of some kind? I'm very happy in my 'Warm temperate Western Margin' as my Geography teacher told us (basically, the UK would be quite cold if it wasn't for...

in response to Snow Day!

EvilGentleman: What cute little snowdrifts. I like the pictures, but I really get the impression that most Torontonians have no clue what a real Canadian winter is like. But I suppose you get lake effect storms once in a while that at least keep you more winterized than Vancouver. I remember...

in response to Snow Day!

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