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arquitecto: Xavi, good post. I feel your pain. I am a central american immigrant who grew up in cleveland. Went to school in Portland and am living in Sacramento CA. I have gained......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Grace: Does anyone remember the bakery on dekalb and wilson near the police station it was owned my the messinas?? or amendalaras soda outlet on wilson.. does anyone know anyone on that block.. would......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Elkin School Rulz!: I think we should have a stickball tournament for all former Kensingtonians. But where do we find a Pimple Ball? Man, I miss them days. We didn't care how hot it was,......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

chae sone: Mad cowed assemblymen. WHO REPRESENTS KOREA? The Korean people want to be free from the mad cow riots. It reminds Rousseau’s statement. “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is chains.” In this social condition, he proposed......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

chiamattt: Jack, it's not like the United States is going to 'give' the beef to Korea for free. In previous years (prior to 1994, i think) the Korean market was worth a little more than 3......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

hugglez924: I have lived in Hutchinson nearly all my life and it is a wonderful place to live and raise a family. My children are grown and dont plan on moving to any other town.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

herehere: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing down......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

milagros: i don't know you but i read your story.. i am so sorry for what you had to experience. and hope that you recieve every bless of life to keep there spirit alive. i too......

in response to: 180 Central Avenue: What Was Lost by upfromflames

Osloman20plus: amen to the ^^ comment, though "legalize" might be a bit of a strong word. I'd rather put it as "changing our thinking about the drug problem somewhere around 180 degrees" or something... But still,......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

observer: AMEN!...

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

EvilGentleman: What's a telephone? Ohhhh, wait... Is that one of things that is like a cellphone, but plugs into a wall, and has wires coming out of it? Hehe, seems like yesterday, when my VCR remote had......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Oldfart: This isn't a hockey tradition. Montreal loves its riots ever since the Quebec legislature passed the Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849 and an English mob torched the parliament buildings, which used to be here. Since then......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Mike: Brothel owner asks to suppress evidence By BEN NEARY • Associated Press Writer • January 15, 2008 * Post a Comment * Recommend * Print this page * E-mail this article * Share this article: * Del.icio.us * Facebook * Digg * Reddit * Newsvine * What’s......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Michelle: The first building is the centre block of Canadian Parliament. After that is the Peace Tower. The flowy green-domed ones are the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Apparently the design of the musuem "is supposed to......

in response to: Parliament Hill Cats, Rideau Canal, and RCMP Stables by Michelle

EvilGentleman: The house in the second-last photo is not too bad looking for a recent construction, even though it is somewhat lacking in "soul". Perhaps the soul will be acquired over time, although the building rising......

in response to: 80% of Everything Ever Built in North America... by CE

EvilGentleman: Well Elicar, my previous article on this particular location has become something of an online focal point for those who lived there during its heyday, much like Corsatki's {Cabrini Green} articles. Thus, this page is intended......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

Alan Taylor: Dear Ian Clover, I don't think any harm to your income was intended, or if the posting had in fact damaged your income, although I do agree with your sentiments on copyright, which everyone can read......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Sid: I had a '52 Henry J. I love the hood ornament....

in response to: Classic Cars 4 - 1952 Nash by EvilGentleman

red: wall of text Amen!...

in response to: A Call for Reason in Our Country Kenya by magu nguru

revisited: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

bob rainis: lived on Bushwick ave just off Jefferson . Across the street was Murray's Antiques and an ice cream parlor. Left the area when I was 4 after my dad came early from work one afternoon......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

jamal: I remember the Henry Horner projects very well. I never lived in any of them but lived one block away on Warren Blvd. near Damen. I remember as a little boy when they were......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Alfred: I live in Hutchinson, and I knew this article was pure propaganda right when I saw the photos. The first photo is of an entrance gate to the State Fairgrounds, which the author describes as......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

sonia: bushwick is a very good place to live you have a lot of low income families who live there but there are alot of whites moveing in i have notice a lot of new houses......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bob: The Hutchinson, KS haters amuse me. I'm sure some of them have lived in other cities, some have attested to it in their diatribes. However it seems that they are either young or......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Anonymous: the Democrats for more than 50 years has had a run of Brooklyn, NYC. Left the Bushwick and surrounding areas in total ruin, with crime rampant, profound social apathy, and proliferating vermin to name a......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Tex Re: Someone who made it out: That is really a very honest and telling story about the lives of a lot of youth in Hutchinson. You are to be commended on getting out of the situation and developing a better life.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

dzine808kona: yo thanks for posting does fresh master pieces. da question is where is my boy east3? i havnt seen the pioneer in a while is his burners still around? if can try and post sum......

in response to: Hawaii Graffiti by dubside

Greromdom: No soy creyente, pero soy un apasionado de los edificios religiosos y alguna vez he soñado edificar un iglesia románica. Este hombre no es un loco, es sencillamente un soñador, un sentimental que......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral - Part 2 by Reiner Wandler

draku: practic acest sport de o luna si sunt din cluj.cine vrea sa vina la antrenamente cu minesa ma conctacteze pa Dumbo_jupanul2007@yahoo.com ...

in response to: Istoria Parkour by EXElent

Cloned Prince: I wrote a Parkour Rap! Things just aint the same for todays traceurs, Cops and pigs want to see us in handcuffs Yamakasi and the Belle are aging, The old traceurs, well they're all changing, Making way for new......

in response to: Parkour Trip to Lisses by Ben Nuttall

Yeah I live in Hutch, so what.: Quoted earlier: I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". I can't name ten traits about ANY town that make it special, but to......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

rac: Well, I've been living in Bushwick for 6 months, now (off the Myrtle stop). I was born in the Bx and used to live in Hell's Kitchen for many years; and really its about......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

joey: votive candles in france look very holy. i can say an e-prayer for valerie holt cohen. she passed earlier this month- may she find eternal peace. amen....

in response to: Cathedral by Ilona

Zach: Sacramento owns all....

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

CE: Not where I live. If you look at some of my past {Griffintown} posts, you will find that my neighbourhood is pretty barren and devoid of people or amenities (our only park [other than......

in response to: Griffintown Community Board by CE

Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Matt: My mom was born here in 1924, I never lived there but started doing drugs and bought them there many times in the early 90's. I almost lost my life a couple of times there.......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

EvilGentleman: Um, I think the vows went something like "I-87, do solemnly swear, to cross the Hudson, and to connect New York, Albany and Montreal, for rich cars and for poor cars, in potholes and in......

in response to: Tappan Zee Bride. by barry

A few things that make Hutch special: Let's see, we have the Hutchinson Salt Museum (the only one in the Western hemisphere), Senior's Open and the Women's Open (famous golf tournaments if you didn't know), NJCAA (basketball tournament again, if you didn't......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Angela Watkins~ Harris: I was born in Hutchinson, Kansas back in 1960 and I lived there for a while I did 1/2 of 9th grade at Sherman Junior High School and then attended 10th & 11th at Hutch......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

joey: amen to that...

in response to: St V De P by joey

EvilGentleman: We have both tended to focus on the area of downtown near Guy-Concordia metro, probably due to our being Concordia students. I also hang around with the native crowd in the west end of downtown,......

in response to: RCA Building by Cinic

groovehouse: I guess you could call them Spinal Tap-ish. They had someone read a three page intro that went something along the lines of Rocrament was a band that started in 1947, at one time they......

in response to: ROCRAMENT by groovehouse

procyon: I don't care too much for his buildings, the one we have here in Chicago being among a few exceptions; the fact that it's a bandshell rather than a museum, classroom building, etc. gives it......

in response to: CWRU Bldg by joey

jack: all hail rockrament...

in response to: ROCRAMENT by groovehouse

barry mason: this man is telling the truth. amen!...

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

jeeff: lucky you. there are lots of 'no trespassing' signs now, so i didn't get too close. i agree tho, i wonder why this type of design hasn't been pursued. you get high......

in response to: Habitat by jeeff

Kari: What amazes me, seriously, is that this debate isn't just about Norman. It's about the sameness that we have spread across the US. The original set of photographs, honestly, could have been taken......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

Andrew: He looks a lot like a jerk who hangs out in Cabbagetown that I've seen. He tried to sell me bus tickets last summer and I've seen him drunk/cracked out at the corner of......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

Tyfoid Kid: Jamie - my sister volunteers at Foster Parrots and they are really doing some very good work with almost nothing for a budget. They have taken over an entire house with the birds, trying to......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie

EvilGentleman: cg: I guess I have an inherent dislike of sameness. Contrasts and variety are so much better. It might have something to do with most of my childhood being spent in military housing, where each......

in response to: Debaliviere Place by maybetoday

EvilGentleman: Condos, old and new. The great city of St. Louis deserves better than this graphic example of the full variety of sameness that gentrification produces....

in response to: Debaliviere Place by maybetoday

colavitos ghost: this proves it; public housing--american or otherwise--just pretty much sucks. i've never been to glasgow, london, or any other british city for that matter, but from what i've read and seen in these photos, it seems......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

Biff: That's because it's on Parliament Hill......

in response to: Dalhousie Street by Biff

Carmel Garcia from The Island of Malta: I visited Dusseldorf last January (2007) of a working visit with two of my colleagues on the fiscalis (VAT). It's a wonderfull place especially the new parliament and other buildings.We had some session about the......

in response to: Rhine from above by Wolk Off

EvilGentleman: I have to laugh when I think about this one, Guy. No matter which way I view this piece, I keep saying "Yeah, but..." in my head. I don't know if they ever used the American......

in response to: Rhine from above by Wolk Off

jack: i love old boats. especially boston whalers. i took a cruise to europe with 1000 soldiers, we slapt in hammocks four up to the top, stormy weather in north atlantic, guys were throwing......

in response to: A Walk Along The Embankment by Jamie

Laura : I love the little tree with ornaments- and the keychains all hanging together. ...

in response to: Ewha Station by chiamattt

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: In response to upfromflames regarding Bushwick Corners: This response requires both historical perspective and adjustment of mind set to the Colonial New World. The 17th Century was a fundamentally agrarian society dedicated and tied to land......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

grange: I hear ya Jack ! The only hood ornaments I have had was the deer ..poor bugger ...

in response to: Classic Cars 4 - 1952 Nash by EvilGentleman

grange: very nice . love the link . Thats whats wrong with car companys today . No Art deco hood ornaments . Listen Up GM AND FORD...

in response to: Classic Cars 4 - 1952 Nash by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Actually, you might want to check this out. [[http://www.lepoix.de/index_hood.htm]] or [[http://www.lepoix.de/text/nash_hood_ornament3.htm]]...

in response to: Classic Cars 4 - 1952 Nash by EvilGentleman

jack: i believe that is a special made ornament. if i remember correctly it would have been considered pornographic to have an ornament like that then so i'm guessing it's homemade. yep, now i'm......

in response to: Classic Cars 4 - 1952 Nash by EvilGentleman

.nanotech.: [[img:18501]] NAZI REGIME.911.REICHSTAG - parliament of Germany [[img:18502]] Even the location was a deliberate attempt to conceal it by constructing it in Denver Colorado's 1 mile high mountain area, knowing that planes flying at a maximum altitude will......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

little ukraine: wandered past this building tonight and got some info on it- it is the ottendorfer branch of the nypl. http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/man/otinfo.html "The Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library opened in 1884 as New York City's......

in response to: Anders Celsius by little ukraine

Beadle and Tatum: My bad. I always thought he was an unawknowledged outta wedlock child to Johnson, but I looked it up. "Growing up in rural Arkansas, Mr. Lockwood learned guitar fundamentals from Johnson, who also functioned as an......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Aaron J Ban: As a resident of the neighbourhood, and an artist, and as a person that recently purchased a home at West Side Lofts I can't say enough how rediculous your argument is to make 48 Abell......

in response to: 48 Abell Bites the Dust? by jeeff

anon (cache-los-ac07.proxy.aol.com): Jeff it's not a throwdowm. it's to let you all know that Genuine pearly kings and queens dont have to be members of the opk&q all though it may seem like that. A few years back......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

little ukraine: From today's Brooklyn Daily Eagle... "On November 15, 1977 the Williamsburgh Savings Bank...was declared a landmark. It was designed by Halsey, McCormack & Helmer in 1927. They chose a Romanesque style for the 512-foot......

in response to: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Clocktower in Mourning by GGP

comiche: Incredible...the genius of the human mind and the will of one man... what a testament to the greatness of the human spirit to dare to dream and and to believe.... and what an even greater......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

aer suzuki: almost looks like there's someone crouching on the corner of that lower, darker building, but probably some type of ornamentation i guess...cool shot....

in response to: Reflection by dfwtiger

Chicago: Interesting that the picture poster wrote about being a newcommer here and being interested in the projects. I am extremely interested in them. I'm not sure why. I read "There Are No Children Here" in......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

EvilGentleman: Lemme guess, you mean the red uniforms and the park ranger stetson hats? They only wear those in parades and in front of places like Parliament Hill and at the entrance of the Prime Minister's......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

EvilGentleman: Perhaps this would be an appropriate moment to mention how much I loathe the damage caused by Christian fundamentalists in North America. Let me be clear that I am not referring to **all** the members......

in response to: U.S. Congressman Foley by sine

Scott: Now having watched this construction project for the past 16 or 17 years, I can tell you that this is the 'mission' of a devoted individual. Whatever you think about Jim Bishop the man......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

A Volunteer: And yes EG , people like David Ervine and John White did exactly that in bringing peace to Ulster. The latters crime obviously more severe than the former, stabbing Senator Paddy Wilson ( if......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: I have to translate this. It's just too much to resist. 가장 큰exsqisite, 나는 말해야 한다! 여기 모든에EvilGentleman포획은 이것 이다: 1 - 감시는 시간외에 하고 있다. 2 - 그의 할아버지 새로운 틀이를 얻기 위하여 농부는 도시로 가고 있다. 3......

in response to: Busan, Part Three by chiamattt

laanba: Amen!...

in response to: Dead Tree Killed By Construction by groovehouse

anon (red-200-124-34-125.manquehue.net): Justo: conocí tu maravillosa obra y tu historia narrada por ti.en casa de tu hermana donde vivias alrededor de los años 1989 al l.992. Fuí varias veces y no me cansado......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Jody: Chris, I'm curious to hear the reasoning behind your picks. Personally, I don't find anything below Montreal particularly impressive, and even Montreal is a bit disappointing since it lacks any distinctive focus. It's......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

aer suzuki: hell, post them. i don't think there's a deep concern here to tie things together, is there? besides, if they're all cornices or similar ornamental building parts you have your theme right there......

in response to: Ornamented Edifices Time Capsule by aer suzuki

Bezink: Personally, this is a great addition to that area. I would love to see the downtown core rejuvenated. It's far better than the mess they are making at the top of the hill. ......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: chiamattt: please go back to the store, pick up the cat, put it in a proper box and send it to me. I'll have a saucer of fish heads and Parliament Lights waiting for it.......

in response to: Gongneung by chiamattt

monster: norman oklahoma, just so you know, is the home of the flaming lips, the starlight mints, mainsite contemporary art, opolis productions and forward foods, just to name a few things. Not to forget the university......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

Peter: ...a testament to how humid it was yesterday. ugh. damn [[wiki:heat island]] effect....

in response to: Insurance Fraud by Peter

jeeff: to some degree, but consumer demand (encouraged by govt policy) is what drives sprawl and car-centric development at the fundamental level....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 7 by Scott Sargent

Fa11en: Amen....

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

I.T.U.C.: It is believed that the Chinese community in {Liverpool} Uk, is possibly the oldest in the world. The first Chinese people are supposed to have been Merchants and Sailors, who worked the trade routes to......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

EvilGentleman: Oddly enough, I quite often find protests an interesting thing to see when I am visiting new places. The protesters and the police can often provide a much more complete picture of the way the......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

EvilGentleman: If you took the time to read, you would have noticed that I am a smoker who wishes to be able to continue to indulge in my habit indoors in a location sequestered away with......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Razvan: am inceput parkour , hmm sa zic am inceput ? ca miam luat 2 baietzi de la bloc , si sarim peste ce apucam , exersand skeme luate din filmuletze si poze , binentzeles la......

in response to: Istoria Parkour by EXElent

MutantScum: Thanks for info! I appreciate it. I initially came to directly to this page bypassing the "about" page. You are correct that I did make many incorrect assumptions about this web site and I am......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

Biff: In the front of this house on Parliament Street is one of Toronto's busiest Afro/Asian/Anglo Beauty Parlors, where I got my corn rows......

in response to: Goddess of the Mayflower by Biff

Grange: i love this part in the warning poster "in any and all media through out the world in parpetuity "... Can I get a AMEN !...

in response to: How Appropriate! by Elicar

Mat-E: I think this question touches on a fundamental human reality; you can never create a policy which will satisfy a largely civil, responsible majority and at the same time satisfy a minority of......

in response to: Does Anyone Else Find This Stupid? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The recently unveiled plans for changes to the highway system around Dorval include the removal of the Dorval Circle, as well as the installation of sound barriers along the side of the major highway in......

in response to: Don\'t Mess With Teddy! by Arcticwoman

Elicar: If I read you well, you like to challenge the limits, stretch the boundaries, see how far you can go. Sometimes, your temperament gets the better of you, but you have a good heart and......

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