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Jason: Yellowknife? Really? YELLOWKNIFE??? You should've included Winterpeg in the mix somewhere. From one side of the river you get a nice look at downtown with the the Esplenade Riel cable bridge in the foreground, and...... Allan: Richie,
I DID live in the same building as Judy O. We both lived on the first floor. I was in the front. Her family in the back. She had a male dog 'Nipper' and I...... Howard : I saw Harry Truman in a motorcade campaigning for President riding through Eastern Parkway. It was Petach Tikvah (Gate of Hope)on Lincoln Place & Rochester Ave. . For a couple of years Dubrow's had...... Peter: indeed. catty-corner from that giant gas station thats been there forever.
the part you didnt hear about this post is that about 1 minute after snapping this shot, i turned left there onto bedford; i found...... nz: okay i love saber first of all i read his book its so fucking dope that kunt is off the chain mad love for la and san fran graff , even tho i dont even...... Jethro: I think phil. Makati is a nice city too. I think the city, economically along with there tourist attractions, are benefitely doing good of representing for south east asia.
The city looks very beautiful (uhmm.. except...... Richie Rubin: Allan,LAST TIME I WAS UP @ Catskills:Hassidim!..lots of`em.
I saw them washing dirty diapers in MY old bungalow colony's
swimming pool[in eve when no one was around!,free bleach!
& like YOU wrote:most hotels`kaputsky'I remember when they
brought up Gambling...... Red Flag alert: I'm a tenant in a building that had windows installed by Park Slope Windows & Glass (hereto to be referred to as "PSWG"). Overall impression: very negative.
Red Flag #1: My landlord had to repeatedly call...... david swift: hi gus
What an excellent web site! ive just seen my mum on the 1964 gala day photo (Susan Duxbury)a relation to the duxburys on another picture on this site.
My grandad had a shoe shop...... rehs: wondering if anyone has a phone # for this jail.... theres a guy inside there thats using my name to get credit and large loans! It took a bit of doing but I found out...... Malcolm: Enjoyed many evenings at Rockheads. He handed out roses to the ladies. If my memory serves me rightly he was targeted by the Catholic church because he was a Jehovah Witness. They shut him down...... Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I have tried to think of the words of the school song. This is all that I can remember. Can any of you complete/edit it?
School song
The Parkway School
Dear Parkway school
We give praise to your...... Mitch Spector: Today was demolition day--Saturday, November 1st. I went by 8:30am this morning yet apart from more bricks removed, it was still standing. When I visited the site again, by late afternoon, they had torn down...... Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories
By Alan Kupperberg
Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for...... K Bernstein: Hi--
Judy Oshinsky must have made an impression on many of us. She and I were both in the same class (the IGC) at PS 167 in 1958-59. The class was half fifth-grade (that's me) and...... bonanza,man : I enjoy the rides, the stories.. and they are all very good riders.
I do think the cops would have better ways to spend tax payers dollars than flying the company jet rangers, motor...... zagg: Just a lil' dish I make for my 7 kids for christmas each year:
Wood Pigeons in Beer recipe
ingredients
4 small wood pigeons
30 ml (2 tbsp) vegetable oil
25 g (1 oz) butter
450 g (1 lb) onions, skinned...... Urban Neighbourhood: Gentrification is one of those things that you either love or hate. The debate on it tends to be very polarized, but cities are not going to oppose it because it means higher property taxes...... EvilGentleman: An article from the {Montreal Gazette} last Saturday, October 11:
[[http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=f29d7a30-f182-4300-b85e-a8737693c7a8]]
A passage from the article answers many questions posed in here:
"In about two weeks we'll send in mechanical shovels with shears to tear down the building."...... ImpMyHyde from Kansas: Scott,
I have been to Belleville a couple of times. The last was when I stopped there I was passing through but did get to see the Visitor’s Center.
There isn't another one like it in...... Doc S.......: Yo, Mitch - I don't think my uncle owned the store - he was just employed there as a pharmacist. Did you go to 241 also??I'm trying to remember some of the other stores in...... Jules: Okay....BORING is the reason my husband and I left Jacksonville in July '06. We did everything a modern Metropolitan couple could do. We lived on the river, we had season tickets with the...... dapper: is there a spot to do large scale color die cut posters on newsprint?... Mitch: Well, sorry to say the dreaded day has finally come! This afternoon (September 25th) demolition was started. The bay windows have been covered from with orange plastic sheeting from the inside, and there's a barrier...... Peter: food for thought: General Motors employs over 30 times the number of people in {canada} as they do in india or korea, but i doubt we would hear you complaining about "hard working americans'" jobs...... Gonebutnot forgotten: Grew up on Montrose Avenue across from Most Holy Trinity Church. What a beautiful church. Always reminded me of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Had cousins who went to school there and remember walking to...... arty lady: Planning on renting an artist loft in Bushwick in one of the large loft buildings on Siegel st. I'm a woman of color and will be taking the L train. Don't really know Brooklyn well....... autumn: Mary - My coons had a communal pooing pile next to an old cottenwood. I put an old bed sheet over the poo and they never pooed there again. As the cottenwood was large and...... Mobaby: Really, man? You judge the 6th best place to live in America ( http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshots/PL4052500.html ) by the Denny's off the interstate? Virtually no crime, variety of people, college town, art museums, unique campus and downtown...... Marinus Abrahamse: These are very valuable photos. I am a Hydrometric Surveys Technologist with Water Survey of Canada (part of Environment Canada). We have a water level monitoring gauge a few hundred feet below the Pottery Road...... keprecon: Ok, so i've got this fairly large sized piece, all hand drawn with all sorts of markers, pencils, and pens. Is there a household item I can use to seal the sucker up to keep...... xarconika: Interesting to read about appearing non-suspicious; I live in Detroit and you want to look as shady as humanly possible when you're doing that stuff, because you become a target for criminals if you look...... chris: i was there and 2 of my friends got ripped of by the strippers..they said $20 each for a lesbian show and my 2 friends said ok..they were gone for while and was wonderin where...... augydoggy: To all the naive people in here that think raccoons are cute and are their backyard pets:
These are wild and cold-hearted omnivores that care nothing about you and would eat you alive if given the...... herb weitz: got to union & kingston around 1938-9 went to 167 for 1
semester then the crown heights yeshiva (310 crown)next to ps161 at 13 I discovered Shwabies poolroom HEAVEN, a warm place to play hookey and...... jack: good grief, i think i may have swam in that pool in the 50's. i remember the cement diving board. it was the largest pool i ever saw. i was fooling around...... Karlo: Wrong.None of the people who walked their children to school were involved in any attacks.There had been a number of incidents involving people from both communities previous to this,and im not going to argue who...... Lucifer: Fred is a likeable rogue, always drunk but more often than not he is polite with it. He likes women with large breasts who he refers to as Dolly Parton. I worked with him in...... Maz, Netherne: [[img:28938]]
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Hi everyone, I came across this site by mistake yesterday and was fascinated by everyone's stories and reading about the grave yard. I had heard other people here at Netherne mention it in the past...... Warren S.: To: Mary A...
I wonder you and I know each other... I blotted out so much of “back then” I forgot exactly when I would have graduated St. B's -- if I had graduated --...... PEARLYKINGJIM: Its been along time since i have been on this site
thank you Mrs Strong for you kind comments
which leads me to answer somethng that was said about me over the weekend
two of my friends...... always a Bushwick kid: Hey Lou Romero: you mentioned Sr. Ann Melanie, Sr. Betty, etc. Well Sr. Ann Melanie died not too long ago and Sr. Betty still works in Bushwick- she runs Independence House on Cornelia Street (between...... Joan: Looking down from the roof of 1212 Lincoln Place to a window in the adjacent building which fronted on Troy Ave, you could see Mr. Kopchich mixing the ppickles in the brine. Hurst's Pharmacy was...... Bob: Just ran across this site, sounds like old home week.
Lived at 887 lincoln Place and went to P.S.138.After
graduating went to Boys High at the annex on Park Pl
and then to main bldg on Marcy and...... leosdragyn: I live in S Ca, and currently feed two stray cats in my backyard (apartment complex). One cat I had spayed the other day, and she is a sweetie, but my indoor cats hate her...... anon (ip68-107-55-40.sd.sd.cox.net): Those pictures are truly disturbing. What is more disturbing is they are already killing people via genetically modified pesticide laden food, rb hormone, etc. There is fasci in the house of reps. that has been...... Mike: Indeed, I used to shop at the IGA, while it was further west on N-Dame st., near parc Sir G-É. Cartier. I can still remember people stocking up on on chicken legs, milk, canned juices,...... Excuzmepleez:
This post is in response to "remember 1966."
I remember the sad accident. It happened on Troutman Street between Central and Evergreen and it involved a boy named Joey Mistretta who was 9 years...... kls: My husband and I have lived in Humboldt Park for 4 years since moving to Chicago from Guatemala. I cannot think of a better compromise for us both. I love being near the shops...... Geoff: The little bastards are smart, cute, fearless and a bloody great pain in the ass. Our current local raccoon family has taken to digging up our outside plants every damned night (on our second floor...... A.E.: There is a pervert on the morning local W train and/or R train. He is tall about 5'9, skinny weighs about 150 pounds. He is of Latin decent, dark, black straight hair worn slick back....... Jla: Hello to all my fellow kensington neighborsand friends, i lived in kensington all my life i grew up at 2nd and cambria then moved to D & clearfield. met my husband and moved to kensington...... anon (hrtl-01-0036.dsl.iowatelecom.net): New York should be number one, hands down. It's simply too large to even place in a photograph. ... Peter: This is a tale explaining the manner in which my way of life was rotated along a Y axis until it reached a position roughly 180 degrees from that which it started If I could...... kms: My life got flipped turned upside down. I want to type this up and tell you all about how I came to the town called Bellaire.
In Cabrini Green, where I grew up and played on...... Lou Romero: The majority of Puerto Ricans are Catholic in tradition, so of course they gravitated to their local churches, as for education, that was their choice or discretion if the children were to attend the catholic...... Ekimsknird: Yeah my wife and I went to Norway last summer (when the dollar was pretty close to the kroner) and we took out some relatives for pizza. Two large pizzas with 2 or 3...... Thom Cartmell, US Army Retired: I grew up in Kensington. Susquehanna and Trenton Aves in the 40's and 50's Went to HB Hackett Elem School, and Penn Treaty, Jr High. Palm Movie House, Kent, Midway, Iris (Military in Uniform got...... Paul Revere: I'm sure you can never receive enough accolades for your photography. Great work. Personally, I've roamed those tunnels repeatedly for the past year. As someone remarked you can't hear the train untill it's prcaticly upon...... upfromflames: Yeah, trends are very general, so I don't want to stereotype at all. I meant poor relative to the earlier families. Thanks for correcting me on that one.
I am a little blurry on the...... EvilGentleman: Two years and a few months later, this article still defines several different conflicts in a way that few if any articles can.
{Motorists} vs {Cyclists}
{Road Rage} vs {Radical Activism}
{Male} vs {Female}
{Entitled} vs {Empowered}
The article that...... Peter: weve had the discussion re: graf versus vandalism on here like 500 times, and its surprising how every other person has their own specific definition of the term "graffiti", to the point where it becomes...... Surfer: I got one of these, and searched all over the internet to find out what was up with this creature and his large testicles:
[[img:28437]]
... Thom Cartmell: I lived at Susquehanna ave and Trenton Ave. 2129 E. Susquehanna ave. I grew up there in the 40's and 50's I remember Mike. Damn I remember the Horse Drawn Milk Wagons and...... Mike Ortiz: Thanxs Chance, I didn't know. I just assumed it was an all white club, from the photos I've seen, and from there past leaders ( Sonny Barger ).... Mitch: We're now a month past the demolition ruling, still absolutely *nothing* happening at the site. The only new thing to report are large billboards that went up in the parking lot besides Ben's, with an...... serlingrod: I do not defend the status - I wish to change it. I do not "draw a salary on the backs of the suffering" - the little funding we receive goes towards helping these people...... Who Cares for Kensington: I'll leave race out of my comments and will continues to focus on the radical change of culture and values. The changes are what thay are and I am sure that the government nor activists...... serlingrod: Thanks Peter. It's nice to have a friend back you up. I just marvel at the stubborness of it though.....I mean, "keep on painting" ... Really? I've made it perfectly clear I'm not an artist..I'm...... Peter: Ryan: i hate chemical spills (this is more of a chemical spill than an "oil spill") as much as the next guy, but just for the record, its not the "largest oil spill in history"......... Ryan: OH BOY!!! just where I want to live...on top of the largest oil spill in history!
[[http://tinyurl.com/3b2wbn]]
I'll stay in queens thank you very much!... serlingrod: In response to the last post - first of, let me say that I live in Philadelphia and have worked as a community organizer in Kensington for the past several years. I mention this to...... Jamie: In the interests of factual accuracy I hereby vote for the title of this article to be changed to:
**"Worlds Largest Free Standing Abandoned by It's Original Owner Alone Outside Clock"**... Tyfoid Kid: It has to be the worlds largest free standing abandoned by it's original owner alone outside clock!!... Tracy Kelly: What a great site first visit but will definately be returning.i have been talking to a great couple, and Mr Jack Scallan told me that No 7 Marlborough Road used to be a police station...... EvilGentleman: I was wondering what it said. I am so useless when it comes to reading graf. Unless some goof like me decides to tag everything in Times New Roman or Arial...
And speaking of graffiti timelapses,...... Peter: hmm, im a bit embarrassed to be the largest name on there, but i guess i ##did## get a couple of year's head start on the most of the rest of yall...
chiam: for bigger name,...... Anon: Anything done in public is public domain, and international law, as a whole, is of this mindset, both legally and socially. It's quite simple, actually. Don't want someone taking photos of it? Then don't do...... JOSEPH BRIDGE: the largest exodus occured in the late 70's and lasted throughout all of the eighties. people who could afford to move did just that. but the neighborhood held its ground til about 1987-88. then, real...... Hutchinson Escapee: If a NYPD cop was charged and arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting (repeatedly) his 16 year old step daughter, it would be a national outrage and Nancy Grace would have a field day with it...
Not...... Hutchinson Escapee: I'm not a religious person, but if there is a town in this county that truly is cursed, it's hutchinson, KS.
The corruption at the judicial level is staggering. The forces that be actually got the...... Bill F: What years did the largest exodus happen? I don't know if I buy the lack of jobs for the "white flight". ... manocone_smith! ·sfc· still free crew!: hola de nuevo man jaone un k-po
yo pinto con manocone y smith aca en ushuaia Argentinaaaa!
agunte el grafffffffffffffffffffffff!
·still free crewwwwwwwww·...... phantom: Actually, a number of sociology papers have been written on "white flight" in Kensington. Census & demographic data supports the theory that the largest exodus was to follow jobs. As the mills closed (Houghton's, Stetson...... ron ws: SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS FUZZ! A GRAFFITI KING WHO ROCKED THE NYC SUBWAY TRAINS FROM THE 70S ALL THE WAY TP THE MID 90S. FREAKS AT LARGE AND THE TFP OTB CREW.
FUZZ FUZZ FUZZ FUZZ...... Marj: I saw them day by day as I drove by pull away the stone walls. For a while the left stand a large piece of a holy picture. I was thinking it was be nice...... Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Debbie
Good to hear from someone who went to the same school I did, you must be about three years younger than me though.
My first teacher there was a Miss Peters. Do you...... Megan: This is the type of thing you need to go to New York to see... Plenty of people can go to the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island, but these paintings are the largely unknown...... Me: Re to Tex
According to USA-TODAY.COM,depression and suicide rates by state list Texas at number 10 and Kansas at number 28,so it's obvious what state has the most depressed and suicidal residents. And it has nothing...... Jeff: I went to Super Sexe a few times around 2002-2004, had a great time. Gorgeous women and good price, very entertaining overall. I have done nothing but spread the good word since, telling...... James cashan: Hello jon B.
Malcom Kennedy is related to my dad through marriage of his mum to Ken connor (pics of Train), I lived and dad still lives across road from Pete n...... Peter: nice! its a [[wiki:crankshaft]]... if you spotted it in {red hook}, odds are it came from a {togboat}, large truck or heavy construction equipment, heh...... luna park: there are actually large swathes of brownstone rowhouses in brooklyn, where the houses are set back from the street and allow space for front yards. in many cases, the yards have been paved (as is...... Kyle: Only in AMERICA,==In 2008, Do We know have so many prude's verbally speaking out, attempting to perpetuate the FAULTS idea the Penis is Bad or shamefully , or nakedness is shamfull....that is simply for...... Peter: yes, the tunnel is very much in use, as the tunnel is the main artery that connects [[wiki:Metro-North Railroad]] and [[wiki:amtrak]] trains to [[wiki:penn station]]. dodging the trains and staying out of their line of...... Who Cares for Kensington : B Street,
Well stated, but you have probably upset the professional social worker class, professional community activists and some local and long seated goverment officials of both parties that like to be known as public servants...... MrBrenzo: Hutchinson Kansas is a boring place, if you are a boring person. I lived in Hutch until I was 15 and remember it fondly. the state fair only happens once a year, but it was...... Alexander: what is the world's largest clock? A quick google search comes up with this [[http://worldslargestclock.com/]]... e: shit. i thought the world's largest clock would be... larger.... KrmtDfrog: Technically, it isn't the world's largest clock, merely the world's largest free-standing clock....
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