Comments about concrete

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Garry Johns: Well why is it that, some always have to find fault? If you don't like it fine, but for crying out loud don't try to crams your views down our throats! As a......

in response to: Ugly, Heritage, or Both? by Cameo

Maz, Netherne: [[img:28938]] [[img:28939]] [[img:28940]] [[img:28941]] 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......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

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......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Director 9209: Nice pics, but you should keep off the High Line (Notice that it's two words or FO will get you!) because it is a bonafide construction site complete with all the OSHA phobic hazards, and......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

Nick: I am glad I live in a country where I can concrete crushed glass at the top of my fence, or put up razor wire or even add an electric fence overhang to the top......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

jon: I had heard this building was a continual-pour concrete structure, ...maybe the tallest of the kind at the time???...

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Jon Burgess: My Gran lived on Atherton Lane for 50+ years, I always remember the massive bonfires on the bammer throughout the 70's / early 80's. Down the bammer was a newt pond with protected species of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Packer: I lived in Kensington for a number of years with my Dad when my parents split in the early 90's I lived back a coupple blocks from frankford and sommerset on Rush St. many people......

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

Andrew Smith: Here's some photo's contributed by Dom Smith (friend but no relation) - photo's of Irlam in the late 1980's The parade on the estate - butchers on the left, newsagent in the middle (run by Dom's......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Deb Simpkins (Massey): Hi Sheila, the name Crossfield House rings a bell - I know I heard nanna discussing it in the past. I think you may be right! Steve - I lived at 103 Broadway, in the mid......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Before the "new road" was built through Irlam in the early 1800s Platts brook was open with a bridge over it. The Old Road, going towards Cadishead, went up Boat Lane, down Ferry Road,......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them. If you look at the comments in the......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

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

julissa: Im From sunset park..the last shot is 38th street..i lived in 37th street.I love sunsetpark...hopefully movin back within 1 year...currently in syracuse ny...i luv pl who appreciate the tru beauty of the concrete jungle....

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

mike: elaine: is that the same as pebbledash? i think pebbledash is applied to a surface just like stucco. i think this is an aggregate concrete that is structural....

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Great pics Marissa, I can't believe the state of Irlam High school............what the????? How do Governments expect children to function to the best of their ability in an unaesthetically pleasing environment such as that? ......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

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......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

jack: yeah, it looks like a nice building, the old architecture must give way to the newer sleek buildings, i am old architecture, and i have given way to the newer sleeker young buildings that have......

in response to: Viagra Headquarters? by serlingrod

EvilGentleman: Wow! Just wow! Great post, TK. As far as the "20/20 hindsight" inspections of other structures **after** the collapse goes, we have the same thing happening here. After the overpass collapse that killed 5 people in September......

in response to: Bridge Removal by Tyfoid Kid

EvilGentleman: The art/vandalism debate will go on forever, because both sides are correct. Many graffiti pieces are unquestionably artistic masterpieces. I have seen many pieces that are absolutely mind-boggling, provoke intelligent thought and debate, and are just......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks guys, how about a few pics ? :) :) Of anything in irlam. Is the large bus shelter at the top of Ferryhill road diagonal from *Culshaws* still there? What about the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Helen, Good luck with your graveyard hunting !!!!! I was appalled when I returned there to find that all the graves in the church grounds have been removed (there were lots there when......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

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

Shanghai: no way, i love that place! beautiful concrete i wish i could buy it and turn it into an art space....

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

EvilGentleman: Maybe all the adjoining homes own the alley, and they could not agree whether to pave it with asphalt or concrete....

in response to: Two Strips of Dirt by CE

karlo: By the way,What you see here are murals,not grafitti. As some-one already pointed out,grafitti is usually carried out by just about anyone with a spray can or bucket of paint with the sole intention of splashing......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

EvilGentleman: The Olympic Stadium is one of the most beautiful of Montreal's vast collection of White Elephants. Originally expected to cost 134 million dollars, it wound up costing 1.61 **billion** dollars, or about 1200% of its......

in response to: The Big-O by Cinic

Cinic: the big o is the Olympic stadium from the 1976 Montreal Olympic games. It has been a huge problem for years. Basically its falling apart and Mtlers just finished paying it off like 2 years......

in response to: Mtl East by Cinic

Mario C , Sydney,AUSTRALIA: Well people you really have to see this remarkable feat of uneducated engineering , this guy deserves respect, my family & I had the privilege of seeing this beautiful cathedral in 2006 and we spent......

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

oompaloompa: Great historical piece. makes me remember that there are still parts of this city that can be explored and yet are hidden in plain sight just waiting for someone with the sense of adventure and......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

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

Jason: The gold medal sign is on top of the former Washburn-Crosby elevator #1. The elevator was built in 1906, the second or third concrete grain elevator in the world. Each sign was originally lit by......

in response to: Northstar Blankets/Gold Medal Flour by Tyfoid Kid

colavitos ghost: reminds me a lot of bryant park in ny. a little green patch huffing and puffing along amongst the concrete giants....

in response to: Rittenhouse Square by serlingrod

Anonymous - 36: Great !! If someone ever asks me the what was the best time of my life - without a doubt it was 13-16, great memories to last a lifetime. My 9 year old daughter can't......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Michelle: @curious = I think that it is an optical illusion. The cable is behind the icicle, not actually supporting it! Thankfully. Evenso, I think it is scary that the subway tunnel has an icicle -......

in response to: Subway Icicle by Michelle

.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

Seebo: i really just plain dont like living in the city. I like the job opportunities though and that's why I'm here. I like nature and peace and quite more than concrete and......

in response to: Things I Love About... Living in the City by EvilGentleman

Oscar Grouch: Looking at this monstrosity through an Engineers eye, I was quick to note the sub-par concrete pours and immature choices of building materials in critical locations. Apparently he allows the public onto the property,......

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

rammerel1: I was also born and raised in the Bushwick area. I went St. Joseph's on Suydam St. My dad went there and had Sr. Clarissa and well as me and my two brothers.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Larry: I came to Chicago last year and one of the first places I wanted to see was Cabrini Green. I am from South East DC and I know what the projects are like. ......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

susannah: there's way more to these photos than concrete, dude....

in response to: How I See Fort Worth by dfwtiger

Biff: A windy day, These tents would have blown away, but for the barrels of concrete...Biff (Convocation at Ryerson U)...

in response to: White Tents by Biff

adam: you're saying fort worth is big empty and full of concrete?...

in response to: How I See Fort Worth by dfwtiger

Sirhcbre: This is the only one of this sort. Most of the entrances to the Metro here are pretty ugly kiosks. They're usually very utilitarian looking concrete bunkers that take up half a block.......

in response to: Montreal or Paris? by CE

Cosmo: :-) Nice observation! Lots of dying bridges around here. We've had a rash of injuries and wrecks caused by concrete chunks falling onto traffic on the freeways. They're starting to fix......

in response to: Another Dead Boat by Cosmo

EvilGentleman: My wife and I drove by here with Chris yesterday. Multidick has been demolished, all that is left is the concrete pad. The owls stand guard no more....

in response to: Multidick by EvilGentleman

Gangs in HP: The gangs og HP have killed this area. I remember in the 70's & 80's in addition to the Latin Kings we had a Simon Park Brothers and Sons of Capone fighting all the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

EvilGentleman: Um, I think you mean Dorval, not Laval. Say, do you have a driver's license? If you do, maybe we could take turns driving while the other shoots pictures. There are so many pictures I......

in response to: Montreal Signs 2: Beaconsfield, Kirkland, DDO by EvilGentleman

Cameo: the untidy area is fenced off... Huge hunks of concrete are falling off it from time to time now....

in response to: Dereliction by Cameo

aer suzuki: "Public Transportation is a good thing for Toronto. Lots of slate sky, concrete, asphalt, brick and steel...they took paradise and made a concrete jungle for sure." Ok. Maybe Toronto's different but here in Seattle they used......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

jamie: maybe that concrete's drying...

in response to: Tax Plus by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: is the second one sonic the hedgehog? One of our neighbors recently chose to completly concrete over their front lawn. They had to sit there for hours protecting it from the local artists (me and Mitch).......

in response to: Indelible Sidewalk Art by EvilGentleman

joey: no chris. please check my other articles. there are many beautiful facades in {Oakland, CA}. this just happens to be a plain one. actually i 'found' this shot in the view finder. it's a zoom in......

in response to: Urban Wilderness by joey

Tyfoid Kid: The article talks about a concrete structure inside. The surface isn't brick. It almost looks like some kind of stucco. I stopped by on the way to work and got as close as I dared......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Tyfoid Kid: I did a little digging (thank you U of M libraries) and found some more stuff on The Ivy (actually probably more then you'd want to know:) ******************************************************************************************************************** From an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Dec......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

anon (adsl-71-147-18-173.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net): yeah im feelin what you wrote i wish people in the US would embrace the way you think. People, especialy where im from think very one sided. They only concrete the idea of exact right......

in response to: Scrawl on the Wall by Natali

concrete jello: i just saw Toronto Santa getting arrested at the intersection of Bloor and Dundas St. w.!!! he was in the middle of the street yelling "fuck cops", and stopping traffic, and then two cops ran......

in response to: April in Toronto by Gabi

Chris Erb: You MUST get pictures from Le Corbusier blvd. I can just imagine it: Different traffic levels of roads going into the boulevard then when you get there all you see are great big towers......

in response to: Multidick by EvilGentleman

indykid: In Sussex at Camber Sands, amongst the dunes there are still these concrete bunkers, think they're know as pill boxes? They are odd though, because where they are built on sand, they are literally concrete......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

Jamie: yeah most rivers in the uk are still flanked with reinforced concrete gun turrets for example. here's a quite uninteresting photo of one close up. [[img:5734]]] **[[2177:some more here]]**...

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

EvilGentleman: Based on the pictures in the link, I am guessing they restricted access to the area due to the disrespectful things some visitors carved into the concrete, like the swastika on the 20-foot mirror. Truly......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I'm thinking the game disc in Tron. But concrete and grass....

in response to: Fighting or Frolicking? by Aaron

Get out of your car, buddy: But does it have a Home Depot nearby? Or a Walmart? How about a rifle range? Tate gallery? You call that culture? What rubbish! Joking aside, this looks like a lovely......

in response to: Barbican Love by elaine

jeeff: those are some pretty nice {concrete things} in photo #2....

in response to: Barbican Love by elaine

Oscar: keep on doing the good job: no board, no bike, no ball, just your body and the concrete jungle... I'm too old for this, but I've done my share. It didn't have a name......

in response to: Run City by runcitycanada

Jamie: these have more style than the concrete cows of milton keynes...

in response to: Big Cows on Campus by Tyfoid Kid

Peter: i dont recall that film well enough to remember, but i did just google this... from: [[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006170.html]] A pup (spore?) of the Flatiron on this coast: "The Europe Hotel Corner of Powell and Alexander Street Built in 1908-09 by Angelo......

in response to: Building Slice by Peter

Cameo: I live in the area... Sure there is a little spilled concrete on Bathurst street here and there... It's annoying to ride up there on my road bike. And sure, the windows in......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

Kilgore Trout: Public Transportation is a good thing for Toronto. Lots of slate sky, concrete, asphalt, brick and steel...they took paradise and made a concrete jungle for sure. great art pic!...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

anon (49.Red-88-0-24.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net): From more than 40 years ago, Justo Gallego was reading books of architecture and he has been working in those years seeing in direct the way of resistence of materials, so now when he......

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

elaine: that sounds possible - nice effect anyway. with that curved building nad the lamp post the top half looks like a scanned in magazine, and then the concrete and railtrack interrupt that idea, but the......

in response to: It Was Cool in Los Angeles by joey

paula: Haha - I took pictures of these same concrete boobies, complete with smog, while on the freeway... I will have to upload my pics from this week/weekend to my flickr set......

in response to: New Bike by ian

Jamie: concrete {boobies}. nice...

in response to: New Bike by ian

hool: thanks everyone. the girls in matching saris is from gerrard east, little india. from a few blocks away i saw them run out of a store, play on that concrete beam, then run......

in response to: nov 04 2005 toronto by hool

sultan JAFAR: YEAH..who would have thought....i'm glad peeps are having a discussion about graff and me. I'd have to agree that graff is vandalism but vandalism can be art. & yeah, I haven't bombed in TO for......

in response to: best of the bombers by jeeff

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Ahhh, rubbish bins (instead of garbage cans) how I miss them... I like the texture of the concrete. It has little divots, like mini rugby players have run over it....

in response to: abject objects by elaine

elaine: that concrete lozenge wedged between the arches looks bizarre ...

in response to: Railworld Welcomes You by Jamie

elaine: concrete poetry...

in response to: high tension love by fuzzytank

Sez1: Good shit, dudes. Aside from Toronto being a concrete Swamp, yer lookin' like you make it on the books for these bombs. Don't worry about "legal vs illegal" >> it's all in how many......

in response to: graffiti alley / style in progress \'05 by jeeff

kc: perhaps some evil force turned voo-voo to stone....it's a concrete jungle out there......

in response to: voo-voo is missing by jeeff

jeeff: peter - you should. i'd love to return the favour of showing your around my town. ggp - a puppy namesake! that would be so cool. my name would live on... ;) moe -......

in response to: the hutch condos by jeeff

Suburban Tactics: They were constructed in the 50's or 60's or somthing. Simon Rodia started it using all the things that the people of the community through out metal scraps, dishes, misc. crap mixed with concrete. ...

in response to: Watts Towers by Lisa Tang

Jamie: Yeah, although i don't personally agree with tagging or writing onto old architecturally interesting buildings, though there are plenty of post-war concrete boxes around here....

in response to: The Extent of Graffiti by Jamie

ea: so pretty silver swirls on golden concrete...

in response to: Handwritten Spectacle by Bleeagh

jeeff: same thing with the playgrounds in toronto. in the last few years, they tore down about half of the playgrounds in the city, leaving just a concrete pad at 157 schools and many city......

in response to: Newark Morning by Peter

Paul G: ...pic #4, down, is as close to horror as anything you have done. i think. it feels like a crime scene photo. or, like the C.H.U.D. have struck - dragging bunny man......

in response to: may 20 2005 toronto by hool

fuzzytank: the other interesting thing about where that shot is taken, the pedestrian bridge squeezes through the concrete structure to get people over to and from downtown. the clear area between footpath and highway above is......

in response to: Alaskan Way by fuzzytank

austie jonez: that last one looks like they are headed down. it took me 3 takes to see they are not about to walk down an escalator of concrete....

in response to: the portable female by hool

elaine: aha, yes! and also, though, did you know about martello towers? early concrete sea defences against napoleon, honestly!...

in response to: Cement Thing by Peter

elaine: there are also very very exciting installations called sound mirrors, which they made expensively and redundantly just before radar was invented/discovered (doh). they are big and concrete and face france or so. there is......

in response to: Leffrinckoucke Beach by Jamie

hasslehoff: Yeah, we have the same sorta stuff here in england. The countryside is peppered with reinforced concrete river defenses known as "pill boxes". They're protected from demolition by the government as sites of historical interest......

in response to: Leffrinckoucke Beach by Jamie

Marc: great writing, really fascinating pics-- reminds me of the watts towers in los angeles, made by one guy over 20 years out of rebar and concrete- he used the nearby railroad track to bend the......

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

hasslehoff: Having heard a lot about Jacksonville from an old friend who once lived there, yet never having seen any pictures of it. I have always imagined it to be more concrete-boxy than these photos portray......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

ea: I belong here tread these refuse strewn streets absorb light changes on blank concrete I could heal here bask in happy apathy watch my reflection pass over cityscape through a train window stifle the smile that sees the northbound line knows me I-5 is......

in response to: Portland: steel bridge by fuzzytank

ea: those floor inserts are rubber, like the giant puzzle mats under play structures. and the stacks have translucent corrugated plastic panels, as does the ceiling. the whole experience of the space emphasizes its......

in response to: Views you havent seen by fuzzytank

rebel 32: all huns have minds like concrete all mixed up and permanently set!!...

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie