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Janet: Thanks Stan for the Strand reminder--but wasn't the Strand on Fulton Street, just before the downtown movie and shopping district began? If you emerged from the subway, you were just about in front of the...... Janet: Well, the adage 'the more things change the more they stay the same' does not apply to the old neighborhoods or the old movie houses where those of our generation got a colorful taste so...... 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...... Chuck: Love these shots
downtown l.a has the flavour !... Guitarista81: We went to manhattan in 05' and felt so safe, 1st time ever been there im 26 walked all around uptown-downtown at night, I felt safe as shit. People like force could be believable if...... transplant: Older neighborhoods near downtown - Riverside, Avondale, Springfield, etc. make it easy to use your car less and get out into the world more. If you are really open-minded you can always find like...... river otters21 girl: I had read somewhere that the decline of the neighborhoods is a part of the "Billy Penn curse". No Philly sports team won a championship since 1983 and since that time period Kensington...... 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...... TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan...... Anonymous Honest Tax paying citizen of Fredericton: This is yet another example of how much the fredericton police are a bunch of uneducated airheads, typical protests and offenses most cities in canada wouldnt be bothered with or treat with less scrutiny...... Tabersnack: 68. People on the street ask you if you speak English or French and you assume they will just ask you for money and keep walking.
69. The habs win one damn series and...... Ben: This little lunchtime favorite run by two, has become a bit of an institution downtown. The owner is friendly and engaging. Lines are fairly regular. The best dessert is an apple cake. It is absolutely...... Cecilia Midiri: All the people up there who are talking about when Kensington changed are talking about when the neighborhood became desegregated and people of color started moving in.
Anyway...I work every day and so does...... 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...... Me: Re to Tex and Peter
I would post pics here,but I do not know how.Maybe I can get my 17 year old to do it for me,but she is usually too busy,like many other folks here...... EvilGentleman: Jennifer, you must be unfamiliar with this site to post comments such as you did above. If you browse CE's other articles, which you can do by clicking on his name just under the main...... 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...... Mitch: Pretty sad, it's quite literally a piece of Montreal being erased forever (I can't even visualize that part of downtown without that tiny 3 story building with the red "Bens" sign). I last passed by...... little ukraine: nice joey. i like your downtown shots but i'd love to see some of your home neighborhood too!... joey: Chicago Midway Airport (MDW) is located just ten miles from downtown Chicago.... Another Ex-Bellevillian: As I recall, Belleville could have been the site of Cloud County Community College, but at that time community leaders vetoed that idea due to the potential of opening up the community to an 'undesirable'...... Miss_1989: I had lived in hutch for 12 years growing up as a child, but my family ended up moving due to my parents job transfers and also because Hutchinson (even in the middle class neighborhoods)...... Andie: Cody,
I know you and your family personally. I grew up in Hutchinson and attended church with you. You are not representative of the average Hutchinsonian. Your mother is a hospital administrator and your father is...... 67502 May 7, 2008: Hutch has not grown since I came here in 1978. It's a retirement town with lots of low income housing and those people DO NOT support our downtown or help us stay in business....... EvilGentleman: Thanks, Mitch. You just saved me about 50 bucks worth of gas. I have been going downtown more often lately, specifically to check on the current status of Ben's.... anon (205.173.35.130): I have lived in Jacksonville for all of 3 months now, and I have to say that I haven't found it all that great. Once you get over the beach and the shopping/dining, there...... Johnny: The cost of living is cheaper here but it still sucks. Why don't we leave you ask? Because now we are stuck here with the housing market and all the other crap. Jacksonville...... ex-Bellevillian: Personally...I think Belleville is the most boring town in the world and I grew up there. Still have family there too. Belleville has always had this gran idea of itself because it host...... marie: you mentioned one main reason Saskatoon did not make cut was because there were no distinguishing features. I often sit in car or walk along Spadina viewing our skyline in wonder at the very...... You are an idiot.: Of course you would show the picture of the crappiest hotel in the city to try and prove your point. "Passing through" does not give you enough taste of a city, especially one as interesting...... Ken: The building in the 4th pic down is The 1250 Rene Levesque Ouest formerly it was the Tour IBM? if I'm not mistaken, it opened sometime in the early '90s?
Another interesting skyscraper downtown is the...... Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters...... yolanda deberry-franklin: wow, memories, memories,memories. my family and i moved into the henry horner projects when they were completed around 1956-57. i was about 4 years old at the time. we thought that we...... ExKansan: I guess I missed all the above mentioned incest, pedophilia and lynch mobs growing up in Belleville, but I must say that would hardly be boring!
Like other posters here I moved away to a...... Tex: Here's a sad example
In the Hutch news, was this story,
"Owner of Wiley building leaves tenants in the cold" "The coffee group can joke about it - but the tenants of the Wiley building aren't...... noname: Mcpherson's downtown has nothing to do with it's economy. If you tried to take that as a indication of economic growth you would not see anything. Downtowns are dieing as towns spread out. The fact...... Tex Re: Peter: That's a good point, someone ought to take some pictures of the downtown area on a Sat. afternoon and some of McPherson's downtown and lets look at the difference.... JoeyD: ahhh I see he has the muffler in his hands in your photo> I used to live just around the corner from this big guy on wilson st... I sure do miss...... D.Bennett: Damn it`s like every time get on here i see a new paragraph about someone who has died from the hornets and often someone i new like (tony Wood aka Nuke i...... JoeyD: the Dirdon station and area around is one of my favorite places in SJ it really sits at the gateway to downtown as aproached from the alameda.... ... re: samuel: Actually the run down st. elizabeth hospital is typical of a lot of run down buldings in hutch, he should of taken pictures of the ghost town which makes up downtown, that's why you have...... David: I lived at G & Tioga with my Grandparents in the early 60's. They had a corner drugstore (Ben's) over which teh house was built and I would serve soda's and sandwiches when old enough....... Giddie: I request at least a post of one city in Sub-Saharan Africa at least Nairobi which has a nice skyline in African standards. Despite having some weird shanties in the outskirts, Nairobi downtown area has...... Matt: According to my dad, back in between 1981 & 1992 these midtown/downtown streets were more of that of slums. Great Memories!... janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the...... Fred, The.: Good morning,
I can see that there are some misconceptions out there about this ridiculous mess of a town.. I've created a video...... brooke: This is the best part of W.Gray. I live right across the street on Genesse (not the scary side !! LOL!!)and every one from Montrose to Downtown, all along Gray, have such passion for the...... The Grimm Girl: Our new motto should be "Come share our empty space" because there sure is a lot of it. Empty spaces downtown, empty spaces at the mall, empty spaces at the salt museum, empty spaces at...... riana: I moved here in 1989 and if you people hate Jacksonville now you would of really hated it back then, there was really nothing to do, and everyone here talked funny. Ive seen it grow...... stephen: I would just like to say to the people who said bad things about jacksonville I would like to move but I have lived here for all my life and I love this city you...... Sancho: Where does the blue part of Blue Bayou begin downtown and how far from downtown does it go?... Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was...... dude: i wouldn't recommend having breakfast at Denny's,
go down main street into the downtown and have a
breakfast burrito at the Diner, which has been
slinging hash since 1889 (to judge by the grill)... EvilGentleman: The areas bordering Verdun are pretty much the same, as well.
Pointe-Saint-Charles, east of Verdun, is historically Irish, and today is a mixed community where English is not a problem.
Ville-Emard, to the north of Verdun, has...... 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...... Michael worsley: Back On October 4,1969 The Myrtle Avenue Subway Stations Were Closed Down The Demolishing From Downtown Jay Street Up To Broadway Upper Level Station The Myrtle Avenue El Was Cut From Jay Street Up To...... Padre Island: I graduated from HCC in the late 70's, back when Hutchinson still had somewhat of a
downtown. I remember our business law class one day invited the Pres. of the Hutch
Chamber to come speak....... Bob: I have lived in Lawrence, KS as well. I have traveled this great land of ours extensively (Driven through every state east of the rockies and south of New York)
I am not saying all...... CE: Do the little people in the display move at all? There's a wonderful xmas window display in a downtown department store here in Montreal and it moves around and does all kinds of crazy...... Kate: I live here in Hutchinson and I know it has its boring parts, but the College is growing, downtown has its busy parts and there are a lot of community get-to-gethers. Like every town, Hutchinson...... EvilGentleman: My hometown is {Kahnawake}, across the {Mercier Bridge} from {Lasalle}. I have been living in {Dorval} for the last two years, and I have also lived in {Lachine} and {Verdun}. I am also very familiar...... Matt: Houston gets really bright at night with the Downtown lights the nigtlife, traffic moving. It kind of reminds me of Mexico City. ... Matt: I love how Downtown Houston looks from the Montrose area angle. ... Hutch Ho: Hutch isn't all that bad. No worse than any other city. It has it's problems,but what town or city doesn't. The downtown renovation is nice,Ave.A park is nice,the antique district is totally cool, Smith's market...... a: MY RESULTS:
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RE: [Civic Sign Inquiry]
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:31:21 -0500
From: "Sleeth, Chris"
CC: "Contactus"
Hi A,
Can you please let me know where this new installation took place? We have been removing signs from many of the trees...... anon (mobile-166-217-249-209.mycingular.net): This is a very sad commentary and certainly not factual. I no longer live in Pauls Valley but it is a beautiful place to raise children. The downtown is historic and very interesting....... CartLegger: I think we are all overstimulated, Jack; That the wonder of such things can approach hummdrum-ery. I am as guilty as the rest of the 150K people that are said to visit this site daily....... JOEY-THE PUBLIC ANIMALS: Wow.. The stories I have about this creek! I used to deliver the Long Island Press to Mr. Raab, born in the 1890's who used to take a rowboat down this creek from East Elmhurst,...... DIANE: I Lived on Franklyn Ave Off WILLOUGHBY In The Early 50'S. A Few Years Ago I Went Back To My Old House,And It Was Still There,It Chaned A Little But Not Much.It WAas A Wonderful...... MaGoo: I grew up on Lawn Guyland in the 70's; most of my neighbors were "caucasian-Americans" who were from Bushwick and East New York. They had been displaced by the "diversity"- when the city used THEIR...... Tex: I was born in Hutchinson, Ks. (in fact it was at the Grace Hospital, which is the second picture from the top). Back in the 70's Hutch was a going jessy, vibrant downtown, lots...... nuclearrabbit33: I used to work for a carriage company in Chicago. We had to pass through Cabrini Green every single day...both on the way to downtown and the way back to our barns at night. In...... Hutch Hater Too: I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm...... serlingrod: oh lovely - featureless corporate landscape! :) these pics look like they could have been taken in the "downtown" of Harrisburg, Binghamton, or any other ity bity city. ... average joe: it's fairly easy to make people believe that hutch is a shithole, well for one because it is,but yet you only show photos of a building on 20th and monroe. thats where the AA meetings...... dfwtiger: Oddly, the downtown is very clean....but...we have our places that are not so clean of course... HushUp: For the person who thinks that someone should ask the side of the 'Gang Member' on why they shot and killed my son's friend - It's obvious you have no clue what it's like to...... Born in Hutchinson: That weird church/apartment building you describe used to be called St. Elizabeth's Mercy Hospital. I was born there.
I lived for several years about three blocks east of that building, in a very nice neighborhood....... Big Momma Becky: I am going to straddle the fence,so to speak,about my hometown,which happens to be Hutch. I am a middle aged woman,so someone younger might not have my same opinion,which is understandable. I have lived here...... EvilGentleman: I saw this post the day it was first posted, and had not looked back it till today. What a lot of comments about stolen bikes in the Toronto area! Incredible.
Reminds me of this guy...... jeeff: that's the new jarvis campus of "canada's national ballet school", right? it's one of the nicer developments downtown in the last few years. man, glad i don't have to get up that early.... colavitos ghost: in the sixth picture note the extreme proximity of the industrial flats and downtown. i've never seen another city in which the urban core and the industrial core are so close together. i...... joey: little ukraine: you must have been downtown, or on the east side if you were remembering my posts of cleveland. i'm thinking about a trip to cleveland in october. visit my mother for her birthday,...... EvilGentleman: The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians.
Dislike...... 2less2: it's to bad that you guys haven't taken the time to see the actual truths as they relate Las Vegas and all you've managed to find fault with.
first, one of the biggest reasons the...... EvilGentleman: The crosswalk countdowns look like the ones I have seen in the Lasalle borough of Montreal for the last 20 years. They're everywhere around here nowadays, but not downtown for some stupid reason. They really...... Sandinista: Yea I think edmonton should be higher on this list but its always so poorly photographed. I agree calgary's is better in fact probably the second best but not that much better than edmonton. I...... aer suzuki: First of all, I would never, ever call myself a "real Seattlite" and I think I made it clear that I'm the only person I know who calls the building the Darth Vader building. As...... jay: This building is not th building that real Seattlites refer to as the "Darth Vader building" I used to work in the "Darth Vader building" and it is on 4th and blanchard. Also the building...... CE: Ah, the ETS residences, there always seem to be weird parties in that building. I was invited to the annual beach party in the court yard by some people at the bizarre student dep....... EvilGentleman: I have a pic of the guys who were in the process of painting with a basic little can of white model paint and a paintbrush. They proudly posed for me, but since I do...... 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,...... CE: I've lived in quite a few places since I moved here last August. I lived in St-Henri for a couple months but I live in Griffintown now which isn't too far away. I...... John Humperdink: What's that smell? oh, it's the living sewer town of hutchinson, with all the people drowning in their own scum.
Papergirl, you are living in your own little dream world...I think you are...... Bass Girl: Oh my gosh PAPERGIRL17....do you live in the salt mine hundreds of feet under Hutch or something? Lets try coming to the surface and having a cup of reality....
1. The Cosmosphere (since there are...... Bass Girl: I moved here from a town of 2500 people about 7 years ago, and I've watched this town die around me. Many businesses have come and gone, major industrial places for large employment have...... Helen: I lost my Kona today from a locked cage at work.... can you believe this? Only started riding to work for about 3 weeks, and this week I had to stay behind to do...... papergirl17: Hutch may not have all the ammenities the larger towns have, but here are the "10 Specific Things That Make It Better" for you losers who don't have anything better to do than to rag...... KansasBoy: It would seem, perhaps, that you missed the downtown area of Belleville, since all of your pictures are from out on Highway 81. No matter, your conclusion is pretty much on target, if a...... CE: It's too bad you didn't get to some of the more architecturally interesting stops. {Verdun}, {De La Savane}, {Vendôme}, {Villa-Maria}, and many other stops (especially outside of the older sections Downtown) are very beautiful......
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