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Beardo: Wiki: A chuba is a long sheepskin coat made of thick Tibetan wool worn by many of the nomadic peoples of high altitude in the cold mountains of Tibet. Doesn't sound so bad. :)...

in response to: Chuba No Good by Peter

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I agree,this is really a nice site.It is nice to think back on Memory Lane. I remember the "field days", in Boys High Field on Maple Street. In my day,it started in fifth grade.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: youre right, rich. just up the block, more or less, from my old place at {park place} and {washington}. seems like some of brooklyn's oddest ride that shuttle train, ha. people-watching around there is lots......

in response to: NYPD by Peter

Jane: I had to comment. This is awesome. I was born in 1949 and I lived at 1587 Carroll Street which is between Carroll and Schnectady. I lived there until I was 12 years old.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Keith Bernstein: I also remember two basement areas in PS 167 used as gymnasia and remember receiving polio vaccine in the east basement area, probably in 1955. Esther has brought up an old memory. During the 1952-53 school......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Osloman20plus: If you liked the streetart, you gotta check out this wall (below) which is quite close to all the other pics here, but still a bit off from the two streets that are mainly pictured......

in response to: Some Oslo Streetart by Osloman20plus

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......

in response to: Park Slope Glass & Windows by sine

Sanford : To Esther In an idle moment I googled PS 167 to find out some details to compare with childhood memories and saw your comments. I was one year behind you at PS 167. My memories of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Why isn't anyone writing anything? I think that I shall have to write again. I remember the window of the Famous retaurant bakery. It wasn't like any other bakery window. It was retangular and it......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Mitch Spector: Yep, it's indeed very much GONE. Made one final pass by this morning (November 5th) to check things out and it's not what I saw, but what I didn't see that caught my attention! It's......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Mrs.Gradstein was my sixth gradeteacher in 1955-6. I remember the old furniture. I never new it had been changed up till now. Therr were fruit and vegetable stores across the street from the school on Schenecktady......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Keith Bernstein: I would like to add some comments about Mrs. Ida Gradstein. I thought her to be an effective teacher and a sweet lady. The mention of her name brought back some memories of my sixth......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Stan: Just a note: I was bar mitzvahed at Petach Tikva in June 1943. It was on the corner of Rochester Ave. and Lincoln Place. The other Bar Mitvah with me was Gene Braunwald who lived opposire me......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esthr Herschman (Rechtschafner): I enjoyed this site very much. I graduated from PS167 in 1958.Now i will try to list yu some of my memories. Kindergarten teacher Miss Shapiro. (there was another kindergarten class and teacher -Mrs. Pinkerton.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

alanpigott@eircom.net: Thanks Jack.....would very much appreciate it if you could find out some details for me .....would love to know if the picture was painted by one of the nuns..or if it was a print that......

in response to: About Convents by jack

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......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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......

in response to: T & S Live Poultry by Peter

Mitch Spector: I took updated photos exactly one week later, on Sunday, October 12th. As they continue to strip away pieces of the building, it's interesting to see what sat hidden underneath the wrap-around sign all those......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Karen: I heard the most horrible noises out my window last night - whining moaning growling crunching ... then 3 fat racoons emerge from the woods - scary viscious killers .. i am so sad......

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

fesoner,OMC: yo,they are not the same person man,you guys are retards sane and smith were bros and ja,big ups to you man you're my freakin idol fuck rtd,pussy ass hatin no ups motherfuckers you the real deal,and there's no one better RIP......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Humboldt1: I am happy to get rid of all the gangbangers. I have confronted drug dealers and will surely do it again. I do not want the kids on my street living around this......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Brian Jacobs: Well, perhaps a compromise would be to attach signs to trees using an expanding metal collar with a rubber inner sleeve to protect the tree and allow the tree to grow without the collar......

in response to: We Nail Road Signs to Trees. by AG

George: Sign is now scrap metal. bye...

in response to: Ideal Dinettes by Peter

oh word?: I don't see why so many people think this dude's dad is eternally funding his existence, as though this oscar-winning director is going to be real happy that his son ended up a notorious crack-smoking......

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

patricia blackmer: I'm planning on a trip to calvary cemetary.... i have family buried there and i'm just fascinated with old cemetaries..... its a walk through history..... lovely picture...

in response to: Old Calvary Cemetery by jack

pascale : Bonjour jemappelle Pascale jai travaillé longtemp au super sexe a mtl et cetais le bon temp les danse a 5 et 6$ ca changer je nezs jamais retourner apres mais jy pense esque sais vraiment......

in response to: Club Super Sexe by EvilGentleman

Claire: Hi - I noticed earlier in the thread a lady called Diane mentions she has the contact details for Daz & Chave. I would very much like to book them for a pub opening!......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Mike L.: Taken somewhere near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with cell-phone. Post-processed with Corel PSP/Topaz Adjust to flatten digital noise, smeared sky for effect, enhanced water detail, gave whole thing vague yellowish sepia cast. ...

in response to: Waterfall, Brooklyn Bridge by Mike L.

Ron from Michigan: Just visited Jim and his castle. Found him standing in the bucket of his Bobcat building an archway over his mote. The topic of the moment was "why Michael Phelps didn't deserve any......

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

RiCH1: SPIN........whoever you are.......you killed that shit on the 'Rock', sun!.....Rock On! Ya gotta turn yer head kids, to peep that one out.....right at the bottom of the escarpment waterfall on the 401 into the Hammer!......

in response to: Graffiti in the Hammer by TIMDOG

teresa: I just visited this cemetary where my great aunt and uncle (Anthony & Emma Gentile) are buried. It was my first trip there, from Canada. I would like to locate any family and friends who......

in response to: Old Calvary Cemetery by jack

EvilGentleman: anon, I thank you for educating us on the train parts. I think of trains as big noisy metal things that carry stuff, and sometimes have graf on the outside. I am a total moron......

in response to: Train Derails on Bridge IV: The Aftermath (With Graf Train Passing By) by EvilGentleman

anon (cache-ntc-ab03.proxy.aol.com): Liz: My sister was born in St Marys Hospital in 1929,the only one of seve siblings born in a hospital. We all went to St Matthews school and church in the 1930s. The boys......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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......

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

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

adam: i have vivid memories of driving on the cross bronx with my family in the 80s and seeing cars piled up on the sides of the road. could just be youthful interpretation of a lesser......

in response to: A Sign of Past Times? by CartLegger

Rob Tynan: If anyone wants to discuss any aspect of Irlam and Cadishead in detail, then you would be very welcome to join Irlam and Cadishead Ancestry at [[http://oldirlamvillage.atfreeforum.com]]. The content of which is entirely made......

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

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

Jamie: **Note from editors:** Would you guys like some kind of **Irlam local history discussion forum** site setting up? Not that I'd want to discourage you from using the site but it doesn't lend itself well......

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

u shud give more details: where is this in manhattan...

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

Me: Re to Hutchinson Escapee That sick pervert lived in Pretty Prairie,as you stated,not Hutch,the sick pervert who sexually assulted and killed an elderly woman this past month also was from out of town,Mcpherson to be exact.They......

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

Debbie from Irlam: Hi Norma and Anne, My maiden name is Buck, and I am sure Norma you will remember me, I used to knock about with you, not often, but used to come to your house in Cadishead.......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

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......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

zagg: Hey Evil, familiar with The Arrogant Worms? "Vegetables live in oppression Served on our tables each night This killing of veggies is madness I say we take up the fight Salads are only for murderers Cole slaw's a fascist regime Don't......

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

CE: Can I go from being a passive vegetarian to the token crazy vegan?? MEAT IS MURDER!!! ANIMALS HAVE SOULS TOO!!! ...et cetera ...

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

zagg: With so many vegetarians, maybe I'll have to have an entire post dedicated to my vegetable garden: JUST YOU KIDS WAIT UNTIL MY EGG PLANTS BARE ME SOME PURPLE ORBS OF YUMMNESS (now only 73%......

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

EvilGentleman: True Peter. That is why I use fanatical as an adjective and not a noun in its own right. It differentiates the fanatical vegans from the quieter zagg-like ones. Actually, there are a lot of......

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

anon (cache-mtc-ad08.proxy.aol.com): I have been at 20 Harman Street since we bought it in 1988. Of course everyone thought I was crazy! Among the many comments was this one "Who would buy a house in Bushwick?" smile.......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

zagg: I like the fact that the girl in photograph #2 has a pack of Marlboro cigs in her pocket. Boo US Beef! YAY US Tobacco! --- zagg, the vegetarian who is a descendant of Canadian......

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

Bob Salmon: Hi James Off hand I cannot remember Mike Melani although the name rings a bell somewhere? Peter Robinson I remember from school and have not heard of him since we left school. Malcolm Kennedy was a good......

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

Kate: We have a mother and 2 babies on our roof. The porch has this metal box on top (no one knows why, it's a very old house). Anyway, a few years ago my......

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

Bob Smith: KP has amazing walls, anybody who's escaped deserves a metal!...

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

Peter: thanks you guys... i had a great time down there, so its been nice to share these shots. i took so many photos in there, so it was hard deciding which to post here... im......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

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......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

joey: my uncle john was a nyc policeman in the 60's. he once let me sound off the siren in his patrol car. it was so long ago i don't remember much more. i'll ask my......

in response to: NYPD Partners, NYC, Late 1960\'s by Mike L.

Andie: Dear Yep its me, There is a difference between a "job" and a "career where you can make a living and support your family on. Hutchinson offers plenty of the former and not the latter. This......

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

zagg: Just this morning I used a pile like that to make a pathway in my vegetable garden: [[img:27866]] ...

in response to: Brooklyn Backyard by luna park

Stolen while I worked... Curses!: Hello this was my bike. Scott FB60 Speedster - Black, Grey, Gunmetal, 24 spd, 23c tires It was stolen between 5-7 on Thursday, May 30, 2008. In front of the University of Toronto Athletics Center,......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dean You can see your family home in Fiddlers Lane on Google Earth. It is the last house in the lane, which is a semi detached at a 45 degree angle, making one half in......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

zagg: Well, zagg wouldn't eat poutine (I'm canadian, its true, but I'm also a vegetarian) ... but zagg would (and did) eat pizza fries. twice... in one week... AND SURVIVED!...

in response to: The First 60 Minutes of My Return by zagg

Laura: That is simply amazing work! The amount of detail that has gone into that mural is amazing..I bet I can't see it all either just through photos but that is all I'm ever going to......

in response to: Montreal\'s Largest Mural? by Montrealbunny

Peter: lets see yours in the comments, eg! also: the {mural} is amazing... i love the shady lettering in the second shot... the detail in teh third... wow, just wow. but yeah, id love to see some......

in response to: Montreal\'s Largest Mural? by Montrealbunny

Jon Burgess: James Cashan, It would be great to start a thread dedicated to irlam and cadishead musicians and bands, there have been so many. My mates cousin from New Moss Road was the singer of a band......

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

Atasha: It's wonderful hearing all these stories about my hometown. I was born in 1991 and attended PS 123K and JS 291. I used to live on Stockholm St., between Irving and Wyckoff Avenues, but 5......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

James cashan: sad news regarding the old river, apparently it was reported in the salford advertiser which used to be irlam and cadishead advertiser,that it has been polluted and all the fish have been poisened and died! naturally......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

BILROCK-161, RTW.: YET ANOTHER NEW-JACK, You are the same. It is obvious by the same imature insults you so freely hurl at someone you dont know anything about. I almost was going to be civil to you on......

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

The terrible disaster: This article has been republished as I was asked to supply the details a second time. --- We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When......

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

Eamonn: Holy crap, how can you hate Eddie like that, hottie? (fair few years ago, but still dishonorable). Also, it's not really the loyalists depicting themselves as a skeletal soldier. Iron Maiden are one of the......

in response to: The Waterside by Jamie

9 oh 5: who ever posted this as graffitis a bad thing is retarted tha zion prodo is legal WAKE UP ...

in response to: Graffiti in the Hammer by TIMDOG

Tiffany: OMG, I miss that neighborhood so much. I am 37 and moved to Staten Island a few years ago. I grew up in Bensonhurst. What a neighborhood! Nothing like it. I hung out on Bay......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

Ben Baillargeon: Let me tell everyone the number one way to stop bike theft! Don't be stupid for one without critisizing anyone, but if you love you bike bring it everywhere you go! seriously i ride my norco......

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

Sue Hadingham:24th April 2008 -19:50 GMT: My Grandfather was the senior administrator at Netherne for many years and similarly my Grandmother worked on the wards as a nurse. My fondest memories were also visiting the pantomime and staying at my......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

EvilGentleman: A few suggestions in order to reduce damage in future disturbances: 1 - Do **not** leave portable metal street signs with plate metal bases lying around on the streets when large events are taking place. Most......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril, and the second farm almost opposite on your left you got the best celery around, tall white stems, not green like now and insect nibbled or slug mess in between the stems, lovely clean......

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

"G": I will start by saying this, Acorn has got a good heart, it's intentions are to give the students the knowledge to succeed. The teachers are good some bad but mostly good. and most......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

bill: Born in 1941 at williamsburg hospital. Lived at 99 Stockholm until '46 when we moved to 41 Cornelia Street betweenBushwick and Broadway (third house down from the congregationalist Church. went to PS 56......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

antblack: Chinese Handball!!!! On the Bounce! Big Wheels, go carts made out of old metal roller skates, a 2 by 4 and a wooden milk crate, and chuck sticks using the chains off peoples garbage can......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

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

Romania ( Braila): hey i'm a iulian from romania and here parkour is one sport very popular... for details iulian_mihalache2006@yahoo.com and iulianmihalache2006@gmail.com...

in response to: Le Parkour by Luli

EvilGentleman: Wait, is it possible the "fuck" is actually a verb, and not an adjective? If so, then am I in compliance, considering my wife is an ex-cop? Mind you, she did quit that job before......

in response to: Fuck Police! by Elicar

anon (199.218.252.54): Hey, I'm a kid whose popped up in a lot of these as pictured in Citynoise places, and I'm thinking about moving from the states to Hackney, Dalston to be specific. I was just......

in response to: Hanging Around by elaine

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in response to: Miami Art Massacre by Bob Edelson

luna park: that's a sweetass collection of graf truck flicks! i take it you know about the truck fetish group on flickr?...

in response to: Grunts Truck by luna park

woo hoo: whoever said that yellowknife, canada should be on the list is half retarded. just look at the skyline (if you can call it that). it looks like it might have 1 building over 10 stories......

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

Former Hutchinsonite: I was wrong, I'm sorry, life in Kansas certainly isn't boring. This was in the Hutch news last week: "Hospital detached toilet seat from woman, sheriff says" WICHITA - Law enforcement officials planned to present their report......

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

Rudy: FROM THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE - March 18, 2008: As of April 14, 2008, large trucks with more than two axles will no longer be allowed to travel through the Washburn Tunnel. Lately, large trucks often scrape......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

Sheila hilton: Hya Sue, I also used to go (albeit for a very short time), to the dance place above the Red Rose Inn. Didn't it used be be called The......

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Cyril - Times have changed a bit since the 'tea-dance' days. Wasn't the protocol that the young ladies had to sit like wall-flowers and wait to be invited to dance? So if some......

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

Sheila hilton: Hi to Deb, Just read your comments about Elsie Royale and a Mrs Pitt. When I was a little girl, there was a Miss royale who......

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

BILROCK-161, RTW.: Damn...y'all are embarising yourselves. It is bad enough that you post-84 new jacks are so politically retarded. There are no kings by throw-ups alone, who the f_ck taught y'all that nonsense..CAP????. CAP was a friggin......

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

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Hi Alan, I agree with Rob, please keep trying... and I am keen to know what your response to me is.... my email is msi31309@bigpond.net.au if you don't have any luck here. Norma, my dad didn't......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob On the last of your photos, you can just about see at the edge on the left, a little opening cut under the railway that led into LSC (British Steel). I never worked at......

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hey, I don't care who the author is, as long as the info keeps coming. You guys have fantastic memories and a good eye for detail..... My grandad (Frank Bolton), worked at the Steel......

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

Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We......

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

Peter: i just came across this interesting blurb: [[http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php?tip_AttractionNo==2535]]...

in response to: Babe\'s Muffler by JoeyD

Croquet Metaphor: than brothers makes me want to vomit. pho 900 or any number of places in the ID. I went to one last week on 14th and jackson-I can't remember what it was called, the front......

in response to: Pho in Seattle by Peter

Pho Phreak: I gotta second the recommendation for Pho Viet Anh. [[img:26225]] [[http://www.phovietanh.com]] [[http://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-viet-anh-seattle]]...

in response to: Pho in Seattle by Peter

iheartretards: Pho Viet Anh on lower Queen Anne next to Bamboo Garden and down the block from the Opera house. It's the best Pho in town, I can't even palate nasty Than Brothers anymore. That shit......

in response to: Pho in Seattle by Peter