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Comments about fence

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Richie Rubin: AJS,I knew several folk who were murdered in old`hood',yep,it did change..for`da woyst',WE probably can't walk da streets safely @ nite..anymore..& chain-link fences/bars on many of da b'ldgs I usta play/hang-out in[esp.on St.Johns pl.]a sad state OUR former living quarters/spaces......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

Richie Rubin: Allan;well,dat BIG space `twixt bldgs seemed like a`courtyard/atrium']WE[on St,Johns pl.]didn't have any`open spaces'like YOU Union st.kids had,but WE had a`backyard'w/fences WE climed over & were in a`strange'woyld'..some folks even had nice fruit/vegi.gardens[on Sterling pl.]& on `Google Earth'YOU......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: i had to climb up a fence and over a wall to get that first shot (thats why its a little askew), and while i was doing that, a guy pulled over in a truck......

in response to: Armer Graffiti by Peter

Paul Davies: I completed a 4 year apprenticeship in electronic engineering between 1973 and 1977 at Aquila. Just the fact that I gained my 'deeds' stood me in good stead when it came to getting work later. Aquila was......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

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

Jewels: Was the one under the bridge before Yarraville the one with the milk crate erection? Two have been destroyed near Newport. One has the crates hung on the fence and the other thrown......

in response to: Milkcrate Man by Selig

pauline curran : been over to lisnaskea two weeks ago you can,t get in the castle any more all fenced off. i was told it was because of kids getting in and recking it what a......

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

pauline curran : been over to lisnaskea two weeks ago you can,t get in the castle any more all fenced off. i was told it was because of kids getting in and recking it what a......

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

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......

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

Tracy 3rd Sep 2008 21:30 GMT: All I want to say is I walked that road day in and day out for one reason being to take my daughters to school . On the odd Occision when I looked around me I......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

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......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Mako Sands: I love going places I'm not suppoed to, so I was sad to find they'd put this on a fence around my school. I was just following a Pukeko. It washed off my hands with......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

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

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......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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......

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

Montrealbunny: I finally got around to taking another walk in this direction. This is the back of the building at 4000 St Ambroise. There is a french cuisine resto tucked away there that I......

in response to: How Much Is That Pussy in the Window? by Montrealbunny

Rob Tynan: Hi Gary, I seem to remember that when the "Maypole" was first built, the centre of the site was grass with a white wooden fence around it. It was later flagged over when the market......

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

Peter: hey! thats my hometown, too! more chattanooga photos! which reminds me... i have some photos from my recent visit home that i need to post, still... esp some great ones of the paley fence at......

in response to: Downtown Chattanooga by Anne C

luna park: these were all snapped through a hole in the construction fence. the area under the scaffolding where i was standing smelled pretty awful and had recently been baited with rat poison, so i didn't linger......

in response to: Irak Crew by luna park

Meh one: The one on 181'st was mine, the one next to it is Idea - the m and the H look alike because the only different is the angle of the middle bar separating the 2......

in response to: PDX graffiti like ummm... by fuzzytank

jack: nice shot, johnnie pumps were all the rage back in the 40's and 50's, the city would attach a hose and hang it on the fence at the schoolyard at boody jr. high on avenue......

in response to: Heat Wave by Peter

Al Pierro: Just came across this website in search of info on what has happened to St. Joseph's church where we used to play softball back in the 50's & 60's. I attended a grade school on......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

Annoyed: I seen a raccoon by my house. It was looking straight at me and I yelled at it, it just stood there looking at me so I went in my house. Then last night I......

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

Jamie: ##"Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain Somerfield. The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day......

in response to: 2 Faggots in Gravy by Elicar

if90b: New workout by on right side of I-84 heading west after 181st exit. There used to be a LUNAR out there on the fence and it got cleaned, then a few weeks later was......

in response to: PDX graffiti like ummm... by fuzzytank

Peter: not one but two {NY} shirts, heh... the shot with the frayed wire is cool... there are a few stainless steel fences like the one in that shot in my neighborhood... one of them is......

in response to: Compilation Part Five by chiamattt

YoYo: I'll never forget coming upon this cemetery as a child with my brother. While exploring Prospect park we just happen to come across it. We were in awe. My brother and I tried to climb......

in response to: Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park by sine

Montrealbunny: Upon hearing shouts of Huah! Huah! outside the window this afternoon, I found the Station 15 cops prepping for the next big win (or loss?) utilizing a variety of riot gear, and going through a......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Damian 666: I think its more fun just to put the spikes in the ground and the paint on the fence so when they jump over they stab themselves through the feet and you can follow the......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

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

VAN: yo anon, i heard oval taught some guy to tag after he quit and moved to massachusetts. now the new oval has been gettin up around on i-95 and the norwalk area. he has been......

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

chiamattt: Looks like they're building a fence, not planting trees. haha...

in response to: Yellow Sand by chiamattt

Jim: I was on the jury that convicted Maurice Keenan for the murder of Ropert Opel and came back with the death penality for it. It was cold blooded and was harrased for 10 years by......

in response to: Is Robert Oppel Neck Face? by Peter

Jim: I was on the jury that convicted Maurice Keenan for the murder of Ropert Opel and came back with the death penality for it. It was cold blooded and was harrased for 10 years by......

in response to: Is Robert Oppel Neck Face? by Peter

Jim: I was on the jury that convicted Maurice Keenan for the murder of Ropert Opel and came back with the death penality for it. It was cold blooded and was harrased for 10 years by......

in response to: Is Robert Oppel Neck Face? by Peter

Andrew Smith: Alan It's a shame so many public buildings now have to have huge unscalable fences around them. We just used to climb over the small fences into the school fields for a game of football -......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Andrew, Sheila, Cyril et al, Platts Brook was a popular play area and it went underground through vertical iron bars and waterfalled about 10 feet under Liverpool Road opposite Ferry Road. The part that was from where......

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

Michael Waugh: Directions: Recalling since '75, west of the SAPI mill about 5-10 km I would say. There was a small post office/store. Dirt road went north over the railroad tracks, just beyond it turned to the......

in response to: Mans Contribution to Nature by Guy McLaren

Alex Price: Rememba This From Time Ago When Everyone Used It For Pissing In And People Fell Off It, And When They Put That Fence Round It People Dug A Little Hole Under The Fence So They......

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

Hunter: My, my, you fellows (Tex, Noname, and former Hutchinsonite) have certainly grown suddenly very touchy. You raise so many points with so much overlap I'll try to answer by point, rather than address each correspondent......

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

B. B: I live in Henry Horner as well from 1982 until 1989. I have to say that my time in the Horner projects was a learning experience. I raised 5 children there and none......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Marje Givens-Eames: What a wonderful site for Irlam/Cadishead and what memories, many I had forgotten. I remember Goodiers living in the house on Ferry Road/Boat Lane. We lived in Gerrards Close and our house backed onto......

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

Kasey: No offence but why are you sitting here saying you are white? To me it makes no difference what color you are. If there is troulbe somewhere you either get caught up in it, or......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Floody: I agree that it will never get back to where is was in the past...nothing ever does, but please do not put down the efforts that the New Kensington Community Development Corporation is currently doing.......

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

Peter: procyon: interesting observation about the parks department... frankly, i was surprised at how easy it was to just walk right into the place. i mean, theres a fence, but it has several door-sized holes/flaps cut/pried......

in response to: Abandoned... NY State Pavilion by Peter

Andrew Smith: Natalie - the bowling green is still there, though now fenced off to prevent it being used as a football pitch. The tennis courts have been refurbished, though you now have to pay to use......

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

Dick: The neighborhood during the early 40's was fabulous. PS 241 on President Street was new. In the schoolyard, softball center & right field were along the fence to the BMT trench. A home run hit......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

anon (host86-156-88-225.range86-156.btcentralplus.com): I have known George Major as The Pearly King of Peckham for many years, so I can write with true knowledge of this good man. I am writing in full defence of him as I know......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Michael: I grew up in Yorkville in the 1950's. We lived on 90th St between First and York. I remember the fireboat station at the foot of 90th St just outside the fence at Schurz park.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

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......

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

Jay5: what up heads yo man Ive been to those spots awhile back and seen all the shit you posted as pix they were pretty tight i walked the hole lenght of the fence from the......

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

Patience Person: i'am considering goin 2 achs in september cause my guidence conseler said sheeps head bay high skool is terriable i did'int even put it down az 1 of my choice's so there was a mix......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

steve : Cartlegger; I'll try to be brief with some details. Please don't hold me to the exact dates because I am going back from memory and not researching. Barren Island as we knew it......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Peter: heh, i used to live between 4th and 5th avenues just down from the park. nice. i also love that shot with the 5 water-towers superimposed under the fence....

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

highwalker: been there a few times last year - 'twas fun while it lasted, the best part was slipping past the (now apparently dismantled) steel gates and fences, and getting into that huge building on the......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

CartLegger: Thanks. I've been seeing this place for years. But I thought "you could never get in there, gotta be a fence." But no. I was surprised to learn that just sort of walk right in--well,......

in response to: Bayside Cemetary: Rememberance Overgrown by CartLegger

ramo: hes da best at pieces(my opinion) but has a bad writing style no offence...

in response to: Metro Cope2 by METRO KD OTB DMC

Big Bank Hank: Everytime I see paintings of the hungerstrikers it makes me want to throw up! These men were terrorists/criminals they thought nothing of killing people, blowing up buildings/people, robbing banks, extorting money of people, and generally......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

PhillyGuy83: People exaggerate so much about New York that its sickening. If you are from a picket fenced suburb and want to know if you'll be safe in some inner city neighborhood then more than likely......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

tony: try - read between the holes in the fence...

in response to: Warning by joey

GGP: what must it feel like to be a fence looking up at a cloud?...

in response to: Cloud_scape by joey

joey: i've altered my commute pattern and now i walk by this schoolyard fence twice a day...

in response to: Cloud_scape by joey

martinthenext: "You guys have leaves on your trees already?? I'm jealous!" yeah me too :) In northern cities spring is a specific time when sun comes out and the weather becomes warm. but i can't understand. what do......

in response to: Del Mar Theater by joey

joey: cool, fenced in snow. protected from dogshit....

in response to: Darkest Cabbagetown by Biff

Stardreamer: I remember walking by that house when I was younger, imagining I lived there. That I was in the past and that was my portal to be able to jump back and forth in time.......

in response to: Abandoned Western Gothic by joey

Carla: Im writing an essay on whether on not fire works should be seen as a criminal offence... this article just made up my mind for me....

in response to: Fireworks Causes Fire by Guy McLaren

GGP: when i was in second grade, my family relocated for a brief time from NYC to a suburb outside of Houston, Texas. behind our apartment was a big field. back behind that was an imposing......

in response to: Snakes!! by steelisreal

joey: little uke is correct. more great pictures. the ##dead## looking trees make for ideal b&w realism. i love the twigs and the shadows they make on the fence. ## #13## i think....

in response to: Urban Ecosystem by dfwtiger

joey: there was a ravine in my old cleveland heights neighborhood. we lived on stoneleigh road then. the ravine went behind the ge nela park dump. so we would sneak in the dump through a hole......

in response to: Americans Love Anything Blueberry by little ukraine

Toronto's Finest at work!: Congradulations that area specifically where the photos have been taken scarb town center subway station is notorious for smokers smoking clearly with that no smoking sign infront of them. And second of all yes......

in response to: Smokers BEWARE! by Elicar

BZZZP: p - how well fenced and patrolled is this place? i'm getting some ideas....

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

anon (h-67-101-102-3.snfccasy.dynamic.covad.net): those wires on the fence look like plants...

in response to: signs by GGP

Susannah: They came in through a gap in the neigbors fence; here's the neighbor's yard:[[img:16600]] ...

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

Susannah: I'd rather have racoons than these guys. This was my backyard before we put up a fence a couple of winters ago:[[img:16599]] ...

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

chiamattt: You cannot walk on the grass in Seoul. Grass is at a premium here. You pay about 30cents to go into a walled park to walk on designated paths. There are benches to sit on...but......

in response to: Quay to the City by jeeff

Dan: Well! When you were young did you dream of growing up to be a building inspector? A tax inspector? Something along those lines. People with an attitude like yours are the death of individualism and......

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

Astro Guy: Great. Just great. How the heck am I supposed to relax when I’m outside on clear nights at the telescope?! I’m in BC, right down in the extreme South-West, by the US border in a......

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

aer suzuki: glad you put that shot of the curved & fenced walkway in there, i'd forgotten about that little area, i like it. cool to see you posting seattle shots again as well, nice....

in response to: I5 & Roy by fuzzytank

fuzzytank: no special, just tryin to lean on something solid since no tripod... fence has a curve to keep ya from climbing over but since that didnt work they wrapped the sign truss with barbed wire....

in response to: I5 & Roy by fuzzytank

jody Richman: Do racoons yelp when hurt. At 4 this morning I heard what sounded like a small dog yelping in pain in the neighbors yard. I went to investigate, but couldn't see. I thought I heard......

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

A Volunteer: My Youngest was Killed on the Shankill by PIRA. I appreciate your views and understand your intelligence. But you will NEVER convince me of your views. I AM BITTER. Allways will be. For OBVIOUS reasons !! My......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

GeneralTsao: Not to dispute that Bazine may be a boring town, but just for the sake of accuracy, the high school building is not used anymore since district consolidation some years back. Also, the empty field you......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 13 by Scott Sargent

Tony: I WAS born in a house on Bushwick Avenue and Halsey Street. My father and mother were both immigrants from Italy, They left italy for the new world to improve their lives and to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mary: My dog, a Jack Russell, was attacked by a raccoon just a few minutes ago. It is a hot night, so I have the window open in my TV room. My dog, who......

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

Chris Erb: I agree that Saint John has a nicer skyline but as I said above, Moncton's skyline has many more important buildings and is more striking than that of Saint John. Please don't take offence,......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

laanba: This was at a work site on a Sunday, so I'm pretty sure they had it up to make sure no one could make off with it. The site was only surrounded by a......

in response to: Hanging Around by laanba

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

shelia/neworleans: Tyson This is not a fight, but before you address me in defence of Phill you need to go back and read his Jun.23, 2006 entry. He was not asking for the reason he is......

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

aer suzuki: it's not a house at all. obviously it's a ufo hangar. look at pictures #4 & #5 : the little aliens drive into the garage on the right, gain access to the left building through......

in response to: Modernism on Squires by CE

tricia: raccoons like to hang in my yard at night and trash stuff. last night they kept revisiting, mamma and babies, they slashed big holes into a chair, dug up my cactus, and in my......

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

EvilGentleman: Firstly, I see someone has already "Rrrrrrolled up the rrrrrrrim" on the pictured cup. Secondly, I must admit I miss New Brunswick. I have not seen it since 1989, and have not lived there since 1980.......

in response to: Tim in the Streets by Marlo

Spooky: haha. jamie mate, if you want to see the best graff in pbro dont go any further away than the train station. jump off the end of the platform going towards spalding if......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

Peter: ...thats because your schools arent in the middle of {brooklyn}! trust me, sometimes i wish that i was surrounded by acres of open land here, without any fences....

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

Happy Grammie: We must be behind times in Canada. Our deaf people go to schools that don't have barbed wire fences. The deaf school near me in Milton, Ontario, has acres and acres of land around the......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

zagg: These photos are all good and great --- but I'm sadly disapointed that none of the shots have me walking past (I was there from Friday through Sunday). I would say my favourites would be 'man......

in response to: Pride 2006 Toronto Part 2 by hool

EvilGentleman: One must take the view that all that is done in public is open to be published in the open domain. Otherwise, a whole bunch of considerations will overwhelm everything until **nothing** is fit to......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

GUS BRENNAN: thanks for your comments jack, as for the other jack, i have not got a clue who he is ,but, does it matter, after all typing anything in caps, is hardly, wait for it, a......

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I use American English at work. My Microsoft Word automatically corrects it. Plus, two other writers read everything I do as well as account execs. Also, we have proofreaders who are the last line of......

in response to: Overkill Signage by Peter

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