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There are 84 comments about "g stones"

Charles: I used to hang out in the tunnel back in 79 and again in the early 80's when the conrail had the frieght trains running and that was the best time back then. Too bad......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Mary: oh and another thing, in Toronto we have are friendly to our environment and eco green and it's great and all but STUPID People insist on putting their COMPOST bucket outside beside their house and......

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

Joe Drexler: From a building design standpoint many blocks in Bushwick were attached "row frames" as known by firefighters these row frames differed from attached brownstones in that the space or void between the roof and the......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

Lucifer: Fred is a likeable rogue, always drunk but more often than not he is polite with it. He likes women with large breasts who he refers to as Dolly Parton. I worked with him in......

in response to: Dancing Fred by clarky

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

mort: sam. i must say that your description was not our experience and as kids we were not even permitted to walk the area circa 65-70. the only reason that i ever walked through was......

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

Natasha Totin: wow, people really know how to judge things. Did anyone ever stop and think that they didn't even look at it like that. My dad has worked for Staten Island Hospital for over 30 years,......

in response to: Quite Possibly the Worst Layout for a Hospital, Ever by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

laz81: wow!have read with interest, the coments posted about the HAMC, sadly, its clear many know very little about the club. and i say club because it is just that, a club not a gang! to the bros and......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Fiona Lambert: Who the Hell is Rufus Rockhead, sounds like a characture from the Flinstones., but an interesting name for a street, only in good old Montreal....

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Tex: You are absolutely right, we should be thankful for what we have and the great country that we live in. We are very blessed and fortunate to live in a country where we have......

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

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)......

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

Alex Price: Hi Again, I Also Remembered The Fights Between Cadishead And Partington Over Whos The Cadishead Viaduct Bridge Was To Sit Under And They Threw Stones, Rocks And Sticks To Fight With But Eventually The Council Blocked......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Mist One53. Tdt=The Deadly Type.: Hello JA From Mist1 Sheffield England uk. I was first in Nyc in 1989 and saw SANE eveywhere. At the top of the World trade centre, not much bigger that this text on the screen.I......

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

pearly princess peckham {tammy}: hi to everyone that knows me. its very sad the way people talk about pearlies. my mum rest her soul was one of the greatest pearly Queens {Ann Major} my dad Has always been a......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

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

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks Bob, that has cleared a few questions up for me. However, What do they do with the bones and gravestones when they develop the land for housing such as the housing estate that was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Bob Salmon: Anne I do not know what the church was that was on Lord Street adjacent to the graveyard, but I remember that it was a school for the children of the members of the Wesleyan Chapel......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

FRED MEGLIO: I LIVE IN BUSHWICK SECTION FROM 1946 TO 1979 THE 50S AND 60S WERE GREAT! LIVED 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN WILSON AND KNICKERBOCKER AVENUES WE NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS AT NIGHT TILL THE 70S CAME......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Anne Hunt: Hi John Cooper, I'm very interested in the old picture of the Lord St. graveyard. My sister and I travelled to Irlam this past summer to search for it, as we know our great-grandfather and mother......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

kevin: the fact that you took the time to photograph people having a good time and all-around lively place of washington square park and then had the nerve to write captions about how nobody stops to......

in response to: Walking Through Washington Square Park On My Way to Dinner by jack

Maude: I just found out my husband's gg-GPs are buried here. I read online that a Mormon guy was mounting a huge clean-up effort here in 2003. What happened to that? This is so sad. Did......

in response to: Bayside Cemetary: Rememberance Overgrown by CartLegger

chiamattt: The stamp is my name in Korean, but my girlfriend (Fashion Chic) had it made for me in the Qingdao airport...which is in China. [[img:24315]] [[img:24316]] The shell of the stamp is a snake. I was born in......

in response to: Osaka Part Five by chiamattt

jack: sorry evil, but you missed those day's of cruising in my 60 chevy impala, blasting the beatles music, i saw her again last night, you know she makes me feel allright, she was just 17......

in response to: The Time I Almost Saw the Beatles. by jack

Wayne: hanne; Castle Balfour is an area in lisnaskea on the higher ground behind the casle the famine workhouse is situated there too as well as a graveyard in the strangest of locations. I beleive......

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

Franny Wentzel: You'd think it was Belsen with all the security fencing in front of those brownstones......

in response to: Bushwick Gates: Part 1 by Peter

99¢Dreams: Car vs bike has never been a fair fight. But c'mon guys, the city was designed for HORSES, aye? Those early bikes had it rough on the cobblestones, though far less deadly. ......

in response to: The Cars That Ate NYC by CartLegger

D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

larry: hey--anyone know much about brownstones on cornelia st. in ridgewood?...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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......

in response to: Viva Las Vegas, Part 1 by aer suzuki

Sheila Hilton: Found this photo given to me by an elderly (now deceased) neighbour, some years ago. I doubt anybody will remember this house that stood where the current police station now stands. Apparently, it was the......

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

anon (cache-dtc-ab07.proxy.aol.com): My wife and I attended Pratt Institute from '68-72. We saw the pack of wild dogs in that area several times, usually in winter. The assumption was that they were very hungry, and on the......

in response to: Bushwick: Wild Dogs Gone Soft by upfromflames

EvilGentleman: One thing I have noticed about your posts, chiamattt, is the stunning beauty of the women in many of your photos. And then today came along. The day is boring. Suddenly, a smile comes across my......

in response to: Trying to Find Chungmuro by Chiamattt

EvilGentleman: cg: I guess I have an inherent dislike of sameness. Contrasts and variety are so much better. It might have something to do with most of my childhood being spent in military housing, where each......

in response to: Debaliviere Place by maybetoday

Peter: certain neighborhoods are just denser-than-average in free-standing clapboard/shutter-style houses like that, while other areas have more brownstones, etc... im assuming this is most likely {bushwick} or {bed stuy}......

in response to: No Children at Play by upfromflames

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Dcchanged man: I lived in bushwick from 1968-1982 Comfort and hell in bushwick depends on which pocket you lived in. The dead end streets of buswick Aberdeen , Granite , Desales Place and so on where a lot......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Halley: I did mention I love grave yards. Why are the deer heads on all the grave stones? thanks for the look into one......

in response to: Dust to Dust by Guy McLaren

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

Budajiho: I grew up in East New York of the '50s. My pediatrician's office was on President Street, which was known as "Doctors' Row." The brownstones were beautiful, with magnificiant gardens and exquisite stonework......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

artM: Where to start? Planes can't get high enough to see the "largest Nazi symbol on American soil"? Of course they can. This diagram (or even aerial photos) of the runway layout can......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

little ukraine: I don't get it... Janis Joplin is in that mural. Above Ringo. So are Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis... I'd......

in response to: Art on the Streets of Manhattan by jack

jack: hey they copied their bus' just like our double deckers in manhattan, copy cats. and they are on the wrong side of the street. and whats with the cobblestones, can't they afford asphalt?...

in response to: London Streets by steelisreal

lmsw: My great grandparents are buried there- I took my grandmother there in 1982 to visit her father-in-law and mother-in-law's graves- it was overwhelming. The massive amount of graves and the fact that with a few......

in response to: Graveyard Train by Peter

jack: thanks aer, we step carelessly over those leaves and stones every day. thanks...

in response to: Fall Is Falling by aer suzuki

Chris Erb: I love Brooklyn brownstones....

in response to: Across the Street by Peter

joey: this cemetery, near piedmont ave. and pleasant valley road in oakland, is located on some primo real estate, but it's filled with tombstones not houses. the adjoining neighborhoods are where some rich folk live. one......

in response to: Permanent View by joey

EvilGentleman: Wow! A set of real Flintstones low-res computer monitor screens with brick pixels....

in response to: I Assume You\'re Not Blind by Cosmo

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

adam: its hollywood forever (www.hollywoodforever.com). every saturday in the summer/early fall they show movies on the big lawn (where there are no headstones). its a great event to see good cinema and picnic/byob (www.cinespia.org) there was a......

in response to: Forever Hollywood by kc

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Do you know if the air raid shelters on Fairhills road on the way to quicksave( near Jezzes) are still there. They were on the bend as you round the corner to Quicksave and......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

GUS BRENNAN: [[img:12870]] the cross keys, just acroos the road from the barlick pub, in fact most of the towns pubs, and clubs, are a mere stones throw from each other...

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

EvilGentleman: jack, do not forget June 11, 1958. That was the immortal day when Eddie Cochran released Summertime Blues. The day the music died was still a year in the future, so Buddy Holly, the Big......

in response to: A Little Taste of Screwed & Chopped to Metal Classics by Arthur Mercadante

Ronan - North Belfast: Ardoyne is in NORTH Belfast!!! Reggie it's bigotted people like you that hinder progression in such segregated societies, calling them "lazy, car stealing, pensioner mugging ballbags" is a gross over generalisation, how many people have you......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

elaine: i think access may have become more restricted in the era of 'rave'. stonehenge is a bit similar, you can get close, but there are a lot of fences and sentry boxes and whatnot. national trust......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

.huskone..: funny how people always throw stones when a nigga on da top aint nobody could name another writer in history done what ja done,,,i been around along ass time i aint never seen nothing like......

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

chiamattt: Oh my. Litter sucks. I agree. But then you bring up headstones! People die with or without cigarettes. What is the problem? ...

in response to: Fag Butts by Elicar

SadStateOfAffairs: Rich - come back soon - a lot has changed since '94 - the park has been renovated, boathouse etc...the founders of the Kings still live in the hood but they have gotten older too.......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Dizzy: I was just looking at places near bushwick avenue... around gates/palmetto. it's really close to the J train (gates avenue) - anyone have any opinions about this? Everyone keeps talking the parts of Bushwick that......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: i have always been fascinated with the stone walkways. they are in every park in the city system. the zoos have them and i remember walking on them as a boy. and......

in response to: Tucked in by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jack: cobblestones....

in response to: Grand Union Canal. London by FlamingRRose

kc: I rather like that clam with stick composition. And btw, since this is such an informative post: Mussel Shoals, CA: "If Rincon’s the Saks Fifth Avenue of California pointbreaks, then Mussel Shoals, located a mile south of......

in response to: Great Kills by GGP

jack: hahahaha the comments here are hilariously funny. i enjoy reading all of you talking back and forth and defending your lives and towns and names. well the photos were nice and i liked......

in response to: A Sunday Walk in Eastend London... by Lawrence

jack: what a beautiful bridge! i drove over it every night for upteen years and always loved the grate sounds of the iron floor and the cobblestones. does anyone remember the cobblestones?...

in response to: Brooklyn Bridge by Lawrence

GGP: lovely meditations on stones...in various formats....

in response to: St. Benedicts... by Zag

Lloyd: Now, while the driver has only done what many of have often wished we had the stones to do, that doesn't make it right. It's called justice...and we all know the two are not always......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

joey: [[img:7957]] maybe this is one of the three stones...

in response to: Three Stones by Nic

jethro: whats hin name? oh yes, Henry the VIII. he may have pissed on those old stones...

in response to: Enjoy Looking Down by elaine

GGP: makes me think of the famed Women's Pentagon Action demo way back when (in 1980): "Four huge female puppets created by Bread and Puppet Theatre led some 2,000 women in a march past Arlington Cemetery to......

in response to: Wholesome Urban Graffiti by groovehouse

Question.....: First off i would like to say i come with much love, honor, y respect.... Not real sure if this would be the place to post or if anyone has an answer to my questions..........

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Gravedigger?: My fondest memory of Bushwick goes back to 1972. My dad and I went to Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Central Ave to see my grandprents grave. A coupel of guys tried robbing us inside......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

to papo: como carajo le pides perdon a un hombre que le jodiste su vida y lo sentensiaste a una silla de ruedas. estas cabron brother si yo fuera tu me pegaria un tiro de remoldimiento. I......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: heh. thats a permastone wall. looks like sandstone (sort of) but is man-made. alot of {brownstones} that were renovated in the fiscal crisis of the 70s-80s were faced in cheap permastone as opposed to terra......

in response to: Orange Truck by GGP

Peter Caine: I am good looking and I could use a Vicodin if you have one. Peter- your the butt kissing Wanker. Go back to england you stupid wigger. i will insult who ever I please. sticks and stones "Neck......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

JayEastsider: check this out it something interesting i found Think You Know Everything????? A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out......

in response to: Leningrad by JayEastsider

Peter: as far as i can tell, its a single family home... which is rare in this neighborhood. most of the old brownstones like that have been split into at least 2-3 apartments or so. that......

in response to: Boulders on B Street by GGP

SadStateOfAffairs: Racism has many forms. It can be religiously based, as in the current JIHAD against all non-Muslims. Or it can be economically based. I agree it's not based on skin alone. Problems occur when different......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: the photo of the purse shows an area of stones circular. it used to be a water fountain where people would pile up and i mean pile up on each other on a sweltering......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

jeeff: hi jo. here's a quickie travel guide for toronto, ##but## i'm writing this with one condition for you: please take some photos, write some stuff, and post an article here about your trip! first off,......

in response to: Toronto for a week by jo

Peter: this made me think of the ayurvedic tradition of eating ground-up gemstones in order to balance internal distress/maladays....

in response to: Toronto for a week by jo

Anxo: In Galiza there was a Deutch crazy man called Manfred. He built with his hands a museum made of stones in the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. When the dissaster of the Prestige he died,......

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

elaine: it was a slippery day as well, and i had new shoes on. plus we had been out drinking late in nottingham the nigh before, and despite a fry up in matlock providing ballast, i......

in response to: birth of industry by elaine

elaine: some of my favourite domiciles have been slums at the time of living, but i am of that ilk, and maybe i have grown out of it too. when my beautiful faded - grandeur georgian......

in response to: Brownstones in by joe urb

Jamie: wow, another surpressed memory. we went to see some standing stones too. small ones. they were in a clearing of sorts set in a circle. i remember thinking even then, at the age of 9......

in response to: birth of industry by elaine

elaine: maybe you did. i went to chatsworth that holday too, but this was better. i also dragged my mum off to see some standing stones as well, but made up for it by letting......

in response to: birth of industry by elaine