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Comments about life touch

There are 39 comments about "life touch"

mitch: Hi Rich... What an amazing thing ... All through jr. high, high school and part of college I worked in my dad's store (Maiman's Pharmacy) and of course I knew Johnny and Herbie really well. I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: ALLAN; wowie!..Woodstock was/is shtill da #1[Musical,etc.] event I & probably YOU ever attended[even tho'both of US didn't see/hear MOST of it!,hadda`gay shluffen'..no? but when I woke up & looked around ME,yikes! 1/2 million new neighbors!Whew!I even saw MYSELF in......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

paul..: hi..i am paul.. i used to live up in netherne..i used to live at park lane.(no i wont say what number.lol)..i used to live at my parents house.their house is well haunted!! thats why i......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Brodidly AB: Bushwick!! What can I say? It can be an interesting place to live in and it can be a nightmare. To all those who are contemplating moving to Bushwick, on the serious tip you......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Alan Kupperberg: I’m terribly gratified that some of you enjoyed my reminisces. Richie Rubin is correct in that I sure don’t have Alzheimer’s. I live in Greenwich Village and I haven’t been back to that......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

JoAnn LaForte: I can't believe I am reading all this stuff. I lived on 130 Grove Street - bet. Central/Evergreen, from birth [1953] till we also did the mass 60's exodus (right after the beatles came)......

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

Steve - Albox, Almeria: If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;......

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

BARON VON FANCY: Baron Von Fancy is not a man, he is an idea. And you cannot kill an idea. He has been called an artist. He has been called a maniac. He is a recluse. He never......

in response to: Baron Von Fancy by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Sam: It was Bruce who died and it was a long time ago, yeah I know about Millie & Eddie, and about Bob...uh yeah I remember our house being knocked down, I think it was one......

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

Peter: if i had a dollar for every time ive heard someone from a hard/bad/depressed/rebuilding neighborhood comment something like ##"_______ is really that bad and has been for years"##... [[76:cabrini green]], [[1727:henry horner]], [[4368:hutchinson]], [[646:bushwick]], to......

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

A Free Mind: Sharon, thats a touching story, i felt the hairs on my neck stand up. The thing is as Karlo said, What life would ur son want you 2 live after his death? (not as you......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Ess: To Unsure- I don't know about all the "God's children" stuff and the worn-out (and not-very-helpful) phrases like "don't give up, seek help", but I can say, as a recovered meth addict, you need to......

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

Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch. As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed......

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

Former Hutchinsonite: Gosh Hunter, sounds like you're a hypocrite. If you thought the town was so great, why did you pack up and move out to California to find a job? And as far as......

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

riiiiiight: i was born and raised in bk. i just checked out a new "luxury condo" developement out there a whim (when i was told my rent was being jacked up another 300 bucks). ......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Someone Who Made it Out: I lived in Hutchinson for the majority of my adolescent life. By the time I had reach the 8th grade at Sherman back in 1999-2000, I had already become a product of which Hutch has......

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

Paul R Taylor : In its heyday Liverpool was the richest city in the world and was the gateway to Europe, Asia, Australia, south America, north America and the world. The River Mersey, the Irish Sea......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist 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

81 Supporter Denver: As far as "Other peoples property" HA now has a stronge guidelines than back in the day. Sure there's prob ladies that like to be "passed around" but the rule is "if it's not yours,......

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

Tony T: Reading through all of these posts brings up a mixed bag of emotions. Like many here, I left Bushwick years ago (16 years ago actually). Japan is my home now, and it is a far......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Nando: Hey guys I have to say this is definitely one of my favorites entries ever. I am a native of Corona (on which the park lies) and I can honestly say that my life......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

touch: crook crome miami legends for life....msg...

in response to: Miami Youth Faces \'Serious Jail Time\': by Justice?

westcoast LK: real spit to the author who wrote this article.... i used to live in las vegas...in fact i resided about a block away from the strip itself near warm springs. I feel as though vegas taught......

in response to: View of Vegas by jack

dean: I'm viewing your photos from Vermont. We got lots of wind blown snow here this year, so I tried (once again) to build an igloo in the back yard. I failed again, for......

in response to: Igloo Construction by EvilGentleman

autumn: Been awhile since I posted. The only nice thing about below zero winter is that THERE ARE NO RACCOONS. My pet door is open again. But not for long - dreading the day I will......

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

EvilGentleman: I am truly touched by how many people have started pouring out the memories of an area now abandoned, how that brings the area back to life in the eyes of those of us who......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Susan F: I lived in Benny Farm during the 1950's & 60's. Certainly looked a lot better then and it does now. Was a great community to grow up in; tons of kids to play......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

emma b.hope: fab images take me from small town america to mysterious filmic reality phantasy david lynchish territory... to where i am not infrequently found-hospital, trying to be in touch despite feeling alienated and bewildered (often).but hey,int......

in response to: Transparency and Reflection by elaine

Laura: My mother lived in a large apartment building on Eastern Parkway near Grand Army Plaza in the early 1970s. What a place it must have been in its heyday. It still had touches of grandeur......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: Mel Blanc - the closest I ever came to having a Messiah. Rest well, dear friend, you worked hard and deserve a happy eternity. Picture if you will, for a minute, the residents of this cemetery......

in response to: Forever Hollywood by kc

Nate: Can anyone give an update on what's going on with Cabrini and the so-called "transformation plan" in Chicago public housing? I used to know two people who worked as community organizers, doing work trying to......

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

Kusala: I prefer the solution from "The Tao of Mrs. Wei" (from Malaysian-American poet, Hilary Tham Goldberg): MRS. WEI ON THE BUS found a seat thankfully set down her bags. Hot bodies jostled her: schoolgirls in blue,......

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

jack: ok calm down. people who hate are a very small minority. ordinary people tend to keep silent on many subjects. this country is free for all peoples. but the laws must......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

EvilGentleman: Having lived through a different type of troubles, I know how hard it can be to deal with the legacies of colonialism. My ancestors fought the French for the British (and won!), they fought the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Staci: Wow. This blog is great. I'm a resident of Humboldt Park for two years now and just signed my lease for another year. I don't have a lot of time right this......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

HUX: Everyone is now acquainted with the Conscious-Automaton-theory to which Prof. Huxley[1] gave such publicity in his Belfast address; which the late Mr. D. A. Spalding punctiliously made the pivot of all his book-notices in Nature;......

in response to: Test_Cars by ram51@japan.com

Peter: hah this is a classic city story... when you said {mr. softee}, i could hear the diesel-rumble from those trucks perfectly in my head. tangent: i used to live up at 109th and Manhattan avenue,......

in response to: In Somnia by kc

Peter: miss the area? yeah, anyone who doesnt want a giant conglomerate of high-rises and unpopular arenas and hige skyscrapers built towering over their quaint brooklyn homes is gonna miss this area. saying youd get rid of......

in response to: Atlantic Yards by Peter

Marc: i have been writing and working (very hard) and traveling, but nothing in the citynoise genre as of late- though i desperately want to! Have to trepan some other stuff out of my head first........

in response to: hackney city farm by elaine

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