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zagg: Frederick is my darling pirate friend, [[xx:some text]] He has adventured in: [[8284:Florida]] /8284 Greece: [[5317:Greece link number 1]] [[5289:Greece link number 2]] [[5270:Greece link number 3]] as well as Macedonia but I don't think any of his photos......

in response to: Snail in the Big City by Franny Wentzel

Peter: i remember seeing that! i couldnt remember where it was, though as i saw it before i was very familiar with the neighborhood. last time i passed, it wasnt there, but the corrugated metal barrier......

in response to: Rusted City Skyline Sculpture by CartLegger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Joanne, Perhaps you think of Janet FOWLER who had metal braces on her legs from the polio outbreak in the late 1940's, I believe 9 such people [babies/youngsters] from the Cadishead/Irlam area survived polio and......

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril et al, Yes now I remember and heck it was a short period as a flower shop :-) I remember only too well Cyril Bagshaw SENIOR and his chippy, was it 6d [six pennurth] of......

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

EvilGentleman: Thanks, little ukraine and Peter. My family was indeed part of the Mohawk ironworking community. I went to the museum in my hometown of Kahnawake with my grandmother one time, and there was a good-sized display......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

joey: winter water has a look all it's own. more shimmery- almost metallic. i like these water views a lot....

in response to: Queen\'s Quay by Elicar

Pettis - December 09, 2007: Your comments resonate the truth in so many ways. When you peel back the years, you'll find that many families raise their children in the Henry Horner Homes. The Mitchell family was a......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Cakemix: ...Guns and Roses, and Metallica...Tragically Hip I miss Halifax too. I miss Dal and TUNS. It looks great with a coat of paint. To everyone who spent time there in the......

in response to: Downtown Halifax by CE

eyeofodin: Great job capturing 'stillness' in such an urban setting. A deserted subway station during the daytime, a street with nobody walking about and a subway/train line without the heavy metal. I guess your......

in response to: Sounds of the South by Chezgo

chiamattt: Thanks adam. Testeez, I am a Torontonian that has been living and working Seoul, South Korea for the past five years. Every year or so I head to Osaka to get my Korean employment visa......

in response to: Osaka Part One by chiamattt

BBC Reports Kite deaths in Lahore: BBC News Kite deaths mar Pakistan 2005 festival It is not the first time Lahore has seen kite-related deaths Up to nine people have been killed and dozens injured during an annual kite-flying festival called Basant in the......

in response to: Kite String All over Milliken Park by Michelle

Indeed Bill Harding they cut kite lines, but with what type of line??: Pakistan province lifts 2005 kite ban Kite flying is a popular sport in Pakistan The government of Pakistan's Punjab province is to allow kite-flying during the Basant spring festival in February 2007. But officials said the kite-makers......

in response to: Kite String All over Milliken Park by Michelle

Susan C. from Pueblo: I saw Bishop's Castle 2 weeks ago and was truly amazed at the work that Jim has done on the castle. He had to have God's help with this phenomenal work of art. ......

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

stevie: Get over yourselves! I have lived in Europe, Amsterdam specifically, and over there people are not so prissy. Peeing is part of life. Penises are part of every guy. Trust me, no one there thinks......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Modifidious Lives!: Modifidious got sum new lyrics: We be Modifidious! We're a four peice metal band! From da evilest parts of Lincs baby We're a Lincolnshire band! We rock it over Horncastle We rock it over Bardney We rock it......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

little ukraine: i really like the contrast in setting between 2 and 4; looking at the second, you'd never expect to turn around and see huge hunks of metal....

in response to: Let\'s Go Fly a Fish Skeleton by aer suzuki

HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I......

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

aer: that metallic silver looks fantastic with the red outline, nice...

in response to: Graffiti - SCAM and ZEB7 by SCAM28

Yersinia: The symbol is very prevalent around the Blackfriars Road Area - you see it on the Blackfriars Foundry on Blackfriars Road, on various small metal wall plaques in that area, which I guess may be......

in response to: victoria park bench by elaine

aer : rusting spiky metal, i'm in love. wish i could go there, beautiful shots....

in response to: The Tent of Tomorrow, Revisited by procyon

EvilGentleman: And your point, Lee, is exactly ##what##? Anonymity is part of his mystique. If you really want to dig, you can find out who he is, but I prefer to think of him as a mysterious......

in response to: Banksy Rocks! by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The Olympic Stadium is one of the most beautiful of Montreal's vast collection of White Elephants. Originally expected to cost 134 million dollars, it wound up costing 1.61 **billion** dollars, or about 1200% of its......

in response to: The Big-O by Cinic

procyon: I don't care too much for his buildings, the one we have here in Chicago being among a few exceptions; the fact that it's a bandshell rather than a museum, classroom building, etc. gives it......

in response to: CWRU Bldg by joey

Instorenow: i find spray adhesive only works on metal surfaces for me anyway. I've tryed brick walls but nothing happens, how did u make it work?...

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Jamie: I don't know about you but then i think "Metal" I sure as hell think "Times New Roman". The most "Hardcore" of all the fonts. Can i bring my nan?...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

wise one tna wc from montreal: yo the olny problem with etching cream its that if you toch it you burn yourself hardly and you need to find a metal mop or metal marker PS tyler are you sure it works......

in response to: Snatch by Peter

.nanotech.: [[img:18501]] NAZI REGIME.911.REICHSTAG - parliament of Germany [[img:18502]] Even the location was a deliberate attempt to conceal it by constructing it in Denver Colorado's 1 mile high mountain area, knowing that planes flying at a maximum altitude will......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

pierre: BD: thanks for reminding me about the SP classes, I was in SP1 which is why we took French instead of Spanish and why all SP1 students were in the band with Mr. Montasano (i......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

procyon: the colors on that vent thing in the last one are spectacular. i don't think i've met a metal object in real life that weathered that beautifully....

in response to: Midtown Manhattan Rooftop View by Peter

DAVE: [[img:17868]] Tar and other coal products and eventually some chemical wagons were moved from the Cadishead British Rail sidings by locomotives from the Manchester Ship Canal Company and the Sentinel was used to shunt wagons form......

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

GGP: great shot--such sumptuous textures in the metal and the wood...looks like, if that contraption were just a few feet higher, it would get you half way there....

in response to: Post Industrial by joey

little ukraine: From today's Brooklyn Daily Eagle... "On November 15, 1977 the Williamsburgh Savings Bank...was declared a landmark. It was designed by Halsey, McCormack & Helmer in 1927. They chose a Romanesque style for the 512-foot......

in response to: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Clocktower in Mourning by GGP

zagg: My security measures on my 5 year old bike involve locking it up attached to big ugly metal shelving within the shed I share with 3 other people (that I can't stand). ...

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

Peg Maass Labiuk: We found a Buddy Bike at a scap metal yard here in Victoria, BC. It's yellow and has an original "Buddy Bike" seat, decals, and head tube badge. We want to restore it......

in response to: Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle: by Peter

chiamattt: jeeff: to be honest man. I was less than half a meter away from him. The neighborhood I was in was really cool, but because of all the metal shavings and peices of random sharp......

in response to: Chungmuro and Euljiro by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: The murder weapon, as posted on the weirdo's profile: [[img:15617]] He described it as a "CX4 Storm Semi-Automatic Carbine" Damn, this is so freaky, peeking into the mind of a sociopathic murderer. I feel ill. The curiosity as......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

Peter: thats cool! i imagine it making a really loud horn/honking sound, like a big metal goose. heh....

in response to: Air Vent Art? by ksedge

EvilGentleman: I have to translate this. It's just too much to resist. 가장 큰exsqisite, 나는 말해야 한다! 여기 모든에EvilGentleman포획은 이것 이다: 1 - 감시는 시간외에 하고 있다. 2 - 그의 할아버지 새로운 틀이를 얻기 위하여 농부는 도시로 가고 있다. 3......

in response to: Busan, Part Three by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: Most exsqisite, I must say! Here is the EvilGentleman take on all this: 1 - The guard is doing overtime. 2 - The farmer is going into town to get his grandfather's new dentures. 3 - The child......

in response to: Busan, Part Three by chiamattt

Dj Wannabe: I think this is a disaster of metal classics. I grew up listening to alot of these songs and they don't deserve to be treated this way, it disgusts me. The Houston rap scene is......

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

mofidious: hey hey hey peeps were comin 2 u from cardiff were we have began an advanced music course - therefore mofidious has been taken over by my lil bro n his m8's . . .......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

EvilGentleman: Actually, the park they have across the street also has a chair theme that has been there for years, with the two sculptures closest to the on and off ramps for the ville marie expressway......

in response to: But Is It ART? by EvilGentleman

LWAMC: im the lead guitarist for RUBIDIUM, and have gigged with sodium for years and i gotta admit, if you havent caught an {i love sodium} show, youre missing out on the hardest hardk0re metal lincolnshire......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

t@ngent: In a classic case of ionic bonding, dj sodium from the alkali metal collective has joined forces with mc chlorine of the halogen massiv Make way for **{the NaCl}** ...

in response to: I Love Sodium by Jamie

Sir Humphry Davy: catch us performing our new song ##"isolation through the electrolysis of caustic soda"## at the fighting cocks on monday night. Be there or be a nonmetal...

in response to: I Love Sodium by Jamie

aer suzuki: gorgeous pictures, these are the kinda shots i drool over, metal and sky. you too, ea, very cool especially the middle one....

in response to: Fremont Bridge by Jeff

Doctor Duane: Sodium ions are necessary for regulation of blood and body fluids, transmission of nerve impulses, heart activity, and certain metabolic functions. It is widely considered that most people in Western countries consume more than is......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

LWAMC: mofidious: give us upz and we'll give u worldwide upz! lincolnshire wolds alkali metal collective layin da cutz str8 from tokyo to horncastle to nyc, big it up one jah love massiv! for real!...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

lincolnshire wolds alkali metal collective: yes, man that would be cool. could you do that for us. we are based in tetford...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

lincolnshire wolds alkali metal collective: [[img:12902]] coming at you from the lincolnshire wolds alkali metal collective (LWAMC)...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

Horncastle Harry: BIG IT UP {Lincolnshire} ionic-metal chemistry thrash massiv! ...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

colin from the co-op: OMG i LOVE sodium too. It's my favourite alkali metal and i just loooove the way it reacts with water. Big up the Na crew, yo!...

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

mofidious: ooooooh a fan? hey man ...editor cool name unless u r the editor then its just normal i'm not gona tell u who i am ..sorry , i cud give u my myspace url but......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

Peter: the above-pictured toothy guy's cousin, with his much shorter pal: [[img:12749]] another bot peering out of his bunker, extending a metal hand to clasp any unwelcome intruders: [[img:12750]] old knobby-eyes, sitting out on the sidewalk for yesterday's trash pickup: [[img:12751]] ...

in response to: robot building by elaine

jack: c'mon now, thats not a real duck. look at the metal work. ducks don't have that kinda stuff on them. and did you ever see a red duck?...

in response to: Dead Duck by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Jamie: hang on, your phone is made of metal?...

in response to: 3 Mornings by Jamie

EvilGentleman: They were paved over, but only by a centimetre or so. In many places, the road had worn dowm to expose parts of the rails, and lots of the potholes were very shallow with metal......

in response to: Goodbye, Streetcar Rails by EvilGentleman

Walks now: The lock is the new style (no bic job) and it was locked to a metal railing. Yeah, that is the bar they used too. (FYI - I lost my key last year and rented......

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

Hazel: I meant your better off living in Ridgewood especial if you have kids cuz the schols in ridgerwood are bad Is 291 and 111 are horrible. I mean if you don't mind your 11 yr......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Jill: WTF is wrong with people. First off we've got losers with their dicks out in public looking for attention and probably getting off on upsetting people and then we've got more losers saying what's the......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, I stand corrected. I just did a wiki search on Woolworth's, and was surprised to learn that Woolco Canada was bought out by Wal-Mart in 1994. I had thought it was earlier. I guess......

in response to: Grab A Seat by Brad

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

DJ Flippy: Iv'e never thought of listening to Metallica's Master of Puppets in a hip-hop form. But will it draw the attention of hip-hop fans ? ...

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

Egbert James: I think screwed n' chopped is the perfect sound to bring the 1980's back with some of these metal classics....

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

EvilGentleman: I wonder how the damage occurred? The freezing and thawing cycle? Lightning? A malicious window-cleaner? A collision with a 50-pound pigeon? Someone opening the window between the lions and whacking icicles off of the lion's......

in response to: My Lion Has Got No Nose by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Anonymous: i think the metallic top is hot. though the cat, it seems, is quite cool....

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

Elicar: And oh, just to lighten things up..Yes, smiiiiirk, the cat was glad he/she was not caught dead in your shoes, not to mention your metallic top! ;)...

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

grange: bay street , Like wall street in NY .I like the pics but for some reason the thought of homeless people sleeping in the streets on the weathiest street in Toronto just irks me to......

in response to: Only in Toronto... by Elicar

EvilGentleman: Elicar, I remember one Toronto experience that absolutely terrified me. I think it was back in 1977 or 1978, My mother took me up to the top of the CN tower (Dad stayed below to......

in response to: Sooo Adorable by Elicar

elaine: could have been. it would have to be something big. i was thinking a bus. but those sheets look pretty thin and i bet if you hit it hard enough with anything, like a projectile......

in response to: Building Curves by Peter

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

EvilGentleman: Cool! You **do** realize that you could have played this game too? All you needed was a long stick or a bunch of rocks, and beat the crap outta that metal!...

in response to: Noughts and Crosses or Tic Tac Toe by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: awesome! i love how the metal structure makes grid-like shapes... ...

in response to: Light Rail by dostoy

jed: hip-hop metal music. it rolls over ambiguous space. Citynoise. a hand grasps the edge of something, perhaps at the zoo? a second hand zoo. in the background, some sounds of people screaming and......

in response to: Getting into Citynoise by joey

What's Really Going On Here: The reason why I doubt the "white vest girl's" version of the events, or the authenticity of the post itself, is that anyone who claims a minor scratch that didn't even crease the metal would......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Coors1ca: I think she really done what anyone would have done or thought of doing! A Person like the driver should be taken in for a 72 HRS PSYCHO assessment At a metal word(hospital)...

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Ean_Frick: Do any of you realize how much bullshit a biker constantly has to deal with? There are way too many irresponsible assholes at the helm of a few thousand pounds of metal. That jerk insulted everyone on......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Retrograde: I have to say that, this is not surprising at all. Its this kind of antics that lead to the ever-growing population of critical massers, who do nothing for the city other than disrupt......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

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