Comments about modern

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mitch: Hey Doc ... funny thing about the drug store next to Radin's. Your uncle must have sold that drug store to my father and uncle (around '54?). I was born in '52 and we lived......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

procyon: Medicalfools: I also know that some higher-ups want the best for it--someone posted a letter to that effect from Dorothy Lewandowski elsewhere on citynoise, and I recently read that they've started applying for a spot......

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

LOOK CLOSER: Please tell me that I am not the only person that notices the frightened boy all the way to the right in the left section of the 2-piece mural. Everyone views the picture as traveling......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

JoeyD: Sticky: 4th Aug 2006 - 01:13 GMT UUummm, that's a skater kid, not a hippie, check out the "rainbow family" or all the kids that used to be on Phish tour type stuff for what modern......

in response to: Modern Hippie by JoeyD

zagg: Modern version of Shakespeare's theatre!!! ...

in response to: There\'s a New Building in Town by joey

Peter: ahh, a very modern conundrum: you can converse with people all over teh world on the internet, but you cant leave the bedroom. i say just go out of the room. its not like bloodthirsty......

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

anon (d122-109-199-99.adl12.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Eric, Yes I do remember you and your Mum from when I was delivering greengrocery round Eldon road and Harewood road around 1950 just before I got married. It was Fred Wolfendon who had the old......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot! A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo. [[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]] by Adam Enright I was thrilled to read about......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Jamie: That window is an uncanny embodiment of the state modern Britain. Well caught....

in response to: Time Travelling by elaine

EvilGentleman: What's a telephone? Ohhhh, wait... Is that one of things that is like a cellphone, but plugs into a wall, and has wires coming out of it? Hehe, seems like yesterday, when my VCR remote had......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

marie: you mentioned one main reason Saskatoon did not make cut was because there were no distinguishing features. I often sit in car or walk along Spadina viewing our skyline in wonder at the very......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

Jacob: Really, no-one? ok.. moscow! it might be better to put in nicest cities... because its skyline isnt huge... but a mix of tsarist, soviet, modern architecture is amazing. The old orthodox cathedrals infront of a soviet......

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

ahh a ghost: heres my list of the top 10! (im from the chicago-land area) First off, all you dallas-houston and toronto-montreal people fighting, shut the hell up. 1.Tokyo, Japan- to me, every picture i see of tokyo looks great.......

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

Marissa Chaplin: Hi Alan My house is just on the other side of the "bullring". My in laws moved from Caroline street to Marlborough Rd in 1969 and they are still in the same house. I have a......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma The building at the junction of Ferry rd was James Goodier, wholesale potato and corn merchants.They supplied the area chip shop and greengrocery businesses with a very wide variety of potatoes from......

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

Guy McLaren: Well I never did visit this place, Give me directions and I will try and look it up and give you more modern pics....

in response to: Mans Contribution to Nature by Guy McLaren

Andrew Smith: No problem Natalie Yes - the old hall at Endowed has now gone - it looks a good modern school, though. The house on the park is lived in, not sure by who... It has been very cold......

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

janet grayson: Well, Franklin Avenue was out of our immediate neighborhood, but my mother always bought her chickens from a store on Schenectady (between St. John's and Lincoln). I disliked these visits. The floor was covered......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: all in all it looks very nice and modern, sorry that they push Christmas on us so quickly, i have people already with Christmas decorations on their homes and its not even thanksgiving day yet,......

in response to: It\'s Christmas Already? by Elicar

Carl: Yeah, gentrification is rampant in NYC, Bushwick is feeling it now. I don't mind new architecture if it's interesting. Unfortunately, many times, intricate architecture gets torn down and replaced with a rectangle. The irony of......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

My Laptop Is Evil: IMO, it looks like it just needs a paint job and some modernized protective gratings. It does look bad, but not completely beyond hope....

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

Sue B from Colorado Springs: Last saw the castle about 10yrs ago, and alot has been added since then! It is truly AMAZING to see what one man can do if it is his heart's desire. We enjoyed......

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

pete. r: im from lisnaskea and i really enjoyed the photos, i have always dismissed that place as a shit hole only good 4 gettin pissed up drinkin bottles of buckfast on a summers eve, i do......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

colavitos ghost: i like to take/look at pictures like that first one... the grass is taller than the buildings! take that, modernity!...

in response to: Long Island City: Summers End by CartLegger

EvilGentleman: Georges, The predominant prejudice in Montreal is still language. As an English-speaker, I seldom notice anti-Americanism among the French Quebecers. This may be due in part to my not being to understand most of what......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

lkm: Dude, you're comparing modern-day Brooklyn to a WWII-era concentration camp? Please. You've probably never even been here. Or there....

in response to: Bushwick Gates: Part 1 by Peter

EvilGentleman: A very belated reply for doc cunningham, who posted on New Year's 2007. Sorry for the late reply, but I just noticed your comment now. I have so many posts that I do not see......

in response to: Igloo Construction by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Well, how about we let the place that used to be in Yugoslavia call itself "The Slavic Republic of Northern Macedonia"? I dunno, just trying to state what I feel is right. The only Yugoslavians......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

CartLegger: here's some more historical background, compliment's of PBS POV program--the Spambot won't let me attach a link, so read below: Barren Island, which appears on few modern maps, holds a special place in the city's garbage......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

joey: now the modernization of this page would be- citynoise displayed on an iphone...

in response to: Citynoise Handheld Version by joey

joey: are they the modern day spinal tap ?...

in response to: ROCRAMENT by groovehouse

Kate Buchanan: I went there last friday. Its awesome. A really great blend of modern and old architecture....

in response to: britomart by starlajo

oh dear...: iman: 4th Apr 2007 - 00:25 GMT i'm glad i live in a fun town where people know how to live good. i am never moving to the south. I just want to let iman know that......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

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

EvilGentleman: No clue. You may have to actually go there to find out. I just walk around and take pics. I am a total noob when it comes to dancing stuff and modern arcade games....

in response to: Ye Olde Arcade by EvilGentleman

jeeff: i enjoyed the series. glasgow tenements were notorious in the past. some of them still look pretty bleak. how are the modern ones?...

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

jack: it probably is, unless it's mcdowels from coming to america, but i marvel at how society has changed there in japan, as a child i remember when they were bombing tokyo, i sometimes wonder if......

in response to: Shimokitazawa by serlingrod

Frank S. Besner: Well the factory itself was sold to another flour producing company, at some point last year. That said company, did indeed have plans to take down the sign and replace it (presumably) with their own crappier,......

in response to: 5 Roses by Cinic

CartLegger: Word: I'll try to get some of those from "Robert Moses and the Making of the Modern City". But so much of that stuff is lost, lost forever, another world only safe on the lips and......

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

EvilGentleman: I often do the same, always looking for contrasts, whether they be natural/urban, modern/decrepit, wealthy/poor or just plain old "fish out of water". But I must say, you usually do it better....

in response to: Golden Temple by joey

CartLegger: Would it help if I gave ya'll a map to go by? Robert Moses NYC Map @ "Robert Moses and The Modern City" **http://www.learn.columbia.edu/moses/**...

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

Peter: ##She is surrounded by humanity in a place she knows well, yet she is completely lost and alone...## i liked that line. i feel that way sometimes in my city, increasingly often this winter; its an......

in response to: Lost by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I could have sworn the first conquest of Alexander was Greece. So the big question would then be, was it a civil war or an invasion? Considering the classical Greek habit of describing both Macedon......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Timothy Maurice Williams: All of this beautiful land, why wont the natives use and contribute to modern technology? ...

in response to: Informal Housing by Guy McLaren

been: The mail thing is no problem as it is a center hall walk-up job. I lived in here in 1985/1986. All of the apartments use the # 82 address. I think I was in apartment #5. This was......

in response to: One Building with 2 Addresses by Biff

joey: everytime i hear about philly i think about the book by thomas pynchon, 'mason and dixon'. it maybe a modern city, but it sure looks old. don't worry - we absolve you of your white......

in response to: General Accident & Other Buildings in Philly by GGP

A Child of Benny Farm: Oh, while I remember, the photo with the caption about a UFO or clothesline, that is a pictures of the satellite. It was sort of like monkey bars with a modern feel and no......

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

Troy: I also have recently aquired one of the more modern versions of the buddy bike, it's missing the right (or passenger) peddle crank but is in pretty good shape. Two of my co workers playing......

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

colavitos ghost: it's funny about utility lines...if you go to any large, hip metropolitan center (think nyc, san francisco, toronto) you're sure to see loads of pathetic hipsters wearing t-shirts with utility poles/lines screen-printed across them--it's really......

in response to: Detroit Ave., Ohio City by little ukraine

JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

JNJ: "I was running in Humboldt Park the other day, as I have for a few years, when 2 Puerto Rican 17ish year olds rammed their bicycles into me. I stepped to them, as it were,......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Micah: Quay is an alternative (British) spelling of key, like Key Largo, key lime pie. Origin late Middle English key, from Old French kay, of Celtic origin. The change of spelling in the late......

in response to: Quay to the City by jeeff

The Healing Leaf: Hey, Ulsterman and Republican! Yo! Interested in what my Canadian government did to our First nations people 100-150 years ago? Exactly what the British did to ALL the original Irish 400 years ago, and beyond!......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

S: That was a pretty antagonistic and incoherent post JMJ, and I find it to be consistent with other white racist feelings that I some times experienced from some residents of Humboldt Park. ......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Ash!: How about Tulsa? The skyline might not be as big as a lot of the ones posted, but the buildings very from the modern to the art deco. The skyline is really unique! (None of these......

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

EvilGentleman: Lemme guess, you mean the red uniforms and the park ranger stetson hats? They only wear those in parades and in front of places like Parliament Hill and at the entrance of the Prime Minister's......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

just a thought: just a quick comment ~ i agree that there is a major problem with employers taking advantage of immigrants, especially illegals. Is it ironic that it's Mexicans that are doing construction in 90 degree......

in response to: We Are Not Criminals!!!! by Rabblerouser

jack: ##[Ed: this comment was posted as a separate article. i removed the article and appended the comment here. please try to keep your comments confined to the relevant article.]## no photos, sorry folks. i......

in response to: U.S. Congressman Foley by sine

Bill: Television Espanola and Carlos Luis on this website say Justo Gallego's work has had recognition from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. Is this true? I've done a search on the MOMA's......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral - Part 2 by Reiner Wandler

joey: a sharp observation. but what do we call art that is past the post-modern era?...

in response to: Shoes by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

aer suzuki: nice find...i know this is an old post but here's a related link anyway: [[http://www.moderna.org/lookatme]] ~a collection of old found photos....

in response to: Old Photos by Purple Moment

Cosmo: Yeah, Flint was dealt a terrible blow by the forces Moore relates in his movie. As with most towns around here, the only cure is to break free of the automotive addiction. Michigan......

in response to: Diss Me by Cosmo

Alan: Good post Karlo and a refreshing opinion. If we had more Republicans who spread this message we'd be in a much better place right now. A truely 'United' Ireland can only come about if there......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: Well, you **did** ask whether it was modern or ancient... I just answered a lot more than what you asked. Sorry for my trademark overkill, it's a hard habit to break....

in response to: A Walk Through the International District by aer suzuki

aer suzuki: Put to death? Are you serious? Are you talking about some modern rule or an ancient one? A regular Taiwanese visitor to my photoblog had this to say about the purple wall: "i think it's a......

in response to: A Walk Through the International District by aer suzuki

Maria Latore: British people who complain about America need to get something through their heads. First, Britain was the original mega-power who everyone hated. Just because we kicked your ass in the revolutionary war and because......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Sticky: UUummm, that's a skater kid, not a hippie, check out the "rainbow family" or all the kids that used to be on Phish tour type stuff for what modern hippies look like....

in response to: Modern Hippie by JoeyD

Franny Wentzel: One of the best modern buildings in NYC. Had a structural defect that might've toppled it in a hurricane but it was caught in time to fix....

in response to: Citigroup Fading by sine

EvilGentleman: I find it absolutely incredible that historical stuctures are valued so little in a land where they are so rare. I could understand Europeans not being terribly attached to hundred-year-old buildings, but they also have......

in response to: Long Time Gone by Joe

TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were......

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

anon (ip68-97-53-138.ok.ok.cox.net): Norman's really not that bad. As far as OK towns are concerned, I do prefer Tulsa, but Norman has a lot more going for it than the pictures you posted. That building is......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

joey: no chris. please check my other articles. there are many beautiful facades in {Oakland, CA}. this just happens to be a plain one. actually i 'found' this shot in the view finder. it's a zoom in......

in response to: Urban Wilderness by joey

MikeUK: If the English nation is not special, how come they have achived more than any other nation on earth. Been a world power for 300 years, started the industrial revolution and created the modern......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Peter: a quick look at the wiki entry for [[wiki:bushwick]] shows that the displaced people youre talking about are far from the first to be displaced, whether from gentrification, changing demographics, modernization, urbanization, etc. i mean,......

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

EvilGentleman: Gorgeous! My fave muscle cars are the '67 and '73 Corvette Stingrays, and the '65 Olds Cutlass with the 330ci 4-barrel V8 and the low ratio tranny. My dad had one of those and it......

in response to: 1967 'Stang by Peter

EvilGentleman: Make light of it if you want, Matt. My health is **not** negotiable. The reality is, I have had to actually get off of an aircraft because some idiot thought perfume would be a suitable......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I knew I had heard the word "Hackney" in many different contexts, but I never realized so many modern phrases stem from there. [[http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hac1.htm]] By the way, I think a shot from along the building, with......

in response to: responsible persons by elaine

Chris Erb: Thanks EG. I checked on Emporis and pic #5 is indeed the tallest building in Montreal. it's called Le 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque (why can't they give these buildings actual names?) and at 226 metres tall......

in response to: Tall Buildings of Montreal by CE

elaine: also good are martello towers [[http://www.martello-towers.co.uk/]] and [[http://www.ecastles.co.uk/martello.html]] (and loads more) which were built as defences for the napoleonic wars. they look surprisingly modern and span the suffolk coast down throughout kent. i am sufficiently......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

Jamie: also: i'd like to live in a lighthouse. far from civilaisation. with an dsl connection of course. i read (or maybe i saw something on the discovery channel) about an old lighthouse out at sea.......

in response to: Day out in Danger Nose by elaine

jeeff: sure - [[http://www.modernhistory.org/temp/11118_big.jpg]]...

in response to: Alley Art Gallery by jeeff

elaine: *i* want to move to israel. i like the look of all the modern architectural stuff. is that a sea defence thing behind on the left?...

in response to: Riders by Oleg

jeeff: lookee what i found on wikipedia: [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Tate.modern.weather.project.jpg]]...

in response to: indoor weather at tate turbine by elaine

elaine: i like the actress whose dress caught fire best, but i am not surprised at the popularity of lunatic woman... ;-D i don't think i was being particularly selective, heroic domestic things could only really be......

in response to: Postman\'s Park by elaine

No name: Vancouver has a better skyline than Seattle! It is modern and clean! Go Raps Go!...

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

Peter: i love it. i love how strange some of the stuff looks- i wouldnt expect any less... totally classic, traditional holiday fare for modern americans :) seems like someone put alot of work into those. they......

in response to: Ditmars Avenue, Sweets by GGP

Jesse: [[img:10197]] I think that Houston, Texas deserves a defininte mention. It is the nicest, cleanest, and most modern skyline in Texas in my opinion!...

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

EvilGentleman: I find this line of posts to be fascinating. It seems that citynoise is now attracting the attention of not just the city dwellers, but the city builders as well. City planning and architecture are......

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

Peter: eg: you said ##"I may have differing views on America's legitimacy (and Canada's too, for that matter)"## that really caught my attention. id truly be fascinated to hear more about this... as someone whose heritage predates......

in response to: Burning the Flag by jack

Peter: i am growing very leery of how insular, provincial and xenophobic america is becoming... it smacks of fascism and... dare i say it... prewar germany. after all, every single one of us living in america......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

Peter: elicar: this cracked me up! well done. i do- and will always- have a warm spot in my heart for obtuse postmodern writing ;)...

in response to: The Joys of Spell Check by Elicar

elaine: weeeel you know, i like a bit of modern, but i think it's interesting that trellick is seen as being the last word in glamourous living while it's identical twin in poplar is portrayed in......

in response to: Bauhaus My Ass by FlamingRRose

Elicar: My friend just received an offer to his house. They are closing May 12. His house is at Gerrard and Coxwell, was built in the 1920's, a three bedroom very small semi-detached (I believe that's......

in response to: Count Your Blessings by Elicar

joey: post-postmodern art, like julian schnabel....

in response to: Subway Decay by Peter

Peter: nice! ugly, "modern" cement buildings... this one looks frighteningly similar to the building my office is in....

in response to: Bauhaus My Ass by FlamingRRose

EvilGentleman: You two should do it, Peter. I only thought of taking these pics partway through the wash, and so I missed the full cycle. I also noticed I was not able to get the shot......

in response to: Car Wash by EvilGentleman

Peter: i imagined it slowly and menacingly rolling through the {east village}, using its windows to condense/reflect/focus sunlight into death-ray beams that it will use to decimate any non post-post-{postmodern} {architecture} whilst zapping all the area......

in response to: Astor Place Silhouette by Peter

Peter: kc: speaking of the high-rises... how about that terrible new modern/glass condo there? (see [[3213:this entry]])......

in response to: Hockey Silhouette by Peter

Chris: i live in the west midlands which is pretty rural. Most americans that havent been to the uk (dont mean any offence) seem to be influenced way to much by american films that dont do......

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

Elicar: Opps...I missed three comments as I was making mine. Yes Grange, they had washrooms then...perhaps not as modern as what we have now, but the distillery has been modernized... I did take a picture of one......

in response to: Distillery Historic District by Elicar