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zagg: *shakes fist* damn youngings and their rap music and their littering; why I oughta!...

in response to: Exotic Slurpee Plant? by zagg

always a Bushwick kid: What a great site... I've read almost all the comments and they ring true for most of it. I grew up in Bushwick- lived on Jefferson in the 60’s, moved to Bleecker Street in the......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

RICHIE .RUBIN: THE KNISH STORE WAS ON ST.JOHNS PL TWIXT"UTICA/ROCHESTER AVE I CAN SHMELL`EM NOW & HOW'S`BOUT`WOOLWORTHS'ON UTICA NR LINCOLN PL?& ST.MATTHEWS`FAIRS'IN SUMMER? WITH SILLY GAMES LIKE:`KILL THE CAT'& SAM ASH MUSIC WHERE I BOUGHT RECORDS[YEP,45's]FOR.60 cents NOW I WISH I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Liz: I was born at St. Mary's Hospital, baptized at St. Matthews church on Eastern Parkway. My parents were married at St Matthews and my mother attended St Matthews grade school and then attended St Angela......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Who Cares for Kensington: River Otters complains about the mass exodus from the city and that those folks should have stayed and are now paying the price for leaving with long commutes and 4 buck gas. I left Philly......

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

sandy: my opinion is that Kensington was designated to be a dumping ground for section 8 .It is an abused program to say the least.slumlords are even getting sick of fixing up the houses that these......

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

Rita Spencer Knudsen: 27th Jun 2008 : I lived around Flatbush Ave. and my Mom would take me over to Decatur St. to see my Aunts Francis and Nellie. Nellie had the Nellie Cook Dance Studio on Broadway and I took dance......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

zagg: "NEVA FEAR! BROOKLYNS HERE!" --- man, I should watch Newsies tonight. Best musical that takes place in NYC, if you ask me :D...

in response to: This Month On Citynoise by Jamie

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Debbie Good to hear from someone who went to the same school I did, you must be about three years younger than me though. My first teacher there was a Miss Peters. Do you......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: This was one of the more educational posts that I have done, at least in the sense that I learned a lot from doing this post. When I initially shot the photos, I was focused on......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello to all the musicians, I came across this in leaflet from the Eccles Library about a Music exhibition that is being held at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, on the Crescent at Salford:-......

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

James cashan: Hello again johh B. P.S. I`ve tried twice to start a seperate heading page titled "irlam and cadishead musicians bands and artists" so every one could share memories specific to this topic......

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

fred walerski: The music store was the site of the crown shoe store.The store was called,Freds Music store.The record spot was run by Harry Bradly who is the father of Big John of the old Kit Katts.Harry......

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

anon (nat2.northshorelij.com): Hi I grew up in Bushwick, along with most of my cousins. I went to Fourteen Holy Martyrs School- graduated in 1964. I have wonderful memories of my growing up years in a culturaly......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Peter: truthteller: the signs on the building are standard nycha signage, stating "only tennants and their guests are allowed in building", you know, the sort of signs you see on section-8 housing all over the city.........

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

herehere: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing down......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bonnie: I remember Pressers Deli. My mother bought all of her meats there. I remember Mrs Presser made the best fish cakes in the world. We had them every Friday! She would......

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

fred walerski: It was great to read this and I never forgot where I came from.I went to Mastbaum,Jones and HA Brown.I hung out at Hope and Cambia.I remember Hairsy but I doubt he would remember me.We......

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

Miss_1989: I had lived in hutch for 12 years growing up as a child, but my family ended up moving due to my parents job transfers and also because Hutchinson (even in the middle class neighborhoods)......

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

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

jimmy white: [[img:27437]] The Tarzen bridge..We had many a good night as teenagers playing music with the aid of a generator..well before the acid house craze......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James cashan: hello jon, small world isn`t it u being mates with my cousin chris an all! cant remember who sprayed the van just recall spending hours wet n dry sanding the damn thing down it did......

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

balloonhedz: thatd be a heaven sent experience. That sounds so...correct me if Im wrong....Damon Runyon??? Almost like a scene from Guys & Dolls if it wasnt a musical and if it WAS set in......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

jeff: i've lived here for 22 years and have often complained about wanting to "get out of here". the problem seems to be once i'm somewhere else i miss home terribly. there is something that draws......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

anon (ppp76.tc-5.kal-ch.mi.localnet.com): Does anyone remember Bushwick High School during the 1960's, and some of the teachers there, such as Mr. Abel (Orchestra and music), Mr. Holden (swimming), Mr. Fieldler (Track and sports coach), Mr. Cohen (Sports and......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob, Truly, the old village character of Irlam and Cadishead is disappearing from what was a about a Two mile narrow strip with very little either side of the main road. I was thinking only the......

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

Frank Donnellon: I remember Johnny. He had gift of gab.....he could talk to you until the sheep came home. I wonder what he doing now.....he probable has a talk show! And Arnie I bet he's in......

in response to: My Old Neigborhood by Arnie Magraner

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma One of the week's highlights during and for a few years after the war, was the saturday night dances held above the Higher Irlam Co-op.The haunting music produced for the evenings by the Fred......

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

Deb Simpkins: Hi Norma, as I remember it, Oak Ave wasn't very long so I wonder if our grandparents knew each other? I will ask my dad and see if he remembers Tommy and May.. Bolton... was......

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

liam mccann: yo jot its your couson liam from england like the stuff ur doin at the min i was lookin 2 c if i could c any music ur doin at the min but cant find......

in response to: StreetSentry Urban Arts by Jot Maxi

Guy: It was at the very least a song. A band called the Euclid Beach Band made up of studio musicians including David Sanborn recorded a song by that name in 1978. A homemade vid of......

in response to: There Is No Surf in Cleveland by joey

Joanne Amorello-minor: Didnt one of the shops collect used stamps for charity or something?I seem to remember having a stamp collection as a kid(I know!!)and getting fed up with it and giving them my stamps there were......

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

Rob Tynan: Hi Alison, Yep I know Steve. Didnt he become a music teacher and a conductor. He was always trying to be in the lime light in the band. Ask him if he remembers......

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

anon 2: This is a bit of a late response, but for people who wander across this later.... I grew up in New York City and San Francisco. When I was in Las Vegas, I made a......

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

pierre: Lenny: Mr Montesano was the best music teacher in 111 (the orchestra and chorus sucked), i graduated in '77, i also went to ps274. good to see that others made it out successfully....

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Michael Worsley: In Bushwick Brooklyn In The Early 1970's When I Was Growing Up All I Heard Was Music Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Earth,Wind & Fire,Herbie Hancock,Grover Washington,Jr.Antonio Carlos Jobim,Astrud Gilberto,George Benson,I Use To Go To A Thrift Shop......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

revisited: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

FRED MEGLIO: HI JIM I ALSO RECALL THE HALSEY BOBS AND ELLERY BOBS I RE CALL SINGING DO OPP MUSIC WITH A GROUP OF DUDES ON MY CORNER ANYONE RE CALL BRANDLERS BAKERY 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Evinrude: Alfred, people like you are the problem with this country. A socially ran country fails, do the research. Why don't you just join the communist party! Free market is what has built this country. If......

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

Alfred: "Old bastards" - I'm 26. Maybe young people in this city should learn to take enjoyment from simple things like taking a stroll at Dillon Nature Center or listening to non-commericial, uninterupted classical music on......

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

Dawn: I heard on the radio yesterday that people in liverpool are campaigning to get rid of it because they think its just graffiti and not 'art'. They also said that because Liverpool is becoming the......

in response to: Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool by banksyfan

Michael Worsley: Bushwick Of A Blossom A Best Of Poetry,Can Be Expressed Musically.All Of The Days There.Natives of Bushwick Been Aware.You Might Say.Reflecting On Yesterday.All I Hear.Motown Music Clear.Winds To Blow.Just A Thrilling Soul.Bushwick Of A Blossom....

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

stfu: I saw a HA member use a woman's head to beat on bongo drums during a music venue. I look at it as he was teaching her how to play music. I bet he didn't......

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

Bob: I have lived in Lawrence, KS as well. I have traveled this great land of ours extensively (Driven through every state east of the rockies and south of New York) I am not saying all......

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

jack: sorry about the health care problem there, i am on medicare now but all my working years i paid over $400 a month for my health plan, it was the best, when i had open......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

Rael O.: Yes! This is one of my favourite buildings ever... did you know back in the 80s you could still walk through it? It has the most amazing echo if you stand in the center. Me......

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

Rael OneCloud: Yes! This is one of my favourite buildings ever... did you know back in the 80s you could still walk through it? It has the most amazing echo if you stand in the center. Me and......

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

Emilie: Ok. Gwen is OK, but some of you people are OBCESSED. She has the most annoying voice! I don't see how half of you LISTEN to her music let alone MEMORIZE it. Seriously....

in response to: gwen stefani's wedding by Steelisreal

Polish in Derry: The polish people in derry have had a warm welcome in derry and find work in many places in town. we had problem in waterside, but people here had a concert in sandinos called love......

in response to: Cuban Solidarity Mural by Jamie

Logan: I am a 38 year old man born and raised in bushwick. I have seen bushwick go through many changes. I can remember when the wiseguys used to spend their days in the coffee shops......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Oolong: What is this? Some sort of "Who's the Biggest Gwen Stefani Fan" contest? Shit.... these are just some photographs of her wedding parade. You teenie-bopper fans really need to get a fucking clue. Plus, her......

in response to: gwen stefani's wedding by Steelisreal

little ukraine: hey BAM, do you have any link to BAM? Brooklyn Academy of Music, I mean....

in response to: Walk over Bridges by BAM

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

Ilona: That's awesome. Big music from a little man....

in response to: Boombox Boy by serlingrod

EvilGentleman: Gotta love bikinis.... mmmmmm..... I know, jack. My Sexe Cite post is right through the roof, and Super Sexe and Sex Appeal are doing pretty good, too. Sex sells. Too bad you never got to see the......

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

little ukraine: i see nobody has given this a stab yet so... here goes... first of all, congratulations for having the initiative to save up a lot of money, because it is first and foremost what you will......

in response to: Help This Newbie by lou

jack: thanks little ukraine, would like to know your first name, but i informed my son who lives on the street where that drug bust took place. i'm generally down there every so often and......

in response to: Your House Is Mine - Return of a Legend by little ukraine

trisha rios: gwen i'am your #1 fan in the world i also love your style in clothing you just blow my mind girl. i also love to sing that is my #1 dream in the world and......

in response to: gwen stefani's wedding by Steelisreal

juan tejeda: OHH YEAH remember the music teacher who looked like a druged up vesion of nicolas cage.... or the dance teacher mrs Bristol HOW ABOUT mr Ouchio the computer teacher who beat up some asshole? the dumbass chem teaCHER......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

serlingrod: East Kensington does have alot of problems, but just like everywhere you go there are good people trying to make a difference. I actually work full-time in this neighborhood for the New Kensington Community Development......

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

Belroc: Graffiti art is something that if you don't understand is easy to hate. Like techno and Rap music. People don't do graff to ruin other peoples things. Well some kid do.. I paint at spots that someone might not......

in response to: Freight Graffiti by Peter

Neighborly : I've lived in Bushwick for 3 years... gotta question. Why do most the kids who are mainly artists, musicians, new to the area, mainly white folks, got some pocket money - you know who I......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Sheila Hilton: Very nice to hear from you, Cyril. I do now remember that your shop was on Fiddlers Lane. I was confusing the shop with another greengrocer near to where Culshaw's shop was on the corner......

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

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

kathy archbold: Luckily you don't have to like a person to like their work - or I'd have to probably dump half my music collection! Although I have mixed feelings about Mr Gormley myself, I think these......

in response to: Anthony Gormley on the Southbank by kathy archbold

Montrealer: PIC # 3 is the new Mcgill Music building....

in response to: Tall Buildings of Montreal by CE

CE: I'm currently in Sussex for the next few hours and have been here for a couple days. There are more murals since I was last here and I still stand by my opinion that......

in response to: Downtown Murals by CE

joey: with apologies; when i was just a lad of ten, my grandfather said to me, "come here and learn a lesson from the lovely lemon tree." "don't put your faith in love, my boy", my grandfather said to......

in response to: Tree with Yellow Balls by jack

Mushi: I've now lived in Bushwick for 10 months. Other than the fact that where I live feels like a dorm sometimes (loud music, loud people), I do feel safe there. Yes, as I have said,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

upfromflames: Jack, I agree. Whenever I am on the way to PA, I see these buildings and sigh. Such bustle, and such calm. I read in the NYTimes (can't remember which city section) that a very......

in response to: Apartment to Let by jack

grange: Does in light up at night and do you hear carnival music ? I know I do . Memo to me : increase medication .lol Evil , put on your spider suit and web sling up and......

in response to: Rooftop Mystery by EvilGentleman

xtian: The first Neck Face "piece" I saw was on North 7th in Bedford, an old garage door with "Beat Your Kids" or something...it's probably still there. Graffiti is so played out. I'm so......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

heroic: heey everybody i like this sport i do it with all my hart. but i go a lot easyer with music you need an ipod or something like that i live in the holland eindhoven greetings speedcore5801@hotmail.com write me...

in response to: le parkour: london waterloo jam by 3flow

little ukraine: i went to blue note for my then-girlfriend/now-fiancee's 19th birthday, and saw a rather well-known artist (can't believe i can't remember who right now, but a friend and i were very excited to meet him......

in response to: Blue Note Lounge by jack

jeeff: they must serve up a musical feast....

in response to: GIANT MURAL by jack

Beadle and Tatum: http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/images/congrat1a.jpg Its a hand written rambling note about the Sex Pistols calling the mueseum a "piss stain". There was some pettitioning and a USA today poll that helped locate the hall. I did some research, this is the......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Beadle and Tatum: I think the selection committee was probably swayed by a huge bid by the city of cleveland. I bet no other city was willing to pay as much as we were. Im gonna......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Beadle and Tatum: I always brag that Cleveland has the Rock hall, but you realize what a coup it was after comparing the musical displays there about Tennesse, Detroit, London and New York to the display of medium......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

procyon: the PD obituary is a good read: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1164189449118180.xml&coll=2 other cleveland musicians: the dead boys/rocket from the tombs, bone thugs-n-harmony, mushroomhead (euch), Devo and Chrissie Hynde if you count Akron... i feel like i'm missing a bunch......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Beadle and Tatum: What other musicians deserve the name "cleveland legend?" I was at the rock hall recently and the section on great ohio musicians was underwhelming. There was the "hang on sloopy" guys and the......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

colavitos ghost: he wasn't actually the son of robert johnson, though that's a common misconception. the real story goes that when robert lockwood was 11 or 12 years old, robert johnson moved in with lockwood and......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Mark: The sound mirrors feature heavily in various projects by art / music / film group Disinformation - the "Antiphony" double CD (packaging features sound mirror photos by Julian Hills from 1996) and "Antiphony Video Supplement"......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

J. Gandley: I remember at least 2 elegant apartment buildings opposite the Eastern Parkway entrance to the Botanical Garden. One was Turner Tower and the other may have been Copely Plaza. Well known Judges (like Judge Schwartzenwald),......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

jack: i knew gypsies in europe. they travelled around in colorful wagons. some pulled by horses and some by an old car or truck. they lived off selling cheap jewelry, tarot cards, playing......

in response to: Gypsy Beggar by steelisreal

jack: actually they did, they gave me great music to listen to and we in turn gave them great money to pay for their drugs and for some, for their deaths....

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

jeeff: and then there's "batboy the musical"....

in response to: Bat Boy\'s in Honolulu by dubside

Cameo: How about some pictures of OSM/MSO musicians as the race to their cars after concerts....

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

MNpianist: this is actually a section of "gaspard de la nuit" by maurice ravel. it is indeed piano music, but definitely not chopin....

in response to: Really Big Music by Tyfoid Kid

zagg: Sirhcbre: I didn't know the answer myself, so I researched it (took 2 minutes, go me) The composers of the song 'such great heights' appear according to allmusic.com to be 'Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello' --- so......

in response to: Everything Looks Perfect from Far Away by zagg

chiamattt: He's crippled. I don't know why they wear the rubber trousers. I think its due to the 'dragging themselves around the city". There are people like him all over the city. They mostly stick to......

in response to: Gangnam and Yeoksam by chiamattt

KING CISCO 95TH ROSLAND: IM READIN ALOT OF SHIT ABOUT HUMBOLDT MY AUNT LIVED THER FOR 4 YEARS AND I SPENT ALOT OF TIME OUT THERE. (IM MEXICAN). I GOT SOMTHIN TO SAY ABOUT THE FOOL TALKIN ABOUT EDUCATION......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

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

aer suzuki: for the time of year it depends on what kind of weather you like. if you like having a huge grey smear hanging above your head for a sky (which i do, mostly, perversely) and......

in response to: Japanese Garden by aer suzuki

Karmen King: Its not very smart to say that you "experienced" Norman in any way since you were never farther than 10 feet from the highway. You missed Reynolds Performing Arts Center, Sam Noble Museum of Natural......

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

EvilGentleman: The art, if authentic, should be supported by buying it. I personally feel the best way to buy native art is to go to an Indian reservation and buy it directly from the artist, wherever......

in response to: Fast Cash by joey

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: EvilG: I've got an ethics question. I was just in Denver and I bought a silver ring from a nice native lady who was working in (owned?) a store which carried tons of native american......

in response to: Fast Cash by joey

asnet: One of the best-kept secrets about some of the most exciting music in New York....

in response to: Drummer\'s Grove by sine

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