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Wendy: About a month ago, I took our little dog out for "last call". We walked down our front steps to the sidewalk. About twenty feet away stood two raccoons. The dog started barking. ......

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

Far&Away: 6th grade graduates of PS 145 were transferred to Enrico Fermi JHS 111 when it first opened on Sept. 1966 for the 7th and 8th grades. Classrooms were all different colors. One teacher......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Cindy from Oslo: The crime has rised with 20% since dec.2007 according to TV2News channel. And according to Aftenposten (newspaper), there are 4 times more crime in Oslo then in New York ( http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2299327.ece ) I believe the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

jack: i grew up not too far from there. during the war many fighter planes would circle around my home and i could watch them descending for a landing. the drone of the engines......

in response to: NYC Naturally by CartLegger

noa: Ahhh Bushwick, I love it there. my friend lives in a place where rent'd be 250/month if we shared a room together. How easy is it to get a job in NYC? I been......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Rick: All my memories (almost all, anyway) of 241 are happy ones - especially those of the schoolyard. Some of the happiest times of my life were spent playing ball of various kinds (several varieties of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

mitch: I remember being scared going into PS241 in the early grades. Those old city elementary schools are so imposing and physically out of scale for the kids attending. To this day I remember climbing the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: AJ SHURE;I usta play stickball in PS 167 schoolyard w/BRUNIs[John?] who live across da street!HE was MY age,HE also`hung out @ Harry's [later Benny's]poolroom on St.Johns pl.near Utica theater! as did joseph/Tim Brennan, 2 wild kids!did anyone know......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

alex the ginger loner: on the bathroom what is sprayed on it is the character for Women. Ladies and Gents, but i dont see the gents, wouldnt make much difference anyway in that toilet i dont think. Is this still......

in response to: Qingdao, Part Two by Chiamattt

CartLegger: OK, I'll bite. But I'll also cheat and use the words of Daniella Romano, head archivist for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. BLDG 1/291, Material Laboratory, Substation 27 Construction: 01/01/1940 ##"The last active Naval building at the yard,......

in response to: Secret Transmitter by Peter

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I remember gettingth polio vaccine.It wasthe only time Iwent to the nurses office on the second floor. I remember squatting in the corridor at the time of the Korean War in1951, and that everyone got......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Marianna Calabrese: Hi to everyone in Brooklyn land i grew up on 271 CENTRAL AVE. i also went to ST.BARBARAS SCHOOL FOR 8 LONG YRS,I spent lots of time in the cloak room or the hallway for......

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

Thelma Fuentes: I lived at 146 Grove Street and moved to Staten Island in early 70s (I didn't get to graduate with my class at St. Barbara's in 1972)...I remember Barbara Ann's, my first dance at the......

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

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Why isn't anyone writing anything? I think that I shall have to write again. I remember the window of the Famous retaurant bakery. It wasn't like any other bakery window. It was retangular and it......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Keith Bernstein: I would like to add some comments about Mrs. Ida Gradstein. I thought her to be an effective teacher and a sweet lady. The mention of her name brought back some memories of my sixth......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I have tried to think of the words of the school song. This is all that I can remember. Can any of you complete/edit it? School song The Parkway School Dear Parkway school We give praise to your......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esthr Herschman (Rechtschafner): I enjoyed this site very much. I graduated from PS167 in 1958.Now i will try to list yu some of my memories. Kindergarten teacher Miss Shapiro. (there was another kindergarten class and teacher -Mrs. Pinkerton.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

jack: and only one bathroom....

in response to: My Home by dglenn

ImpMyHyde from Kansas: Scott, I have been to Belleville a couple of times. The last was when I stopped there I was passing through but did get to see the Visitor’s Center. There isn't another one like it in......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

Allan: Found this site, and these posts are fascinating. PS 167 brings back memories. Graduated in 1959. Sorry I hardly recall any of my teachers' names. Might remember if I heard them. I do recall my......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

herb weitz: got to union & kingston around 1938-9 went to 167 for 1 semester then the crown heights yeshiva (310 crown)next to ps161 at 13 I discovered Shwabies poolroom HEAVEN, a warm place to play hookey and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

madamep: I was there then, and you really nailed it for what it was like. I was the groupie mom's roommate. I still don't know what that was about. Her trip not mine. I wasn't into......

in response to: Trenches by Stephanie L. Jackson

Warren S.: Sometimes, I had to report to the cloakroom straightaway or directly to the hallway. One nun had a big steel edged ruler, named "Mr. Brown;" she whacked kids across the palms of their hands with......

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

Andamuerte: My friend stayed there with his whole family. He didn't know anything about the supposed hauntings. Upon his return, I asked how they had liked it and was told that all night they......

in response to: Montauk Manor by little ukraine

Warren S.: "...I think Father Zimmer was reading the weekly anouncements and DP and some other nuns were being sent to other Parishes. When Father said her name, I was stunned and looked at her with a......

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

Warren S.: I think this is a fabulous Web-page; it brings back memories of Bushwick, Brooklyn and Queen, where I grew up. Until I was 14, I lived on RC church property in the "old rectory" building......

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

Elkin School Rulz!: I think we should have a stickball tournament for all former Kensingtonians. But where do we find a Pimple Ball? Man, I miss them days. We didn't care how hot it was,......

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

Anna: Now that a team has won in Philadelphia (Souls) I guess the curse is broken! But I didn't see on the news that the El was set on fire or cars and buses were......

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

Dylan: Kingston pen surely isnt open for tours.. when you go to visit yur family.. that gate makes you feel like your not leaving. AND YES YOU WILL BE SCREENED FOR DRUGS!! they will even drugtest......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

OU student: Driving through a city and taking a few pictures of the shittiest hotel you could have possibly roomed in during your one-night stay off the highway is a pretty idiotic way to judge a place.......

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

Peter: This is a tale explaining the manner in which my way of life was rotated along a Y axis until it reached a position roughly 180 degrees from that which it started If I could......

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

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

Kassie: I went here with my friend a couple months ago. We got some amazing pictures. I've never seen such beautiful graffiti in my entire life. We had a nice talk with a......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Jeff: I went to Super Sexe a few times around 2002-2004, had a great time. Gorgeous women and good price, very entertaining overall. I have done nothing but spread the good word since, telling......

in response to: Club Super Sexe by EvilGentleman

James cashan: Hello jon B. Malcom Kennedy is related to my dad through marriage of his mum to Ken connor (pics of Train), I lived and dad still lives across road from Pete n......

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

luna park: there are actually large swathes of brownstone rowhouses in brooklyn, where the houses are set back from the street and allow space for front yards. in many cases, the yards have been paved (as is......

in response to: Beware of Owner by luna park

Omaha: at the moment i am trapped in my friends bedroom becuase she has a momma and its baby raccoons running around her house, we were woken up this morning by her dad telling us he......

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

James Connelly: Acorn High School the student body is pretty Urban there nothing like a school who loves the good ole Fire drill every week...And the bathrooms being close cause some one was smoking in there or......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Michelle: People will bitch all they want to. They can make up their stories, print them, and make everyone believe it's true (including law enforcement...usually they are the ones who start it up). Everyone grows a......

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

THIS IS A REVOLUTION!!!!: Well to everyone that feels that this id defacing property, it is. It is also a statement it is freedom of speech, it is speaking out about injustices expressing your right. Would you feel so......

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

janet: I don't remember the pretzel man outside of P.S. 167, only the knish man (and that most fondly!). Yes, the pickle lady . . . with her half-and half gloves, the palms covered but......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

former Hutch resident: I moved from Hutch about 25 years ago. I was born & rised there. Couldn't wait to get out. I lost both my parents 4 years ago & want to come 700 miles to decorate......

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

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Kathleen Knight: Right now i think that i am the only one making a comment from from my class. I am a former student. i am part of the class of 2000 , And PROUDLY reps MY......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

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

D.B.: Well i`m back again and all of the outsiders opinions are still the same. Like i said before i grew up in 1943 w. lake apt. it as often ruff but the......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

sonnet: I grew up on Cambria St near Emerald in the 1940's and went to Willard School. My grandparents had a store on Kensington Ave and lived above the store. The el roared by......

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

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of......

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

little ukraine: hey CG this is your first post! way to go. that last shot certainly shows how deep the snow was. however, i love even more that coconut wind chime hanging from the......

in response to: Winter Drags On... by colavitos ghost

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Deb, Sorry, my grandparents surname was Gillet (Mum's parents)... There was a girl who came from South Africa (with her family), and stayed with her grandparents on Oak Ave, for 12 months, she was......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob The Dr Howard Walker that you mention was no relation to the Dr Walker of the 1930's who retired from practise around 1960.In my childhood I remember a gentleman knocking on our front door......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Kensington H.S. Vice President: Hello to all Kensingtonites.I lived at 5th & Leigh Ave and attended Kensington High School for Girls from 1958-1961. Even though I have not been to Philly for many years, does anyone have suggestions of......

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

Michael Waugh: [[img:26193]] [[img:26194]] [[img:26195]] [[img:26196]] Here are some pictures form the past. One is a scene from White River, looking towards the Kruger Park. Uplands Prep School was over the hills to the north, a bit to the......

in response to: Government by Guy McLaren

Alan Taylor: Hi Sheila, Yes it was as you say, but all the rooms were usually packed with punters though, the atmosphere was perfect. Love the picture many thx for that, maybe because there is so much of......

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

Sheila Hilton: Lovely to see all the old photographs of Irlam and Cadishead. I came across this one that I took 2 or 3 years ago when the Boathouse had its most recent makeover. I think I......

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

The Irlam weather watcher: An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook England early on Wednesday morning. One man was injured when a chimney fell through his bedroom ceiling and many homes and businesses were damaged by......

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

Rob Tynan: Does anyone remember Dan and Harry Crask Hair Dressers in Cadishead. From what I can remember as a kid, there was two coal fires and the hair cutting chairs and sinks were at the......

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

Marissa Chaplin: Some more pics from the Advertiser 2nd Irlam Brownies (I am on this!!!!!) [[img:25915]] [[img:25916]] [[img:25917]] 4th Irlam Brownies [[img:25918]] 2 fundraising events in St. Pauls Schoolroom [[img:25919]] [[img:25920]] I am on this last one aswell, hence why my mum kept this part of the......

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

Mike Tess: I agree that when parrots bite it is usually with warning and a reaction to the bitten person's actions. I just got home and had to google parrot bite in response to what happened today.......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie

EvilGentleman: The first picture is very close to my grandparents' old apartment, which was at the corner of Water and Fulton. Of course, Fulton is now known as either Old Fulton or Cadman Plaza West, but......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

Emily: I smiled to see a posting here with a pic of York and Emerald -- the same site I see outside my bedroom window every day. Things here aren't great but they're definitely moving......

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

Andrew Smith: Thanks for the pictures Rob - the Co-op certainly looks different! The last time I was in the old hall of the Endowed school was 1983 - Lou Macari, ex-Celtic and United player, was presenting the......

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

trapped: The are several secret levels under DIA which is basicly a underground base and prison camp for who, for us citizens. The new world order has over 800 prison camps all over the us and......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks guys. Yes it was the building that was next to the doctors surgery, on the corner of Fairhills road and liverpool rd. I remember there was a Lidl supermarket there last time I......

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

Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

joey: little. i'm was cleveland east sider and i rarely went to lakewood. i remember going to club on W25th street and my uncle john's house on W65th. my jazz club story (1997) was seeing pharaoh......

in response to: Blue Note Lounge by jack

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

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

Elicar: In a morbid way, it's nice to hear EvilG rant again, if ya know what I mean! EvilG, In Ontario, we pay a health care premium. I am not sure about the amount now as tax......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

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

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

Frank S: Holy cow, I can't believe it. A friend e-mailed me about the story. I did a google search and sh*t I'm back in Brooklyn. 169 Harmon -3rd floor. I hope word......

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

coastagirl66: i have an herritage to be a princess but have not put a suit on for years. i have met many many pearlies but one pearly stay's in my mind george pearly king of peckham;......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

joeseph pasto: I have seen metros artwork for sale at a gallary recently priced for 1500.00 dollars! If I had the money it would be in my living room today!...

in response to: Graffiti Canvas by Metro 1

Fattfree: The house on one side of us has a pool (racoon's drinking fountain/bath). On the other side the neighbor feeds squirrels, birds, etc.(their "restaurant"). So our yard was the "bathroom". Last year,......

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

Scott Regner: My wife and kids spent a night in Norton Kansas on our way driving across the country in 1994. After driving 10 hours it had the only Best Western hotel available--arrived there around 7:30 PM--the......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 5 by Scott Sargent

Been there,done that: Yes, Hutch used to be a fun and wonderful place to grow up in. But the key word here is "used to be." The only good thing going for this pathetic town as far as......

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

MaGoo: Thank you, Editor, and UFF and Cartlegger. I won't go hog-wild here- as I realize that there are so many other areas of human endeavor that come into play when discussing this topic, that it would......

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

einnor: i have a little business and i need a place for it...i want to make it as my showroom...and i am willing to give a fee to whoever find and show us one... my e-mail......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

Big Momma Becky: I am going to straddle the fence,so to speak,about my hometown,which happens to be Hutch. I am a middle aged woman,so someone younger might not have my same opinion,which is understandable. I have lived here......

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

daniel: i bought a parrot (blue fronted amazon, it was very young) about five years ago, and have kept it in the room beside my kitchen. at first it would always try to bite me when......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie

Fran: I grew up on Rorer St and Tioga during the 50's until 77. What a wonderful place to be raised. That big white parking garage building was not there and when the circus trains......

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

procyon: General consensus seems to be a combination of luck (sometimes it's just unlocked) and being polite/respectful to the people who work there (i.e. if you see people working inside, try asking nicely if you can......

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

cowgirl82: Yes Hutch can be very boring. But we do have a few things to do. And the person that said the Hidden village was low income housing...not even...I used to live there and I am......

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

Cynthia : Just found this in a google search, as I'm sitting in a hotel room in New Zealand with some old photos of bicycles, one a strange two-person bike that is not a tandem. The......

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

Frustrated: I don't mean to sound uptight and can understand that some country's embrace this practice, but we have no privacy in the world anymore. Going to the restroom is a very personal thing and I......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Me: Well, I for one moved back here after being gone for 23 years in a place that was so dang expensive(California) rent 1,400 a month. Median home prices 600,000 and that would get you......

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

Jan: ksedge There is a well know furniture store in Natick, Massachusetts called Jordan's. They have an IMAX theater in it and the ladies room there has the two way police glass and you don't notice......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Jay: these type accomadations are nothing "new" in Amsterdam, or any large city in Holland, the older ones are a multi urinal screen barracade type you walk into and use, with only the head and feet......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Carl: No one has mentioned having a bowel movement. Where is this accommodated in public batrooms? ...

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Marylizbeth: Uggghh...RACCOONS. They have been haunting us and our neighbors for the last month. We each have a pool and fountains and these rotten raccoons have been using the pools and fountains as their bathroom. Every......

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

mark blak: when i started in 99 it wasn't the best school but it was bad & fun i was the 1 that never went to class because the lunchroom was where all the fun was at(remember......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Christina : This castle is amazing. I first heard about it from a friend I worked with. He took me up there cause he realized how much I love castles. Hell, my whole bedroom......

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

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

zagg: Beautiful. I am a fan of the 1st and 3rd one. Would you be able to tell us what is spray painted on the lil buildings (bathrooms?)...

in response to: Qingdao, Part Two by Chiamattt

Coon-B-Gone: I had my first run in with raccoons in Toronto last summer just before vacation. My family was already gone and I woke to the sounds of something scratching at the door outside of my......

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

Anne M. Berger: I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties. It was truly the melting pot. I went to St. Joseph's on Sydam St. My Irish friends went to St. Lenords on Toutman?......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Biting parrot: I live with 3 adult parrots. One, a male eclectus, will bite me for no reason that's explainable. Sometimes it's when he steps up, sometimes back into the cage, sometimes when I feed him, sometimes......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie