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Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

jack: but where is santa. i'm ready to mail my letter to the north pole. i'll be on time for Christmas....

in response to: Watching the Santa Claus Parade Go on By... by Michelle

lorenzo : i like the big stuff. not that sqigly shit thats on poles. ...

in response to: Hawaii Graffiti, Part II by dubside

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Gary sparkes, re the maypole there was a shop that sold electrical goods next to the shoe shop and laundrette on the other side. Over near lesters newsagents there was a haidressers. The supermarket was......

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

Rob Tynan: Hi Gary, I seem to remember that when the "Maypole" was first built, the centre of the site was grass with a white wooden fence around it. It was later flagged over when the market......

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

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): The supermarket was called the Maypole I think, the market was in the early 70's. I used to buy singles from a man who sold second hand records - which I still have up in......

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

Gary Sparkes: i am drawing a overhead plan of the maypole(irlam shopping centre)so far i have the TSB, harrys chippy(lovely),hesketh amd claire(butcher),gemtime??,electronic shop???,bingo place???,supermarket???,norman lownes grocer with mrs egan knittware,optician???,newsagents (stuart???),cant remember any more,does anyone have any......

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

Peter: seconded on the models. the bar-less windows, green lamp-post and lack of any other graf/tape/mark whatsoever on the pole make me think def not nyc, heh......

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

zagg: a) I love the visable texture of the pole b) dude, so creepy...

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist 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

janet: Alma--Back to your memories of the old neighborhood. I remember the butcher shop, the one on Schenectady right near Lincoln Place (and next to a wonderful hardware store with long passage between loads of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

platano: lmao dats plasma slug and his funny shit i like this dudes wood canvases he drills to poles...

in response to: Infante by Peter

Jamie: Jesus died for me? Should I thank him? I like her tshirt almost as much as i like the {but man} tshirt in your previous post. There are so many positive things to say about......

in response to: Compilation Part Six by chiamattt

Gary Sparkes: hey ,has anyone got any more photos of irlam shopping centre (maypole) also what happened to tarzan bridge, isnt it there anymore??? you cant find ropeswings like that any more, i remember tying one......

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

Eric from Port Richmond: A Richmond boy with a few comments. Its NOT just Kensignton that took a turn for the worst in the area. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s in Port Richmond. The neighbors would sit......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Mabel, I remember your parents fish and chip shop very well, especially as we we called in just after coming out of The Palace cinema, which was owned by the Barnes family. So it would have......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Gary Sparkes: found this site by accident,great to see so many of my childhood memories i went to irlam endowed, irlam high,used to play at tarzan bridge ,steel works ,jezzies,princess park,the maypole,we once stole a wooden rowing......

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

Benchilada: The pole was cold, only explanation....

in response to: Ghost Host by Peter

theperipheral: So is this an organized activity? There was a jacket wrapped around a pole where I live too - Grosse Pointe Park, MI....

in response to: Ghost Host by Peter

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Rob - see I wasn't losing my mind, Maddens did exist, though I don't remember it from WWII years lol... In the days of getting up to mischief, if we got a clip round the ear,......

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

Rob Tynan: Before the "new road" was built through Irlam in the early 1800s Platts brook was open with a bridge over it. The Old Road, going towards Cadishead, went up Boat Lane, down Ferry Road,......

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

Peter: i gotta second it as {rems}... the new stuff on that wall is much more intricate and better; its generally ok to go over a simple piece with something of higher quality, which definitely seems......

in response to: What Happened to BEMS? by Elicar

Andrew Smith: Cheers for the pictures of Hurst Fold Rob - I remember at school they said they used to have a maypole on the green there, and a fiddle player, hence Fiddlers Lane. I also remember......

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

Blake: Ha, I like how they left the pole there for about 2 weeks afterwards. I wondered what happened to it, now I know....

in response to: One Car Accident by groovehouse

Canbiker: I am always amazed at people who place themselves between large, right turning vehicles, and the curb/pole. Are they thinking something like "since the driver can't see me, I can just slip through here?". Dude's......

in response to: Tight Squeeze 2 by Brad

EvilGentleman: I still come back and look over this article every once in a while. This time, I followed a link on Wikipedia leading here. The memories have begun to fade, yet that last shot, the one......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

Bushwick Girl: My Bushwick...I love this neighborhood. I've been in the bush since 1988 I migrated here when I was 8 yrs old. Back then I was too young to understand what was really happening in this......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

greg: your nuts I have been there a few times and love it. I'm from Canada. Also if you knew the town and the pepole you would know how wrong you are. It's a great little......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 13 by Scott Sargent

TOFE : thats fucked up.Buffing is part of the game but thats one of the things that gets me most heated,I bust out a tag 5 hours later buff man comes threw cleans my shit.To all those......

in response to: Miami Art Massacre by Bob Edelson

Tony Coppoletta: Lovely. I'm looking forward to enjoying the green space once it's open--although it'll be in spurts since I don't live in New York... It's really exciting that this is happening, though, since it......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

Guest: The pic number ten ..... in the right side with a crux and a dove inside the red heart..... this is "Universal do Reino de Deus" Church, a famous brazilian neo-pentecostal church that is......

in response to: Metro Manila by Laura

jack: they're coming, i've seen them looking down on us, space creatures, slowly taking they're postitons on this, our planet, our earth, they are disguised as power poles, sucking our power, ready to pounce on us......

in response to: Utility Pole by groovehouse

jack: so much to see in pic 1,, the shadow of the pole looks as if it was holding up a pipe on the wall and the yellow wire covering is perpendicular to his right leg,,......

in response to: Feb 18 2007 Toronto by hool

benji: cept for the snow around the poles......

in response to: Col1610 and Col1611 by hool

procyon: heh, that's exactly the sort of thing that would have given me nightmares if I had seen it when I was 5. good for your daughter! wondering what it was, i looked around and found its......

in response to: Le Face by Damon

jack: good angle shot with the lightpole up the middle, sort of freudian....

in response to: Corner of Main & Elgin: Looking Up by groovehouse

GGP: yes, joey, those poles have everything to do with the harbor. & from there, you can see Camden, NJ....

in response to: Philadelphia Seagulls by GGP

joey: best new photo layout seen in a while. do those poles have anything to do with the harbor?...

in response to: Philadelphia Seagulls by GGP

Dave: Yeh paul there was a newsagents and TSB bank facing it also a chinese chippy that did very well in the maypole at the time. Moorfeild Place which is now an old People,s home used to......

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

Paul: Somehow, I don't think that the Maypole Shopping Centre will be winning any architectural awards. I seem to recall a newsagents of some sort in there. My grandmother spent the last 5 or 6 years......

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

Dave: Hi Paul An outdoor old saying sorry.Im mean an Off licence that sell,s alcohol and many other things. The chemist is still there Parker,s and Co now .Parker used to live off Roscoe rd if you......

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

jack: i was talking to this strange looking man at that same spot and he related a story to me about this alien from the planet lled who was a renegade lledian who wanted to take......

in response to: Receiving Area Bathed In Flourescent Light by groovehouse

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi D, My family had the bakery for over 10 years, and the shop next door which we sold and it became peters boutique. When we were there on 20 row, we had Tommy Wrench......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

colavitos ghost: to do that droids piece, a ladder (or something else tall to climb on) would almost certainly be necessary. some of the pieces in the first couple shots seem to be done with rollers. in......

in response to: Start a New Country Up by little ukraine

Tyler: NICE DUBSIDE, PS who the fuck went over that one piece in the top section of pics? Dot 50... WHAT THE HELL MAN! he ruined it! And the tags in the last section... They must......

in response to: Hawaii Graffiti by dubside

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

jack: there must be some story behind father frascati. i like the rope on the pole....

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

joey: got to love that pole. it was the stationary point of reference as the train rolled by. hand held....

in response to: Train Kept a Rollin\' by joey

colavitos ghost: at first i thought each photo was two different photos matched up at the ends. the white pole that cuts the frame into two was disorienting. it's confusing but i like it. makes......

in response to: Train Kept a Rollin\' by joey

Cosmo: EG, I actually was reacting to the fact that they saw fit to put copies of the signs on the wall. Three signs on poles, three more right behind them, seemed overkill to me.......

in response to: I Assume You\'re Not Blind by Cosmo

aer suzuki: Susannah : at the risk of seeming too self-promotional there are a few more garden shots on my photoblog: [[http://aersuzuki.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_aersuzuki_archive.html]] Do you have a similar place you can go to in your own city? jack : I have......

in response to: Japanese Garden by aer suzuki

colavitos ghost: i love that solitary pole on the beach. so lonely!...

in response to: Harlech by Andrew Smith

Chris Erb: I imagine the main reason they installed poles like that is to keep people from poestering them....

in response to: Except Holidays by joey

Andrew: Well, being a Brit living in TO, I concur with James and would add that, in the UK, you need a permit to put up a flag pole and you need a licence to fly......

in response to: Cromwellian B\'stards! by Lawrence

E: I saw this dude outside of Sassafraz, doing pushups against the pole, with all these rich people sitting on the patio laughing, and even the cops just laughed. A little loud, but funny... MMMMMeeeeerrrrrrrryyyy......

in response to: April in Toronto by Gabi

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I've always thought that they should have poles as fire escapes (just like at the firehouses) for the able bodied to get out superquick. Although I would put on a negligee and wait to be......

in response to: NDG by CE

EvilGentleman: As far as I can recall from my weather observer training, ACSL (altocumulus staing lenticular) are the result of high winds aloft, and can be formed by wind passing over mountains, but they can be......

in response to: Mt. Rainier & Lenticular Clouds by aer suzuki

Chris Erb: Brilliantly written EvilGentleman. You couldn't have put it any better. We were all able to keep our pictures. None of these are actually mine as my camera was on the wrong setting and didn't......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

jack: i think those new poles look better....

in response to: Except Holidays by joey

GGP: my favorite architectural structure, bar none. i used to spend my summers living in a tipi in vermont. an elegant, portable home. the top flaps can be opened to allow smoke from the firepit to......

in response to: Lone Teepee, San Francisco by farleymowat

Bob: Just a comment on the 1976 photo - pay attention to the spacing of the telephone poles - the photo inaccurately compresses the distances - some other-than-normal type lens. Compressing the scene exaggerates the......

in response to: Two Views of Tallahassee by JonathanGarrett

EvilGentleman: The first letters of Canadian postal codes denote the province or territory (or portion thereof) that the address is within, much like North American telephone area codes. The codes are: A - Newfoundland and Labrador B -......

in response to: Postal Codes by Peter

Bill: It looks like the car has hit the flagpole an Evil is up to something....

in response to: An Experiment by Elicar

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

GGP: I like the security mirror on the pole--HERE AT THE CLEVELAND VIBRATOR COMPANY, WE ARE WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVE! ...

in response to: Cleveland Vibrator Company by David

cerniagigante: It depends on what you're looking at, the building is reflected, but the poles are not. The poles are upside down, the building is rotated twice. Amazing what a murky water puddle on......

in response to: Columns by cerniagigante

GGP: hi peacepole...I am not pat...though I like pat's work very much. I'm GGP! and elaine, my normalness quotient is, thankfully, quite low--so cast those aspersions freely!...

in response to: More Astoria by GGP

Peacepole1: Hey Pat! Thanks for the sharing - I love the top one and the bottom one but the middle one - something about it makes me get on my knees and howl and bark and bay - and......

in response to: More Astoria by GGP

spygirl_t: I love the light and texture on the water. Beautiful. ... He must be trying to catch tadpoles....

in response to: Man in the River by Jamie

jack: 1st pic - girl thinking, 'i should'nt have worn this green skirt, it draws too much attention'. 2nd pic - the smoker reels in disbelief at the obscene thing sticking out of the wall. 3rd pic -......

in response to: March 29 2006 Toronto by hool

Liz: 78 People who eat on the subway esp. when they lick their fingers. This is one of the grossest things I could possibly imagine, do people realize how many rails/handles/poles they've touched on the way on......

in response to: Things I Hate About... Public Transit by EvilGentleman

rich: grew up pierce/kedzie in the fiftys,hood was mostly norwegians/poles and irish.2 luthern churches, at pierce/spalding and lemoyne/spalding, not much crime at all,kings were just starting near div.st,we were the hirsch st lords. one of the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: i would'nt touch this with a ten foot pole....

in response to: Adult Video by Biff

jeeff: all hail the information age. [[http://sageauthoring.com/fdny/construction/vacant.pdf]] Fire Department, City of New York __FIREFIGHTING PROCEDURES__ __VOLUME 1 BOOK 3__ **MARKING OF VACANT BUILDING** **1.3.1** As vacant buildings shall be identified and marked to indicate the degree of hazard involved. In marking vacant......

in response to: Slated for Demolition by Peter

EvilGentleman: There are still telegraph poles standing?...

in response to: Rrrrrrrrrrroll Up by Mata Hari

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Hi Jack, I go by Cat or Catherine....but I didn't take these great photos. Maybe it's because you think I'm a femme fatale you've parsed that into thinking I'm Mata Hari. Alas, not. I wasn't......

in response to: Rrrrrrrrrrroll Up by Mata Hari

Viceroy Snuffleupagus: This forum discussion is an excellent example of discursive disintegration by virtue of anonymous expression. I'll explain, as this message board was an opportunity squandered. Sure, an argument can be made on behalf of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

vest-girls: ok, i'm a little late here. did read many, didn't write - will now - hey, do you see the archetypes here? look carefully at the photos again - will now - what......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jerry: As this city used to be called "Hogtown" I thing "Pigtown" would be more apropo. Why? 1) The rectitude laced moron courier (and as a pedestrian I have only contempt for the arrogant, spoilt, disrespectfull cyclists,......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

NoahBody: Cucky, you fucking retard. Smoke your own pole, you graceless piece of shit....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Cucky: Leah, youre dumbass deserved what you got and more. If you want to fight crime, join her majesty's RCMP. Otherwise stick to your mindless, skank-ho courier job. You are dumbass, but I'd still......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Cucky: Leah, your dumbass deserved what you got and more. If you want to fight crime, join her majesty's RCMP. Otherwise stick to your mindless, skank-ho courier job. You area dumbass, but I'd still......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jack: on the top of todt hill there was a ladder leaning up against a pole. a 40' ladder, so i climbed up the ladder and jumped as high as i could from the ladder,......

in response to: All of Staten Island by champ

jack: im glad im not a pole ...

in response to: Beware of Dog by Peter

fuzzytank: strange part is parently the new americanized fancy name for gritz is polenta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta the entires dont seem to cross each other that much tho... err how many ways can you cook cornmeal?...

in response to: Tom\'s Diner by Peter

NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops by Cathy Hong SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I love these, especially the first one. It's so graphic. I think that it would make an excellent hypnotist's tool. Stare at it hard enough, click your fingers and you're Napoleon. ...

in response to: Pavement Patterns by sine

latte: me too. these are the three things i simply must get @ san gennaro: 1- sausage and peppers 2- zeppoles 3- chocolate covered strawberries...

in response to: Feast of San Gennaro by Overdramatic

Laura : I had a very tasty sausage and pepper sandwich. And a few zeppoles. And one of those tall cocktails. And a chocolate covered marshmellow....you get the idea :)...

in response to: Feast of San Gennaro by Overdramatic

Chuck Traficante: Does anyone know if the large police telegraph call boxes are still on utility poles in Newark? when I moved from the area about 10 years ago, there were still many on poles, especially "Down......

in response to: Police Telegraph by Peter

jeeff: i've always wanted to be able to decode all those numbers & things you see on telephone poles....

in response to: keep moving by fuzzytank

joey: i think the third one from the left looks like napolean. you know the french guy on the courvoisier ads. a lovely photo. looks like a drive by shooting- a photo taken from the car......

in response to: Big Heads in Houston by Michael-Ann

Peter: hahah totally. same here. they have a penchant for having school kids do "public murals" here on the occasional graffed up walls... and man, let me tell you, id rather see the shittiest graf ever......

in response to: Pet Bird Before/After by Peter

selig: something special about aged wooden power poles... nice....

in response to: daily word by fuzzytank

Peter: i think its funny that, when they installed the interfering scaffolding, that they simply removed the top bolt and flipped the sign down, as opposed to taking 2 more minuites and just moving it down......

in response to: Scaffolding by Peter

Stacey: I remember doing this in Brooklyn when I was young. My brother (who is much older) told me that you would tell your mom that someone threw your sneakers on the pole so you......

in response to: Shoes by Peter

ea: herons make the most amazing nests! I see their mammoth twig bundles perched atop power poles out in the wetlands....

in response to: ducks out of water by elaine

from snopes.com: Legend: Old running shoes hanging from trees and power lines are 'gang signs.' Origins: All across the United States, you'll encounter discarded shoes hanging from wires, poles, and trees. Theories as to......

in response to: Shoes by Peter