Comments about ships

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Allan: Richie, I lived in the same building as Judy Oshinsky. I have a few photos of us back around '55-58. She had 2(I think) brothers. On the corner of Schenectidy and Union was a dry cleaner......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

JP1515JeffersonAve: I find it amazing that so many have so many different views yet we all have a common thread...the Love of our hood. I grew up in Bushwick back in the 70's through the 90's.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

C, B and Ontario: It is great to read all of those who remember how we grew up and how things used to be. It brings back tons of great memories, I moved out of the area once I......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

Brody: What a delight to come across this blog. It was truly "the best of times." Not only did I have the privledge of playing football for Bernie Mars 58'-60' but my uncle played......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Stasia: Just out of curiosity, what is the HA's stance on getting involved in domestic disputes? I have two friends who are being stalked and harassed by some loser who shows up at their houses......

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

CartLegger: [[img:27639]] This is where ships park to load all the chemicals from the famous "chemical alley". ...

in response to: Drugstore Dock by CartLegger

Peter: interesting... there are (have been) three warships named [[wiki:uss midway]] this one seems to be the [[wiki:USS Midway (CV-41)]]. nice photos, jack. reminds me of the [[6120:intrepid]]... ...

in response to: U.S.S. Midway by jack

Jim M 52: My brother Bill and I lived in 90thST between 1st & 2nd Ave from the early 50's untill the early 60's. The yorkville experience was the best of our lives, my brother married "the girl......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

janet: I don't remember that event. No doubt it happened after I'd left the school (not a moment too soon apparently). 210 was pretty much a "tough" school because of the rougher neighborhoods it......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: great post! i added all these images to the [[wiki:Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant]] wiki page, and listed you as author. though it didnt seem to be able to find you as an author......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

"G": I will start by saying this, Acorn has got a good heart, it's intentions are to give the students the knowledge to succeed. The teachers are good some bad but mostly good. and most......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

David Warrior: Hi James, Sounds like we shared some passtimes back in the 1960, I used to do Higher Irlam paper round for Colin Sandy and spent time asking the ships crews for cigarettes etc. at the locks.......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James: This is great site, have just discovered it. I have many happy memories of schooldays at Irlam in the 1960s. Spent half my time down at the canal watching the big ships pass through, especially......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James: This is great site, have just discovered it. I have many happy memories of schooldays at Irlam in the 1960s. Spent half my time down at the canal watching the big ships pass through, especially......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Sheila Hilton: Hi Cyril, I came across some (confusing to say the least)information relating to Woolden Hall. Make of it what you will: "Woolden appears as Vulueden in 1299.......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

E$MONEY(1920 BABY 4EVA): I lived in 1920 for most of my life apt,209.My name is eric a.k.a(egg)and i've seen many people from that area fall from chidhood to adult.Caugt up in gangs,drugs,and life hardships.I'm not saying that im......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Ronald V. Regan, Sr.: My mother (Paula/Polla) Zelius (married nams Regan) was born on BArren Island in 1906. HEr mother was Genevive, and dad was Vincente' Zelius. There were a total of five children in the Zelius family. By......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Fred: To Amelia: Difference of income. My brother works as a waiter on one of the ships between Oslo and Kiel (Germany). (Only) As a waiter he earns approx. USD 80,000 a year, you got an......

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

Jean: It's interesting reading the response people have about life in Henry Horner. My family moved there when only the first three floors had tenants and appliances were still being installed in the other apartments. I......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

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

Guy: @CartLegger I will definitely do more urban and periurban landscapes including townships and more. @Peter I am in the area of the Govt buildings on Monday, I will attempt to get a few new shots......

in response to: Its Been Almost Two Years Since I Posted by Guy McLaren

Peter: guy: thanks for your posts; im glad to see youre taking a crack at going pro- best of luck! additionally, ive enjoyed looking at your posts; the ones concerning exotic animals, especially, are just so......

in response to: Its Been Almost Two Years Since I Posted by Guy McLaren

CartLegger: I'd like to see more from the townships. I lived in a township in Pt. ELizabeth while working as an AIDS educator in a school, back in 2001. It was a great experience. I think......

in response to: Its Been Almost Two Years Since I Posted by Guy McLaren

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

Bob Salmon: Re the Bobs Ferry Accident: As remembered by Bob Salmon, an Inquest Witness. On the morning in question, I was awoken by a neighbour in Lytherton Avenue Cadishead, saying that she thought there was a gas leak......

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

Mark: Thanks for posting the photos of Barton power station; they have assisted me enormously with my research. I'm a legal academic in the field of environmental law and am putting the final touches to a......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

GoUofChicago: I couldn't agree more with University of Chicago. UofChicago may sound cruel, but the only way to get out of a cycle like this is taking control of your own life. Anyone with......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Chris: Jf @ scootart fixed his with an all out mod kit.... and it reached 130kmh a mild kit ships you to 110 easily...

in response to: Scooter by CE

serlingrod: we should all take a virtual field trip to Hutchinson, via Google Maps. Once they get their Street Views covering the whole nation I say we take a group tour to each of the several......

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

jack: your correct, thanks, i have to tell you that those troop ships were something else, we slept 4 bunks on top of each other and when the boys got sick and threw up in their......

in response to: Brooklyn\'s Rusty Shores by CartLegger

John Humperdink: What's that smell? oh, it's the living sewer town of hutchinson, with all the people drowning in their own scum. Papergirl, you are living in your own little dream world...I think you are......

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

CE: Ha! "Several car dealerships" That's classic!...

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

Bass Girl: Oh my gosh PAPERGIRL17....do you live in the salt mine hundreds of feet under Hutch or something? Lets try coming to the surface and having a cup of reality.... 1. The Cosmosphere (since there are......

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

papergirl17: Hutch may not have all the ammenities the larger towns have, but here are the "10 Specific Things That Make It Better" for you losers who don't have anything better to do than to rag......

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

CT: I am an estate agent locally and have been informed (maybe true or not, I do not know!) that the Aquila site used to have 100' deep water tanks where they used to test-dive to......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

Detroit: I have visited cabrini green since I was a child. I was wondering if people still live there as of now? I am from Detroit and I LOVE Chicago. The crime rate here in......

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

procyon: Jack, I'm not going to knee you in the groin because I love your posts and (in general) commentary, but that's just not true. If TV, family members, and books told little boys that they......

in response to: All the Whores Shall Go to Heaven by Sohail Moughal

upfromflames: Clarifications: I’ve found out a lot more about the Bushwick Initiative this week, after talking to Annie Marie Mirez, who helped to develop the program and currently helps to oversee it for HPD. The first thing......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

upfromflames: Info From HPD: The Bushwick Initiative Year One: Results • 51% of the buildings assessed in poor condition were improved and were rated fair by the end of the first year. • With the cooperation of residential building owners in......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

anon (ctb-cache4-vif0.saix.net): Susannah, not everyone worships something, some worship me but that does not make it neccessary. I don't worship anything except maybe my wife. Does that make me bad because I don't buy into your religious......

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

susannah: Ringo - I agree with you on most points - except when you say "you can live a decent life without having to worship anything", only because everybody worships something. Everyone has something that he......

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

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

Interested: Hi 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......

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

Kelly M: I am Bill C's ex wife and I also worked at the plant and met Bill there and subsequently got married. It is such a shame to see the plant gone, I have wonderful memories......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

David: The top bridge is the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, or the Detroit-Superior Bridge. I don't know what the little one is called, but it's a pretty neat swing bridge. It pivots in the middle,......

in response to: Bridges of Cuyahoga County by Jon

aer suzuki: cool shots, i've seen alot of ships like the one in the first photo but the other two boats are new to me...our ferries look sorta (and i mean only sort of) like 'em, but......

in response to: Detroit River Transport by Cosmo

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, interesting. I have never encountered this data before. I know that if you look at a topographic map, you can see an easily identifiable line of hills and mountains sticking out of the flat......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

EvilGentleman: I will always remember all the stories my grandmother told me about wartime New York. Blackouts in case of a surprise Nazi air raid, or perhaps a U-Boat could get close enough to bombard the......

in response to: To Jersey Shore by jack

Susannah: I don't understand why we have billboards about how people govern their personal lives and relationships - except that I know there are special interest groups purchasing advertising space. You don't see any billboards saying......

in response to: Smash by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Mauvis: I'm half white and half Korean and I moved to Bushwick a couple of months ago from East Harlem because these are the closest places to the city that I can afford. I have a......

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

EvilGentleman: It seems quite variable. Old buildings, new car dealerships, old 1960's malls, new malls, new apartment blocks, old wood-frame townhouses. It seemed like a decent enough place, but I was only there for 15 minutes......

in response to: Historic Laser Spa by EvilGentleman

anon (cpe-66-108-20-146.nyc.res.rr.com): What’s with racking this guy over the coals. All we know about him is the one thing he did that made him the biggest piece of shit on earth. I know many people with less......

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

EvilGentleman: So sad, that some people really think that in order to achieve "respect", they must develop relationships with others based solely on the need to feel superior through violence. Meanwhile, the "loser" kids that they......

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

GGP: evilg--you're a riot! as for the changed emotion re. bunny v. cat: I had a similar thought on the train today--slight adjustment downward in emotional intensity--still saddened, but somewhat less flipped out. These relationships to our......

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

Peter: geez. considering that i just finished reading __fahrenheit 451__ this morning, im totally ripe for some good alienating, dystopian news fodder... thanks sine. so... is [[wiki:Durham Tees Valley Airport]] in some redneck/back-woods part of the uk......

in response to: Stupidity Is a Virus by sine

Peter: even microsoft photo editor (that ships as the detault photo viewer with windows) has the ability to resize photos... maybe try that? or send em to the editors and theyll do it......

in response to: Panning Turned into Stalking by Elicar

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I was going with Jack's notion that if all people were gay, the race would die out in 100 years. Obviously, today (and in reality) people chose to have children by many means and have......

in response to: NADIAN Beer Ad by Biff

WELSHY: Well as a Celtic reader to this US V'S UK debate I have to say put down the guns a second and consider. Yes America did enter the war late 1941 dec after pearl harbour......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Of course we'll still be here in 100 years (ignoring the probability that we'll extinct ourselves in other ways). There will still be men and women, even if they prefer their own sex for relationships,......

in response to: NADIAN Beer Ad by Biff

jack: to the sea. i love sailing ships. nice photos....

in response to: Untitled by Nairi

EvilGentleman: I almost forgot... the cargo ships are based in Montreal and Quebec City, as well as a cruise ship based in Kuujjuaq. This is also in the north, (see map so kindly provided by jeeff)......

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: adam, there are three ways to get to Kangirsujuaq, but only two of them are realistic. The primary mode of transportation into town is by airline. The only airline that goes there on a scheduled......

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: The dazzle ships were real (and also the name of an OMD album). [[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=5487]] [[img:6454]] ...

in response to: hms belfast by steelisreal

Erinslion: On May 27th, 2005 I set foot on Irish soil for the first time at Shannon airport in Ennis. A week later I wandered the streets of Derry from sundown until 4 in the......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

barry: I don,t think the plague did reach ireland,What did occur was a potato famine(1845-1850)FAMINE FEVER-cholera,dysentery,scurvy,typhus.Same thing i guess.Potatoes were irelands main crop and food source.Landlords at this time respond,s to there tenants who could,t pay......

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

jack: what ships? i dont see no ships....

in response to: hms belfast by steelisreal

E Flat Major 7th: I grew up close to Belfast and moved into the city two years ago. Although there are areas all over the province where it is unsafe (including the village where I grew up), surely......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

elaine: personally i think insisting on being real, and yourself and human is a good start, nowadays, and quite revolutionary in an era of plastic surgery/food/relationships/work all insistances thereof are potentially revalatory. interrupt the flow of......

in response to: Fisherman\'s Wharf and the Full House Houses by Marc

roisin : re: the gherkin yeh, that's pretty funky! ive never seen the gherkin up close or inside, tho i see it constnatly from my street, like in the distance.. i like buildings that you can sometimes have......

in response to: More of the Gherkin Building by Al

Peter: yeah... im experimenting with some unofficial camera hacks. the cam ships in low-rez/low-filesize/non-zooming mode, with no ability to change those settings. the actual cam hardware, though, is capable of much more than how they engineered......

in response to: World Trade Center Stop: Manhattan by Peter

Observer: P.S. I have lived and worked in N.I/the north of Ireland (!?) for 27years, am in a mixed religion relationship and have many many friends and family on both 'sides'. So to all the tourists/non......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie