Comments about the pies

There are 100 comments about "the pies"

Peter: lol cartlegger: thats why i told you it reminded me of ##spies like us## when i was last there ;) today, i spoke to a navy veteran who was stationed on one of the last few......

in response to: Secret Transmitter by Peter

Annie Hills: catherine, I have copies of the book about the history of netherne, and also a plan of the original site, u can email me at netherne_bowls_club@hotmail.co.uk. The book is £10 including P&P, it really is a......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Arrest Development: Let's get real, gentrification, which means "from gentry, noble birth, good genes", is really a catering to Euro/Anglo culture who are given privilege, mobility, whether it's suburban or in the city, and easier access to......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

jack: i can't help but think of all the wonderful pumpkin pies wasted here and not to mention the salted nuts on the fire. but it is interesting....

in response to: Pumpkin Park by AG

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

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

Humboldt1: I love gentrification and will do everything in my power to promote it. For now, I have renters that are less than desirable, but pay, although usually late. I would much rather rent......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

jack: EXCUSE ME! hippie vans, hell no, they were wheels man, wheels. vw buses, flowers all that crap. hippie vans, lol! next you'll be saying hippies at woodstock, hahaha. woodstock was......

in response to: Hippy Van by dglenn

Humboldt1: Gentrification is being caused by yuppies and professionals from the east moving further west, displacing current long-time residents. The park itself is beautiful and a true gem in the Chicago Park District, but is......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Humboldt/West Bucktown - whichever you prefer: I've been in this area for over 6 years. Bought a condo 3BR/3BA. The first year was rough with all the random shootings at night. I get the scoop from the locals,......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Humboldt1: I am one of those yuppies moving in and buying up property. I see real opportunity in areas like Humboldt Park and Logan Square. Now, I live in Humboldt Park in an apartment......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Jason: Here's something to contemplate: Welfare and other social programas that "progressives" love so much are extremely costly. Between section-8, medicare, foodstamps and 101 other prograns a welfare family easily runs the tax payers $20,000 per year. The......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Warren S.: To: Mary A... I wonder you and I know each other... I blotted out so much of “back then” I forgot exactly when I would have graduated St. B's -- if I had graduated --......

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

Stephanie: As a child I would walk past the ASPCA building and I would hear the yelping of puppies. I still remember the smells. I always wished I could have a puppy but we lived in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Sam: It was Bruce who died and it was a long time ago, yeah I know about Millie & Eddie, and about Bob...uh yeah I remember our house being knocked down, I think it was one......

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

Annie Hills: Hi I live at Netherne, in the former Admin Building. I have copies for sale of the book "A Pictorial History of Netherne" written by George Frogley ( former manager of the hospital print works).......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

santoro: for those of you concerned about your ink running just photo copy your origional and paste the copies yea you can only do them the size of a piece of paper but thats all you......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

mat: im making my own wheatpastes, not with stencils or anything but drawing them up with sharpies and paint pens, im wondering if i could use like charcoals or if theyd' just smudge does anyone know......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

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

in response to: Modern Hippie by JoeyD

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

phantom: There was a store on the 2800 block of Front Street in the 60's and 70's named Lauer's. They were like a deli but had specialty dishes - lots of fish dishes on Fridays for......

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

BRUSHMAN: Front st ? pork pies ? im not sure , i grew up at lee and westmoreland , from 1980 till about 1987 . i would like to let the people on this site know......

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

Chrissy: I grew up in Kensington in the 70's. Great memories. Wanted to know if anyone knows the store that was on Front st that sold pork pies. My grandparents would bring them......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dean, Yes, next to the newsagents. I wish we could get some treacle toffee in Adelaide.....and some Blackpool rock too..and while I'm at it, a few of Morris's meat and potato pies.!!!! Cheers.... Cyril........

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Peter: a good shot still eludes me... its like the doors are winking at me, revealing the {suv}s that belong to all the yuppies who live in the condos above... [[img:27737]] ...

in response to: Clean Canvasses? by Peter

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): It was Mal Kitt who got us onto this site in the first place... As for Morris's pies, we often talk about them and chinky lee's curry; rice and chips....

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Peter Creer: None of you Irlam or Cadisheadites seem to remem Morris's Pie shops. On the coner of Kings road oppsite Royles in Cadishead and some where in 20 row in Irlam. I lived on Morris's pies when......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

ChiPhi: Christopher and others, why is there always a: "...somebody needs to do something to help..." why don't people take responsibility and pride for their own? I have lived in this neighborhood for 5 years......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

anon (205.173.35.130): I have lived in Jacksonville for all of 3 months now, and I have to say that I haven't found it all that great. Once you get over the beach and the shopping/dining, there......

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

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

You are an idiot.: Of course you would show the picture of the crappiest hotel in the city to try and prove your point. "Passing through" does not give you enough taste of a city, especially one as interesting......

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

Pearlykingjim: COR bLIMEY It been 3 days since i posted my comments on this page what and no comebacks having read the E-mail that was sent to me a few times iam now convinced that it came from another......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Susan Taylor (nee O'Reilly): Hi Cyril The shop that was on the corner of Dixon Street was Potter's Bakery, what delicious cakes she produced, smell of her baking would waft down Dixon Street she made them in an outhouse at......

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

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril Thank you again for the photo I have sent copies to my brother and Dad. Look forward to hearing from you about where it was taken and the occasion. Where does your......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Anna: Dear Pearly Kings and Queens, I am a photographer doing my MA at the London College of Communication. I would like to do a photo project on a Pearly family in London. It would be great......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Joanne Amorello-minor: I have this childhood memory.i must of been really young..but my dad used to take me to what seemed to be a nursery or playgroup next to or near the doctors surgery on liverpool road......

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Scratchings .. mmm ... (thought that was our local twang), we got them too from our chippy opposite the Cadishead Wesleyan Church - Fish and chips in OZ is not quite the same, you......

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

antBlack: LOL...Well, the Orchestra did suck! The band was great and Montesano was a great teacher. I played Bflat Tenor sax...not many solos, but still, it was the Tenor sax! Anybody remember Mr Weintraub in......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

thomas mc gowan to david kean: hi david yes imyself new yir family well the shop was called burns every sat /morn to fill acumalater for wirlessthey were the days david, yes would you please send me copy of the photos......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

BC: I live in BK, and ill tell you first hand that although the area has gone through some gentrification, it's still not entirely safe. My house had just been broken into last week (again)! I......

in response to: Help This Newbie by lou

Elicar: In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still......

in response to: Lest We Forget by Michelle

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

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

saltbake: I´m afraid to say that this town is the worst place I´ve ever lived. I grew up in a really small town in South Dakota, and I can say that Hutchinson does not even have......

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

serlingrod: colvatios ghost - Circle Thrift is actually owned by the church Circle of Hope, which occupies the 2nd floor and the building next to it. thanks for the link Carl....

in response to: Frankford Avenue ArtRacks by serlingrod

EvilGentleman: Ahhh, now I remember why I always avoided the Plateau area. Too many hippies. Since hippies hold native spirituality in the highest regard, and with my being Mohawk, I am terrified of being loved to......

in response to: Mr. Popularity by EvilGentleman

Peter: word. their slice is sorta shitty, but then again, its cheap. ive gotten food-poisoning there at least twice, but i keep going back again. so yeah. word up, gino's. im the one thats been annoying you......

in response to: Gino\'s Pizza by Peter

Kat: Is it true that the new residents of Bushwick are calling it 'Shiwck'? For serious, I will die if this is true. I've lived on Bushwick all my life, and the idea of some yuppies......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

RickC: Is this story in the actual magazine? Or is it strictly online? If there is a magazine, I want you to send me a few copies. Send them C.O.D. You have my home address....

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

Nando: Hey guys I have to say this is definitely one of my favorites entries ever. I am a native of Corona (on which the park lies) and I can honestly say that my life......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

EvilGentleman: Socially stratified contrasts in high proximity. Some of it has been like that for decades, if not centuries, like the famous divide of Westmount, with those "above the tracks" being wealthy, while those "below the......

in response to: Revolt! by CE

SCAM28: @jack: Oh definetly...Germany was basically the border between the East and West during the Cold War and there were just hundreds, probably thousands of spies and secret ops... But lets think happy thoughts ^^...

in response to: Sunset over Kreuzberg by SCAM28

LR: Here's the lick from a lincoln park reared and raised guero who kicked it in HP (east of Cal) back in the late 80's/early 90's....Oh yeah, and before people are dismissive, let me state that......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: i'll translate this for you all,,,,qtitfumf means Q tips are fun for my many friends, doytcbpz means do you teach puppies to snooze. pqhjnqzh means prudish grownups join quizes here. hheqajzo means hubert humprey......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Dave, Yes I lived on Farnham Drive ( off Broadway). Mum and dad had the end shop ( Brophys bakery)( I think we employed nearly everyone in Irlam over the years, and we sold......

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

I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I have attended various universities in both Chicago and Puerto Rico. I am currently a student at the University of Puerto Rico, and at one point I was Trying to recieve my BA from......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the......

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

RESPONSE TO : Yea-Yo: Im Puerto Rican and im buying property converting it into condos and giving it right back to the RICANS of Humboldt Park. Why might you ask because im RICH BICTH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for you yuppies i......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

King Gati: Wow, after reading all this for about 2 hrs or so..I gotta say I laughed alot with some of you ppl...I'm rican born in NYC..Boogies down bx..I read how bad was or is HP, ...About......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

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

Brad: And yes, it is called the NB Power Building (sorry for the double post) because BMO only occupies 3/4 of the lobby and the second floor....

in response to: Fredericton Skyscrapers by CE

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

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

zagg: Thanks Aer, I was really happy with these photographs, especially since all other copies in the past were far from distances (the roadside, looooooooong driveway) with throwaway cameras or even worse, old photocopies of photocopied......

in response to: The Field House by zagg

MarcOnDelaware: Listen, it's time once and for all to put the audaciously uninformed general view that Pickled Eggs are some queer remnant of a desperate era to sleep. These puppies are the most satisfying snack you......

in response to: Pickled Eggs: Inside the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building by jeeff

JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

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

Yea-Yo: Exactly Culture Club. I'd love to understand more about these deep roots people claim they've laid into Humboldt Park. The dirty ass alleys, unkept yards, trash all over, people with no regard for the next......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

joey: republicans like foley are the creepiest of american creeps...

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

Peter: so now we have proof that there are scientologists in the highest eschelon of the u.s. government... creepy indeed. from the linkage: [[img:16181]] ##"...Mary Story from the Church of Scientology and Brett Miller from the Clearwater Businessman's Association......

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

Diaz: Humboldt Park will pass through the hands of the hispanics as it has passed through many cultures. Buildings will be renovated and new homes will be built as the more well off people return to......

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

EvilGentleman: I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Castro has been to this office. He was in Montreal for the funeral of his friend, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 2000. I can't imagine......

in response to: I Left My Transmission Fluid in Cuba by EvilGentleman

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

What biziness?: Hope yall have learned that all criminal activity is related but slightly competitive only if evryone is getting a piece. None is needed but the guys know that someone will do it if they dont......

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

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: you have to have good eyes to spot copies....

in response to: Copies by sine

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

in response to: Modern Hippie by JoeyD

Al: Well, the famous photos of dubious origin have appeared again, this time billed as Photos of Katrina over Mississippi. The copies I have are dated 2004 and were said to have been taken in Southern......

in response to: the august 19th, 2005 tornado hoax by jeeff

Dave: You know, it occurred to me not long after I posted that some of what I wrote would seem offensive to positive Bushwick residents who had been working for a better neighborhood. (Such guiding lights......

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

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

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

EvilGentleman: Yikes! Coronation Street is scary enough to watch **without** Mr. Cid around. And as far as having hip parents goes, I remember playing "Balls to the Wall" by Accept extremely loud, and my mother barges into......

in response to: Mr Pendlebury Takes a Trip by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jeeff: aside from public housing (which govts don't seem to do anymore), all new housing is marketed as 'luxury', and marketed to yuppies. that's where the money is. as yuppies move into new housing,......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

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

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

EvilGentleman: Jack, are you telling me that there are Vietnam vets out there who do not know what cannabis plants look like? Even if you were totally straight arrow, then you should still recognize the stuff. Cuz......

in response to: End Gender by Biff

BIG PEST ONE: yeah man it's been over a year since i posted here last and portland graff is STILL by the whole...WACK!!! there of course are a few exceptions but these kids now-a-days have no respect for......

in response to: PDX graffiti like ummm... by fuzzytank

Grange: It says , "Regency Landing " which suggests its on the water , and unloads trade from around the world . Yippies , they have to have somewhere to live , and play. With pastel......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

franny: I grew up in bushwick on bleecker and irving during the 60's & 70's. It was the happiest time I had in my life. It was a blue collar hard working neighborhood. You could sleep......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

SUM1: WHAT PAPER CAN I USE AND CAN I GET PRINTED DESIGNS IF SO WHERE HELP ME PLESE ...THANKS FOR THE RECIPIES GOOOD 1 :) ...

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

ehsohz: Thx to all all those who posted recepies! Im a stenciler and was curious about putting up huge pieces and wheat paste or variations there off was a mystery to me......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

ian: Yawn. Only people with shit jobs complain about yuppies. You should be happy people are so desperate to move back into the city they'll live in bland, soulless complexes like this....

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

shandy: I'm white and my place in Bushwick was the first I moved to when I came to New York. I had no idea what neighborhood meang what, I moved there firstly because my friend lived......

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

Peter: i cant imagine how hard it must be to find a parking spot in {park slope}, especially in front of the co-op. there must be a 24-hour-a-day queue of yuppies driving around the block trying......

in response to: Orange 2002 by Peter

elaine: amazingly they barely shit there. i told the universe, the day a pigeon turns up the whole deal is off, because once they turn up somewhere they stand around all the time pooing on their......

in response to: Fledgling Greenfinches by elaine

sherri: Holy crap. That's awesome. So you were an army brat like my fiancee. My parents were hippies (hence my point of views on a lot of things). That old DL from MWT, what's the number...I......

in response to: Free Man? by Urbanghost (michael talbot)

jeeff: elicar - the vast majority of poor people don't own their own homes outright, they're at the mercy of landlords. when an area starts to gentrify, it creates upward pressures on rents. landlords......

in response to: The 40th Beaches Lion’s Easter Parade by Elicar

yuppies will burn: The BEACH used to be working class for all wonderful place to live but the rich people have turned it into an area for them only and with market value assement(legal government robbery) the rich......

in response to: The 40th Beaches Lion’s Easter Parade by Elicar

Jon: Shit, we need to put up some lofts there before the yuppies continue moving to edina...

in response to: Old Vs New by Tyfoid Kid

Culture Club: Can I get a few examples of the HP culture that everyone is so keen on holding onto? I don't see it. If there was so much pride you wouldn't let people treat the neighborhood......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: so far, hands down, its "ashleys", the little hole-in-the-wall with the bright orange facade and the plastic chairs out front sitting in the wedge-shaped storefront at/near the intersection of {sterling} and {flatbush}, just up flatbush......

in response to: Bigges by Peter

Staci: To: Humboldt Park Dave/ Ratone Chocha/ Insightoner Thanks Dave. I'll have to check that out. I'll keep things posted on here every so often. Ratone, I live on Humboldt and Cortland. ......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

insightoner: Good stuff. A couple of things to keep everything in perspective: Humbolt was white untill the 70's. Don't you think the whites that lived there pre70's felt the same way when Puerto......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

EvilGentleman: My parents and I used to own used bookstores in Chatham, New Brunswick and Cornwall, Ontario when I was a child. (I owned the comic department, as the starting inventory was all from my collection).......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter