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Humboldt1: I am happy to get rid of all the gangbangers. I have confronted drug dealers and will surely do it again. I do not want the kids on my street living around this...... Lynnette (Diaz) Madden: I had a dream about Webb's Bakery the other night. I woke up dying for one of their butter cookies with the chocolate center drop. I Googled Webb's and this is what I found! OMG--just...... Doc S.......: ...I graduated from P.S. 241 in 1958 - lived on Union Street (1060) between Franklin and Bedford. I vividly remember Ben & Sol's, and Radin's delicatessens - I ate at both. The Pharmacist at...... fiona : omg! i remember dancing in cross street one night & attaching bottle tops to my clothes. ( you took the cork out from the underside of the cap),i would of been about 8 yrs old...... theTruth.: word. Pac's tags are fucken nice. Theres a couple you missed in the pics, On the back of Hamilton Mountain Bowl he tagged 3 bowling pins with PAC next to them. Also above Big B...... Lexxi: Great to know that the legend of Mr. Rufus Rockhead lives on with the naming of the street near Atwater Market, unfortunately most Montrealers have no idea of the history associated with this brilliant man...... Joe Drexler: From a building design standpoint many blocks in Bushwick were attached "row frames" as known by firefighters these row frames differed from attached brownstones in that the space or void between the roof and the...... augydoggy: To all the naive people in here that think raccoons are cute and are their backyard pets:
These are wild and cold-hearted omnivores that care nothing about you and would eat you alive if given the...... Dennis: Hi neighbors,I lived at 6 Covert Street between Broadway and the almighty Bushwick Avenue. I too remember those classic games of playing skelly,stoop ball and johnny on the pony ouch! I just caught a neck...... BARON VON FANCY: Baron Von Fancy is not a man, he is an idea. And you cannot kill an idea.
He has been called an artist. He has been called a maniac. He is a recluse. He never...... Movie Place: I vividly remember the yard south of 72nd Street. I remeber standing on top of a ventalation opening (all those grates that give the tunnel it's beautiful lighting effects) watching the fan on top...... Excuzmepleez:
This post is in response to "remember 1966."
I remember the sad accident. It happened on Troutman Street between Central and Evergreen and it involved a boy named Joey Mistretta who was 9 years...... kls: My husband and I have lived in Humboldt Park for 4 years since moving to Chicago from Guatemala. I cannot think of a better compromise for us both. I love being near the shops...... Janice Seifert; July 2008: Hi Ronald Lees, I grew up on 600 Wishart St. Your sisters will probably remember me. My brother Joe used to hang out with your brother Earl and Freddie Beck. I used to love how...... OG FROM GCC: Cecilia
Keep it up. Keep going. We brought a group of 25 to Philly. Half worked in some
gardens in the Dauphin area. We stopped by there on Thursday morning on a way...... 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...... jack: can you top this, i was up by harlem in the 60's along east river drive, (loved the cool jazz played at some of the local bars in harlem) and spotted a car, with the...... 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...... Outside the box...: When you hear and see what is going on down in that part of town I find it difficult to feel sorry for the majority of those folks. The previous post hit the nail on...... Joseph Bridge: beautiful response serlingrod...you paint a rosy picture of kensington... you must be an artist type. lets talk reality here. business investment in kensington: mom and pop stores, laundrymats, stop and go...for that 40 oz,...... Anon: Anything done in public is public domain, and international law, as a whole, is of this mindset, both legally and socially. It's quite simple, actually. Don't want someone taking photos of it? Then don't do...... Mike: I remember the streetcars on St Catherine. The stopped running in September 1956 and were replaced by busses. Before then I used them as my form of transportation ( I was 15 at...... Al Pierro: Just came across this website in search of info on what has happened to St. Joseph's church where we used to play softball back in the 50's & 60's. I attended a grade school on...... 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...... G: I grew up in kensington.I went to Sheridan.Mr Strong was a great teacher.I was on top of a #3 bus @ k&a in 74@when the flyers won the cup.I still ride kensington ave sometimes.The mill...... Miss_1989: I had lived in hutch for 12 years growing up as a child, but my family ended up moving due to my parents job transfers and also because Hutchinson (even in the middle class neighborhoods)...... EvilGentleman: All I know, is I have seen a lot of the little speed limit signs along the bike trails, usually proclaiming a limit of 20 km per hour. I confess that I have not been...... Ben Baillargeon: Let me tell everyone the number one way to stop bike theft!
Don't be stupid for one without critisizing anyone, but if you love you bike bring it everywhere you go! seriously i ride my norco...... EvilGentleman: A few suggestions in order to reduce damage in future disturbances:
1 - Do **not** leave portable metal street signs with plate metal bases lying around on the streets when large events are taking place. Most...... Joe: As others have stated, the good memories exceed those that were bad: Joe the pretzel guy at Front & Allegheny, Christmas and the stores on the 3200 block of front St., local bakery shops and...... marie: you mentioned one main reason Saskatoon did not make cut was because there were no distinguishing features. I often sit in car or walk along Spadina viewing our skyline in wonder at the very...... Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Jenny and Janet(Sutton), I lived at No 42 Harewood Road and I do remember you living there also I remember the field that belonged to your granddad, it came at the side...... Nobody: Saul- perhaps sarcasm doesn't travel well through the internet. I do have a few points for your consideration, though:
1. "thats there [sic] idea of a community.
Whose idea? The people who live in the projects? I...... anon (host86-142-66-149.range86-142.btcentralplus.com): Hi Rob, I well remember those slides on Lord Street park; my younger sister fell from the top & sustained a nasty fracture of her arm. As for the Irlam ones, I recall having great...... GuRu: The Do-ers are the ones wreckin the place! and i dont just mean the ones doin meth either. ever wonder why city council got thier butts audited? HHHMMMMMMMMM, i wonder????? Latest example is that dirty...... bill: Born in 1941 at williamsburg hospital. Lived at 99 Stockholm until '46 when we moved to 41 Cornelia Street betweenBushwick and Broadway (third house down from the congregationalist Church. went to PS 56...... Sammy Perez: antblack, you mentioned skelly, stickball, tops and coco carts. Those are some serious memories there. Here a few more for you: punchball, cocolerio 1,2,3, off the wall and chinese handball along with riding...... antblack: Steven H, Sammy - I remember going to Loews Gates on Broadway to see my King Fu Double features. We used to climb the roofs of the Rheingold brewery for fun. and also PS 274's...... ya boy $$moneymike$$74: If anyone who dont know the picture on the top of this page. Taken from the street first is the gate Im sure you can see the dude walking in the back, broken windows up...... Susan Taylor (nee O'Reilly): Hi Cyril
The bank was at the top of Caroline Street, was Martin's then Barclays,the wallpaper shop was Lupton's, then a dry cleaner's called Irlam Valet Service, further along the road their was Billy's (I think...... Elicar: These stopped two blocks west of Main (Westlake).
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But realtors' boundaries of the Danforth Village are:
"Danforth Village spans from Victoria Park Avenue west to Greenwood Avenue, and includes the first few blocks north of The...... Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch.
As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed...... Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)...... EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them.
If you look at the comments in the...... jack: haha, so where is armondo's, and no it cost an extra dollar on top of that amount, so we probably were going to l&b's at the same time in the 50's and 60's, remember when...... Joanne Amorello-minor: Hello Cyril
they are great pics..just how I remember it then...do you remember the nursery there just further down...I went there...
My deepest sympathies for the loss of your son Brian...I didnt realise it was so recent...bless...... Fred, The.: The only good thing Hutchinson Kansas has to offer is reasonable and tough law enforcement and reno county court judges. Kansas does nothing but steal and waste as evidenced by, well, just about everything you...... Marje Givens-Eames: What a wonderful site for Irlam/Cadishead and what memories, many I had forgotten.
I remember Goodiers living in the house on Ferry Road/Boat Lane. We lived in Gerrards Close and our house backed onto...... liesbeth: Do you know if the new Beetham tower is built on top of the Great Bridgewater Street Wesleyan Chapel? or if not, where that might have been? I love all these sites on Manchester. Does...... Rob Tynan: Here are some grainy old pics Ive found.
St marys church Cadishead soon after being built
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St Johns Church around 1900
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Higher Irlam Co-op at the top of Silver Street
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One of the many old photos of Irlam Hall...... Alan Taylor: Hello everyone, lots of names cropping up that I recall, but more are from after I left my birth town in 1965/6 although I continued at the steelworks until 1972 & transfered to Scunthorpe Works....... BUGS: On Sat 19th Jan 2008
I held my 40th birthday bash at Chapples bar penton street near the Angel
North of the river. it was a cockney theme, being a good old cockney boy i thought it...... james: hutch has alot to offer like looking at the new sexy stop lights on main street. Huthinson is full of baby boomers who are living off thier parents hard work and think they are...... Alfred: I live in Hutchinson, and I knew this article was pure propaganda right when I saw the photos. The first photo is of an entrance gate to the State Fairgrounds, which the author describes as...... EvilGentleman: The areas bordering Verdun are pretty much the same, as well.
Pointe-Saint-Charles, east of Verdun, is historically Irish, and today is a mixed community where English is not a problem.
Ville-Emard, to the north of Verdun, has...... confess: Like most men I have pissed in the street when out drinking. We got these piss pots in the UK now - usually put out by taxi ranks, bus stops and such at weekends. I...... Robyn: Stepha when u crossed the foot bridge from Carroll to Franklin there was a small candy store on the left as well as a place that worked on cars.There was a building on the...... 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...... Peter: although im a {new york}er, i agree with mcarthur. ive watched this post for over a year and though its taught me a lot about a place ive never been (and about some of the...... ...just lookin for a job, lookin for a job...: OMG! I thought I lived in a pretty good place until I stumbled onto this site while surfing for nursing jobs in this area. I've been HappyInHutch for 30+ years and known about...... Mushi: Jane,
I've lived by myself in Bushwick off of the Jefferson Street stop. My theory with being a single woman living in any part of NYC: take the subway until a certain part of the night...... misty: I like the pics they are awsome.I agree you should get some of the morgue,I love anything that involves paranormal or haunted this would be a cool place to go.How
ever here in salem oregon where...... Patricia Adair Mattice-Leonard: If this Woods gas station is on Main Street,it wasn't the Maxwells gas and candy store i used to stop in at after school several years ago..when i went to Delaware Academy and Central School.That...... John Cooper - john.cooper@airspaceinfo.com.au: Hi Natalie,
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I founds this one of that small graveyard in Lord Street, you can see a headstone to the right of the picture. When I was young the building...... 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...... Trek 9800 OLCV: Stolen last night off my porch (along with my wifes bike) - if you manage to see it around town please let me know. Queen + Carlaw area. Funny thing is I was walking my...... jack: thank you barry, as i looked at the first pic i said to myself that you probably took it on a sunday morning and then to my delight i spotted the sun bathers on the...... GGP: Now I will tell a Jack-like story. When I was a kid, we would drive home at night from visiting my grandparents in Astoria (who, by the way had a Ravenswood phone prefix: RA8-4089, I...... Sue B from Colorado Springs: Last saw the castle about 10yrs ago, and alot has been added since then! It is truly AMAZING to see what one man can do if it is his heart's desire. We enjoyed...... Armstrong: wow. I was feeling left out looking at picture after picture of STARR STREET, but then voila! picture #23 from the top actually shows my building! hooray
now I feel special.... HushUp: For the person who thinks that someone should ask the side of the 'Gang Member' on why they shot and killed my son's friend - It's obvious you have no clue what it's like to...... little ukraine: glad to see so much love for Missing Foundation and the like. CartLegger, there is a pretty decent amount of information online. Try
http://www.hungryeyerecords.com/bands/missing_foundation/index_old.html
http://petemissing.de/
in addition to Peter's links above.
Also, the work of...... Tonya James-Rance: Born and raised in Brooklyn.. Left in 1985 for the military... Lived on Suydam Street and then moved to Harman Street between Central and Evergreen.. Loved that neighborhood. Remember all the game rooms in the...... Smudgy: Well, I guess I discovered this site just a bit too late. I missed the walking tour and I missed the show at the BHS. I was born at Bushwick hospital in 1949....... 106!!: well well.... i guess us cycling types need to band together to protect one another.... a few years ago my girlfriend bought me a new bike for my bday!! i was my first new bike...... Sam: I remember when this neighborhood was Italian. My grandmother owned a house on division street between Chicago and North Avenues. The neighborhood was beautiful and the houses well maintained. The Our Lady of...... Cay: Chris, guess you told me. Don't worry. I won't post to you anymore. But street-wise attitude will stop you cold. What good is a scholarship to a good school for recognized potential if in...... D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children...... EvilGentleman: A very belated reply for doc cunningham, who posted on New Year's 2007. Sorry for the late reply, but I just noticed your comment now. I have so many posts that I do not see...... Chris Rodriguez: Im not (just a 12 year old) im an honor student at bishop laughlin memmorial high school. Peter if you feel safe good for you... how old are you things are different for a...... EvilGentleman: I dunno how terrorism is supposed to be stopped by more guns. If the terrorists are deterred by machine guns on USCG boats, then they are pretty lame terrorists. Fact is, America and Canada are...... karlo: P.S
The first one is at the corner of Beechmount ave,and the Falls road in west Belfast.
If you look closely,you'll see that the name of the street is 'R.P.G avenue'.
( For those who don't know,R.P.G stands...... Brooklyn-Pete: Bushwick is not the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, it's definately no Park Slope but it is not as bad as some would have others believe. The neighborhood is very noisy and extremely filthy on many...... CE: This is about a block from my house. It's an unusual street, however, every street in {Griffintown} (the correct spelling [sorry to be nitpicky]) tends to be pretty weird. I took a very...... Anne Jones: Hi Sheila (waving!), and Hi to Russell Smith - I remember you and your sister Gail and your mum from when you lived in Oak Road - I grew up in Cadishead and we lived...... Chris: Monday July 9th, I made a point to stop by today and view the progress. The family spent the weekend up on Greenhorn. The forest service has work ahead of them to reopen the road...... KB: Lived in Bushwick on Eldert Street, btw Knickerbocker & Irving, from when I was born, until we moved away in 1967, when I was 16. Things had gotten rough in 1966, when there was...... Slomo: I used to be a bikemessenger in NYC from 98'-03', almost everyday i had to go to 601 W 26th Street, the actual address of the building, there were guys, mostly russians, they exactly knew...... Bonnie: I too lived on Wilson Ave., between Cooper and Moffit Streets -- in the 1950's. We lived on the 3rd floor of one of the cold water railroad flats, right down the street from...... IVY: I grew up in beatiful Humboldt Park. I lived there from the age of 7 when it was all white. There were only two Puerto RIcan families on our block. We lived...... fedup: Hello, I'm back for another season. Re-reading my previous posts, it seems like I might have been somewhat deranged back then. I am much more calm now. In fact, only last week, I came...... CO-TX: Ok you want some real dirt on denver look: at South Table mountains (west denver) NREL complex it is officaly of solar research station but really a tunnel door (south west corrner of the facility...... RickC: I wish we would stop refering to Bushwick as the Ghetto. It is a community in transition. I was there when it was great and celebrities such as Jackie Gleason lived on Chauncey Street. Will...... Julian: I've thoroughly enjoyed all the stories on this page. Especially the one about the pissed off squirrel, the pooing while begging for food cat, and the BYOT raccoon. What a trio.
I found this site via...... CATCH A BIKE THIEF!: We bought brand new bikes from these nice guys at CycOmotive on Bathurst. We paid $3,500 for the two mountain bikes. One was higher end Giant and the other one was Giant Pistol 2 16...... Cinic: Thanks for the history lesson on rufus-rockhead. I always like hearing about street name origins. You know what I think could be a nice shot, on top of the superC looking at westmount at night,...... Armstrong: I just got an apartment on Starr St and Knickerbocker so I a little bit resent rosecoloredglasse's last comment. at the same time, I'm a realist and yes, that area would be considered blighted by...... EvilGentleman: I want to try your technique, but your camera is an SLR, and mine is a point-and-shoot with a retractable lens, so if the lens is out, people know my camera is on. I will...... sara: I lived in kensington (A St.) from birth until I was 9. I still have fond memories of being a kid there. I haven't been back to that neighborhood for many many years. Unfortunately the...... Laura : Thank you :) That statue has a brother right next to it. They are located on the East side of the park, at around 72nd street. They are perched on top of a stairwell and......
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