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Peanut: Is anyone out there, that isn't controlled by walls?... 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...... 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...... run rabbit run: How come most of you can't spell, or tink itz mad kewlz to rite lik dis? You're probably wanna-bees from the suburbs.. Pay for paint what? I get on the LIRR or NJ Transit and...... RICHIE .RUBIN: BACK TO CROWN HTS,REMEMBER:`BILLY BOYS'
CANDYSTORE?GREFF'S DELI BOTH ST,JOHNS PL.
&`SKIN-NECK-TITTY'AVE[LOCAL JOKE,AS MANY
OF US KID'S COULDN'T SPELL THE REAL STREET
NAME!WHEN THE B'KLYN DODGERS WON THE 1955
WORLD SERIES ALL DELIS GAVE OUT FREE`FRANKS'
& PIZZA JOINTS FREE SLICES!WHAT A...... jack: IN THE GOOD OL SUMMERTIME,
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME,
In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime.
Strolling through the shady lanes with your baby mine.
You hold her hand, and she holds yours,
and that's a...... Peter: ooh, this one is good. i love the confluence of all the different materials... it also makes me feel sort of bummed that {brooklyn} no longer has trolleys...... luna park: hmmm, sorry to disappoint, but i didn't photograph any of the trolleys. these tracks are from a disused station on the grounds of the 1972 munich olympics complex. ... serlingrod: Love it! As you know from my previous post, trolley tracks are one of my favorite urban elements! This is a great shot. I'd love to see some of the trains!
... Paul Revere: I'm sure you can never receive enough accolades for your photography. Great work. Personally, I've roamed those tunnels repeatedly for the past year. As someone remarked you can't hear the train untill it's prcaticly upon...... Stephen Barnes: Yoo I graduated from Acorn in 06.I had a great time there. I knew almost every graduating class starting from 04 all the way to 09 so the high schoool experience is basically what you...... Me: Re to Tex and Peter
I would post pics here,but I do not know how.Maybe I can get my 17 year old to do it for me,but she is usually too busy,like many other folks here...... janet: Hi Alma--Sorry, the name Rubin is not familiar (though I knew a Judy Kessler). But I certainly remember the fish store! (Thanks for reminding me that one needed to walk up a couple of...... 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...... 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...... Jamie: These have both been on UK TV recently. Elaine's {Sixy Trolls} have been in a {Volvo} advertisement too.... The terrible disaster: This article has been republished as I was asked to supply the details a second time.
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We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When...... Hutchinson Hater,Now: I just looked in the Hutchinson News today and noticed that in todays paper Apr 30 2008 that Officer Mike Collins of the Hutchinson PD and his assisting thug Mr. Schofield beat a dog until...... CB : It is easy for anyone to put down our inner city areas and declare them a war zone. But the truth of the matter is that if we had more people involved to make change...... jon doe: i belive that the towers were rigged from top to bottom without a dought. theres no question that our goverment was behind it. i want to know who was on the two planes that hit...... Mike: Brothel owner asks to suppress evidence
By BEN NEARY • Associated Press Writer • January 15, 2008
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* What’s...... 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...... EvilGentleman: Wait, is it possible the "fuck" is actually a verb, and not an adjective? If so, then am I in compliance, considering my wife is an ex-cop? Mind you, she did quit that job before...... Peter: its {smug} and {osker}. i was holding my breath trying to not be the first to mention it and out myself as the resident graf nerd fanboy, for what its worth.
that photo is a great...... 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...... janet: Shelley--As a student teacher at Tilden, I remember Mr. Gold's dramatic performances and saw him leap on his desk once. He was a great favorite with students--lots of flair and drama. I never had...... Marissa Chaplin: Hi Rob
Sorry I havent, they are mainly the High School and the Margarine Estate, as thats where I live.
If I get the chance to go up again, I will get some.
Glad you liked the pics...... janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the...... Alfred: "Old bastards" - I'm 26. Maybe young people in this city should learn to take enjoyment from simple things like taking a stroll at Dillon Nature Center or listening to non-commericial, uninterupted classical music on...... Peter: ahh, {trolley}s and abandoned roadways... nice!... Young Hippy: Bob, that is exactly it. It is a town for RETIRED PEOPLE, Or close to retirement. You are simply someone who has settled for what is around you. Maybe you should look at yourself, Hutchinson...... tito fuentes: They should just push it out of the way with the trolly.... CartLegger: fun narrative photo stroll, just glad I didn't have to walk it! ... me: We have problems due to the fact that a certain family of wealth many years ago prevented other businesses from coming to this city that wanted to pay decent wages,because then this certain family of...... my misgivings: NORTH Wales’ Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom is calling for the legalisation and regulation of all drugs – and next week will ask North Wales Police Authority to back him. The region’s top cop reckons existing...... janet grayson: Just reading these posts bring back very fond memories. I remember the Schenectady Ave. (at Lincoln Place) pickle lady with her barrels of sours and half-sours. Also, I too stood among the crowds...... jack: so there i am 5 years old standing on bay parkway and 86th street waiting for a trolley with my grandmother, vincenza (the ice pick), and she looks down at me and say's,"jacomino, why you...... jack: thanks little ukraine, would like to know your first name, but i informed my son who lives on the street where that drug bust took place. i'm generally down there every so often and...... EvilGentleman: I saw this post the day it was first posted, and had not looked back it till today. What a lot of comments about stolen bikes in the Toronto area! Incredible.
Reminds me of this guy...... 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...... dogloverhanley: i lived at 1440 dekalb now have worked thru out europe reside in wash. state.
found memories strolling with my sister with our doll carriages up too the
83rd police station visiting the shoe maker hitting the...... EvilGentleman: Well, how about we let the place that used to be in Yugoslavia call itself "The Slavic Republic of Northern Macedonia"? I dunno, just trying to state what I feel is right. The only Yugoslavians...... Bobs Ferry Accident:
We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When the walk had ended I had a chat with Mrs Heap the ‘Irlam Historians’...... Luis Acevedo: Bushwick is no diferent now than any other neighborhood in NYC. The rule has always been to go about your business and everything will be fine. If you go out at 3am nothing good could...... Luis Acevedo: Please send me your e-mail addresses and I will scan some images as well as send you the ones I have on my pc now. As for stories there are so many untold. Have you...... jack: how did you get such a big photo on 600 pixels, but the street and trolley lines are great, the angle, the distance, very good.... bed sty-cee!: hello chicago folks-well lets have a little history lesson non of you are spanish, spaniards or latin. all of those words,terms or descriptions belong to europeans, aka white people. all so called hispanics,...... bed sty-cee!: born and raised in brooklyn--coney island was the boroughs(family getaway) i can't beleive that politician let it rot--but just like all of brooklyn, gentrification will take hold. so all you blacks and puerto ricans better...... Frank S. Besner: serlingrod let me tell you that I think you've done an excellent job depicting St-Viateur. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your stay in Montréal and I hope you can make it back here soon,...... Dan: Last year, I bought a 2 year old Senegal Parrot. It took her about 6 months to warm up to me. I tried to train her in the first month, but I...... Peter: ahh! i always love the {streetcar}s/{trolley}s...... jeeff: february is grim, but the true love cafe at sherbourne & dundas is sure to raise one's spirits. especially considering the venerable filmore's hotel just down dundas street. here's a shot taken from...... maybetoday: I believe you're referring to the Morgan Quitno list of "Most Dangerous Cities" that's released every year. Every year both the FBI (source of the data) and criminologists around the nation decry using the FBI's...... blueeyes: Last year, I moved from Williamsburg "Prime" (Bedford stop), where I lived happily but cautiously for 7 years. During that time my next door neighbor was held up at gunpoint at our front door (2005),...... joey southside: For the most part, all the projects in chicago were consider to be "bad" or "crime riddin"... they were ran by the gang that controlled the building... as for stats when u find them let...... K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with...... WhereAmI?: In the picture W7, you're looking north over the Cambie Street Bridge at the Downtown core. The big white bubble on the far right is BC Place Stadium, where the BC Lions football team plays....... Anonymous - 36: Great !! If someone ever asks me the what was the best time of my life - without a doubt it was 13-16, great memories to last a lifetime. My 9 year old daughter can't...... Josh: I have been in Oslo several times over the past years and have liked it less every time. Norway has become fantastically wealthy, and this wealth has mirrored itself in a cultural vulgarity which...... upfromflames: ** The Urban Ecology of Arson**
The power of the Wallace's interpretation is its integrated systems approach.
just as flames cannot burn in a vacuum, the flames of July 13th did not arise out of nowhere....... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... procyon: sort of; important but not too important. the '33 world's fair was there, and it was the site of mayor daley's famous, ridiculous late-night bulldozing in 2003. from the next day's Trib:
"Mayor Richard Daley launched...... Peter Dykes: In this grim Orwellian world of ours where everything is controlled by a corrupt totalitarian state (read: vicious characters that have weasled and conned their way into power by hook and by crook) and regulation...... jack: thanks, i was there yesterday with my daughter and 4 month old grandaughter. my daughter received her masters at NYU and since we had some time we strolled the park. i will post...... KAYO: I REMEMBER BUSHWICK OF THE '50S. RIDING THE TROLLEY THEN BUS DOWN TO GATES AVE TO SHOP AND BANK WITH MY MOTHER. SHOPPING ON BWAY IN THE CANDY STORE,BAKERY AND MR. LAST'S DELI THEN THE...... BZZZP: p - how well fenced and patrolled is this place? i'm getting some ideas.... 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,...... S: That was a pretty antagonistic and incoherent post JMJ, and I find it to be consistent with other white racist feelings that I some times experienced from some residents of Humboldt Park. ...... Sirhcbre: Ok, I'll try to add all these things. I'm not sure what the RCMP presense in MTL is like considering a lot of the province is patrolled by the SQ. Can you field...... Karlo: Whilst appreciating their reasons,I do feel it would be better if whoever was controlling this site didn't delete posts such as the one made by volunteer.
Although it was bitter in the extreme,and potentialy liable,what it...... Canadian Guy: The silver sphere is the science center. Vancouver has a huge fleet of trolley buses that run on those overhead wires.... aer suzuki: Wasn't sure what that silver thing was when I posted, but just did a quick search and found these links:
http://www.vancouverplus.ca/alcan_omnimax_theatre/398855
http://www.vancouverinfocenter.com/merchant2.php/list2/250/Alcan+Omnimax+Theatre
As for the wires, my guess is they're for electric busses. They had trolleys up there...... Peter: whats that silver sphere? i love all the overhead catenary wires, too... are those for electric busses or trolleys (im guessing {trolley}s)?... EvilGentleman: I remember making my way past street gangs at 4 in the morning to go eat a quarter pounder here. That was way back in 1985, when I was 16. My grandmother never knew I...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: It's next to the panic button, to the left of your purple troll.... anon (belf-cache-1.server.ntli.net): A Belfast man called Karlo: 12th Apr 2006 - 00:37 GMT
i feel i must say something to at least let people know there are those of us that live in Belfast who DO posess a...... Penpusher: Here's the thing about the geography of NYC. Everything radiates from Midtown. During the late 90s, the Giuliani era, NY developed a reputation as being a safe city, a clean city and as Rudy claimed,...... Peter: a quick look at the wiki entry for [[wiki:bushwick]] shows that the displaced people youre talking about are far from the first to be displaced, whether from gentrification, changing demographics, modernization, urbanization, etc. i mean,...... EvilGentleman: First and foremost, **never, ever** walk out to the water on the tidal flats. Those mud flats can sometimes extend for miles into the bay, and the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy has...... Peter: this is a great entry, eg. i love entries like this.
ive seen em rip up quite a few rails like this in nyc... its the final passing of an already-gone era, unfortunately. what i...... jack: it looks like a troll blowing out smoke.... Rick Paulos: Every thing old will be new again.
First invented and sold in the 1890s.
They were called Sociables in the 1890's.
They used to make 2 or 3 wheel versions.
Regarding the bike pictured:
I own one too. ...... EvilGentleman: chiamatt, by any chance, are you in advertising? You seem pretty adamant about this. I am just stating my opinion, and explaining why this will affect my decision as to where I spend my gas...... EvilGentleman: OK, this is about as ludicrous as it gets, people! I support the reinstatement of the death penalty, I support the right to bear arms, I believe law enforcement should be given a massive cash...... EvilGentleman: Jamie, if you ever try to push a shopping cart (trolley) here or walk on a sidewalk, it becomes obvious that the word "yield" (or "cedez" in the archaic dialect of French spoken hereabouts) is...... jack: holy shit, you mean 1984 is now classic. i must be ancient. i still think of 1958 as the summer of my youth. the best of rock and roll was being played...... Jamie: also: i'd like to live in a lighthouse. far from civilaisation. with an dsl connection of course. i read (or maybe i saw something on the discovery channel) about an old lighthouse out at sea....... anon (142.108.46.47): Actually, the Toronto Port Authority is a federal government body. All ports in Canada, sea and air, are controlled by the federal government.... EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all...... elaine: near-ish. halfway through viccy park [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Park%2C_East_London]] there is a joining canal called the heartford union canal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertford_Union_Canal]] that creates a T junction with grand union canal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Canal]] which, for some reason seems also to be...... Jamie: wow neato indeed. are these near the {sixy trolls}... lisacat: Imagine Faith the biped dog strolling on in!... A Belfast man called Karlo: i feel i must say something to at least let people know there are those of us that live in Belfast who DO posess a bit of wit,understanding and compassion..it really is quite sad to...... EvilGentleman: I want a car like that. It would make finding a parking spot downtown a lot easier. Do they come with remote-controlled retractable rope ladders? And pigeon-protective paint? Wow, and my mechanic could do his...... a'la: [[http://www.attackonamerica.net/proofofcontrolleddemolitionatwtc.htm]]
[[http://www.letsroll911.org/articles/controlleddemolition.html]]
[[http://www.911-strike.com/demolition_explosive.htm]]... Peter: a sticker i saw on a similar {metrocard} vending machine in the {wtc} station this morning:
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the {cameraphone} pic makes it hard to make out, but it reads something like:
##"...WTC controlled demolition [undiscernable web-link] [[http://www.stopthelie.com]]...... jack: another little note, in the summer, the hot summer days, my friend and i would ride the trolley and look for a young lady with a dress on and wait for a gust of wind...... jack: my fellow americans, as your next president i will end all taxation, i will open up the borders to mexico and make sure there is a chicken in every pot in every home, and blah,...... Peter: i love the sentiment of this piece. i wish that neighborhood was still filled with the sort of people that have a zest for life.
also: i can only day-dream about riding a {trolley} to {coney...... jack: not me, i like sweltering heat, 100's in new york city, the asphalt melting carving my initials into the street, eating ices at the spumoni gardens in brooklyn, strolling the sands on the jersey shore,......
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