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Comments about trucksThere are 90 comments about "trucks"
Hapless: Very interesting. I didn't see any trucks, but I'm definitely going to keep my eyes open now.... Peter: we love us some graffiti (of any sort) on cn, so post away! were more into nice flicks than semantical discussions around here anyway :)
got any trucks/vans? one of my favorite ongoing graf series on...... zagg: And now for a word from Toronto's Barenaked Ladies:
"Near where I live there's a viaduct
Where people jump when they're out of luck
Raining down on the cars and trucks below
They've put a net there to catch...... Kevin_in_the_Uk: So what's with the "House Of Pain"? Do your US firemen name their trucks or stations? ... Jamie: They let them customise their trucks? that's pretty cool.... Rain Palmer: "Those Chevvies were pretty lousy cars, IMHO. You don't see a lot on th road today"
Bullfuck.
they are everywhere and they are the best, i have a 66 chevy truck that was built there, a...... End: you know whats funny. ja-left on maspeth trucks ha who knew... Peter: [[899:this post]] also has some good trucks by {oze 108}, {gen II} and {muk}...... Rudy: FROM THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE - March 18, 2008:
As of April 14, 2008, large trucks with more than two axles will no longer be allowed to travel through the Washburn Tunnel. Lately, large trucks often scrape...... noname: I was driving to WORK this morning and saw something that truly pissed me off. I left my house to see 1 million plus dollar crane picking up Tree limbs! Along with this crane were...... Tex Re: Hunter: My crime statistics come from the F.B.I., and I would say that they probably have well qualified statisticians who know how to report said facts fairly with the proper comparisons, so that 'apples' are not...... Hunter: I'd like to make two points at this time. First, it seems that most of the dissatisfaction with Hutchinson revolves around the lack of "good", i.e. well-paid jobs. As I mentioned earlier, there are no...... BELROC IOF: I see JA box trucks all over Connecticut everyday. I-95 I-84 and RT-8... Allcityking: ^^ Exactly, so hes obviously still got money. I've seen a few box trucks go through philly lately with some JA throws on it, so I think hes still getting ups.... Evinrude: Jeeff, Income taxes are Higher in this state than many others. Infact, some states don't even have income tax. Please notice I said "STATE" when refer to income taxes. I was comparing Kansas to other...... 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...... Elicar: Freaking out is such a strong and "offensive" word, EvilG! We are just spoiled, is all! ;)
But here is where the snow has been going.
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Waiting in the wings:
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There were also two more of those trucks...... chiamattt: Peter, I think he's the dude who tells cement trucks and other construction related vehicles where and when to come and go. Also, these are Japanese slices-of-life shots, but thanks for the love!... MEETING OF STYLES BRONX NY: [[img:23985]]
till today there has never been a nyc graffiti artist to dominate the walls/trains/trucks like JA ONE!!!... aer: a very nice one too. a high school friend of mine had one and we lived in the land of pick-up trucks & muscle cars, so it was especially cool. anyway. very slick.... Peter: i love it when people make blanket assumptions about a post and get off on random tangents concerning their own insecurities or issues (see any of [[http://www.citynoise.org/author/scott_sargent]] for example, hahaha).
i dunno; as far as "education"...... EvilGentleman: Concerned Monster Fan:
I never said that the drivers and crews were hillbillies et al. But like pro wrestlers or Jerry Springer, the mass audience has a tendency to be less sophisticated, on average. That is...... Concerned Monster Fan: I hate to read these types of articles because of the stereotypes that get associated with the monster trucks. I am a 20 yr old man who is well educated and far from the hillbilly...... joey: i see where the litter comes from. the waste management trucks do a sloppy job of emptying the dumpsters. several little milk cartons were blowing around in the street this morning.... dr.cube: grunts is pretty much all you see on nyc trucks. killin everything else as well. gotta respect it... jeremy power: man i love you pic of the trucks i love monster trucks my modo is ride fast or be last
... Brad: Theres also the Tim Hortons trucks with all the pastries and treats they sell... Tyler: It's not my favorite graff truck... I live in Milton, Ontario, and we have like no graff trucks exept the one I do sometimes. But yeah.... zagg: Peter has a FedEx fetish.
Probably gets off on people wearing the uniform and all that (the gals and guys who drive the trucks have a uniform I assume)...... Oldmanbike: This is a tank. The bicycle weighs about 80 or 90 lbs. Add the weight of 2 men and we are at 400+. This is difficult to turn and would not be safe in heavy...... Tube: People thinking that they are right to not use cars. We need cars, trucks, buses, trains and planes. What we also need is good common senses. so many examples exist about lack of common sense:
Speed...... benji: yeah all the bridges have their height on them and it is law that all trucks have to have their height displayed on the dash. apparently this isn't too rare on this bridge, maybe it's...... joey: in california every overpass now has a sign that states the clearance for trucks.... nick: If you think that trucks nice you got to see dimola bros trucks there off the wall... joey: the ice cream trucks here in oakland play christmas songs in the heat of september to keep their customers cooler. i always wondered about that place called edgewater.... joey: when it gets hot in oakland during the summer months- the neighborhood, ice cream vendor trucks play christmas songs to help cool down their customers.
rudolph the red nose . . . . . .... Grandfather Time: yep those route trucks have nice colors...... EvilGentleman: Near as I can determine from Google, a Hilux Ute is a slang term for the Toyota 4x4 pickup truck sold in Australia and NZ known as the the Toyota HiLux. I believe "Ute" is...... Peter: lol. my grandfather grew up/lived in a town that had yellow {firetrucks}, a few hours away from where i grew up. he was in the habit of saying "is a firetruck yellow?!" (in the same...... Chris Erb: The yellow trucks used to freak me out when I first moved here. I couldn't figure out why they were yellow when the rest of the world has red trucks. The thing that...... EvilGentleman: I thought yellow trucks were for lemonade. Actually, Cornwall, Ontario has yellow fire trucks too. And the flashing lights on police cars in Utah were yellow, or yellow and green, from what I remember from...... Peter: do it!! just search for {graf trux} and pick up wherever the series currently ends. trucks are trucks! lets see some of the {montreal} variety...... groovehouse: Tell you what's gonna suck for those apartment/condos back there... trucks unloading at all hours of the day and night!... Peter: yeah, thats what i thought... in which case, i think:
a) this was probably done by a bored lower-middleclass white guy in his late teens who cant find anywhere better to get up than the sign...... 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. ...... Julien: 41 - F**ckin TRUCKS... EvilGentleman: I believe there were ten monster trucks in all. There are 10 trucks in my original of the first pic, but one was parked a bit away from the others, so I cropped it out...... Peter: also: ive counted 9-10 monster trucks here... thats alot! wow...... Elicar: [[img:10973]]
I forgot to include this. The TTC subway track under the Bloor Street Viaduct[[http://www.answers.com/topic/bloor-street-viaduct]].
The viaduct itself became the centre of controversy when the city council approved in 1998 the construction of a barrier due to...... EvilGentleman: When I was 12, I lived in Cornwall, Ontario. I remember locking my bike up and going into the local Mac's Milk convenience store, and when I came out, my bike was still there, but...... EvilGentleman: jeeff, your mind works in scary directions
Peter, a few blocks west of here is a 6-foot diameter water main that has broken repatedly over the last 20 years, causing periodic rapids down Peel Street that...... Leo Just a 23 Wash HeIGhts Kid: All these years and to this day i can still probaly call out where smith and sane tags are at. My brother use to be down with 5x7 and XTW back in the day and...... Peter: no, i think its operators are out putting trash in its back-end.
note the *two* steering-wheels. {nyc} {garbage} {trucks} are made so you can drive them from either side. i think it makes collecting the garbage...... EvilGentleman: Hmmm... an old canteen truck converted into a mobile used bookstore... hot dog vendors who sell Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton novels on the side... Owners of suburban used bookstores cruising through New York's residental...... Peter: i like car reflections. i like driving next to shiny silver tanker trucks so i can watch the reflection of my car shimmy and undulate across its surface.... S : I remember visiting that site during the "Doors Open" festival. This was before they restored the buildings. Judging by the photos, the restoration was a success. I remember one of the tour guides...... EvilGentleman: 36 - passing pickup trucks with extra-wide snowplow blades attached to the front.... BASICK POFM: Don't stop mobbin always do yo shit from tha legend himself.... BASICk POFm keep taggin on trucks lets see some freeways... Peter: {fedex} trucks are sort of an ongoing theme/joke here. ergo the {fedex} tag. click it and see. otherwise, check: [[http://www.citynoise.org/search/fedex]]
re: why i find it interesting... just because i do doesnt mean you have to. my...... Old Kensington Dog: A couple of points re. the confrontation specifically, and Kensington Market in general:
-The SUV in the photos is owned by the business accross the street, not the "Motorist". His four cylinder smaller car with...... Matt: I like what she did, but she should also be prepared to deal with this kind of response. No one likes to be shamed in public, especially assholes. I spit into open windows of cars/trucks...... adam: i dont think firetrucks were quite the same when most of these buildings were built..
kew gardens is actually kind of beautiful. my view of it is just skewed because it seems like grandparent land hah........ jack: the thinking there of course is that the fire trucks come out on the streets and it is easier to get people out of a burning building thru the front fire escapes than it is...... Hector: Here I am with 30 years and 3 skateboards, a short one a carver and a pintail. I just can't imagine miself without a skateboard. A word of advice for you all, get a longboard...... roland: knew you'd like WW1 reference, if grandad is omniscient now he'll also know that mum didn't put pudding on the table untill he'd finished his mains due to his shock and awe approach to applying...... ian: It has eerie similarities with the "The South Will Rise Again" culture you see in parts of the US -- confederate battle flags on the backs of pick-up trucks, automatic distrust and hatred towards cities...... Jamie: This is where th fedex trucks come to die. It's like an elephant graveyard. But with fedex trucks. this photo rocks ass.... LAME CP: ----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: TABS
Date: Nov 4, 2005 9:14 AM
Dallas graffiti abatement...
The City of Dallas has started a new graffiti program today. It's the same program that the City of Phoenix, AZ has. It includes...... kc: I had a friend who said who told that once a Mr. Softee went by and someone dropped a *bag* out of it. (This said with great significance at the time, but littering seems a...... Peter: hah this is a classic city story... when you said {mr. softee}, i could hear the diesel-rumble from those trucks perfectly in my head. tangent: i used to live up at 109th and Manhattan avenue,...... fuzzytank: Hot
one restraunt in Portland
is filed is paintings of trucks on freeways
the schens are like the first shot
except all oil painted
they should have used more bikes... Peter: periodically, owners/operators of hit-up trucks repaint them. most likely, goya hit a newly repainted truck. a rare chance, indeed!... jeeff: cool, that's great. i wish our graf trucks in toronto were a little more finely done. thanks for posting.... Peter Caine: The differnce between duchamp and this idiot is not even close. Duchamp was doing something new. He is not pushing anything New,its old and every kid with a spray can can do it. You most...... Peter: i love the contrast of the white delivery trucks and the black hearses. this was a really interesting thing to snap some photos of. thanks.... Dubhain: Actually, IIRC, this is what was known as GM's Tarrytown Assembly Plant. This would explane the pits in the factory floor.
From GM's 2001 press release trumpeting a (defunct) development deal for the site:
"The former...... Moebius Rex: It's actually really really hard to find trucks in SF that are as colorful as these. I like the FRED one quite a bit, but that last truck really blew me away.... Yourpony: hot trucks!! check out Kenyan matatus--small buses that serve as public transport, usually covered with paintings and named after hip-hop stars. This one's called Ziggy!
[[img:3852]]... fuzzytank: oh hell yeah
...when we drove all thru san fran just recently we didnt have time to stop an catch any trucks
and well, lookin for these beats the crap outta bird watchin in the city ;)... elaine: tastic post. i saw a fire in san francisco once, those wooden houses sure produce some big licky flames. when i got home i told a lady fireperson about it, and that is when i...... Peter: move over trucks and trains and walls, we got some ##cabooses## up in this piece, ya heeeeaaaarrrrr?!... Lili: Years ago I read that after Simon Rodia passed onward the city tried to
pull at least one of the towers down by attaching cable from a large truck to the top of the tower -...... ea: looks like "odor" tagged both your trucks yesterday. hmm I think odor needs more style, bout as pretty as [[953:pusher]]... elaine: well ##i## like it. london is a semi/post industrial city. big, mean and dirty, and this neighbourhood is not exactly posh, but it is interesting and i think friendly. people say london is not friendly...... hasslehoff: i love the subject of graf trux, and it's totally taken over the site. it's something you just don't see in the uk, and i don't know why. we have so much talent, but none...... JOE: hEY PAPO YOU SHOUDNT TALK BROTHER FIRST OF ALL YOU MEXUCAN COME TO THIS COUNTRY IN TRUCKS AND LIVE LIKE BUNCH OF FUCKING DOGS TO BAD YOUR MOTHER HAD TO BREAK THE RACE BECAUSE...... jamie: i once bought a couple of tshirts from seattle. one of them had the atari logo on. the other was a transformers tshirt. you remember transformers the cars and trucks that turned into robots and...... Sucka Free: put more flix!!! more graff...i love rockin trucks...my favorite shit... bob slezak: hoboken n.j. city noise ..tugs ferrys, holland america line fog horns in bad weather.days gone by..the street noise .kids playing stick ball..jump rope.car horns..moms calling there kids to come in and eat..push carts ..horse drawn...... Peter: yep. most trucks have a small radar-dish attached, or some sort of thinkg like that, for real....
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