Comments about world war ii

There are 100 comments about "world war ii"

WinstonSmith: Great image and yes it was once the world's tallest. My most profound memory of the Woolworth Building was being on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade late on the night of 9-12-01 and seeing the......

in response to: Was World\'s Tallest by Peter

EvilGentleman: I hear ya. I used to love watching the heavies and the swing-wings take off from Plattsburgh when we would be shopping there back when I was a kid. And as a former base brat......

in response to: Snafu at the Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base by EvilGentleman

maureen.downing@comcast.net: I lived on E. 89th St. between York and East End Avenues from 1940-1955 and have tons of great memories of coming of age in Yorkville during World War II & thru the 50's. ......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Liz in Canada: I am Canadian and my ancestry is Irish/Scottish. Some of my ancestors were Catholic and some were Protestant, but I am non-religious by choice. My Irish ancestors were forced out of Ireland and......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Elijah: And with his chariots, like a whirlwind.............. That's how Christ is coming back. In the so called mystical thing that you see on the X-Files every Friday night. All the so called U.F.O 's. These......

in response to: Black Hebrew Israelites by serlingrod

serlingrod: In response to the last post - first of, let me say that I live in Philadelphia and have worked as a community organizer in Kensington for the past several years. I mention this to......

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

Who Cares for Kensington: Everyone has someone else to blame and I guess that's the ameriacan way for losers these days. Buildings, streets and real estate agents do no breed ignorance, but sub-cultures do and Kensington is definitely a......

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

Kyle: Only in AMERICA,==In 2008, Do We know have so many prude's verbally speaking out, attempting to perpetuate the FAULTS idea the Penis is Bad or shamefully , or nakedness is shamfull....that is simply for......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

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......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

carrie: while i do agree that our nixon-era bred conservative government does employ a 'world cop' approach in their international relations, and also recognize the dangerously slippery slope this entails, i can't stomach yet another accusatory......

in response to: Exremist school.. by Rune

Joe Seeking Contact: Check the current demographics on Elkin school and it is evident that the neighbor hood makeup has changed. Just like Kensington was wonderful to us as kids, so it is today for the current residents.......

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

chiamattt: jack, its funny you should say "in an area of possible war" because NO ONE here thinks the DPRK will invade the ROK. It's just not gonna happen. Also, there are NO real guns here.......

in response to: Cosplay by chiamattt

jack: costume players, seems very childish, yet with weapons they seem very dangerous, childishly dangerous, they fantasize and become drawings, silly people in a dangerous part of the world, you would think that people in......

in response to: Cosplay by chiamattt

Meg from San Diego: My boyfriend and I are going to spend the summer in Hutch. He's born and raised SD, I was born in Topeka and couldn't wait to get out of there as a teen. I......

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

Meg from San Diego: My boyfriend and I are going to spend the summer in Hutch. He's born and raised SD, I was born in Topeka and couldn't wait to get out of there as a teen. I......

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

Julian Austin-Seal 23/4/08: Been living in Flixton for the last 18 years, gotta say some parts are almost like scenes from such film as 'Stand by Me', some times Flixton resembles scenes from 'The Wonder Years', dont know......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

D.B.: Whats good people i`m back again just tryin to put down some of the negativity to pay hommage to some of the friends and family who are no longer here and most who......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

cyril bagshaw: Hi Susan The bakery which you knew as Potter's Bakery for many years previous, was owned by James Goodier, brother of Joseph Goodier, who incidentally was the organist at St John's church in Vicar Lee's era,and......

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

Tex: You are absolutely right, we should be thankful for what we have and the great country that we live in. We are very blessed and fortunate to live in a country where we have......

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

Peter: bob: i was poised to go to great effort to provide you links to mass-media sources that refute almost everything you say- about the misplacement of blame in iraq, about soldiers who refuse to go......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

ahh a ghost: heres my list of the top 10! (im from the chicago-land area) First off, all you dallas-houston and toronto-montreal people fighting, shut the hell up. 1.Tokyo, Japan- to me, every picture i see of tokyo looks great.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

skip: art has always been about expression, and this is why most graffiti is plain vandalism.writing a tag and some crew under it has no expression.there are a few graffiti artists that used/use expression. heres......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

Pat Bolton, nee Gillet: Hi Cyril, As Norma confirmed, Eric Bolton was my late husbands(John)cousin. He lived in Mond Road, and was the son of Joe and Emmy Bolton.His father Joe had a serious accident while in the army......

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

Peter: eg: for real. any info you have/get, send it my way. i promise ill seek out any locations youre interested in and send photos/info your way. im down in that area often. try to get......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

Fred, The.: I'll agree that there are still alot of good people here with good hearts beating in them and it is a shame that they're not more visible.. There sure are alot of able bodied welfare......

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

Padre Island: I graduated from HCC in the late 70's, back when Hutchinson still had somewhat of a downtown. I remember our business law class one day invited the Pres. of the Hutch Chamber to come speak.......

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

Young Hippie: You all assume that I live in Hutchinson. I have the misfortune of having family there. I live in Florida myself. I have since I graduated college. The Young Hippie name has nothing to do......

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

jack: sorry about the health care problem there, i am on medicare now but all my working years i paid over $400 a month for my health plan, it was the best, when i had open......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

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......

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

Anonoymous: I will try to be succinct with my words. The symbols, ideology, artwork, whatever you prefer to call it serves one grand purpose, and this purpose, I will reveal in the conclusion of this......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Jeanne: I remember the charlotte rousses too. They were my reward for going shopping with my mother. But I got mine on Pitkin Ave. Does anyone remember the wonderful, old world out-door market......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Paul R Taylor : In its heyday Liverpool was the richest city in the world and was the gateway to Europe, Asia, Australia, south America, north America and the world. The River Mersey, the Irish Sea......

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

From the "Other" Generation: I wasn't at the demonstration so I'm not prepared to take one side over the other. That said, I know this!! The police have been tasked with a thankless function. The more......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

Cloned Prince: I wrote a Parkour Rap! Things just aint the same for todays traceurs, Cops and pigs want to see us in handcuffs Yamakasi and the Belle are aging, The old traceurs, well they're all changing, Making way for new......

in response to: Parkour Trip to Lisses by Ben Nuttall

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......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

Former Salt Hawk: I read this multitude of comments with bemusement, shock and sorrow. I was born and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and, like the old familiar Neil Young lyric, "All my memories are there". ......

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

Cay: Chris: Please listen to the most wonderful advise from Tony above. He's the example of positive change, of the empowerment of self that I referred to. In addition, there are many people that you......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

VVW: I live on the Aquila Housing developement, which used to be MOD Aquila. Your articles are exellent and very interesting. I believe my house is situated on the site of the X-ray block. I have......

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

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......

in response to: Did You Bring Protection ? by joey

2less2: it's to bad that you guys haven't taken the time to see the actual truths as they relate Las Vegas and all you've managed to find fault with. first, one of the biggest reasons the......

in response to: Viva Las Vegas, Part 1 by aer suzuki

Eric: Wow, what a thread! I've always been amazed at peoples attitudes toward peeing. Unfortunately, it's something that every living human does. We don't breath or blink in private. The age old myth that washing......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

todd from kansas: It looks to me there are some extreme generalizations in the photos. Almost trying to make these towns look much worse than they really are. I grew up in Kansas City. Have driven all through......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

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......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Someone who's moved Chicago and moved back to Belleville: Where you live is what you make of it! I lived in Chicago for about two years when I was in my early 20's and found it nothing like everyone talks. Sure I was......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

February 6, 1958 United players killed in air disaster: The Munich air disaster took place on February 6, 1958, when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany.......

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

suzb: A friend of mine has been invited to an HA party ( he works with the HA who invited him). With 2 purposes; 1) to check out joining and 2) to get his 14......

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

karlo: By the way,What you see here are murals,not grafitti. As some-one already pointed out,grafitti is usually carried out by just about anyone with a spray can or bucket of paint with the sole intention of splashing......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

mike and ash: the best best ride in the world in the best best province in canada!!! u get soaked!!!!!!!!!! beware.....

in response to: Le Splash! by EvilGentleman

anon (cache-ntc-ab09.proxy.aol.com): trust me hells angels are worse than people think. they are good at pr public realitions. they put on a good show but the public dont know the truth.its the downward spiral of stupidity......

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

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: My grandmother's aunt and her husband, Jack McMullen raised my grandmother through most of her childhood. My grandmother was 100% Mohawk, but was raised to love both Mohawk and Irish culture. Uncle Jack was a......

in response to: Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-Wow 2006 by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Nah, I'm just a guy who likes to take lots of pictures and post them on the internet, sharing the world I see with others, using my preference for a comprehensive photojournalistic presentation style. I......

in response to: Sexe Cite by EvilGentleman

Manoj: So here we go... what was supposed to be a topic about cheap sex and stuff has turned into a debate on racism... and further worse - apartheid! Well, having lived for 2 years now in......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

Mike Woolf: I grew up in the '50s in Boscombe Avenue in Barton. I remember the Power Station very vividly. You could see it across the MSC and I distincly remember the fading camouflage paint on both......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

joey: i find in my approach to photography i look for a contrast of the urban and natural worlds. in this photo for example, i see the natural distortion of the tree branch in contrast to......

in response to: Golden Temple by joey

Hunter : I am not under the impression that any of these murals were intentionally dictated to Leo Tanguma by some elite agency. Instead, I think he may have been picking up on some type of a......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: This interaction regarding Bushwick, while interesting, is lacking in an understanding of the history of the community, specifically its course and development in Kings County (not Brooklyn) from its chartering in the 1600s, its emergence......

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

artM: Where to start? Planes can't get high enough to see the "largest Nazi symbol on American soil"? Of course they can. This diagram (or even aerial photos) of the runway layout can......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

anon (localhost): Hi Gerry If you press the upload photos which i guess you did. Then a page will open that reads upload photo,s. Then press Browse. Then find the Picture you what to upload in (your)My pictures. Then press upload. If the......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

l'il mosquevite: Did you get a picture of the shawarma? Heard it was the world's biggest but I can't translate that from what I am used to at my local Halal place. I guess if you chickened out, as......

in response to: Camels on Yonge Street by Biff

.nanotech.: [[img:18501]] NAZI REGIME.911.REICHSTAG - parliament of Germany [[img:18502]] Even the location was a deliberate attempt to conceal it by constructing it in Denver Colorado's 1 mile high mountain area, knowing that planes flying at a maximum altitude will......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

BDweller: My friend Mike graduated from JHS 111 in the early seventies. It had already acquired a rough reputation by then, as I recall. Like Pierre said, the gang/thug threat was present. All......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * 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,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

barry: in response to that,there are so many varying and contrating viewpoints of 'the troubles' it's impossible to categorise what has happened into one master answer,instead we must understand the plethora of viewpoints interwoven into a......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I've got a bunch of "the Whistler" on my iPod (bought from a link on boingboing). And I was just listening to "War of the Worlds" by Mercury theatre. Fantastic....

in response to: Signal Gasoline by fuzzytank

Brian : Hi, As a London boy I am ashamed to say that I did not know where the Pearlys came from until I came across the story of Henry Croft today. I've followed up a number of sites......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Anthony: I live near Denver International Airport and have been there many, many times and have seeked out and found everything mentioned here and then some. I first heard about the DIA conspiracies a few......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Jon Dominguez: "... and take back what used 2 b ours we should not be the minorities anymore we got black and brown teaming up we both are minorities we both have struggling histories we should take......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

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......

in response to: Adler, 12th St. Beach and the Former Meigs Field by procyon

Cleveland: It's safe to say that at the rate things have been changing for quite sometime now,we knew Cabrini would not last very much forever.Its kind of hard not having any resentment toward the city and......

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

p.o.ed person from belleville: ok now i agree with nick belleville is not as boring as they are trying to make it sound.there is fun food and places to hang out. we have the worlds fastist half mile dirt......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

jack: yes these are great finds and interesting. some of that architecture is from another world when our grandparents were not even born yet. i like the mail delivery, its true the mail will......

in response to: General Accident & Other Buildings in Philly by GGP

I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I agree with you Rich. I would love to live in a world where people can coexist peacefully along side one another. All I am saying is that most people make generalizations of people based......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: yeah, peter is from brooklyn, like me, and we are uncivilized, according to british standards, because as a nation we had lost that victorian elegence and charm. when we broke away from our mother......

in response to: Timeless Grace by Guy McLaren

Ringo: Susannah, I'm the kind of person who believes in live and let live, I disagree that we all worship something, I don't count myself as knowing whether or not there is a god or god's.......

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

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

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

rev roger: i think alot of you people take yourselfs way to fucking seriously its like being in high school all over again,jealousy over who is making money and whos not in the art biz.fuck.. for once......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

jack: WELL NOW, A TRIP TO THE PAST...the last time i was at the fair was when it was in it's actuality. it was in full bloom, you kids should have seen it. it......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

Mike: I like how you didnt even actually go into town...at all. But stayed about 4 miles outside of town to take a picture of an old run down light factory and a warehouse and claim......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 12 by Scott Sargent

Andrew Smith: Shit, no, I mean you saved our butts in World War 2. Cheers, you cunts....

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Andrew Smith: No I'm not - we saved your butts in World War 2....

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

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......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: The listing was removed. How much were they asking? The youtube link was quite interesting. Thanks, Jamie. Thanks also for the support. The America quote is cryptic, but is fine with me. Just in case my remarks......

in response to: Banksy Rocks! by EvilGentleman

Karlo: Ok ok,now you ARE funny. 'Loyalists the world over'.... Oh,you mean your support groups such as Combat 18 (for those who dont know,C18 is a 100% Nazi organisation..18 stands for the 1st and 8th letters of the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

A Volunteer: Reading some of these comments makes me laugh. The PIRA gave up the struggle. AS you PROVOS know. Proper ones . Not foot soldiers. You joined up to unite Ireland and swore to remain an......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: I have to translate this. It's just too much to resist. 가장 큰exsqisite, 나는 말해야 한다! 여기 모든에EvilGentleman포획은 이것 이다: 1 - 감시는 시간외에 하고 있다. 2 - 그의 할아버지 새로운 틀이를 얻기 위하여 농부는 도시로 가고 있다. 3......

in response to: Busan, Part Three by chiamattt

karlo: Shamie,if you profess to be a Republican,then why ape the people you say are your enemies? 'Fuck the shankill' is not a part of the Republican agenda,yet people like yourself only serve to feed the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Nick: I'm embaressed by the number of stupid Brits here who have come looking for an arguement, by slagging off the US in the most derogatory, assinine way possible. I'm a Brit and I also *shock......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

shelia/neworleans : It seems to me you pretty much know what it is you want to do. So... don't ask questions that you already know the (your) answer. No I don't think they should rebuild "public housing"......

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

nanci: Great pics. Still live in tarrytown would not give it for the world. What a shame they had to close the plant down, made the town die too but like all we survived and the......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Maria Latore: British people who complain about America need to get something through their heads. First, Britain was the original mega-power who everyone hated. Just because we kicked your ass in the revolutionary war and because......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Chris Erb: Thank you for all the kind words EvilGentleman, they have really brightened my day! I know things can change drastically as you get older but I have no real desire to return to the Maritimes in......

in response to: A Poor Puppeteer by Marlo

JG to AH: Report from the front 2006. Looks like our new plans are working mein Fuhrer. Now with America destroyed it won't be long before the whole of the free world is obliterated again once and for all!!! ......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Patrick McMahon: Its ha tobe the Irish inme. Aye,aim part o irish but more oft the roman in me. Hackneyed as I am, wot wid the Mohican of bakyard descent, I find it difficult not to......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

anon (c-69-249-66-117.hsd1.nj.comcast.net): Pat: I heard stories of Plum Beach from my family. who said they could only get to and from it in their Model T at low tide. My grandparents (2nd generation), father (born 1910)......

in response to: Plum Beach by kc

Bayer: Staten Island also had a large german presence. After the World War, many of staten Island's german neighborhoods were renamed anglican names; including streets such as victory Boulevard. Also, two skinheads pulled up to our......

in response to: Quite Possibly the Worst Layout for a Hospital, Ever by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

EvilGentleman: Yes indeed, it was hard at first, but once bag-tagging was taken to hand, a good stiff competition soon developed. One great prospect after another would rise to the forefront, only to be sacked shortly......

in response to: Montreal Police Bicycle by EvilGentleman

monster: norman oklahoma, just so you know, is the home of the flaming lips, the starlight mints, mainsite contemporary art, opolis productions and forward foods, just to name a few things. Not to forget the university......

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