Thursday, August 23rd 2007

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firecraker: we love our vultures in cleveland. they live in the terminal tower and help keep our pigeon population in check. great shots. the first one is my favorite.

in response to De Tocqueville Was Here

James Oxley: sweet photos - is this anywhere near Aughakillymaude? The only refs I can find are for the mummers (bless em) - my family's from there and these are the first actual photos I've seen of the lough.

in response to Upper Lough Erne.

jack: i as on the howdy doody show in 1947 or 48 i forget, i was a member of the peanut gallery then i was on the old farmer grey show which was sponsered by cott beverages, if its cott its got to be good. yeah clarabel was a riot,...

in response to Bodega Heads

jack: thank you wally, my great-grandfather was one of the workers on that bridge and he also worked on the battery tunnel, roebling has a town named after him, roebling new jersey where his wire factory was set up and still is there. perhaps someone could take a ride down...

in response to Brooklyn Bridge and World Trade Center

colavitos ghost: the light is indeed interesting in those last two shots; they were taken during a brief period of filtered sunlight before a flood-inducing downpour...

in response to Most Holy Theotokos, Save Us!

Pep: you are completely right, Eric. I even think about trade some for my own city. I assure, it's much worse the smell and walk over one hundred "urinary discharges" spreading over the street.

in response to Public Urinals: Amsterdam

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 bakeries. miss thoesthoseday's.my mother owned the news stand on the corner of knickerbocker and dekalb....

in response to Winter in Brooklyn reminds me of spring in Moscow

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 but i had so many fights with pharoah i had to avoid him growing up,...

in response to henry horner projects

jay: "Let's start with some decent ones?" Your "special" art (the three at the top)... ? Thats nothing more than a big "tag", that's nothing! shit you just write your name bigger than the rest of us, all that represents is a bigger ego.

in response to PDX graffiti like ummm...

Miss LALA LAND: Hutchinson has plenty of people that want to plant flowers and join church groups. That has nothing to do with the bad economy. That is the biggest problem this town has. How about a christian group to attract a large employer? Or a Christian Group to get people off their...

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

Dave Smith Email Shedfull@aol.com: Hi all: Our Family lived in Cadishead from 1949 to 1963 in Dean Road fairly well known The Smith boys. Your photographs were great and brought back lots of Childhood memories.My mate Leslie underline got a Splinter in his !!!! when he slid down the Banister to the Irlam...

in response to Irlam, Manchester

hool: thanks. canon. good to get back out in the streets again.

in response to August 22 2007 Toronto

little ukraine: It's not - I'm originally from Long Island and I live in Queens now. I was out visiting a friend in Cleveland.

in response to De Tocqueville Was Here

CartLegger: Great adventures in the city! Is this where you hail from?

in response to De Tocqueville Was Here

lkm: This is great!

in response to Tokyo Architecture

Peter: it was odd... apparently, the guy in line ahead of me, who was purchasing the beer and pack of napkins, had brought them in to show them to the guy behind the counter for some reason. i tried to catch bits of their conversation, but unfortunately, i dont know much...

in response to Bodega Heads

Fran: I grew up on Rorer St and Tioga during the 50's until 77. What a wonderful place to be raised. That big white parking garage building was not there and when the circus trains came into town you could see them. Philco allowed the circus to use the...

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

little ukraine: i agree, that 5th shot is awesome.

in response to August 22 2007 Toronto

little ukraine: WOW this is amazing. i don't think i'd have been able to resist that Laurel & Hardy set. they remind me of statuettes my grandparents used to have in the basement of their old house.

in response to Bodega Heads

serlingrod: yeah, it's fun sitting in the back with the levers and gauges. I could tell with the way the local kids were behaving that it was the "cool" seat.

in response to Route 45

Miss Positive.: Those who live in Hutch need to help change Hutch. What can you do to make Hutchinson a better place? Can you volunteer to plant flowers on a street corner? Can you volunteer to arrange a group to pick up street trash? Can you get a Christian group to help paint someone's...

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

serlingrod: these must be collectors items....there's no way they were manufactured in the last 50 years.

in response to Bodega Heads

serlingrod: this is a great picture. what building was it taken from?

in response to One August Morning

gigi: beautiful...i wish i was there...

in response to brooklyn botanic garden : april 19, 2005

Editor:: chris: see right above the box where you type your comments where it says "upload photos"? click that. more information here, also: www.citynoise.org/about.php#faq8

in response to My House in Bushwick

Peter: those "knaack" boxes look like strongboxes they use to store tools in at construction sites and whatnot... www.knaack.com/jobsite_storage_e . . . equipment/tool_chests.php great photo!

in response to Dumpster Grid

Peter: ahh, i remember the flipping wooden bench seats!

in response to Route 45

John Doe Jr.: That is some of the problem. the PRISON! Hutchinson is a great place for convicts.

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

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 will meet in positions to help you along the way; teachers, people at work that...

in response to My House in Bushwick

tracy clark nee leonard: ive just found out my dad was born and lived on this street for years he was born 1925. how kool is that.

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

JT: totally agree with jack....couldn't have said it better really

in response to Fruits of Our Labor

chiamattt: I will stay at 600px wide. I was just being a dick because im good at it

in response to July 30 2007 Toronto

chiamattt: 3rd, 5th, and 8th shots are wicked awesome dude. splendid. Canon or Mamiya?

in response to August 22 2007 Toronto

Tony T: Chris, thanks for posting the Freedom Square pict. I grew up a block away on Evergreen and Willoughby. I'm 42 now and live in Japan, but I still enjoy looking at old photos of where I lived. When I was about your age, I wrote a paper about Bushwick and...

in response to My House in Bushwick

joey: yes, we went to see the 'tree'. to pay homage. it was kind of alien in a way.

in response to Silver Tree

procyon: mmm, now this stuff looks familiar. i think my aunt might know the people who live in the very purple house, but i might be thinking of a different very purple house. i remember being about 13 and reading in the plain dealer that some city councilman or something actually...

in response to Most Holy Theotokos, Save Us!

Chris Rodriguez: how do u post pix

in response to My House in Bushwick

Chris Rodriguez: i found those pix freedom square...

in response to My House in Bushwick

Chris Rodriguez: i KNOW THE HISTORY OF BUSHWICK... i know the history of brooklyn, of all of new york. i wrote a 10 page essay on bushwick for school. Im not saying im a know every single little thing but seriously when i got walking down bushwick and i see freedom square...

in response to My House in Bushwick

lkm: Can't stop the b-ROC!

in response to Bel Graffiti

suki: just as an update one of them is an 2003 specialized bighit Dh and the other is a 2004 specialized hardrock pro with 24" wheels

in response to A Picture of My Bike

lkm: I like it! More!

in response to Pretty Crimes

CartLegger: Classic image that is there. Were they in use or "out to pasture"?

in response to Dumpster Grid

Metro otb mafia: dondi has been my biggist inspirations in graffit and art in general. I painted a canvas that hangs in his mothers home in brooklyn today..He was hands down the greatist artist ever in my opinion..This is a black book sketch i did recently..

in response to Dondi: NYC King

joey: aer: we had a wonderful visit.

in response to Did You Bring Protection ?

tom: Does this wall go all around the West Bank? I thought it was just between Israel and the West Bank. Does it go along the Jordanian border as well? Are the Palestinians totally surrounded, like the West Berliners were? That's awful.

in response to the world\'s largest open prison

anon (165.84.1.71): Banksy is the shit! The puppet masters will want to squash this kind of expression but they forget they bombard us with their crap non-stop, theres no escape! Go hard brotha

in response to the world\'s largest open prison

Belroc:

in response to Bel Graffiti

Belroc: Yep.. Priceless........

in response to Dondi: NYC King

joe: thats a bad ass dondi replica!

in response to Dondi: NYC King

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