Thursday, March 6th 2008

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Nick: Its too bad, because these look like great houses. I wonder who owns them and if they would be willing to sell them.

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angie: i found this website after seeing a documentary in spain. i think the cathedral is amazing and would love to visit it. Don Justo, usted y la catedral estan estupendo.

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colavitos ghost: whoa, that building is really evil.

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Graham Kingsley: I have discovered quite recently, possibly in the last couple of days that Adelaide Cricket Club have become a Internet Service Provider and competing on the world stage. It does show that the Australians are not hiding behind the American technology and are now going it alone. If you...

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iman: listen to the sign

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blank responder: Don't put yourself in the same catagory as Tex. He has something worthwhile to say,while you dont. You just go around posting what other people have posted,then act like its you who is so smart,when it isnt.You need to devote more of your time to your failing business and not...

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jeeff: "block-busting" is a little different than what you describe, and probably not exactly what went on here. in the US, real estate agents would leave pamphlets and things in target neighbourhoods warning that minorities (blacks) were going to move in and depress the property values. the pamphlets worked...

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Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril I didn't hear about the lightning strike it must have been frightening. You have a good memory. Do you cope with the heat out there? We get a couple of hot days in summer and struggle with the heat we are just not used to it. Do you...

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma Whiskins in Twenty Row were in business there from about the 1930 or so.I lived just across the road in the old cottages, and as a child my mother would send me for 2 ozs of ham or potted meat to "Beattie Whiskins". I had to watch the road...

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Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): YES Norma. My Mum and Dad bought *whiskins* off Brian Atkinson in late 1970. We owned it for 10 years. We also owned a grocers ( not green grocers) next door, and sold it to Peter who turned it into a boutique which was known...

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Rob: I've read that developers engaged in "block-busting" in the 1950s in that area, buying as many houses as they could and then boarding them up. The idea behind this was to kill the neighbourhood and buy the rest of it for cheaper, before constructing St. Jamestown - which was designed...

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Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Phew, I can finally get back in, it will take days to catch up on all the news... I remembered that my Mum used to work at a bakery in Irlam when I was little. She said it was from 1964-1969, and was called Whiskins, on 20 row. I...

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xREDx: just went to the wall today...some crazy stuff...but if you follow that road that is right on the river on to the other side of the cty over by trigen there is an abandon train house or something it is awesome in side there some great places to take pictures...

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CASH_ONE: Cope is one of the sickest writers in the world. He is A TRUE WRITER!!

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serlingrod: never been to L.A. I’ve heard it pretty much all looks like this...

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