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Joe F: Hi Laura ! RE: "my" 3rd Ave EL PHOTO ! I enjoyed reading your Yorkville memories as an ex 1940's-60's Yorkville-ite myself. It would have been appropriate and nice for me to also have been given ME......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Eleanor: Have read this article many times and I'm pleased to see it is still drawing comments. NewYorkDave ... you said you were on Bushwick Buddies but left because of the "right-wing" politics ... You're probably right......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Irene Ferguson Maltman: I was born in Govan (Helen's St.) in 1940. Would love to find the Calderheads who lived upstairs also Margaret Gray. I went to Govan High. Also,I was a member of the Celtic Ballet......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

Bob Salmon: Hi James Cashan Do you have a relative or know of a person called Vincent Cashan? He would have been born around the early to mid 1940s, if so I would like news of him as......

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

anon (stjhnbsu83w-156034156021.nb.aliant.net): grew up in fredericton on the highland avenue in the 1940 great place nice city...

in response to: Northside Fredericton by CE

sonnet: I grew up on Cambria St near Emerald in the 1940's and went to Willard School. My grandparents had a store on Kensington Ave and lived above the store. The el roared by......

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

Bob Salmon: I remember three, (I think), Dr Walkers. A Dr Walker had a practice near Albert Street Cadishead in the 1940s and 1950, (he delivered me) after that I remember a Dr Laurie, then a younger Dr......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Herb Holland: I grew up in Ithaca. B.1924. Grad IHS 1940. Then to Cornell. Then WW II. Back to Cornell. Worked for a short time at Ithaca Gun in 1950. Left Ithaca. Lived south hill first, then......

in response to: Ithaca Is Gorgeous! by Peter

cyril bagshaw: Hi Norma, Very sorry to hear the loss of your husband...we hope you too have good family and friends around you. As for snow in Adelaide, the nearest we got to it was a few......

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Joanne, Perhaps you think of Janet FOWLER who had metal braces on her legs from the polio outbreak in the late 1940's, I believe 9 such people [babies/youngsters] from the Cadishead/Irlam area survived polio and......

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

Marje Givens-Eames: What a wonderful site for Irlam/Cadishead and what memories, many I had forgotten. I remember Goodiers living in the house on Ferry Road/Boat Lane. We lived in Gerrards Close and our house backed onto......

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

EvilGentleman: The first picture is very close to my grandparents' old apartment, which was at the corner of Water and Fulton. Of course, Fulton is now known as either Old Fulton or Cadman Plaza West, but......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

Bob Salmon: Anne I do not know what the church was that was on Lord Street adjacent to the graveyard, but I remember that it was a school for the children of the members of the Wesleyan Chapel......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Jana: These memories are wonderful! I'm hoping someone here can help me with some research. Does anyone have memories of a racketeer being murdered in Brooklyn in Sept. 1941? It was big headlines.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Jim QV: I used to work with a guy named Al Sorbello and I remember him saying he grew up around Starr St, Troutman St and Knickerbocker Ave. He said he was born there in the late......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Ezera: I think that Elsie R. Kane was the Principal at PS 241 during the 1940???...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Gregory Brent: Wonderful. Montreal is so livable! In the third photo, the building complex with the green roofs in the left foreground is Ravenscrag, home of Sir Hugh Allan of Allan Lines Shipping Co. It is sadly......

in response to: Mont-Royal Park by CE

Fontno: The first three cars are as follows: Pontiac Trans Am, Buick Electra 225 and the Beaumont. The next picture is a custom 1940 willys pickup. Can't see what is in back Possibly Chevy Delivery. The next is......

in response to: Classic Cars 6 - The Rest by EvilGentleman

9400: How can Norman be boring? This is the place that Barry Switzer and his gang of highly-paid football players terrorized the streets for years. Can someone say Uzi on a balcony?...

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

Beadle and Tatum: http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/images/congrat1a.jpg Its a hand written rambling note about the Sex Pistols calling the mueseum a "piss stain". There was some pettitioning and a USA today poll that helped locate the hall. I did some research, this is the......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

dubside: Nice double-sticker action. And more cynical than this Nike kicks stencil: [[http://www.23hq.com/dubside/photo/1077940/view-large]]...

in response to: Nike: Don\'t Do It by groovehouse

procyon: wow, that looks like a 1940's spaceship dash...

in response to: On the Bus by sine

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

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

C.: Anyone seen Waydowntown? [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219405]] I've gotten lost in the +15 numerous times. It's always fun to explore though....

in response to: You\'re in Calgary When... by ksedge

EvilGentleman: As far as I know, the block you are referring to (the north side of Sainte-Catherine between Lambert-Closse and de Chomedy) has closed down simply due to the fact that the Forum closed in 1996,......

in response to: Goodbye, Streetcar Rails by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I wish I knew a safe way to patent ideas without risking the idea being stolen. I have so many ideas for neat inventions, but I am so afraid to take the big step. jack, it......

in response to: The Future Einstein\'s? by Elicar

EvilGentleman: I noticed that non-Latin alphabet characters seem to cause problems with the formatting for the main posts, but since I have seen them in the comments area without too much trouble, I hope this will......

in response to: Babelfishing by EvilGentleman

Glenn: I live in new york city and wear my mullet proudly,it is the perfect haircut!why would anyone want to wear a short 1940's monotonous,boring haircut and be a clone of every other guy......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

Jamie: [[img:4662]] **[[1940:Brick Lane, E1]]**...

in response to: Look out Lady! by Myke

Dick Larregui: One of seven brothers & sisters all born and raised during and after the depression years on Main Street, downtown Brooklyn which at that time ran beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. It was bordered between Fulton,......

in response to: Prospect Heights: by Peter

elaine: i like the liony thing and the way the bird has stripped down to it's scull, but it's feathers are intact, makes it look like a costume from a max ernst kindofa thing [[http://www.antrodellasibilla.it/images/ernst_max_lavestizdellasposa_1940.jpg]] and of......

in response to: Roadkill by kc

Peter: exactly. thats why its so lame. notice the "edited" white house roof... [[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washington+dc&ll=38.897287,-77.036680&spn=0.004331,0.007940&t=k&hl=en]]...

in response to: Google Sightseeing by indykid

elaine: hee heee hee. the girl in the coat has a 1940's look about her, is she your lovely assistant from a noir? i like the bloke in shot 24 for some reason as well. the......

in response to: Trump Taj Mahal by vz

hasslehoff: The original caves of Lascaux, in {France}, discovered in 1940 by a dog named Robot, contain some of the earliest known art, dating back to between 13,000 and 15,000 BC. A replica of two of the......

in response to: Lascaux by vz

silly taidghs!: Report on Bogus Police Bust Stuns Ireland ...

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Peter: This is writing of a high calibre; I'm glad to see you posting here, and I hope you continue to do so. On a tangent, my writings about the morning bus ride: 1, 2...

in response to: wolverhampton by matt blackcustard