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Tyfoid Kid: and that could be, I don't know. We (like a lot of places I think) like to make tenuous connections to the famous. Someone can have a beer at the airport and once...... Anonymous Honest Tax paying citizen of Fredericton: This is yet another example of how much the fredericton police are a bunch of uneducated airheads, typical protests and offenses most cities in canada wouldnt be bothered with or treat with less scrutiny...... Peter: Ryan: i hate chemical spills (this is more of a chemical spill than an "oil spill") as much as the next guy, but just for the record, its not the "largest oil spill in history"......... serlingrod: I don't think I paint a rosy picture of Kensington at all. If you read what I wrote I actually said there's lots of crime, disinvestment, and the schools are broken. Those were my words....... 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...... Me: Re to Tex and Peter
I would post pics here,but I do not know how.Maybe I can get my 17 year old to do it for me,but she is usually too busy,like many other folks here...... Tex: I'll post a picture, this is Memorial Hall Convention Center.
This is the building that the city spent over 2.2 million to fix up and still can't be used because it can only seat...... hugglez924: I have lived in Hutchinson nearly all my life and it is a wonderful place to live and raise a family. My children are grown and dont plan on moving to any other town....... anon (itsc083.itsnpt.com): East Orange is only an address. It's the people who are the products of young parents who have little education and poor parenting skills that have made the places in East Orange unsafe. ...... serlingrod: luna, your pic inspired me to seek out more in center city. here's what I found.
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10th & Market
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15th & Chestnut
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8th & Ranstead
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12th & Market
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Broad & Sansom
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11th &...... serlingrod: ha, this looks like most of SEPTA once you leave center city. at least MTA cleans every once in awhile! ... Stolen while I worked... Curses!: Hello this was my bike.
Scott FB60 Speedster - Black, Grey, Gunmetal, 24 spd, 23c tires
It was stolen between 5-7 on Thursday, May 30, 2008.
In front of the University of Toronto Athletics Center,...... luna park: yes, this was on south street, sadly the only one i found. i had a feeling there might be more in center city, but i didn't have time to walk around there as well.... crystal palmer: The henry horner reunion will be held at union park on 7/26/08.t-shirt are being sold for $10.00 regular size 2x 3x 4x 5x for 12.00 contact Anthony Wolf, Crystal Palmer, or Dwayne Tart for shirts....... James cashan: hello, me again
Re: john boardman, was thinking pics of hollins green and glazebrook should be included on this site as as a youngster hollins green felt part of the whole local tapestry to...... janet: How terrific is this! Alma, I do remember the knish place, but it was across Utica Avenue from the movie house (which from time to time we affectionately called "the Itch"). I didn't buy knishes...... Eric from Port Richmond: A Richmond boy with a few comments.
Its NOT just Kensignton that took a turn for the worst in the area.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s in Port Richmond. The neighbors would sit...... David L. Drogin: My mother had an aunt and two uncles living on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue (next to the Lubavicher Synagogue), and my paternal grandmother lived across Eastern parkway. We visited all the...... Nobody: Leaving the addicts, thieves & general POS'S to pray on themselves?
They have those sorts of communities in NYC. Theyre called Projects.
Projects, incidentally, were originally supposed to be these sorts of community-centered entities that you're daydreaming...... saul altman: i wonder where the city of New York will build the next death town just like the one they created in Coney? They just don't get it, we need to build a community where all...... SH*THOUSE: Well the animal shelter was meant to stop the killing of so many animals, however that fat pig running the place would rather kill than even think about adopting. They are building an information center,...... GuRu: The Do-ers are the ones wreckin the place! and i dont just mean the ones doin meth either. ever wonder why city council got thier butts audited? HHHMMMMMMMMM, i wonder????? Latest example is that dirty...... Louise R. March 30th 2008: Hello!
I'm working in this shopping center. I work for a chiropractor who's situated on top of Tim Horton. The first chiropractor ''Dr Pierre Paquin, chiropractor'' opened his practice in 1950 and Dr Carl...... 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...... mary graham: grew up in kensington, went to st. hughs parish elementary school, then attended little flower highschool for girls, enjoyed Wagners ballroom. graduated 1970, then moved away. i remember the magic of christmas in kensington, christmas...... 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...... EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them.
If you look at the comments in the...... D.Bennett: Damn it`s like every time get on here i see a new paragraph about someone who has died from the hornets and often someone i new like (tony Wood aka Nuke i...... Laura Wynne: I really like that last one, too. It's shot from the corner of Center St. and Hester, and the camera is facing northwest. It was taken just a few minutes before a snowstorm, and the...... GuRu: This town is like americas butthole. If there was something to actually do in town, maybe it wouldnt be so bad. LIke, say, reopen the teen center. That might cut down on the crime, and...... Re: Cody: Sounds like you're pretty self centered. As long as everything is fine for you and your family and business, that's all that counts isn't it? What about all the underprivileged people in your...... 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...... Vicki: I grew up in Kensington (Coral and Clearfield) or Coral and Elkhart...block down from Frankford Ave. I went to Mastbaum for HS, Conwell for Middle and Williard for Elementary. I have many great...... serlingrod: Standard Tap is great - the same owners operate Johnny Brenda's up in Fishtown. There definitely is a development gap between Old City and Northern Liberties though, with I-95 running along the waterfront and 676...... Achiever: I like living in Hutchinson; however, it has shrunk. When my family moved here in 1980 there were more than 50,000 residents in the city, not the whole county. Because of our wonderful city government,...... Ken: What are you people talking about? Kensington (at least parts of it) are getting better not worse, there are many great things going on here and I am offended by some of the comments that...... Peter: nice {diesel} passat... i like the last one, too... birdcages, tech trash, lawn chairs... im imagining people just dump stuff outside the donation center there, yeah? the {salvation army} in my old hood had an...... HutchGrrl: I'm from Hutchinson and I can spell! I graduated from HHS in 2001. I don't know anyone from my graduating class who chose to stay in town. Hutchinson is adorable. Many...... riana: I moved here in 1989 and if you people hate Jacksonville now you would of really hated it back then, there was really nothing to do, and everyone here talked funny. Ive seen it grow...... Alfred: "Old bastards" - I'm 26. Maybe young people in this city should learn to take enjoyment from simple things like taking a stroll at Dillon Nature Center or listening to non-commericial, uninterupted classical music on...... Alfred: I live in Hutchinson, and I knew this article was pure propaganda right when I saw the photos. The first photo is of an entrance gate to the State Fairgrounds, which the author describes as...... birdy[kirstiem92@gmail.com]: Kay, first off, if you would have gone a tiny bit further down Main Street Scott, you would have found Sooner Fashion Mall.
Or you could have continued going down Interstate 45 headed towards Moore,...... K Teesdale: Growing up in Kensington, I knew I had to get out. The social environment was not one to be taken lightly. I learned everything I need to survive growing up in Kensington. I walked. I...... Bob: The Hutchinson, KS haters amuse me. I'm sure some of them have lived in other cities, some have attested to it in their diatribes. However it seems that they are either young or...... Rael O.: Yes! This is one of my favourite buildings ever... did you know back in the 80s you could still walk through it? It has the most amazing echo if you stand in the center. Me...... EvilGentleman: I still come back and look over this article every once in a while. This time, I followed a link on Wikipedia leading here.
The memories have begun to fade, yet that last shot, the one...... Rael OneCloud: Yes! This is one of my favourite buildings ever...
did you know back in the 80s you could still walk through it?
It has the most amazing echo if you stand in the center. Me and...... Someone Who Made it Out: I lived in Hutchinson for the majority of my adolescent life. By the time I had reach the 8th grade at Sherman back in 1999-2000, I had already become a product of which Hutch has...... Dick: The neighborhood during the early 40's was fabulous. PS 241 on President Street was new. In the schoolyard, softball center & right field were along the fence to the BMT trench. A home run hit...... Sheldon Hollis: well if u ask me why are they tearing down so much projects i feel and i belive some of the projecvts are bad like state way gabrini green and some of robert taylors but...... thelinebetween: This ad is for the Ali Forney Center, a shelter for homeless and at risk gay youth. The ad is there to highlight the all too frequent occurrence of a young person coming out of...... KG: Neglected doesn't apply to Lower NDG. The city councillor is the mayor's brother and it has benefited from that connection, as witnessed by a $4 million new community center, St. James has been totally rebuilt,...... 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...... misty: I like the pics they are awsome.I agree you should get some of the morgue,I love anything that involves paranormal or haunted this would be a cool place to go.How
ever here in salem oregon where...... jack: 123 people saw these 19 wonderful pic's and not one comment, my goodness what are we thinking here, i found each one a wonderland of memories, i worked and played on those very streets from...... Elicar: The two towers in Glorietta is the Ascott Hotel, formerly known as Oakwood Premier Ayala Center. They changed it to Ascott as it was the site of the "Oakwood Mutiny" in July 2003. A group...... chiamattt: Thanks adam.
Testeez, I am a Torontonian that has been living and working Seoul, South Korea for the past five years. Every year or so I head to Osaka to get my Korean employment visa...... trip: that abe starks sports center looks more like a county jail or somethin... Tex: And while I'm on my soapbox, It looks like to me that a lot of crime that is committed in Hutchinson is done by the 'elite' members of society.
Here is an example of two of...... Tex: I was born in Hutchinson, Ks. (in fact it was at the Grace Hospital, which is the second picture from the top). Back in the 70's Hutch was a going jessy, vibrant downtown, lots...... John: I grew up in Yorkville as a kid during the 1970s-1980s in "the projects". When I'm in town, I always think of Johnny and Matilda's Candy Store and Soda Shop. It was the center of...... stevie: Get over yourselves! I have lived in Europe, Amsterdam specifically, and over there people are not so prissy. Peeing is part of life. Penises are part of every guy. Trust me, no one there thinks...... HushUp: For the person who thinks that someone should ask the side of the 'Gang Member' on why they shot and killed my son's friend - It's obvious you have no clue what it's like to...... Bass Girl: I love those old photos above! It's good to see Hutch had a good start. I wonder what happened?
I had an interesting visit with a neighbor who has been trying to...... jack: very good, the third picture has a building in the center and it looks like it's winking at us.... Janet Calderon: If you would like to stay posted on when I'll be Launching the Book in Bushwick, feel free to E-mail me at calderoncenter@aol.com and you'll be placed on the "keep me posted, I'll support you"...... HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I...... Frank: For the record, there are two entrances open on Sundays. One is at the south end of Mokom Sholom cemetery (the western strip) and the other is at the north end of Acacia cemetery...... 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...... 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...... BelRoC: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson has the 2nd largest collection of US space memorabilia anywhere and the largest collection of Russian space memorabilia outside the former Soviet Union..
Also has an Amtrak station...... CartLegger: Yeah, I live here one block west of there. Nice being in the center of everything--for now! ... CartLegger: Do you mean the center strip of the cemetery as viewed from google maps?
On the ground, in the bush, this thing has no center. It is all sprawl. It is **huge**, going on for unknown...... joey: i think it's cool that the center is wooded. nice design.... procyon: [[img:21767]]
ratner athletic center, designed by cesar pelli, during a storm yesterday outside my temporary, summertime window. (chicago)... returned_farmboy: I was going to go to all the trouble to refute some claims about Hutchinson made in this post, but then I cam to the realization that: 1) If the author was doing a serious...... salt: Take a moment and notice how many people who hate Hutch kant rite so good and think the town is soooooo boringk. Can you guess why they were/are so bored/boring?
Now, go take a walk in...... Slomo: I used to be a bikemessenger in NYC from 98'-03', almost everyday i had to go to 601 W 26th Street, the actual address of the building, there were guys, mostly russians, they exactly knew...... Tehoke: This picture seems to be taken about 5 blocks west of The Sun Life building, from an upper floor of what is now the Quality Inn on Crescent Street or More likely the building that...... CO-TX: Ok you want some real dirt on denver look: at South Table mountains (west denver) NREL complex it is officaly of solar research station but really a tunnel door (south west corrner of the facility...... joey: you know, not one line is out of place. this could be the center of the {universe}.... EvilGentleman: You may have called them bibles, but I think the other customers there called them "rolling papers". I once watched someone prepare a shipment of hashish for the mail by cutting a large square out...... Scott: Just gotta say, I'm from Dallas and there is no contest between us and Houston...Houston seriously rules. I mean, yeah Dallas is nice, but H-Town's definitely got us beat! (Houstonians are actually a lot friendlier...... EvilGentleman: The old dump site:
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I just realized, you can actually see the hovercraft in this satellite photo! I dunno how long this version will stay online, but it is the yellow dot at the center of...... EvilGentleman: See the trailer home with the aluminum roof located just NW of the triangular intersection at the center of the satellite photo? That's the old KRPF police station where the dice were balanced.
Map: [[http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&t=k&om=1&ll=61.59788,-71.957638&spn=0.002485,0.007231&z=17]]... EvilGentleman: This satellite shot is centered on the relevant block of Sainte Catherine Street. Omid's store was the one located two doors east of the black roof on the N (actually, NW) side of the block....... Amber: I really think that the photos are nice, My sisters aunt died in the world Trade Center in tower 2 on 9/11, but anyways they are nice photos of ground zero. ... aubie: Hutchinson, Kansas is a wonderful place to live the theme is "come share our space" I think it's because we have the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center located on 11th & Plum.
The college is a...... serlingrod: [[img:19661]]
Center City Philadelphia, 2nd floor rear of 2023 Walnut Street.... CartLegger: jack:
I love west side story, and so do my students, todays jets and sharks, struggling for their own little piece of something out here in this new frontier, Bushwick.
I'd love to create a...... Paradox: It's interesting to hear what people think of Brooklyn but overall it's not as bad as it used to be. I'm not saying that crime is all gone but the city has changed a lot....... serlingrod: Jamie, this is not a true representation of Philadelphia as a whole. In addition to Center City, Philly is really a collection of neighborhoods. The area I photographed (Vine to Fairmount from Broad to 9th)...... CartLegger: Straight into the belly of the beast. I did this for you, Citynoise!
The sign may have said "no photos, strictly enforced, but I went in ninja style and with a quick roll on the...... chris : well i meen the shopping center and the whole decarie... iman: man i grew up in sound beach, selden, centereach, rocky point and middle island.... jack: now thats a tree for rockefeller center.... Earnest ( Bubble) Pettis, Crane '68": Well I grew up at Henry Horner at 1920 W. Washington # 606 and like John Bland, a classmate of mine so aptly stated this plan has been in effect for many years due to...... Marc: BJ my guess is the 50s, when Hatley developed the area. Check out "Eanes: Portrait of a Community" by Linda Vance- it came out in 86, contains lots of interviews. I think they have a...... upfromflames: sure did. I always credit others.
Bushwick needs teachers, but most of all it needs teachers that came from here. They understand most what kids need here.
There is always a place open for a person...... 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......
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