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Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Director 9209: Nice pics, but you should keep off the High Line (Notice that it's two words or FO will get you!) because it is a bonafide construction site complete with all the OSHA phobic hazards, and......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

Nick: I am glad I live in a country where I can concrete crushed glass at the top of my fence, or put up razor wire or even add an electric fence overhang to the top......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

jon: I had heard this building was a continual-pour concrete structure, ...maybe the tallest of the kind at the time???...

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Jon Burgess: My Gran lived on Atherton Lane for 50+ years, I always remember the massive bonfires on the bammer throughout the 70's / early 80's. Down the bammer was a newt pond with protected species of......

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

Packer: I lived in Kensington for a number of years with my Dad when my parents split in the early 90's I lived back a coupple blocks from frankford and sommerset on Rush St. many people......

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

Rioteer: Yes, exactly. Which makes one know that it was probably started by drunks, bad apples, or people just ready to unleash some aggression under the pretense of a Hockey Game victory as the game itself......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

CE: I have a friend who recently travelled through Europe for a few months and on a few occasions she said that there were people who were less than pleasant with her because they thought she......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Alright Evil I was a little harsh .... the Americans pretending to be Canadian story gets under my skin ... again I've never hear a serious case of an American pretending to be Canadian (people......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: To Born and Raised in NYC: Sorry to ask, but exactly who made the condescending comments, and which ones in particular are you referring to? I just re-read everything here, and the general vibe I get......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Incredibly condescending comments but coming from a Canadian I'm not surprised. Never judge the majority attitude of any given place by graffiti since the majority population are seldom represented in the sentiment expoused it's usually drawn/written......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Andrew Smith: Here's some photo's contributed by Dom Smith (friend but no relation) - photo's of Irlam in the late 1980's The parade on the estate - butchers on the left, newsagent in the middle (run by Dom's......

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

kim : jim i am shocked never realised things had got that bad, blimey what a carry on. i know the oldens used to have their disagreements but it was never bought into any of the festivals......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Deb Simpkins (Massey): Hi Sheila, the name Crossfield House rings a bell - I know I heard nanna discussing it in the past. I think you may be right! Steve - I lived at 103 Broadway, in the mid......

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

Rob Tynan: Before the "new road" was built through Irlam in the early 1800s Platts brook was open with a bridge over it. The Old Road, going towards Cadishead, went up Boat Lane, down Ferry Road,......

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

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......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Well Elicar, my previous article on this particular location has become something of an online focal point for those who lived there during its heyday, much like Corsatki's {Cabrini Green} articles. Thus, this page is intended......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

julissa: Im From sunset park..the last shot is 38th street..i lived in 37th street.I love sunsetpark...hopefully movin back within 1 year...currently in syracuse ny...i luv pl who appreciate the tru beauty of the concrete jungle....

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

mike: elaine: is that the same as pebbledash? i think pebbledash is applied to a surface just like stucco. i think this is an aggregate concrete that is structural....

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Great pics Marissa, I can't believe the state of Irlam High school............what the????? How do Governments expect children to function to the best of their ability in an unaesthetically pleasing environment such as that? ......

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

Michelle: EvilGentleman - The storms we get nowadays in Toronto are not really severe, nor do they put our city at a standstill like everyone likes to pretend. I think people took advantage of the moderate......

in response to: Snow Day! by Michelle

Rob Tynan: Does anyone remember the concrete octagonal paddling pool in the park at Lords Street Cadishead, and the concrete tunnel. It was always full of glass, I was never allowed near it as a......

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

Karl Daniels (lived here all my life in irlam): The original bandstand, I dont know if this has been said, but the corncrete is still there if you dig your heals in the grass, it runs next to the scateboard ramp to the left......

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

jack: yeah, it looks like a nice building, the old architecture must give way to the newer sleek buildings, i am old architecture, and i have given way to the newer sleeker young buildings that have......

in response to: Viagra Headquarters? by serlingrod

EvilGentleman: Wow! Just wow! Great post, TK. As far as the "20/20 hindsight" inspections of other structures **after** the collapse goes, we have the same thing happening here. After the overpass collapse that killed 5 people in September......

in response to: Bridge Removal by Tyfoid Kid

Jason: Most Canadians are so frighteningly provincial. Regionalism dominates almost every region of the country except maybe Toronto. They cannot compliment themselves without putting someone or thing down from the rest of the country. It's a......

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

EvilGentleman: The art/vandalism debate will go on forever, because both sides are correct. Many graffiti pieces are unquestionably artistic masterpieces. I have seen many pieces that are absolutely mind-boggling, provoke intelligent thought and debate, and are just......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Peter: this was a really nice read, and nicely written. i, for one, always appreciate a nice text entry now and then... you should write more about {toronto}... i agree about how homeless people are often "actively......

in response to: On My Way to Scarborough Yesterday by Michelle

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks guys, how about a few pics ? :) :) Of anything in irlam. Is the large bus shelter at the top of Ferryhill road diagonal from *Culshaws* still there? What about the......

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

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

Rodent: I heard that they had very big rats in the projects, And when you throw food at them to get them to run away and leave you alone, They will grab the food that you......

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

leej: That's just art from one of the warren of crazy maze-like back alley's that has made Melbourne the Southern Hemisphere's answer to Prague. Spare me, your pretentious try-hards....

in response to: Street Art by ninety9lives

brink: yeah im doing graff and wanted to get stareted in wheat pasting can you use posters from magazines to past...

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Helen, Good luck with your graveyard hunting !!!!! I was appalled when I returned there to find that all the graves in the church grounds have been removed (there were lots there when......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

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

Shanghai: no way, i love that place! beautiful concrete i wish i could buy it and turn it into an art space....

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

Country Club Snob: I have always said Hutch is the negative vortex of the world and having lived on both coast I speak with some knowledge of this. I was born & educated here, left for K-state and......

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

EvilGentleman: Maybe all the adjoining homes own the alley, and they could not agree whether to pave it with asphalt or concrete....

in response to: Two Strips of Dirt by CE

Tonya James-Rance: I have a gross memory of me taking the train to Fort Hamilton... On the ride I was treated to a pervert showing me his wanker behind a newspaper.. I got off the train and......

in response to: Pervert Masturbates on Subway by Peter

anon (ip-164.39.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net): Yes the new IGA is more expensive. There is more variety though. I moved to NDG in '04, and have to say Esposito is more expensive and very limited, not to mention the rent is......

in response to: Fuck the IGA by CE

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

jgirl: I went to Igor's tonight in secret search of my recently stolen vintage bike. Sure he's shifty and what his does is evil and soulless- ---perhaps I'm just too good at lying/pretending/manipulating but I played......

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

EvilGentleman: The Olympic Stadium is one of the most beautiful of Montreal's vast collection of White Elephants. Originally expected to cost 134 million dollars, it wound up costing 1.61 **billion** dollars, or about 1200% of its......

in response to: The Big-O by Cinic

Cinic: the big o is the Olympic stadium from the 1976 Montreal Olympic games. It has been a huge problem for years. Basically its falling apart and Mtlers just finished paying it off like 2 years......

in response to: Mtl East by Cinic

DeadRagabash: First off, I was born in a nice little Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, lived all over Okalhoma lived all over New Mexico, Texas & Colorado. As well as 15 odd places in Germany over 2......

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

Mario C , Sydney,AUSTRALIA: Well people you really have to see this remarkable feat of uneducated engineering , this guy deserves respect, my family & I had the privilege of seeing this beautiful cathedral in 2006 and we spent......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

oompaloompa: Great historical piece. makes me remember that there are still parts of this city that can be explored and yet are hidden in plain sight just waiting for someone with the sense of adventure and......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

jeeff: lucky you. there are lots of 'no trespassing' signs now, so i didn't get too close. i agree tho, i wonder why this type of design hasn't been pursued. you get high......

in response to: Habitat by jeeff

Jason: The gold medal sign is on top of the former Washburn-Crosby elevator #1. The elevator was built in 1906, the second or third concrete grain elevator in the world. Each sign was originally lit by......

in response to: Northstar Blankets/Gold Medal Flour by Tyfoid Kid

CATCH A BIKE THIEF!: We bought brand new bikes from these nice guys at CycOmotive on Bathurst. We paid $3,500 for the two mountain bikes. One was higher end Giant and the other one was Giant Pistol 2 16......

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

Jamie: Yeah. I was a fan of his work, until i watched a documentary about him. Now I just think he's a pretentious twat....

in response to: Anthony Gormley on the Southbank by kathy archbold

colavitos ghost: reminds me a lot of bryant park in ny. a little green patch huffing and puffing along amongst the concrete giants....

in response to: Rittenhouse Square by serlingrod

Anonymous - 36: Great !! If someone ever asks me the what was the best time of my life - without a doubt it was 13-16, great memories to last a lifetime. My 9 year old daughter can't......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Michelle: @curious = I think that it is an optical illusion. The cable is behind the icicle, not actually supporting it! Thankfully. Evenso, I think it is scary that the subway tunnel has an icicle -......

in response to: Subway Icicle by Michelle

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

Jeff: New York City is the gretest city and place a person could be the skyline is #1 along with chicago, and hong kong and there are more things to see and do there than anywhere......

in response to: New York City 2 by JayEastsider

been: The mail thing is no problem as it is a center hall walk-up job. I lived in here in 1985/1986. All of the apartments use the # 82 address. I think I was in apartment #5. This was......

in response to: One Building with 2 Addresses 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

Dave: Jacksonville is not boring. There is peace and quiet AND excitement and variety. It's hard to find another city that offers so many cross-sections of lifestyles and changes of scenery. You can......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Seebo: i really just plain dont like living in the city. I like the job opportunities though and that's why I'm here. I like nature and peace and quite more than concrete and......

in response to: Things I Love About... Living in the City by EvilGentleman

Oscar Grouch: Looking at this monstrosity through an Engineers eye, I was quick to note the sub-par concrete pours and immature choices of building materials in critical locations. Apparently he allows the public onto the property,......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

rammerel1: I was also born and raised in the Bushwick area. I went St. Joseph's on Suydam St. My dad went there and had Sr. Clarissa and well as me and my two brothers.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

little ukraine: CG, couldn't agree more. morrissey is a complicated lyricist and it is dangerous to start throwing around interpretations, especially when the interpreter has as an intention showing how the song fits into a rather......

in response to: There Is No Surf in Cleveland by joey

Ringo: The "rant" againts christianity was actually more to do with the inferance that christains are superior to antyone wearing a patch. I have not said that pathc holders are whiter than white. I don't know......

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

Larry: I came to Chicago last year and one of the first places I wanted to see was Cabrini Green. I am from South East DC and I know what the projects are like. ......

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

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

Dave Nes: Reading this as prompted me to think your not a full shilling, a bit suicidal I can imagine. If your still alive start taking the medicine and try and have a positive outlook in life......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

Ex-Fighter: As an ex UDA freedom fighter,that done my time for my so called God and Ulster crime.Im broke living in a dingy flat,wife gone with the kids while i was inside.cant get a job.Who the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: Perhaps this would be an appropriate moment to mention how much I loathe the damage caused by Christian fundamentalists in North America. Let me be clear that I am not referring to **all** the members......

in response to: U.S. Congressman Foley by sine

susannah: Her best friend's husband looks at her as if she's one of her husband's pot roasts. Brazen. She pretends not to mind, but it gives her the creeps. She wonders if this is how her......

in response to: Rainy Days and Mondays by a disturbed young man

Susannah: What - no hate mail? Isn't the double standard operational in these parts? What about this - three to four times a week the wife contemplates suicide, only to realize each time, as if for......

in response to: Rainy Days and Mondays by a disturbed young man

susannah: there's way more to these photos than concrete, dude....

in response to: How I See Fort Worth by dfwtiger

Biff: A windy day, These tents would have blown away, but for the barrels of concrete...Biff (Convocation at Ryerson U)...

in response to: White Tents by Biff

adam: you're saying fort worth is big empty and full of concrete?...

in response to: How I See Fort Worth by dfwtiger

Sirhcbre: This is the only one of this sort. Most of the entrances to the Metro here are pretty ugly kiosks. They're usually very utilitarian looking concrete bunkers that take up half a block.......

in response to: Montreal or Paris? by CE

Cosmo: :-) Nice observation! Lots of dying bridges around here. We've had a rash of injuries and wrecks caused by concrete chunks falling onto traffic on the freeways. They're starting to fix......

in response to: Another Dead Boat by Cosmo

EvilGentleman: My wife and I drove by here with Chris yesterday. Multidick has been demolished, all that is left is the concrete pad. The owls stand guard no more....

in response to: Multidick by EvilGentleman

Gangs in HP: The gangs og HP have killed this area. I remember in the 70's & 80's in addition to the Latin Kings we had a Simon Park Brothers and Sons of Capone fighting all the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

EvilGentleman: Um, I think you mean Dorval, not Laval. Say, do you have a driver's license? If you do, maybe we could take turns driving while the other shoots pictures. There are so many pictures I......

in response to: Montreal Signs 2: Beaconsfield, Kirkland, DDO by EvilGentleman

Cameo: the untidy area is fenced off... Huge hunks of concrete are falling off it from time to time now....

in response to: Dereliction by Cameo

aer suzuki: "Public Transportation is a good thing for Toronto. Lots of slate sky, concrete, asphalt, brick and steel...they took paradise and made a concrete jungle for sure." Ok. Maybe Toronto's different but here in Seattle they used......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

Genaro: Susannah, I have to give you, half-a-ditto on this one! You have to understand that their were many Whites who and are still really racsists, especially the ones of the establishment, along with most of......

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

ian: What was the street's original name? I've always thought 'Avenida De La Americas' was spectacularly pretentious....

in response to: Wheeler at Avenida De La Americas by groovehouse

jamie: maybe that concrete's drying...

in response to: Tax Plus by Peter

Normanite: The idea of stopping in a town for a few minutes, taking a few pictures of abandoned buildings, and then declaring the town boring is one of the most pretentious, conceited, obnoxius, unwarranted, and judgmental......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 2 by Scott Sargent

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: is the second one sonic the hedgehog? One of our neighbors recently chose to completly concrete over their front lawn. They had to sit there for hours protecting it from the local artists (me and Mitch).......

in response to: Indelible Sidewalk Art by EvilGentleman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Some pictures of Souda, Crete (Greece) and the plucky Mr Pendlebury's final resting place, courtesy of Kato. [[img:13301]] [[img:13302]] [[img:13303]] [[img:13304]] ...

in response to: Mr Pendlebury Takes a Trip by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Kato: I've allowed my master to respond. I would love the book, he's one of my heroes but don't send the funny stamps. Pendlebury was a chief archaeologist researching Knossos and other important sites on Crete.......

in response to: Mr Pendlebury Takes a Trip by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

joey: no chris. please check my other articles. there are many beautiful facades in {Oakland, CA}. this just happens to be a plain one. actually i 'found' this shot in the view finder. it's a zoom in......

in response to: Urban Wilderness by joey

Ahmed: Quite frankly, the amount of people who have proven themselves to be morons here have been English rather than Americans. The bottom line remains: as an American, you can choose whether or not you agree......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

SingleGuy: If bored kids want to spray paint things why don't they go to an abandoned industrial area and do it? Because here the tag means something. it means u can do what you please here,......

in response to: Respect in River Park by jeeff

Brian Klaus: Let's not pretend that the Northeast is uniformly grear. Norton looks like Paris when compared to North Wales, PA....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 5 by Scott Sargent

elaine: my yankophilia only stretches to pronunciation and actual words. there is no point in asking where the nearest laundrette is or for tom-ah-toes in america. i am old timey enough to insist on english spellings......

in response to: Overkill Signage by Peter

Tyfoid Kid: The article talks about a concrete structure inside. The surface isn't brick. It almost looks like some kind of stucco. I stopped by on the way to work and got as close as I dared......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Tyfoid Kid: I did a little digging (thank you U of M libraries) and found some more stuff on The Ivy (actually probably more then you'd want to know:) ******************************************************************************************************************** From an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Dec......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

EvilGentleman: Chris, I can tell you from experience, that while the majority of police try hard to do a decent job, cases of police overstepping the bounds of the responsibilities entrusted to them by the citizens......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

anon (cache-dtc-ac06.proxy.aol.com): I grew up in Marine Park. It is a safe, residental, working class area where a high population of police and firefighters live. Not pretentious, and with a nice middle-income suburban vibe. Most places in Marine......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

EvilGentleman: I cannot believe how many idiots think this sort of thing is acceptable. Or rather, I cannot believe how many idiots want to stir up shit and get people upset, so they will deliberately pretend......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

Gabi: My bike was stolen last summer, just under a security camera’s eye at a government bldg. They claimed the camera didn’t work at a time, ha. I had the bike for more than......

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