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Natasha Totin: wow, people really know how to judge things. Did anyone ever stop and think that they didn't even look at it like that. My dad has worked for Staten Island Hospital for over 30 years,......

in response to: Quite Possibly the Worst Layout for a Hospital, Ever by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Captain Obvious: What really grates about Quebec's degenerate infrastructure, is that they have not only incredibly high taxes, but they *also* have incredibly high subsidies from all the more productive provinces, BOTH. To have billions poured into a......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

Cecilia Midiri: Wow, Kimmer Teesedale...you remember the Midiri's? Me and Mamma Ceil are still on Keim Street. She refuses to move...and hey, who am I to make her. I can't complain too much. The street was so......

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

luna park: there are actually large swathes of brownstone rowhouses in brooklyn, where the houses are set back from the street and allow space for front yards. in many cases, the yards have been paved (as is......

in response to: Beware of Owner by luna park

janet: Hi Alma--Sorry, the name Rubin is not familiar (though I knew a Judy Kessler). But I certainly remember the fish store! (Thanks for reminding me that one needed to walk up a couple of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

dirana1: You have got to be kidding me. Does anyone out there know the history of the place? It was British, you at least have that much right. However, it was originally and......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

Fiona Lambert: Who the Hell is Rufus Rockhead, sounds like a characture from the Flinstones., but an interesting name for a street, only in good old Montreal....

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

David Stonehouse: All of us at Evergreen were thrilled with Toronto's embrace of Earth Hour and indeed all staff went to enormous lengths to do our part. Unfortunately, when it comes to Brick Works site we are......

in response to: Not So Green... by Michelle

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......

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

Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch. As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed......

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

j.smith: Shiny unhappy people All is not well in the world of pearly royalty. Beneath the peacock feathers and rhinestone finery is stirring a nasty battle for the soul of the kingdom. In Guildford county court this......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Alex Price: Hi Again, I Also Remembered The Fights Between Cadishead And Partington Over Whos The Cadishead Viaduct Bridge Was To Sit Under And They Threw Stones, Rocks And Sticks To Fight With But Eventually The Council Blocked......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

janet: Hi Stan—and all you 167 alums out there—The beautiful public library in classical style on Schenectady & Eastern Parkway was a place to visit, to use, but for me not to hang out in and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Fred, The.: Good morning, I can see that there are some misconceptions out there about this ridiculous mess of a town.. I've created a video......

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

pearly princess peckham {tammy}: hi to everyone that knows me. its very sad the way people talk about pearlies. my mum rest her soul was one of the greatest pearly Queens {Ann Major} my dad Has always been a......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

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

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

Anne Hunt: Hi John Cooper, I'm very interested in the old picture of the Lord St. graveyard. My sister and I travelled to Irlam this past summer to search for it, as we know our great-grandfather and mother......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

kevin: the fact that you took the time to photograph people having a good time and all-around lively place of washington square park and then had the nerve to write captions about how nobody stops to......

in response to: Walking Through Washington Square Park On My Way to Dinner by jack

Maude: I just found out my husband's gg-GPs are buried here. I read online that a Mormon guy was mounting a huge clean-up effort here in 2003. What happened to that? This is so sad. Did......

in response to: Bayside Cemetary: Rememberance Overgrown by CartLegger

Hutch Hater Too: I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm......

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

jack: sorry evil, but you missed those day's of cruising in my 60 chevy impala, blasting the beatles music, i saw her again last night, you know she makes me feel allright, she was just 17......

in response to: The Time I Almost Saw the Beatles. by jack

Craig: I had a motorcycle wreck in 1980 coming out of the south side of the tunnel. Back then the entrance and exit to the tunnel were paved in cobblestone, which is very slippery, especially if wet......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

99˘Dreams: Car vs bike has never been a fair fight. But c'mon guys, the city was designed for HORSES, aye? Those early bikes had it rough on the cobblestones, though far less deadly. ......

in response to: The Cars That Ate NYC by CartLegger

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......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

2less2: it's to bad that you guys haven't taken the time to see the actual truths as they relate Las Vegas and all you've managed to find fault with. first, one of the biggest reasons the......

in response to: Viva Las Vegas, Part 1 by aer suzuki

Alexander The Thessalonikian: An ethnic group is characterized by the common language, customs, religion, inscriptions, area of origin and ways of education and living. By that means all the area of todays Greece was inhabited by Greeks since......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

jack: its all about freedom of expression, since there are no stars on the flag it is not a real american flag, many nam vets are still upset with the way america changed its views on......

in response to: Floyd Bennett Field: Let All Flags Fly by CartLegger

EvilGentleman: cg: I guess I have an inherent dislike of sameness. Contrasts and variety are so much better. It might have something to do with most of my childhood being spent in military housing, where each......

in response to: Debaliviere Place by maybetoday

jack: i remember masim's on chambers street, as a matter of fact from cedar street at washington to church street to chambers was litterally an electronics street fair, every store had radio components laid out on......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Dcchanged man: I lived in bushwick from 1968-1982 Comfort and hell in bushwick depends on which pocket you lived in. The dead end streets of buswick Aberdeen , Granite , Desales Place and so on where a lot......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

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

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy. * There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Anthony: I live near Denver International Airport and have been there many, many times and have seeked out and found everything mentioned here and then some. I first heard about the DIA conspiracies a few......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

procyon: sort of; important but not too important. the '33 world's fair was there, and it was the site of mayor daley's famous, ridiculous late-night bulldozing in 2003. from the next day's Trib: "Mayor Richard Daley launched......

in response to: Adler, 12th St. Beach and the Former Meigs Field by procyon

Dave: [[img:17931]] The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal resulted in the need to replace the famous stone aqueduct at Barton, which had been constructed as part of the Bridgewater Canal in the eighteenth century. The old......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

John: Old? I remember trainspotting on Spital Bridge in the mid to late '50's. [What do you mean? Of course the 1950's - I'm not that old!] Born in Boroughbury, [Geneva Street], brought up in Gladstone Street.......

in response to: Peterborough and the Smells of Pollution, Etc... by Colin James Watling

jack's daughter: I'd have to agree with you, Little Ukraine, that the Bobst Library at NYU is quite remarkable. The floor of the atrium is based on an Escher design, so if you spent some time......

in response to: A View Down the Avenue by jack

kevin bracken: as a resident of 1153 queen st. w (woolfitt's art supplies, the building directly in front of 48 abell) I am sad to see the building go. I was going to live there but the......

in response to: 48 Abell Bites the Dust? by jeeff

Stoner: As an architect, I find this man and his endeavor gripping. Whereas I may think that the simple structure of such a building is quite simple, mainly because it's a uniform design used in......

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

EvilGentleman: The murder weapon, as posted on the weirdo's profile: [[img:15617]] He described it as a "CX4 Storm Semi-Automatic Carbine" Damn, this is so freaky, peeking into the mind of a sociopathic murderer. I feel ill. The curiosity as......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

PUMA::::STAE:::SECTOR::::OCTO.....Boston: JA... Ive been a huge fan ever since seeing you in Video Graf, in the Rolling stone article, and on almost every street in NYC! Was wondering if you are putting any sort of......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

joey: this cemetery, near piedmont ave. and pleasant valley road in oakland, is located on some primo real estate, but it's filled with tombstones not houses. the adjoining neighborhoods are where some rich folk live. one......

in response to: Permanent View by joey

ian: The second image is a Mercury Redstone Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, which was adapted by NASA for the Mercury program....

in response to: The Rocketeer by ian

EvilGentleman: Excerpt from http://www.westmountexaminer.com/article-24092-Council-ends-sixyear-sale-of-Fire-Station-No-2.html (the webpage no longer exists, I retrieved the data from a Google cache) ##The sale of the Fire Station No 2 building at Victoria and The Boulevard for $800,000 was expected to finally......

in response to: Two Unrelated Fire Department Pictures by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Far as I could tell, the hats in the first photo were either straw or bamboo. I have no clue what the writing on the green light says, I was hoping someone here could read it. It......

in response to: Rainy Day by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I have also been experimenting with taking hool-style photos using car mirrors while parked on the side of a busy street, since it is exponentially less likely that the subjects will become aware of the......

in response to: Passenger Side Rear View Mirror by groovehouse

Spooky: haha. jamie mate, if you want to see the best graff in pbro dont go any further away than the train station. jump off the end of the platform going towards spalding if......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

anon (ip68-97-53-138.ok.ok.cox.net): Norman's really not that bad. As far as OK towns are concerned, I do prefer Tulsa, but Norman has a lot more going for it than the pictures you posted. That building is......

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

EvilGentleman: There has been some confusion as to defining exactly what constitutes an outdoor structure or patio. I have heard that any structure enclosed on more than two sides will be considered to be indoors, and......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: You are very welcome, sherri. Like I said earlier, we agree on **most** issues. I'll try my best to be a nicer jerk. (I'm grinning at the moment) And as far as silver spoons go,......

in response to: Free Man? by Urbanghost (michael talbot)

EvilGentleman: jack, do not forget June 11, 1958. That was the immortal day when Eddie Cochran released Summertime Blues. The day the music died was still a year in the future, so Buddy Holly, the Big......

in response to: A Little Taste of Screwed & Chopped to Metal Classics by Arthur Mercadante

Ronan - North Belfast: Ardoyne is in NORTH Belfast!!! Reggie it's bigotted people like you that hinder progression in such segregated societies, calling them "lazy, car stealing, pensioner mugging ballbags" is a gross over generalisation, how many people have you......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

jack: looks like stone steps in the back. very interesting....

in response to: Arch with Snow by Pat

SadStateOfAffairs: Rich - come back soon - a lot has changed since '94 - the park has been renovated, boathouse etc...the founders of the Kings still live in the hood but they have gotten older too.......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

LOL : Chicago Gang Watch Journal: “Ready to fuck” Humboldt park: Hernando “King Cock” Martinez, leader of the Almighty Crazy Gay Latin Kings (ACGLK’s) has split from the gang. Rumor has it that he was kidnapped by......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jeeff: cool. the smoke & fire & lights at night make for some pretty interesting lighting in the photos. i used to live in a tall highrise in the center of toronto (i was......

in response to: St. Patrick\'s Fire by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Ow... I shall mourn the demise of AJ's in much the same way as I mourn the passing of the last A&W drive-in that I ever saw. (It was in Saint John, N.B. near the......

in response to: Arctic Landscapes II by EvilGentleman

kc: Hey, Peter. Nice shot. I do kinda hate that building...although maybe more than anything I hate the signs for the incredibly expensive apartments and the giant bank facing down the cube--hard not to believe they'll......

in response to: Astor Place Silhouette by Peter

Peter: well, hobart, you have to have somewhere to hide the bodies! heh. actually, several places up and down {washington} avenue in my hood sell such barrels... most of them are groceries or {west indian} supply stores......

in response to: Barrels for Sale by Peter

EvilGentleman: Arsaniq, for your compliments, nakurmiik. The finishing the roof pic is of Aquuja Qisiiq, by the way. I am thankful he let me take it. I have so many pics of Kangirsujuaq that I took from......

in response to: Igloo Construction by EvilGentleman

jack: that would make an interesting faucet in someones kitchen. i wonder if my wife would'nt mind having that there on the sink staring her in the face everytime she goes for a drink of......

in response to: Spewing Gargoyle by Myke

jack: hahahaha the comments here are hilariously funny. i enjoy reading all of you talking back and forth and defending your lives and towns and names. well the photos were nice and i liked......

in response to: A Sunday Walk in Eastend London... by Lawrence

Fred Flintstone.: Hey Hool, Nice pics man, Clear, centered, considering you had no time to set them up but just had to start shooting, nice job. I particularly like the second last one, the guy's expression......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

4 mode observation: This incident is an excellent example of some of the worst features of human behaviour and the consequences that result from the actions of those who are misguided and self indulgent enough to believe they......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

ChaRa: Sounds like something out of kindergarten... a little repressed anger, a bad day, one too many swerves to miss getting hit, an inability to step outside of selfish motives and self-protection. Let him who......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

GGP: makes me think of the famed Women's Pentagon Action demo way back when (in 1980): "Four huge female puppets created by Bread and Puppet Theatre led some 2,000 women in a march past Arlington Cemetery to......

in response to: Wholesome Urban Graffiti by groovehouse

Question.....: First off i would like to say i come with much love, honor, y respect.... Not real sure if this would be the place to post or if anyone has an answer to my questions..........

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Gravedigger?: My fondest memory of Bushwick goes back to 1972. My dad and I went to Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Central Ave to see my grandprents grave. A coupel of guys tried robbing us inside......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Papo colorao STONE LOVE: to jj. brother did this happen in 1987? because if it did i was one of the ones who was shooting down some scr's who represented at me and my stone bro'on division. bro i......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: yeah, i was gonna say that sounds like stonehenge, paulg. that area around grand central isnt the best for direct sunshine, thats for sure. but i bet working there, she has a good idea of......

in response to: Slice of Grand Central by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: online scissors paper stone [[http://www.addictinggames.com/rockpaperscissors.html]]...

in response to: scissor paper stone by elaine

JayEastsider: check this out it something interesting i found Think You Know Everything????? A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out......

in response to: Leningrad by JayEastsider

Tina: Reminds me of Central Baptist Hospital tearing down that beautiful stone church and cutting down those beautiful old trees to expand their parking lot. I had thought those would make a uplifting and inspiring setting......

in response to: Stone house on Cardinal Hill by Goingincirclez

jeeff: hi jo. here's a quickie travel guide for toronto, ##but## i'm writing this with one condition for you: please take some photos, write some stuff, and post an article here about your trip! first off,......

in response to: Toronto for a week by jo

kc: I like progression to the smoky revelation...and the deconstruction/fracturing at the end. It reminds me of this brownstone in Greenwich Village that got blown up, by accident if I remember correctly, in the 1970s, I......

in response to: demolition by elaine

elaine: that seems a bit wasteful. there is also a thing which is about having a hole at the back of a ring for the gemstone to radiate it's vibe into the wearer - less wasteful.......

in response to: demolition by elaine

Peter: this made me think of the ayurvedic tradition of eating ground-up gemstones in order to balance internal distress/maladays....

in response to: demolition by elaine

Anxo: In Galiza there was a Deutch crazy man called Manfred. He built with his hands a museum made of stones in the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. When the dissaster of the Prestige he died,......

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

ULSTER-SCOTTS: CAUSE I DONT CARE ABOUT THE STUPID FUCKIN PHOTOS.BUT I DO CARE ABOUT FUCKING IGGNORANT 100 STONE PIZZA FACE CONE HEAD INTERLOPERS POKING THEIR BIG NOSE INTO THE MY COUNTY'S AFFAIRS.I SAY TO ALL OPINIONATED......

in response to: The Field of Fun by Jamie

elaine: it was a slippery day as well, and i had new shoes on. plus we had been out drinking late in nottingham the nigh before, and despite a fry up in matlock providing ballast, i......

in response to: birth of industry by elaine

David: I've already told you that it is irrelivent what the labour government think about here because the United Kingdom as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is set in stone and things can never be......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

hotdogx: Lets get something straight here, the last time you visited the republic must have been in the 70s or 80s when there was a standard of living diffirence between Ni and rep. Ireland is now......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

from snopes.com: Legend: Old running shoes hanging from trees and power lines are 'gang signs.' Origins: All across the United States, you'll encounter discarded shoes hanging from wires, poles, and trees. Theories as to......

in response to: Shoes by Peter

elaine: some of my favourite domiciles have been slums at the time of living, but i am of that ilk, and maybe i have grown out of it too. when my beautiful faded - grandeur georgian......

in response to: Brownstones in by joe urb

elaine: maybe you did. i went to chatsworth that holday too, but this was better. i also dragged my mum off to see some standing stones as well, but made up for it by letting......

in response to: birth of industry by elaine

sine: the presence of a torii signifies a shrine or temple nearby. indeed, there is a shinto shrine dedicated to Inari hidden in the woods behind the torii. here is some info from the site: Torii The......

in response to: brooklyn botanic garden : april 19, 2005 by sine

elaine: and you thought the thread in the 'found note' commentary was obscure? this is fucking bonkers! I laughed like a drain at the 'death march' holiday, very resonant. I think once you have that as a......

in response to: urban orienteering by elaine

OG PESTONER DNA: Most of tha good graff is underground...in abandoned tunnels, in frieght yards, etc...any public graff is usually whitewalled with the quickness...even pieces where the owner of the property gave permission (buffed by the city without......

in response to: PDX graffiti like ummm... by fuzzytank

Hater: "satins" work? satin is a type of cloth, dude. the silky, smooth stuff! satins work! thats rich. jesus also said "he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone"... so stop starting arguments......

in response to: The West Belfast Peace Line by Jamie

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