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A.E.: There is a pervert on the morning local W train and/or R train. He is tall about 5'9, skinny weighs about 150 pounds. He is of Latin decent, dark, black straight hair worn slick back.......

in response to: Pervert Masturbates on Subway by Peter

Some Guy Ya: Hi folks. I got sick of my bikes being taken back in 92. So since then, I've been keeping it inside. I still have my 1992 Ironhorse. Lovely bike. For the first......

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

KATCHIE: I am awaiting a response. Not beef however, let's perhaps pick a vege... As a response from you is over due!...

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

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

TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

CLaSS oF '09 [Ms. Me]: Class of '09..YESS!!!, we're seniors now. But i would be wrong if I were to say that our journey thus far has not been memorable. As a senior, I've definitely grown up since the first......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Outside the box...: When you hear and see what is going on down in that part of town I find it difficult to feel sorry for the majority of those folks. The previous post hit the nail on......

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

mavone: cant wait for a next one!!!!lol...

in response to: Letters by Peter

Chris : First of all Toronto is hated on by all Canadians outside of the Golden Horse Shoe. One of the main reasons why is,....... the Toronto Maple Losers!!!!!!!!. It's a hockey country and the leafs used......

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

Andrew Smith: Hi Terry, sounds an interesting book. The photo was taken by my friend Dom Smith. I'm sure copyright would not be a problem. If you give me your email address I'll pass it onto him. If......

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

surviving: hutch is safer than a lot of big cities, and the commute to work is not so bad,(hour wait traffic jams etc.) I have traveled and it"s not fun to set ,......

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

Who Cares for Kensington: River Otters complains about the mass exodus from the city and that those folks should have stayed and are now paying the price for leaving with long commutes and 4 buck gas. I left Philly......

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

jack: your correct, i was waiting for shots of the falls, i figured it was gonna be peter since he was the closest. so you took a boat ride around manhattan on the circle line,......

in response to: Water Falls on the City by CartLegger

jack: REMINDS ME OF THE HUMAN ZOO ON THE PLANET PYTHIAN. sorry about the caps, but when i was captured by the pythians and taken to their planet there was a zoo and we humans......

in response to: Life Sentence by NWhyC

Jerrod the "Wildchild" Racerboy: Hutch Really isnt as bad as some make it out to be. Great paying jobs arent plentyfull but there are plenty of jobs out there if you REALLY want to work!! Most people in this......

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

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

Hutchinson Escapee: That's it? That's all you got? Knowing Hutchinson to be the seething cesspool of child rapists and pedifiles that it is, I am going to suggest in the strongest language possible that the Dateline NBC people......

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

jack: kevin i was the proofpress operator when i was 18 and you and i would flick a matchbook with our fingers over a goal post we formed with our fingers. we would be waiting......

in response to: 130 Cedar Street by jack

T J O'BRIEN, ANNANDALE, VA: The article below it will mention the Luna Park. During the WW II I worked part-time for the New York Daily News as a copy boy. One afternoon I came in early at......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Peter: woah! cool building! nice design and nice color! oh wait, its a condo... i take it back! condos suck! but its still cool......

in response to: M9 by CE

zagg: With so many vegetarians, maybe I'll have to have an entire post dedicated to my vegetable garden: JUST YOU KIDS WAIT UNTIL MY EGG PLANTS BARE ME SOME PURPLE ORBS OF YUMMNESS (now only 73%......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

zagg: It is time to change it to Rufus Wainwright, I say!...

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Gaynor Miller: I've just come back to this site after a year away and what a great load of memories. I used to live on Prospect Road just down from Lennie's. You all talk about the doctors......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

anon (d122-109-199-99.adl12.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Eric, Yes I do remember you and your Mum from when I was delivering greengrocery round Eldon road and Harewood road around 1950 just before I got married. It was Fred Wolfendon who had the old......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Michael Yacques: Most people in florida who think they were bitten by a brown recluse spider Or Black Widow because of decaying flesh on a wound they have, are wronge. MRSA staff infections are rampant in florida.Ask......

in response to: Killer Spiders, and Giant Turtles by johnny E

laz81: wow!have read with interest, the coments posted about the HAMC, sadly, its clear many know very little about the club. and i say club because it is just that, a club not a gang! to the bros and......

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

EvilGentleman: Heh. This one has been sitting in my hard drive, waiting for me to stop procrastinating. Guess I'm too late. Nice post....

in response to: Montreal\'s Largest Mural? by Montrealbunny

Joe Seeking Contact: Check the current demographics on Elkin school and it is evident that the neighbor hood makeup has changed. Just like Kensington was wonderful to us as kids, so it is today for the current residents.......

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

James cashan: hello Jim W. RE Margarine Works I remember peter hamburger (gruff voice)"oh yis oh yis", but who was the phantom! daily cries of "whose out now? am i out now?" waiting for......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

DDWhitecotton: Hey Hutchinson, I also live in sunny San Diego. I was raised in Hutchinon until I was 17, Kweed was the deal then, dragging main and hanging out at the sonic and a & w......

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

JoeyD: .....no wait, since we all know the economy is in the shitter- this must be the administrations "think -tank"!...

in response to: I Could\'nt Think of a Title for This Because a Pictures Is Worth a Thousand Words. by jack

ChiPhi: Christopher and others, why is there always a: "...somebody needs to do something to help..." why don't people take responsibility and pride for their own? I have lived in this neighborhood for 5 years......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Mrs.L: For all of the people who are down on Hutch; how old are you?? For the people who think this town is such an awful place, you must be young. I am still in my......

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

The terrible disaster: This article has been republished as I was asked to supply the details a second time. --- We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When......

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

A. Weinstein: Janet, What year did you graduate P.S. 167? What was the address that you lived at on Lincoln Place? Waiting to hear from you.................... Alma ...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

YoYo: I can't forget the loud rat a tat tat sounds coming from the cyclone. I was a scardey cat. I only got on it one time (in the last car - I thought I was......

in response to: The Cyclone by Peter

kevin: hint for pplz who is not old enough to buy cans: wait until an adult from scrap yard to come out after purchasing something and ask him to buy cans 4 u ...

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

Eric66: I loved going down memorey Lane ,growing up on cedar st. between evergreen and myrtle ave. was the best of times 1945 to 1966 just wasn't enough time , had it not been for the......

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

Eric66: I loved going down memorey Lane ,growing up on cedar st. between evergreen and myrtle ave. was the best of times 1945 to 1966 just wasn't enough time , had it not been for the......

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

EvilGentleman: What's a telephone? Ohhhh, wait... Is that one of things that is like a cellphone, but plugs into a wall, and has wires coming out of it? Hehe, seems like yesterday, when my VCR remote had......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Mabel, I remember your parents fish and chip shop very well, especially as we we called in just after coming out of The Palace cinema, which was owned by the Barnes family. So it would have......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

former Hutch resident: I moved from Hutch about 25 years ago. I was born & rised there. Couldn't wait to get out. I lost both my parents 4 years ago & want to come 700 miles to decorate......

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

Meg from San Diego: My boyfriend and I are going to spend the summer in Hutch. He's born and raised SD, I was born in Topeka and couldn't wait to get out of there as a teen. I......

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

Meg from San Diego: My boyfriend and I are going to spend the summer in Hutch. He's born and raised SD, I was born in Topeka and couldn't wait to get out of there as a teen. I......

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

saul altman: HEY NOBODY, ARE YOU FROM CONEY? DID YOU HAVE TO FIGHT YOUR WAY HOME EVERY DAY FROM PS 188 & MARK TWAIN OR ARE YOU AN OUTSIDER. ...

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Joe: As others have stated, the good memories exceed those that were bad: Joe the pretzel guy at Front & Allegheny, Christmas and the stores on the 3200 block of front St., local bakery shops and......

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

A. Weinstein: Hey everyone, Let's get some dialogue going here. Hasn't anyone got any memories they would like to share? Does anyone remember getting out of school (P.S. 167) at lunchtime and having the pretzel man standing there......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Outside observer: I had a chance to recently visit the fine city of Hutch for a job interview. I would say that the city faces many of the same issues that other cities face in the mid-west.......

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

Joe: In response to LINDA from 4/13/2008. I left 29 years ago and also felt at that time that I had to GET OUT of Kensington. I had just purchased a home there (my wife wanted......

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

From P.a.: I have moved to hutch alittle over 3 years ago,and I wish I could return back to Pa. This town is not what all the other people keep bragging about. I have a 20 year......

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

From P.a.: I have moved to hutch alittle over 3 years ago,and I wish I could return back to Pa. This town is not what all the other people keep bragging about. I have a 20 year......

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

Marissa Chaplin: Thanks Andrew & Dom, what great photos. I can remember running up and down that hill outside Lesters waiting for my mum to finish gassing. haha...

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

Linda: I live in Kensington I have been here all my life and now i want OUT.Its worse then ever and i hate it that i had to brig up my children in this part of......

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

Zack: At that ultimate fight I saw and met more than one babe and also at the mall I saw some cute girls tho there wasn,t a lot of people at the mall I still met......

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

So!: is soho down under still there? i was in that place in like 94 was pretty nice/small but nice got sum of my caps there i got the address for this one store here if soho down......

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

bill: Born in 1941 at williamsburg hospital. Lived at 99 Stockholm until '46 when we moved to 41 Cornelia Street betweenBushwick and Broadway (third house down from the congregationalist Church. went to PS 56......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: Wait, is it possible the "fuck" is actually a verb, and not an adjective? If so, then am I in compliance, considering my wife is an ex-cop? Mind you, she did quit that job before......

in response to: Fuck Police! by Elicar

Diane Dole: Hi All, I have just finished reading the (hidden whistle and flute) stitch one by the pearly king of Peckham George Major. Fantastic read cant wait for stitch two the stolen whistle and flute. best of Cockney......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

This note is for you: To all who is not happy in Hutchinson: do something about it. Don't just "talk", if you think you are better off far away, then go far away; if you think there are problems, then......

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

Kathleen Knight: Right now i think that i am the only one making a comment from from my class. I am a former student. i am part of the class of 2000 , And PROUDLY reps MY......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Sheila Hilton: Hya Sue, Have just been catching up on this site. I remember Mrs potter's shop and that. Don't think I ever went in there but I remember all......

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

Peter: any specifics on where its located? im not terribly familiar with {seattle}, as this was my first trip there, but yeah... the machine was long-since dead... not plugged in, totally non-operational. just a lump of......

in response to: Oldskool Coke Machine by Peter

Peter: wow! man... i was gonna point out the ones i like, but after i selected more than i could keep up with, i realized they were all killer. i like the train going over the......

in response to: Compilation by chiamattt

Kathy: My son, daughter-in-law- and I were just out riding around hoping to see the different wild animals in the area. My son spotted the castle and we had to stop. It was a little cold......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

LefOptorGofep: Summer is here, its time to shed some pounds! And its never been easier than now, now that Anatrim is available. Anatrim is the revolutionary new product designed to help users not only shed......

in response to: UFO in Sno by GGP

joey: wait ! haven't we seen that chair on antiques roadshow ? attente ! nous avons pas vus cette chaise sur le spectacle de tournée d'antiquités ?...

in response to: Peoples of the Danforth by Elicar

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

Christy: I went there once in 1985 and again in 1995. I love to see the changes every time. I can't wait to take my kids there someday. It really is an experience....

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Cyril - Times have changed a bit since the 'tea-dance' days. Wasn't the protocol that the young ladies had to sit like wall-flowers and wait to be invited to dance? So if some......

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

jakeela: hi I used to live in this place.I actually grew up here. I would sit in my room waiting for all of that to go away.Im only 12 & I lived in a place like......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of......

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

optomystic: why,oh why,oh why can't folks realize that hutchinson is a wonderful town ? the opportunities in hutchinson are simply amazing. please move to hutchinson- you will just love it! can't you hear the bells ringing......

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

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): OOPS!! I wonder where I put that document??!!! - I obviously need an inservice on attaching photos/docs to this site... I used the 'upload photos' link and it all seemed to process okay.... hmmm.........

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

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Debbie, I remember when you and Stephen first arrived from Australia and lived on Broadway up near the Boathouse end. I went to school and hung around with stephen. He had sunbleached blonde......

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

EvilGentleman: I find it weird to see someone you know personally commenting about suffering rapidly expanding cranial pressures due to webmasters we know online commenting on comments made by people he knows online commenting to people......

in response to: Don Valley in the Winter by Michelle

Vulcan: Woah cant wait for this summer would love to check it out...

in response to: graffiti alley / style in progress \'05 by jeeff

Deb Simpkins: Hi Norma, as I remember it, Oak Ave wasn't very long so I wonder if our grandparents knew each other? I will ask my dad and see if he remembers Tommy and May.. Bolton... was......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob The Dr Howard Walker that you mention was no relation to the Dr Walker of the 1930's who retired from practise around 1960.In my childhood I remember a gentleman knocking on our front door......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Gav: real estate is a long slow thing. those properties are being amased by some developer that might be waiting for the last piece (little old lady)to fall into place. Think 20-25 yrs out,it's not that......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, The doctors that I have known in Irlam....well our family doctor was a Dr. Walker who had the big house and surgery on the corner of Moorfield rd and Liverpool rd Then there was a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

A. Weinstein: Hi Len, Can't understand why you have not received my emails, lost your phone number can you call me at 1-800-442-7966 ext. 107 so we can chat? Regards to the family, Waiting to hear from you. Alma ...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

{{A}}: Everyone is going to have there own personal opinion about the schooL regardl3ss. But for the ones who attend ACORN...they cant say that this school is all around bad. Just because this school may not......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Helen Salmon: Hi Auntie Sheila! I don't know why but I always remember thinking to myself when I was younger "I can't wait until I'm old enough to go in pubs, I'm going to go to the boathouse"!......

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

L.Barry: I have drove through it many of times because it was a handy route to go instead of the Ship Channel Bridge. It was far better than that Dark and dingy old Baytown tunnel......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

Rob Tynan: Does anyone remember Dan and Harry Crask Hair Dressers in Cadishead. From what I can remember as a kid, there was two coal fires and the hair cutting chairs and sinks were at the......

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

kent: Use to live a block away 45st and 6th ave, rode my bike thru the park day and night, couldn't wait for the pool to open in May, I miss that. One day I'd like to......

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

Joanne Amorello-minor: Didnt one of the shops collect used stamps for charity or something?I seem to remember having a stamp collection as a kid(I know!!)and getting fed up with it and giving them my stamps there were......

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

Alex Price: Dear Paul, I Know How You Feel About The New Stadium, Its Gonna Be Hell Gettin To Trafford Centre Lol, And I Heard That They Have Only Just Got The Money To Built It So They Gonna......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Paul Davis: Hello every one, i never knew there were so many like minded people, people who enjoy I@C for what it is. I have lived in irlam for just over ten years now and i think that......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Ronald V. Regan, Sr.: My mother (Paula/Polla) Zelius (married nams Regan) was born on BArren Island in 1906. HEr mother was Genevive, and dad was Vincente' Zelius. There were a total of five children in the Zelius family. By......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

EvilGentleman: jeeff, would your comment mean that the Don Valley Parkway is usually somewhat noisy? I know autoroute 20 (the Quebec end of the 401) here is loud enough that it drives most people nuts. And......

in response to: On My Way to the Post Office by Michelle

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Scratchings .. mmm ... (thought that was our local twang), we got them too from our chippy opposite the Cadishead Wesleyan Church - Fish and chips in OZ is not quite the same, you......

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

Marissa Chaplin: Hi Natalie The High School is now an 11-18 specialist school in Business Enterprise , Maths & Computing. My eldest 2 currently attend the school and the facilities they have are fantastic (a lot better than......

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

A. Weinstein: Hi Stan, You got that right wow!!! you just made my memory kick in do you remember the Spero Potato Chips they had? I most liked the choclate covered Jelly candies they had on the counter......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

zagg: jack, i await the day i notice my tulips poking through the dirt in my gardens....

in response to: Gray Days of Winter by zagg

Biyoushi: Aloha.. I was wondering where I could find some of these? I live on Oahu and I am looking for a vividly colorful piece, actually a few of them, that I can use......

in response to: Hawaii Graffiti by dubside

jack: i always look at my tree in front to wait for the early blooms of spring, i'm looking....

in response to: Gray Days of Winter by zagg

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