http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/RI%20site%20files/Adamsville.jpghttp://home.comcast.net/~jerryjan/Davenport/imageJ3D.JPGhttp://www.hf.uio.no/iba/amciv/gfx/RhodeIsland/RI%20Little%20Compton%20Store%20793.jpghttp://www.riview.com/gallery/j070478g.jpghttp://www.riview.com/gallery/j070438g.jpghttp://www.myacre.com/susan/webpics/WPoint305_web.jpg
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
My first Sunday School - St Judes, South Shields
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.true-life.co.uk/images/business/dis-bu3.jpg
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.thecityreview.com/guggen1.jpg
Robert "Preppy Murderer" Chambers was a year ahead of me.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/ghobster/Schools/Chesterfield/thumbnails/TNP6302583.JPG
http://www.thefogghorn.com/images/chesterfield.jpg
http://www.chesterfieldcamra.org.uk/images/pubs/Chesterfield-Rutland.jpg.jpg
http://www.chesterfieldcamra.org.uk/images/website/QueensPark-180.jpg
I just found out the last pub was demolished a few years ago and I never knew :o( it was rough but great!
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)
This massive, hollow metal sculpture (arguably a bird cage) in the middle of Park Avenue stood outside out building. In the winter, when hit with a snowball, it made a satisfying BOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG sound.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― robster (robster), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.princetondaytrading.com/resources/coronado-bridge.jpg
http://www.jeranaerographics.com/photos/album/coronado.jpg
Here's the Hotel Del Coronado, noted watering hole of the well-off and the external location for Some Like It Hot as well as many other movies (it was the setting of the original book version of Somewhere in Time and I still wish they could have filmed it there):
http://www.californiastay.com/img/pics/coronado.jpg
http://jenw.net/pics/coronado.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.aboutbritain.com/images/attraction/harrismuseumandartgallery1.jpg
http://www.4internationalstudents.com/preston/images/preston.jpg
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/home/inter/guide/images/enjoy5.jpg
Lancashire there, marvellous
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― BrianB (BrianB), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.mindspring.com/~lfla/images/lyceeentree.jpg
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)
My high school.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
I used to stand under the centre of the oval on the roof of the kop
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.roadfan.com/sancalh1.jpg
On the other side of that river is Trenton, NJ.
And here's the LIRR stop near where I spent my teenage years:
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/pwbranch2/auburndale1.jpg
These are, admittedly, fairly dreary pictures.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:i8lCszC5K9wJ:www.drivers.co.uk/auction/d210303-3.jpg
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.varndean.brighton-hove.sch.uk/varndean_images/gallery/images/OUT2.jpg
http://www.varndean.ac.uk/images/right-college.jpg
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)
FROM SPACE!My parents' new place is right below the baseball diamond!
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)
To the right of the fishing pier just visible in the foreground. San Rafael, California.
― Nemo (JND), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Here's where I grew up:
http://www.connquest.com/graphics/townsandcities/grotonsub.GIF
http://www.skypic.com/colleges/11-4096.jpg
http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/WWW/wsms/Groton/IMAGES/GRIS5.GIF The rocks in the foreground are across the street from the house I grew up in. They tore the big old hotel down in 1968.
http://www.nelightscapes.com/images_conn/Img0070.jpgThis is the Univ. of CT branch right down the street, I used to play there all the time when I was a kid.
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)
and this is about twentyhttp://digicam69.users.btopenworld.com/monsal.htm
in fact I was in Monsal pack at cubs
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.skypic.com/ri/2-4530.jpgLooking south from above my village.
http://www.skypic.com/ma/1-7541.jpghttp://www.skypic.com/ri/6-5935.jpghttp://www.skypic.com/ma/12-7544.jpghttp://www.skypic.com/ma/15-4075.jpgLooking northish from the ocean.
http://www.skypic.com/ma/16-4075.jpghttp://www.skypic.com/ma/17-4075.jpg
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)
BrianB, that picture of Des Moines is beautiful. The one thing that midwesterners don't know about their own place is how crisp and clear and countoured the clouds are above their heads. In the south, it's so humid that the sky is a fuzzy wash of blue. Our clouds have no personality unless they're inclement.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/images/header_nov2001.gif
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.stlouispark.org/Town/Neighborhoods/Creekside.html
is where you go if you can be arsed. Mine is the last house in the row of three.
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.ventura-county-relocation.com/communities/images/oxnard_plain.jpg
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
St Luke's Church, West Norwood, on the lower end of the one-way system peninsula, with West Norwood bus garage and Kwik-Fit at the other end (down the bottom of Knights Hill)
Downsview, my primary school.
City Of London Boys, my secondary school. (The brown thing in front of St Paul's)
And here's CLS' organ.
This reminds me I need to take a photo of the view from Biggin Hill, which is the prettiest thing about Croydon. At night, in any case.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)
I have the fondest memory of Pella. Somewhow, when I was 19 and living in the dorm, I convinced this girl to go to Minnesota for the weekend from Missouri. On the way back, between Des Moines and Highway 63, we noticed all of the windmills and tulips. As we drove through the town square on that Sunday afternoon, we saw little kids dressed in Dutch clothes, their mothers standing by wearing wooden shoes. The girl and I got out and had our picture taken with them, and it was the best ending to a really cool weekend.
If I'm correct, it seemed like even the Pizza Hut had a windmill on it.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― BrianB (BrianB), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.murdermystery.com/weekends/solvang.jpg
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~zoran/www/public/img/2003-01-California/solvang-mirko.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- lennium -- (jel), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Plains, if you rolled into town and there were ppl dressed up like the 1860s, it must have been for some occasion, lucky you!
it's picturesque, but more like PICTURE-esque--in the 50s and 60s the town's rulers figured they could preserve (and amp up) the quaintness and keep the tourism $$ coming in, and they were right. As other little towns asphyxiated in the carter-reagan era, pella did okay (2 big industries helped too). So, people say "oh, amish," but that's not right (not even the right ethnicity), ppl don't LIVE that way, it is a modern functioning town; the built environment is like a permanent Canal-Land theme park (i call it a Calvinist Disneyland when i try to shorthand the vibe)
what this means is that pella has a "dutch fronts" law: any building on a busy thoroughfare has to have a peaked roof, shutters, etc (facade at least), leading to some architectural authenticies such as a pointy light blue self-serv car wash on the south side of town. Pella is a lucrative enough market that it has dictated these terms to even big fish who want to do business there (the mcdonalds even has delft tiles in the inside decor). along w this is a "lit sign" ordinance which means NO NEON anywhere in town (it's not like there are any decent bars there anyway) which got even belligerently one-size-fits-all Wal-Mart to knuckle under.
the motor to all this is still the insular dutch calvinist stock that founded the town in the 1860s, led by one Rev. Heinrich Pieter Scholte (who then made a killing in land speculation of the surround area). today, it's very religious, strongly republican, known throughout the state as being snooty, myopic, and rich. Many of the residents really do think it's the best place on earth, and Des Moines media takes any opportunity to make fun of it that they can.
xpost to Brian: Boat's Furniture?? no shit! no, i don't think so... my folks moved there from milwaukee in the early 80s, my dad's a professor. the changing social makeup of the town is it's own funny story, seeing all the hmong kids do the clogging is kind of a trip.
― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Not pretty Inverness (as immortalised by Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island)http://www.worldtour-of-scotland.com/tour/images-tour/1308-inverness-ugly.jpg
The hospital I was born inhttp://www.axsys.co.uk/gfx/raigmore.jpg
My secondary schoolhttp://www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/school_info/images/cauldeen.jpg
A nice picturehttp://www.chez.com/pierrephi/Scotland/Sights/inverness.gif
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― BrianB (BrianB), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)
My town:
http://www.wiltonct.org/images/wiltonCenter.jpg
― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 16 February 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)
then lived in the same town as this thing for a bit.http://www.ccs.uky.edu/~douglas/bells/images/USA/bloomington-chime.jpg
and then moved to round the corner from this roadhttp://www.bridgetothestars.net/images/sunderland.jpgthe significance of this last place, is that it's the road where characters from this world in the Dark Materials Trilogy can pass through into other worlds.
― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 16 February 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil, Monday, 16 February 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.betty-jotilley.com/pp.gifhttp://www.pacific-palisades.com/images/pacificpalisades.jpghttp://www.pp90272.com/4thpcx/110.gifhttp://www.pp90272.com/4th/2002/images/floats/p051float.jpghttp://www.imagekandi.com/photo/images/Pink%20Sky%20Over%20Pacific%20Palisades.jpg
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 16 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)
my house on upper right
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 16 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I., Monday, 16 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)
a nice little Italian couple moved to town...http://www.deranz.com/photoolivegarden1.jpg
main street...http://www.muermeulen.com/natchez/big/nov04_01.jpg
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 16 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)
http://northbellmoreschools.org/images/gifs/gunther.gifMy elementary school.
http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/mepham/mepham.jpgThis is my high school, site of a recent and deeply unpleasant scandal.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 16 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)
this one is so pretty, but i'm afraid it's been doctored beyond belief.
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.dpgrizz.com/Images/UeastSide/pa060002.jpg
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.frogandtoad.com.au/genimages/photos/act/regatta.gif
http://www.easyweddings.com.au/gardens/act/pics/glebe5.jpg
http://www.totaltravel.com/guide/photos/canberracity/canberra-parliament-house-australia.jpg
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 16 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)
the funny thing is I think I know precisely on which nasty bleak patch of arizona the photographer must've stood to get this shot.
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 February 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)
and http://www.sydney-australia.biz/maps/manly.jpg
and http://www.synapse.ne.jp/jyshp/travel/2002/usa7/may28/28-003_maine.jpg
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 16 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― the krza (krza), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.fenmore.com/TrenUrbano/Images/TransportFun/Img_0894.jpg
http://www.fenmore.com/TrenUrbano/Images/TransportFun/Img_0902.jpg
http://www.fenmore.com/TrenUrbano/Images/TransportFun/Img_0903.jpg
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.digitalballparks.com/Puerto_Rico_-_Outside2V2T.jpg
http://solo23.abac.com/tony-alicea/prphotos/pcondado.jpg
This one, along with the university tower and the stadium pics, I can tell are more than a few years old, noting from some details. This one in particular shows a giant seashell-shaped building pushed to the background, which used to be the La Concha hotel where my aunt used to work. It went bankrupt about 10 years ago, and it was demolished not long after that, so the kid must already be a teenager.
http://home.online.no/~indtrail/bilderlogo/stein/elmer04.jpg
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)
http://members.aol.com/bbrtravel3/prconda1.jpg
And yea, bout the uni tower pic. Here it is. (Tee hee...)
http://www.prboriken.com/upr.jpg
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)
I love the look on that kid's face.
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=puerto+rico+pictures/v=2/l=IVI/*-
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.latindance.com/webimages/puerto-rico/Puerto%20Rico_0017.jpg
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.medium.images.californiacoastline.org/images/medium/8586.JPG
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.medium.images.californiacoastline.org/images/medium/8584.JPG
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)
i grew up 2 mins from:http://acweb.colum.edu/users/agunkel/homepage/food/superdawg.JPG
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.tomoland.net/images/chg/chgav.jpg
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)
http://oceanviews.org/featured-properties_files/San-Ysidro,-1801-Opt.jpe
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)
http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/ilx/yorkshire/06.jpg
http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/ilx/yorkshire/04.jpg
http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/ilx/yorkshire/09.jpg
http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/ilx/yorkshire/10a.jpg
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/UK/UK-ENG-Bradford-IBritton2.jpg
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.mberger.ch/Expo-uk/046lib_chorley_450.JPG
http://www.mberger.ch/Expo-uk/049chorley_church_450.JPG
And this is where I bought my first underage drink
http://www.adlington.info/photo/topspinners.jpg
― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)
the only even ok pics i could find that accurately represent the town i grew up in...paw paw michigan. 'the town so nice, they named it twice!'
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)
http://photos.friendster.com/photos/14/30/2430341/747119698271m.jpg
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Not too inaccurate, really - about 10 minutes walk from my house. I could hear the crowds oohing and aahing if I stood in the garden.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.sol.co.uk/s/scott.wilson/Old_Dundee_Rooftops.jpg
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)
http://aebike.com/merchant/319/images/site/aebike-ext3.jpg
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Here are more of the lovely little town. Which isn't so little any more.
― Chris V (Chris V), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/oaklands/aerial1.gifhttp://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/oaklands/modern.gif
― robster (robster), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)
Wimbledon Common, believe it or not.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
First underage drink (rum and black) http://www.nina.gemineans.co.uk/pics/towns/weybridge/hand%26spear.JPG
I lived two minutes from Britain's first mosque http://www.nina.gemineans.co.uk/pics/towns/woking/mosque.JPG
I spent a number of Saturdays here, in Moaners' Corner (bottom left corner):http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwelt-Stadien-Arenen/Stadionlisten/England/WokingFC/woking_JH_03.jpg
This is where my parents fill up their car and we do pub quizes at the Maybury Inn just there on the righthttp://www.goddardmultimedia.fsnet.co.uk/semg/huhljct.jpg
This is the prettiest picture I can find. I think it might technically be Send rather than Woking.http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/images/html/aerials_UK_historical_sites/abbey_priory_church_tor/images/DS_abbey02.jpg
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Sainte Marie de Campanhttp://www.arcouade.com/images/ste_marie.jpg
and, er, Ferringhttp://www.dave.wicken.btinternet.co.uk/images_for_my_web_site/documentary/ferring_girl_bw.jpg
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway, I'm born in Utrecht, the Netherlands (moved back in 1990):http://www.etcl.nl/ssnr/gallery/utrecht.jpghttp://dutcharchitecture.com/utrecht.jpghttp://drag.fawcus.com/mark/images/travel/utrecht.jpghttp://squat.net/puscii/utrecht.jpghttp://home-1.worldonline.nl/~ac29096/gr/utrecht.jpghttp://law.wustl.edu/Academics/exchange/images/utrecht-street3.jpg
grew up in Hoogezand-Sappemeer (Groningen, a northern province of the Netherlands), with its beautiful railway station:http://www.hoogezand-sappemeer.nl/archief/hoogezand/00024.jpg
now there's a tiny shitty new one (orange thingy behind the tree is the sorry roof)http://www.hoogezand-sappemeer.nl/archief/hoogezand/00024_N.jpg
H-S is also the place of birth of current sprint speed skating world champion Marianne Timmer:http://www.viewcalgary.com/peter/skatingWCup/images/timmer_4138.jpg
― willem (willem), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)
About 100 years later, not much has changed. There's a big village Xmas tree in the frame on the right that was a gift from the people of Canada after that awful WW1 explosion in Halifax(?). My parents' house was built in 1946 and is not visible here. The street lights now are electric but remain. The road is paved.
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Sunday, 27 March 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)
NYC, Crosby and Spring. Today, the near right corner is a Starbucks, the near left is Balthazar, and the far left is a Met museum store.
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 28 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 March 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)
This is the main street of the town where I went to high school. Notice how the only things that have changed in the past 58 years are the cars.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)
― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
http://www.london-northwest.com/sites/images/goldersgr.JPG
― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/MetchenMainSt.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/MetuchenVacation.jpg
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)
http://www.heritageantiquemaps.com/Gallery/Repro%20Maps/CO-Greeley-1882.jpg
http://www.greeleycvb.com/ecards/images/Stampede299x400.jpg
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)
Directly across the street from here (where I took many a childhood stroll):http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/tour/pcde18a.gif
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)
― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)
― brianiac (briania), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)
― brianiac (briania), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)
the sourland mountains, somerset county NJ
http://www.richmangalleries.com/images/crewfog.jpg
lake carnegie, princeton, nj
http://www.pheasantslanding.com/Images/PLBuilding11.jpg
pheasant's landing, hillsborough, nj -- we used to get drunk here
http://www.richmangalleries.com/images/Neshanic_Station.jpg
the old truss bridge in neshanic station
ihttp://www.homes101.net/photos/communities/NJ_Somerset(FranklinTownship)_8449.jpg
the neshanic water mill
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/help/temp_presentations/frank_new/images/image123.jpg
PU
http://www.littleviews.com/LV_art/princeton-archways.jpg
mo' pu
ihttp://users.ox.ac.uk/~linc1417/princeton/Across%20Nassau%20Street.jpg
nassau street, across from PU
http://www.shopprinceton.com/images/PJhouse.gif
pancakes for the PU snots
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)
http://www.a-league.com/Andrews/photos/knox-5.jpg
Not literally, but you get the idea. Yes, it's horrible.
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)
http://www.saintandrewscathedral.org/images/map_block_photo.jpg
the 'hood where dad grew up (at least till he was 5 or so) -- before it was trendy and hip (or as "trendy and hip" as philadelphia can get)
ihttp://www.phillytown.com/liberties.jpg
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/old_pw_images/main/5517_1.jpg
it was NOT this, um, "cool" when i was little
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
http://www.beyonddc.com/images/photos/dc/tenleytown/apts01.jpg
http://fems.dc.gov/fems/lib/fems/img2/20020617e20station.jpg
ihttp://www.kestan.com/dcstock/buildingsprivate/5033%20Tenley%20radio%20tower%20scene%20(good).jpg
http://contaxg.com/archive/gwhiz8/chen/FortReno.JPG
http://www.armandspizza.com/newsite/images/store_tenley.jpg
http://www.barrywilson.net/BWPHOTO/Tenleytown.jpg
― Super Cub (Debito), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)
Ellington High School:http://www.tcdc.org/schools/photos/34.jpg
As a pretentious fuxor I would hang out at Politics and Prose:http://www.bookweb.org/gallery/LonelyPlanet/images/Politics%20&%20Prose%20-%20talking%20Travel%20with%20customers%20&%20staff.jpg
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)
I went to Sidwell (my apologies)
― Super Cub (Debito), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)
My birthplace: Panama City, Florida
http://www.panamacitymetro.addr.com/06.jpgHome of the only four-headed palm in the world.
http://www.ivindustries.com/hines/gallery/albums/bridge/DSCN0474.sized.jpgLooking north at the old U.S. Highway 98 Hathaway Bridge as itexplodes, the new span is right behind. It's the third time they've rebuilt that bridge because salt water's eaten it away and traffic keeps getting heavier and heavier. It connects Panama City Beach with Panama City (which is entirely different...the former's very affluent/bourgeois/over-developed, and that latter's very proletarian/derelict/grey/redneck with lots of retired military folks).
http://www.panamacityonline.com/pconline/dwntnslide/images/IMG_1943.jpg
My residence/hometown: Tallahassee, Florida
http://www.hellotallahassee.com/Tallahassee/images/Tallahassee-Downtown.jpgDefinitely taken from our priapic State Capitol and facing to the north. Fake brick road on the left is Adams Street (and you'll notice fake brick crosswalks to the right on Monroe Street, which runs parallel to Adams Street) and the street in the immediate foreground is Jefferson Street. Tall buildings in the center are the Highpoint Center (appropriately) and the Doubletree Hotel immediately behind it. To the right of them, the narrow brown tower is a Sprint antenna and the brown building further behind that is the Georgia Bell Apartments (a residence for the elderly).
http://www.attention-to-details.com/newslogimg/tallahassee-at-night-2_993.jpgCool picture of Monroe Street (US Highway 27) about three miles north of downtown.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/kingsch/tallahassee.jpgFacing west toward the aforementioned phallic State Capitol that could also be construed as a middle finger to the city (with the knuckles/balls being the House of Representatives on the right and the Senate on the left...plus there are two other buildings beside them that are obscured that would make a "full hand" if you could see them...but you can't, so pretend it's a giant penis), and Apalachee Parkway (also US Highway 27) leading up to it. I live about 2.5 miles east of here.
http://home.comcast.net/~dondraughon/tenn-.jpgTennessee Street facing eastward at its intersection with Macomb Street. There are a few restaurants and concert venues in this area that Florida State students frequent, the homeless shelter is where the mural in the center of the picture is, and the Holiday Inn Express is the tallest bulilding featured in this image.
http://home.comcast.net/~dondraughon/monthom-.jpgAnd finally the intersection of Thomasville Road and Monroe Street further north from downtown. Not very attractive, but it's a bit more real than those nice downtown aerial views.
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/a558/a312/gallery/England/Notts_and_Leics/Blackfordby.jpg
This is the spring. I did not know it was megalithic. You can drink from it. Sometimes there are tadpoles. It has been done up. It looked better in my day. The youth club is just next door, with the chapel on the other side. We used to have school dinners in the chapel.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)
Sacred spring in Leicestershire and Rutland.Blackfordby Spring is situated near the chapel in the lower part of the village (INACCURATE!!!!) which is at the bottom of the hill some 200 yards south-west of the church.
This may be the well once known as St Margaret's Well.
It delivers water copiously at over five gallons a minute and, apparently, has never been known to fail. Until piped water was introduced, it was used by practically the whole village.
Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)
ihttp://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=433000&y=318000&scale=10000
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)
http://www.amaconsultants.co.uk/images/HDevtPhoto101.jpg
Looks a bit Dickensian but apparently it's been done up since.
― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)
― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)
Proof:http://www.roberthegyes.com/guest2.jpg
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)
The tiger at the natural history museum is a classic relic of my childhood, much like the creepy blue dude at the bottom of the well at Casa Bonita.
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)
http://www.findaproperty.com/fitzroys/highgate/p1095255.jpg
http://www.findaproperty.com/fitzroys/highgate/p1095393.jpg
This is Jersey city, where I grew up.
http://jclist.com/modules/xcgal/albums/userpics/10280/normal_JerseyCity.jpg
http://jclist.com/modules/xcgal/albums/userpics/10371/jc14.jpg
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)
there's quite a few books about metuchen on amazon, also.
funny you mentioned bobby hegyes, because on this other messageboard there was a thread about famous people who went to your school, and i listed him [along with lonny price & david copperfield].
sayreville & metuchen are not that far away from each other...
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)
― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
jon bonjovi is a puerto rican jew?!?
metuchen IS a cute town (though it's surrounded by edison and iselin, NEITHER of which are "cute").
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)
this is the tattoo im going to get, as soon as i get over my fear of needles & can wrangle up the cash...
http://plainparade.org/etc/metuchen.jpg
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)
http://www.hawthornenglish.com/fifthestate/archives/040.030.040.040.030.020/325/straccom.JPGhttp://www.olc-international.com/images/summer19.jpghttp://www.estudy.ru/photogallery/england/small/strathallan-accom.jpg
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)
― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)
Okay, this one's not as exciting:
http://www.copsafe.com/map.gif
― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
-- Super Cub
What year? And thanks, by the way, for reminding me of Armand's Pizza.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)
THE EDGWARE:http://www.mwbex.com/serviced_office_locations/imgs/loc_edgware.jpghttp://www.beerintheevening.com/articles/nl2/dcp00030.jpg
― blahblahblah (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)
― blahblahblah (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)
I almost went to that school Swygart.
― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)
― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)
― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
Ye olde brewery:http://www.picturesofengland.com/pictures/500/Lewes_1106513714.jpg
Where I had my first job:http://www.visitmap.info/images/photo/lewes/castle.jpg
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)
― mike a, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)
― you work for kay (dymaxia), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)
Someone made a video about Firth, ID, where I loved ages 7-12. It looks exactly the frigging same except now there's some fancy frigging plaza in the middle of town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcci3nGVYU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Collet's bar! The Stop 'N' Shop! My house was right behind that store. No one else has any reason to care but if you want to see an entire town in 2 minutes, there you go.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Friday, 15 June 2012 03:43 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.cardcow.com/images/set380/card00338_fr.jpg
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Friday, 15 June 2012 04:41 (thirteen years ago)