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As mentioned on the MySpace thread... Social web networking + travel + flickr integration + well designed web site = http://www.43 Places

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

I kind of like the quotes they have on the pages. Here's one:

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.
- Mohammed

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Schooled.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Ibn Battua travelled more than Mohammed.

― andy --, Friday, 11 November 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

This is a nice idea - I like doing little photoblogs about places around my city, I could get into this.

Its a shame the organisational thing seems a bit skewy - maybe some people arent using the site properly. The "St Kilda" entry (which makes it clear it is St Kilda of Melbourne Australia) has photos from some gy that look like remote Scottish highlands. Not that st kilda dude!

BUt yeah. Nice idea!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Little Rock gets pwned on 43 places. User Comments:

If I didn’t have a friend that lived in Little Rock, I honestly probably wouldn’t have any desire to visit.

I would not go there again
I have been here. Worth visiting! But every town is worth visiting, I jsut did not like the place.

Yes, I live in Little Rock. It is okay but only because I have adult children and grandchildren that live here. Otherwise, I would be almost anywhere but in Arkansas. I was born in Michigan, grew up in Kansas and moved here when I was still in school.
If I had it to do over…

Untitled
I have been here. Not worth it!
I went to Little Rock, once, for a show and I was wishing I was home the whole time. Had it not been for the company the whole trip would have been a waste.

Hitch-hiked through here on I-40
I have been here. Not worth it!
I don’t remember anything, sorry.

Deliverance+Waterboy
I have been here. Not worth it!
My god.

COME HERE AND SAY TAHT BITCHES!!!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

in the meantime, apparently people just dying to go to west memphis.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

And the Old Mill is in North Little Rock, bitches.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

thats a bitchin photo of it

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

That mill is such a hawt bitch.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

IT WAS FEATURED IN 'GONE WITH THE WIND', GOD DAMN YOU!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

in the meantime, apparently people just dying to go to west memphis.

The Walgreens beer selection, I'm tellin' you! People come from as far away as, uh... my house.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

when you live on the wrong side of the mississippi, thats gonna happen. My father lived in Scarsdale NY in the 60s and used to drive to Canada for alcohol. Im still not sure why.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

in the meantime, apparently people just dying to go to west memphis.

The Walgreens beer selection, I'm tellin' you! People come from as far away as, uh... my house.

free the west memphis beer!

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

OK, I added North Little Rock.

Under 'Your places" it says:

justonerabbit is going 0 places and doing 0 things. Its like it can read my mind, man!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

There are lots of great little Seattle lunch places up on the site.

Salumi: http://www.43places.com/places/view/192631
7 Stars Pepper: http://www.43places.com/places/view/227706
Matts in the Market: http://www.43places.com/places/view/108213
Le Pichet: http://www.43places.com/places/view/235599
Dick's Drive In: http://www.43places.com/places/view/220165

Also, another funny quote from a sidebar:

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
- Spalding Gray

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 12 November 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

bank. moorgate. old st. city road. angel. upper st. highbury corner. holloway rd. archway. highgate. muswell hill

― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 12 November 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

added an entry for Victoria, B.C.

And I started an entry for muthafuckin' THAI TOM!

(I couldn't believe out of the dozens of restaurants already listed in the U district section, no one mentioned this place. Now, that's rectified.)

― (plurplurplur) ^_- DJ 'O' Nut -_^ (rulprulprulp) (donut), Sunday, 13 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Was that you who just added the comment about Blue C Sushi?

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, I just checked the site, and yep. That was my comment you responded to.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 November 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Ha, the website is getting ILXered! I stopped at Baguette Box today & tried the drunken chicken sandwich, as mentioned on its page, and it wasn't very good. Way too salty. I had been debating between that & the tofu sandwich, I picked wrongly.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

This site is like cocaine. I can't stop wanting to contribute to it.

(haha, yeah, William, that was me. I was just augmenting your comment but from a day-to-day/cloxe proximity angle)

― (plurplurplur) ^_- DJ 'O' Nut -_^ (rulprulprulp) (donut), Monday, 14 November 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

this site is great. one day i'll post something besides "i've been there!"

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 November 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm not c ompletely getting it. what's its main purpose? becoming some sort of directory of places?
I'm surprised that the website doesn't adapt to the user, ie. suggesting places to see and things to do according to what you've already entered.

― Baaderonixx ménage ses forces dans l'attente du Grand Soir (baaderonixx), Monday, 14 November 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

I added ILX so that we wouldn't feel so lonely

― Baaderonixx ménage ses forces dans l'attente du Grand Soir (baaderonixx), Monday, 14 November 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

1. Friern Barnet (Library)
2. Colney Hatch Lane (Firs Avenue)
3. Colney Hatch Lane (North Circular Road)
4. Colney Hatch Lane (Hampden Road)
5. Colney Hatch Lane (Pembroke Road)
6. Colney Hatch Lane (Wilton Road)
7. Colney Hatch Lane (Alexandra Park Road)
8. Colney Hatch Lane ( Meadow Drive)
9. Muswell Hill Broadway
10. Muswell Hill Road (Fortis Green Road)
11. Muswell Hill Road (Cranley Gardens)
12. Muswell Hill road (Onslow Gardens)
13. Muswell Hill road (Highgate Wood)
14. Highgate Station
15. Archway Road (Southwood Avenue)
16. Archway Road (Northwood Road)
17. Archway road (Langdon Park Road)
18. Whittington Hospital
19. Archway station
20. Holloway Road (Elthorne Road)
21. Upper Holloway Station
22. Holloway Road (Wedmore Street)
23. Holloway Road (Mercers Road)
24. Holloway Road (Nag's Head)
25. Holloway Road (Liverpool Road)
26. Holloway Road (St. Mary Magdalene Church)
27. Highbury & Islington Station (Holloway Road)
28. Highbury & Islington Station (Upper Street)
29. Islington (Town Hall)
30. Islington (St. Mary's Church)
31. Islington Green
32. Islington (Angel)
33. City Road (Central Street)
34. City Road (Windsor Terrace)
35. Moorfields Eye Hospital
36. Old Street Station
37. City road (Epworth Street)
38. Moorgate (Finsbury Square)
39. Moorgate (Station)
40. Moorgate (Great Swan alley)
41. Bank
42. Monument
43. London Bridge (for London Dungeon)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 November 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

I like 17 the best out of those.

― robster (robster), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

i prefer 24.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

i'm a 15 man

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

oh noes, derailment.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised that the website doesn't adapt to the user, ie. suggesting places to see and things to do according to what you've already entered.

It does a little bit. On some popular goals, it will say:

People going here are also going to these places:
Roma
Firenze
Paris
(http://www.43places.com/places/view/105422)

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

im a 24 as well, same bus stop as ken

as for the site, i have now signed up, and will start on it later today

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. I will consider Costa Mesa eateries.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I just found this page again on the 43 places site:

http://www.43places.com/city/wanderlust/106707

I like the section on the right, places in Seattle and out of Seattle popular with Seattlites.

Places in Seattle popular with locals:
Bauhaus Books & Coffee
Victrola Coffee & Art
Safeco Field
La Carta De Oaxaca
Alibi Room
Piecora's

Places outside Seattle popular with locals:
Corn Palace
(in United States > South Dakota > Mitchell)
Idaho
(in United States)
Orcas Island
(in United States > Washington State > The San Juan Islands)
Seaside
(in United States > Oregon)
Lucca
(in Italy > Toscana)
Powell's City of Books
(in United States > Oregon > Portland)
Victoria
(in Canada > British Columbia > Vancouver Island)
Oregon
(in United States)
Snoqualmie Falls
(in United States > Washington State)

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

i added thai thom, cromer, wildwood, pittsburgh, roanoke to places ive been

and valparaiso and bergen to places i want to go

im not liking this site as much as i had hoped, thus far

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i had forgotten about this site. until today, i got an email from 43places. apparently, a girl wants to 'meet me'.

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/6/75176715_6b43c42e10.jpg?v=0

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

I quickly lost interest. I don't really see the point of this

― Baaderonixx born in Xyxax (baaderonixx), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah me neither

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I think the point ultimately is contributing to 'local' knowledge as much as asking around about places to go. It's fun for that! There are of course many sites where there's a build-up of description by consensus but I think this spot does it all pretty well.

Anyway, this is by way of preamble to note that I'm finally on:

http://www.43places.com/person/NedRaggett

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

i have jumped on the boat as well!

http://www.43places.com/person/tehresa

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 20 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hasselhoff me:
http://www.43places.com/person/baaderonix

― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Saturday, 20 May 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Desperately seeking to be hasselhoffed real good:
http://www.43places.com/person/mackro

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Saturday, 20 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

wow, a friend of mine had an idea for this type of website about four years ago. we should have tried to build it then. very cool!

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

you've been hasselhoffed, son
xpost

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 20 May 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

nm conviviality updated. i tried.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 20 May 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

well, helluva way to kick off a monday morn: the cops spraying a patch of road under suicide bridge with a high-powered water cannon thing.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Monday, 5 June 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

spelling it out, a guy jumped off this bridge (they call it 'suicide bridge), and the cops had to come along and uh clean up.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

I got you the first time, but what does this have to do with the 43places.com site?

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's on the 43 bus route.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

*drum fill*

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

grrrrrr,nomeansno at the anza ......shit!

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I was wondering where you were!

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

Did you not see the NMN thread on ILM?

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

nope i missed it but will NOT miss the next one at the commodore.

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

...oh my, bill will meet Ned!

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

THE WORLD WILL FOREVER CHANGE.

(I assume.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

This never caught on, did it?

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

It did in New Zealand!

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm going to start using this. It really is pretty cool.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

As mentioned on the MySpace thread... Social web networking + travel + flickr integration + well designed web site = http://www.43 Places

-- Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:18

lmbo

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

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