http://www.northamptonneneanglingclub.co.uk/images/PETE%20SCOTT%20FCWM%202ND.JPG
Don't recognise this guy, although I think he's standing by the river that runs underneath the KFC on New Farm Road bridge. I burned the ID tags on some money I stole from work there once.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/legendofthefallen/LOS-FarCotton.png
They appear to have missed out Mr Chippy chip shop and that Polish lad that got stabbed a few weeks back here.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.northamptonshire-history.org.uk/photos/trams/racecourse_tram_stop.jpg
I recognise this place, and it's about four miles away from Far Cotton. Good work.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/133861476_7ccc1baacc.jpg?v=0
Hey, this is a photo from my Flickr Account. This is from Up All Night down St Leonard's Road, now shut. Never seen that Cas Pennant looking dude before.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/140737544_d8780db12a.jpg?v=0
"Sith Lord of the Far Cotton Gamma", apparently. Looks more like a sex case in a hat he bought from the display at the chemist's counter.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.alien8recordings.com/release_image/name/194/size600/ALIENCD44CoverRGB.jpg
Dunno
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:17 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.southeastroads.com/south_carolina200/us-276_wb_at_sc-186_et.jpg
― and what, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)
it all looks like that
― and what, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.carolinarealtyguide.com/images/IMG_2130.JPG i think latebloomer lives here
― and what, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)
This is downtown Farmington, Missouri. http://farmington-mo.gov/images/100_0412_JPG.jpg http://farmington-mo.gov/images/100_0413_JPG.jpg
No one is here because everyone loves this place instead: http://www.rochesterbus.com/citylines/routes/Bus_Stop_Images/Bus_Stops/SE/WalMart_South_2.JPG
― Z S, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.farmington.k12.mo.us/images/random/district/band001.jpg
Here is the high school band room, where I spent many hours playing the same percussion instruments that are still there now, from the looks of it. The guy on the right is the teacher, by the way, not a student.
― Z S, Saturday, 26 July 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/299566740_df88fed0e7.jpg?v=0
but I left when very young so I don't remember much worth saying.
― Euler, Saturday, 26 July 2008 21:34 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~chung/photos.2006/Pics/061029%20-%20Princeton,%20NJ%20058.JPG http://media.theknot.com/ImageStage/Objects/0001/0001369/intro_image.jpg http://www.princetonsrestaurants.com/www.princetonsrestaurants.com/images/large/georges-roasters-princeton-367x351.jpg
that last pic is of one of my favorite places in the whole world
― max, Saturday, 26 July 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.pixelmonkee.com/blog/uploaded_images/santa-monica-third-street-promenade-night-748502.jpg http://www.visitingdc.com/images/santa-monica-pier-address.jpg http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~hlarsen/photos/summer05/LA/2005.07.04%20-%20Santa%20Monica%20Beach5.jpg
― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 26 July 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)
http://smlimos.com/SantaMonicaPier-600.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bmx_santa_monica_beach.jpg/450px-Bmx_santa_monica_beach.jpg http://i.pbase.com/u39/mcwave/large/40560301.SantaMonica02SettingSun.jpg
...
Was born in Santa Monica
http://www.doe.mtu.edu/houghton/houghton01.jpg
jumped off this bridge once
― dan m, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/JunctionWide.jpg So familiar. Left track took me to Brum.
― DavidM, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1077/1463303161_30a07a3ae6.jpg?v=0
Used to play on this railway, even changed the points once (on a little used siding). One evening, when I was 10 about or younger, a friend and I walked along the tracks almost all the way to the station - a couple of miles - causing my parents much grief, both at our absence, and upon discovering what we'd been up to.
― ledge, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)
yay for coincidental xposts!
― ledge, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)
Place where I was born was called "town" by the folks who lived where I lived.
http://www.whitecountyar.org/GemTheater-HeberSpringsAR.jpg
I saw The Fox & The Hound, The Toy, and Bambi in this theatre.
http://media.point2.com/p2a/htmltext/f576/a7b6/b3e5/ab48dd348b248987b4b4/original.jpg
Whenever I tell someone about where I'm from, they always ask me about the cliffs. Sadly, I've only been up there once or twice.
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles17144.jpg
Yup.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.timshome.com/travel/bolivia/bl14_la_paz.jpg My parents were in the Peace Corps in La Paz, Bolivia when I was born. I have no memories from then.I was a baby when we returned to the States and went back there to see for myself in 1999. I really enjoyed hanging out there for a couple of weeks, except for getting held up at knife-point once. The food was horrible. The people I spoke with called themselves "poor but happy"
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)
me, that is. Scott was born in Chappaqua.
― Maria :D, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)
Oops, I only now realize that this is supposed to be about where you were born, not where you grew up.
I was born in Des Moines, Iowa. I know nothing about the place. I guess it looks decent enough.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1129/1393449687_97941c20e1.jpg
― Z S, Saturday, 26 July 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/wWestEdMall.jpg The hideous brown building in the top right corner is the actual hospital I was born in.
The hideous sprawling building in the main bit of the picture was, at the time of my birth and for quite a while afterwards, the world's biggest shopping centre. My family lived down the street from here for the first five years of my life, with the main benefit being that I got to go to the waterslides ALL THE TIME. And one time I thought I was all clever when I convinced my dad to take me to the amusement park by telling him I was really good at driving the bumper cars.
The photograph was taken after all the good stuff in the mall disappeared, though. Submarines: gone. Original amusement park with indescribably epic pirate adventure multi-storey climbing/playing apparatus and mess of mile-long blue slides: gone. Fish ponds: gone. Amazing machine enclosed in glass where coloured balls went through all kinds of weird clockwork and mechanics and made pretty noises: heartbreakingly, gone.
― salsa shark, Sunday, 27 July 2008 02:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CoolamonHotel.jpg/800px-CoolamonHotel.jpg cheating, as I wasn't born here. And Australia's so big, nothing is really in the area. However, this hotel was on the corner I would pass on the mornings I would want to go on the slide before school. I remember once three of us did the Nutbush on the picnic table across from this pub.
― o-ess, Sunday, 27 July 2008 02:41 (seventeen years ago)
xpost - Salsa, I visited Edmonton last October (and Calgary last August. Part of my Get To Know Alberta Campaign Of 2007, I guess.) It was interesting seeing the two rival cities one after the other. Calgary was the more "fun and developed" city, but I came away from Edmonton feeling I saw "more of Alberta" there, for lack of a better phrase, which was really neat but also a bit sad. Never had I seen a city where the NEW parts were growing like such a bright fluorescent army of lichens over the OLD parts than Edmonton -- especially on the east end of downtown near the swing of the North Sask river. That said, while I think I'll visit Calgary next time I'm up there, I really wanna swing by Edmonton too, just to make sure some of the old parts are still there.
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 27 July 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)
Walton-On-Thames
http://www.dyslexia-surrey.co.uk/Walton/Pics/WaltonRiver.jpg
Goddam that picture brings back memories. My dad had a little dinghy called Pyewacket and we'd go for a little row in that. Swans, pike, moss, mud and the odd pram or dead body.
― moley, Sunday, 27 July 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)
http://aussieexotics.com/drivers/albums/userpics/ferrari-challenge-stradale-360-crash-melbourne-03.jpg
was born maybe 15-20min walk from here
lol
― S-, Sunday, 27 July 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn238/japan1911/groovebackcopysmhl6.jpg
― bnw, Sunday, 27 July 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)
dammit dan beat me to the Lift Bridge.
anyway, in one night I puked in the parking lot of this Subway: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/10443837_1cdf827fe4.jpg
and in the parking lot of this church: http://www.michiganmorels.com/road-show/up_images/houghton-hancock/houghton-church.jpg
and finally off this bridge, while showing my wife how easy it is to just throw up and get the booze out of you: http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2684132-Houghton_Michigan-Houghton.jpg
― joygoat, Sunday, 27 July 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2393/2333126215_c872512647.jpg?v=0
― bnw, Sunday, 27 July 2008 03:03 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.pgbuildersandpotomacservices.com/web_images/ramp.jpg http://cheverlypool.com/content/files/Image/poolview4(2).jpg http://photos.mris.com/nfs/photos12/1/0/4/2/5/9/10425970841_1_M.jpg
haven't lived in Cheverly, Maryland since I was a baby, though I live a half hour from there now, so I don't recognize any of this stuff
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2008 03:17 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2042/2433981226_ef74267408.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3241/2432135587_06a50aef86.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2433974804_e345b30c36.jpg
― burt_stanton, Sunday, 27 July 2008 03:28 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/285950176_ca8fa811e5.jpg
Yeah, it's New Jersey. Paterson.
― burt_stanton, Sunday, 27 July 2008 03:29 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.visitidaho.org/assets/photos/detail/IdahoFalls01.jpg
Tiny antiques store that sold a lot of "antiques" along the lines of plastic Garfield lunchboxes. Me & my pals would skip classes & walk over there to look at jewelry & comic books.
http://www.youridahofalls.com/images/idaho_falls_applebees_sm.jpg
THE fucking Applebee's in Idaho Falls, where I'd go drive and pick my mom up from her waitressing shifts. I'd sit at the bar and these two gay guys who owned a fancy restaurant across the street called 'Rutabagas' would buy me mozz sticks & colas, and I'd draw them pictures and give them footrubs. I am way too nostalgic about this Applebee's.
http://www.rutabagasidahofalls.com/images/wes-rutabagas-chef.jpg
Oh my gosh I found a photo of fucking Wes! (Not Scott, tho, his partner in crime/small business.)
― Abbott, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ca/CAGARdonut_solosan.jpg
― carne asada, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:23 (seventeen years ago)
what can you say? it's a big ass donut!!
― carne asada, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.youridahofalls.com/images/tautphaus-park-sunken-baseball-diamond_small.jpg
Summertime in the park: we'd each drive a car there, roll down the windows, and play 'Coast to Coast AM' simultaneously. This tradition lasted about five weeks.
http://filelibrary.myaasite.com/Content/20/20988/5534525.jpg
This lady was a realtor in Idaho Falls & her photo was on every other billboard & park bench. I made (what I thought was) a HILARIOUS geocities site about her in seventh grade. It is hard to surpass the real thing, tho.
http://www.youridahofalls.com/images/snow-photo-falls-idaho-greenbelt_small.jpg
Iciness. Idaho Falls' falls (aka Idaho Falls) (aka 'the falls') were manmade to cover up a hydroelectric thing. Not "cover up" in the Coast to Coast AM sense. I am pro-hydroelectric.
― Abbott, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:29 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.2pi.info/travel/qld05/p1294171_r.jpg
port macquarie. thats pretty much all of it.
― sunny successor, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:43 (seventeen years ago)
if u eat applebees boneless buffalo wings 2x a week for 3 months u will stop being nostalgic about applebees
also i hate a burger of theirs that had bone in it
your welcome abbott
― deeznuts, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:47 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.cathchurch.net/nsw/parish/Port%20Macquarie_2.jpg
we went here to st agnes every sunday unless we were late in which case we'd go to the filthy protestant church across the road. my father and the priest got into a fight at a bar one night so we had to stop going to St A.
― sunny successor, Sunday, 27 July 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)
I'm not entirely sure how to play this game, but here goes...
http://www.bradley.edu/hilltopics/04summer/images/04sumpaper.jpg
Construction on one of the towers was halted after neighborhood organizations objected. Last I checked, a half completed radio tower still stands there.
http://coldwar-c4i.net/WU/wu-tenley-s1.jpg
I used to be fascinated by this firehouse.
http://fems.dc.gov/fems/lib/fems/img2/20020617e20station.jpg
― Super Cub, Sunday, 27 July 2008 06:21 (seventeen years ago)
Cole Williams '05 is a JERK.
― Z S, Sunday, 27 July 2008 07:24 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.thespasdirectory.com/images/bruce/wfh2.jpg
Thanks GIS!
(always wondered what went on in the brine baths)
― DavidM, Sunday, 27 July 2008 08:22 (seventeen years ago)
I remember when this used to be a Hindmarsh Building Society branch. THEN EVERY BUILDING SOCIETY HAD TO BECOME A BANK YAHHHHH
http://www.adelaidebank.com.au/images/maps/branch-morphett-vale.jpg
― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:25 (seventeen years ago)
http://martingoodman.com/soyouwanttobeawriter/uploaded_images/Taplow-Hospital-786246.jpg
I was born in this hospital but never lived here so fuck that
― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.wantageband.org/buglestage.jpg
The West of England Band Contest has been held at Bugle, Cornwall for over 80 years. The Wantage 'A' band made a second visit there on Saturday 17th June. Entering the 1st section and conducted by Philip Harper, we came 2nd, winning a cup and a cheque for £250. The Contest has some unusual features: it is held on an open-air stage in the middle of a field, and so is very susceptible to the weather - fortunately this was good (but perhaps too hot!) this year. Another feature is the parade of bands, both before the Contest and after, to and from the field. We couldn't join in the morning parade as several players travelled down on the day, but we took part in the evening one.
The Wantage contingent were made very welcome by both committee and the (large) crowd, and we should certainly consider an early return!
^^^RONG what you should do is not shit up my youthful summer evenings by practicing incessantly in a prefab hut across the road from my house and then walk through the village playing your tooting parping garbage the entire day of my birthday weekend EVERY FUCKING YEAR
― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:32 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.yell.com/images/uk/london/east_ham.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:38 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.cornwall-info.co.uk/graphics/bugle%20inn.jpg
A squaddie started a fight in here once and got dragged up the road and had his head run over
― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:39 (seventeen years ago)
Here's a street very similar to the one what i was born into... http://lh4.ggpht.com/Krishnaraj.Leo/R3kKeiWguoI/AAAAAAAABRU/V9RNnvkHI2U/IMG_0488.JPG?imgmax=512
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:41 (seventeen years ago)
Probably the trees were smaller.
http://bugle.play-cricket.com/UploadedFiles/LinkImages/60657/jpg/_lg_tealady__1634.jpg
Don't forget that Bugle is in sunny Cornwall, home to blue seas, sandy beaches, surfing dudes, and more importantly, beach babes! We cannot guarantee the young lady pictured below will be playing when you visit Sandy Lane, but you can always live in hope!
― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:44 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.londonphotoproject.co.uk/data/080417/dsc04631_full.jpg
never got a train from here, it's crap :D
― DG, Sunday, 27 July 2008 09:50 (seventeen years ago)
Was born here, so I'm a proper Londoner, gor blimey guvnor etc. etc.:
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/imageuploads/1201460847_62.49.27.213.jpg
― Neil S, Sunday, 27 July 2008 10:23 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.latebreaks.com/destinations/uploads/1/Inverness-sm.jpg
― Humphrey Plugg, Sunday, 27 July 2008 10:40 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.lakemohawksparta.com/DSC01878.JPG
This is the boardwalk on Lake Mohawk, probably my hometown's central 'attraction'. It's owned by the country club that is probably my hometown's biggest shame (privately owned, controls all the property around the lake). You can see the country club's restaurant (with the yellow awnings) up ahead. Past there a ways is a playground where I played as a kid and got drunk as a teenager back from college. On the near end (behind the camera that must have taken this shop) is an ice cream shop that has changed its name seemingly every summer since I was a kid. It'll always be 'Scoops', which was its original name, to me.
I skinned both my knees really badly on this boardwalk when I was a kid, running when I should have been walking.
When we were in the later years of high school, we'd often hang out here on summer nights, when we weren't at the diner. For a while this weird kid named S3an J0seph C4rroll was always there, who was probably mildly retarded tbh. He became something of a mascot to us; his two catch-phrases were 'fuckin chicken rice' and 'I like the blondies with the boobies.'
― G00blar, Sunday, 27 July 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/73431361_5362960011.jpg
I was personally kicked out of a showing of 'Dave' (starring Kevin Kline) here, by the evil old guy that owns the cinema. I think I was 15. My crime was throwing skittles at a friend. I was only caught because (as I learned later) one of the skittles actually landed in my friend's pocket, bounced out, then clanged around in the metal of the folding seat. I vowed never to return to this theatre, a vow which I have kept.
― G00blar, Sunday, 27 July 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/bryansbike/boldon/Boldon_Colliery_sunset.jpg
The view out of the windows of the comprehensive school that I went to. Pit has been closed, all the workings demolished, the slag heaps all landscaped for years now.
There was a bitter rivalry between our school and the nearest school to us "boldon versus the biddicks" and there would on occasion be big mass punch-ups on the slag heaps over some grievance or other. We'd often go and watch but I was always too much of a pussy to actually take part. The biggest one we ever spectated, there were loads of guys beating on each other, a load of cop cars arrived, sirens and lights going, and everyone who was fighting sat down at once, it was a weird sight, like it had been coreographed. When we were leaving we passed this big, stocky skinhead carrying a big fuck-off rice flail. Serious business!
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:32 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/images/2007/06/13/spring_rainbow_01_353x470.jpg
View from my bedroom window, slightly enlarged, sans rainbow.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.rugeleyonline.co.uk/places/streets/bow_street/2007_0121rugeley0102.jpg
Building front left is where I used to get my hair cut. If Hans was the next dude free you was gonna get one wobbly neckline.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:36 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/images/uploads/60993_logo.jpg?r=1217162026
corner building near east boldon station. now an estate agents, has in the past been a sandwich shop and a complementary medecine place. Whyen I was a kid it was the local branch of Martins Bank. I had an account there, had a money-box shaped like a grasshopper. Relatives used to put money in it regularly for me, very kind of them. They completely wasted their money, the bank was taken over (IIRC by Barclays) about ten years ago, when I was totally on my fucking uppers I attempted to #trace the money. "Sorry we lost the details & have no record". Thanks a fucking bunch guys, that's REAL fucking classy. Still feel bitter about this, not b/c I lost my money, but because a bunch if kind, decent people threw their money away for nothing. Cunts.
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:39 (seventeen years ago)
This is an outstanding idea for a thread btw Dom.
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:40 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Staffordshire/images/StaffsRugeleyMemorial-1.jpg
Things to do in Staffordshire when you're dead.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/515953518_66b1d290b0.jpg?v=0
Used to sit up here and mope out a lot.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:42 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.storm-crow.co.uk/pics/chase_trees.jpg
I miss the Chase.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3240456.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=DCB332A6E7C66BD3D02D5D39A26BA282A55A1E4F32AD3138
William Palmer, local boy made good.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:49 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/216/494725102_bc6cb146bc.jpg?v=0
Walked all the way along the bottom ledge of this bridge (<6 inches wide), hardcore eh. Also used to swim in the river, probably far more dangerous in retrospect.
― ledge, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:50 (seventeen years ago)
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2943766-Flushing_NY_2006-Flushing.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2323/2219577968_e42f36d77c.jpg
http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/sheast70.jpg
this also came up in the search:
― get bent, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:53 (seventeen years ago)
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/fran2.jpg
― get bent, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:54 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.eastboldoninfants.co.uk/media/aerial.jpg
Infant school I went to. When I were but a lad, the playground was divided in two by a big wall, and there were outdoor toilets. The 2 boys urinals were back to back and it was a challenge for us to try and pee over the top of the wall. you had to look out for a jet of piss coming over when you went for a pee yourself.
The wall round the school seemed impossibly high when we were there, you couldn't even jump high enough to see over it. Last time i walked past the place, the wall only just came up to my chest!
At the back of the playground, just off the bottom of the pic was a roofed-over bit. There was a gang of wild girls in the playground whose steez was to corner one boy and kiss him, which to a 7yo was the MOST DISGUSTING THING EVER. They once got me cornered under the roofed bit, but there was this empty oil drum so I gopt behind it, beat on the top of it with my hands and shouted YAAAAAAA and they all ran away screaming. Victory!
Also, the headmistress used to signal the end of playtime by blowing a whistle. One day, the school naughty kind came in with a whistle of his own and caused havoc SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Generally happy memories of going to school here.
When we were teenagers, a small group of us discovered the it was possible to get up onto the roof, so we'd climb up there, sit in one of the valleys and, as noodle says, "mope out". It was pretty cool! One evening when we were up there, the women's aerobics club came in and stayed for an hour. We had to sit completely still so as not to be caught! It was pretty scary.
The building on the R of the school is the church. Some kid who was a bit too into Ozzy and Black Sabbath tried to get onto the roof to rip off the cross. He got stuck up there, and had to be rescued (& arrested) by the cops! Daft sod.
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:57 (seventeen years ago)
Cool thing about the church was that it had a mural above the altar painted by Italian prisoners of war during WW2
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)
Wonderful modernist buildings @ flushing meadows, are they still there, or long gone?
― ledge, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:00 (seventeen years ago)
A lass from my class at secondary school comes up in the first 10 pages of image search, but I'm together enough not to post her. She was cool. We spent one of the very best days of my life having long soul-searchy chat on Chesil Beach during a field trip once.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=122021&stc=1&d=1170289607
This dude crashed his bike and died whilst riding thru town.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)
that middle one is from the '39 new york world's fair. there are still a few remnants of that fair and the '64-'65 one in flushing meadows corona park.
― get bent, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:07 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.shooflypublishing.co.uk/images/the_shoo_box.jpg
This used to be a big redbrick electricity substation. We were always secretly thrilled by the "Warning danger of DEATH" notices posted around it. I had a rubber ball which rolled under the metal fence, just out of reach. I went and got a stick to get it, but someone with longer arms than me got it in the interim ;_;
At some point over the last 20yrs, it must have been decomissioned, for someone has turned it into this grotesque house?! Lulz.
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:09 (seventeen years ago)
haha i rather like the grotesque house!
― get bent, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)
I kind of like the faux modernist thing going on with that house.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)
lol xpost snap
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)
i like the faux arts-and-crafts woodwork
― get bent, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:14 (seventeen years ago)
there are a lot of houses in venice, ca with a similar look:
http://static.flickr.com/69/171470021_d2585b0bd3.jpg
― get bent, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)
That looks like something from GTA: San Andreas.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:30 (seventeen years ago)
I think it's the contrast between what it was - a big redbrick cube, with danger notices all over it, and what it is that makes me go 0_o at it. Next time I pass through Boldon, I'll try and get some pics of it.
― Pashmina, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)
Painesville, OH, county seat of Lake County:
http://www.ojjpac.org/tn_Photo%208-21-07%20Painesville%20Vigil.jpg
Not many good pictures available online, aside from this train derailment from last year that happened a few miles from where my mother works:
http://www.newsinferno.com/wp-includes/images/Train-Derail-3.jpg
And these floods from 2006:
http://images.usatoday.com/weather/_photos/2006/07/28/apsevereweather_006.jpg
― Pancakes Hackman, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
I didn't live in Painesville, though, even though I was born there. I lived in Perry, OH, which is most notable for this:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/perry_ohio_plant_nr.jpg
Despite the two cooling towers, only one reactor there is online and they never finished the second. It was completed shortly after I graduated high school in 1987, pumping a huge infusion of tax money into the school system and turning it from one of the region's worst when I attended into one of the region's best. I actually worked there the summer after my sophomore year of college, earning easy money working in the plant mailroom.
http://www.perrychristianchurch.org/Church.gif
Perry Christian Church. Used to go here for Xmas and Easter when I was very little. My aunt was married here, my grandfather was buried here. The former pastor, Laray Sa1i5bury, had a daughter in my grade in high school. She got pregnant her senior year. I threw up in this church once.
http://i.pbase.com/o3/06/43706/1/88432889.lxx9pwpm.IMGP5584LakeshoreRes.jpg
Lakeshore Reservation, part of the Lake Metroparks system, in North Perry. We lived in Perry Village, so I didn't spend much time there.
― Pancakes Hackman, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
Moved away before I was a year old, so no first-hand memories... I can't have seen direct sunlight for the first three weeks om my life though --
http://bp2.blogger.com/_5_dOgOLO6n0/R3Klr9hfOII/AAAAAAAAAAo/afb-HoX2VLE/s320/tromsø.jpg
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 27 July 2008 13:59 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Electricity_pylon_near_colliers_wood_london.jpg/450px-Electricity_pylon_near_colliers_wood_london.jpg the estate we lived on backed onto wandle park, which was and still is awash with pylons. we were told not to play near them, and felt incredibly transgressive whenever we did.
http://spod.cx/oneaday/2006-12-09.jpg was recently voted the ugliest building in London.
http://www.urban75.org/london/images/morden-london-walk-08.jpg when we lived there, the wandle was mostly stagnant. we didn't notice the smell, though, thanks to the sewerage works at the end of the road/
― stevie, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
uglier than the millennium dome? nah
― salsa shark, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)
If Hans was the next dude free you was gonna get one wobbly neckline.
Ha, we used to have a barber who if you went too early, he'd have shaky hands. Too late, and his hands would be a bit too "fluid". Right before lunch though, and you got the best haircut in town.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 27 July 2008 15:11 (seventeen years ago)
Along the road from the house I grew up in, where we used to walk the dog, and where I still like to go and chill out:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/295532433_a4652bd7c1.jpg?v=0
Where my formative football-watching years were spent (just to the left of the stand)
http://www.caledonianfc.co.uk/groundsfornostalgia/kingsmills.jpg
My primary school (window below clock was head teacher's office, was believed by small children with no sense of perspective that said office was actually right at the top of the clock tower.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/375419278_9dc050d35f.jpg?v=0
― ailsa, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)
ha, bollocks to italics tags rather than image ones:
― ailsa, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
Football ground now gone, covered in houses :-( Football team also gone :-(
― ailsa, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)
same for the old football ground which was right behind my house (although we just used to trespass and mess around, rather than watch matches). team still around though - in the british gas business 'premier' league apparently!
― ledge, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/uploads/images/Pittsburgh%231%23.jpg
my mom used to work here
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 July 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)
Team theoretically around in the guise of Inverness Caledonian Thistle, but Inverness Thistle = gone.
Mum used to work here:
http://www.highstreetscotland.com/inverness/Inverness_castle.jpeg
― ailsa, Sunday, 27 July 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)