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EMMAh 05.18.2006 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by golden child
one flew over the cukoos nest was filmed at a mental instution that is down the street. thats about as exicting as it gets here, and that was 30 years ago.


You're kidding???
I love that movie, Jack Nicholson was so awesome in it:D
 

golden child 05.18.2006 09:55 PM

yup, driving by it you can see the window that the guy jumps out off

EMMAh 05.18.2006 09:58 PM

Hahaha crazy :)

jon boy 05.19.2006 10:26 AM

anyone from chicago needs to just put a picture of a cemetary.

Danny Himself 05.19.2006 10:58 AM

 

Depressing, or what? Everything just fades to grey or brown. Fucking England.

h8kurdt 05.19.2006 11:18 AM

All of England is like that not just Liverpool.

jon boy 05.19.2006 11:20 AM

agreed

h8kurdt 05.19.2006 11:25 AM

Are you mad? Why?

alyasa 05.19.2006 11:57 AM

I'd love to visit a moor. Like An American Werewolf In London.

Grete 05.19.2006 01:04 PM

my hometown( hometown?? ehm little village) izz DEAD DEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEAD

alyasa 05.19.2006 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grete
my hometown( hometown?? ehm little village) izz DEAD DEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEAD


Where do you stay? :)

Grete 05.19.2006 01:09 PM

in a very beatiful & interisting village near Cremona in north Italy! there are many cow & fields & farms! great!

alyasa 05.19.2006 01:12 PM

Wow, Italian villages are the most beautiful things in the world. Near here?

 

Society_In_My_Hole 05.19.2006 02:25 PM

Miles and Miles of pastures and cows. Some houses are close but most have their space. When you get into the 'city' we have a lot of Baptist churches(also seen in the country) fast food places, trailor parks, the 'ghetto' and Walmart. It sorda sucks.

EMMAh 05.19.2006 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa
Wow, Italian villages are the most beautiful things in the world. Near here?



 


Woah... what's with the sky?
If that's not edited I'm freak out...

Grete 05.19.2006 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa
Wow, Italian villages are the most beautiful things in the world. Near here?



 

my god yes near here!!! I'm always in Cremona...every day, cuz I go to school there...( the ice cream of the coffee bar behind the cathedral izz great!)

Iain 05.19.2006 02:43 PM

Glice...no, not Manchester bus station. It's Cardiff International Arena. Sorry...I probably should have stated the place I live. Would have been helpful. THe bus station in Cardiff is much shitter than that.

soapbars 05.19.2006 10:01 PM

i went to cardiff for the first time in april and i really liked it, although those parking coupon things where werid,

still it was fandabbydosey

val-holla-ing 05.19.2006 10:04 PM

there's lots of purple and gold and the city is run by a tiger.

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.19.2006 10:15 PM

More pictures of Omaha.

 

 

 

alyasa 05.19.2006 11:56 PM

 


Nice wall, I like the musical score...

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.20.2006 12:00 AM

I've always liked this wall too, for a lot of reasons. A lot of those advertisements are extremely old. It came very close to being destroyed last year, the building next to it when up in flames.

alyasa 05.20.2006 12:09 AM

It's so beautiful, I can picture an Indie flick set in Omaha, with the opening scene being an E.C.U of ths wall, slowly pulling away as Jimmy Donley plays in the background.... Promise me Omaha won't tear this wall down...

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.20.2006 12:58 AM

Its hard to say what the future of a lot of old buildings in Omaha is. Besides being prone to fires, their new enemy is city government who is constantly knocking things down to put up new things. At the same time, many historic buildings have been remolded and renovated, made into loft apartments, art studios, and concert halls. Downtown Omaha is going through a renaissance and its quite exciting.

They've built this brand new preforming arts center (right next to that wall):


 

the inside:


 

terminal pharmacy 05.20.2006 05:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест
Its hard to say what the future of a lot of old buildings in Omaha is. Besides being prone to fires, their new enemy is city government who is constantly knocking things down to put up new things. At the same time, many historic buildings have been remolded and renovated, made into loft apartments, art studios, and concert halls. Downtown Omaha is going through a renaissance and its quite exciting.

They've built this brand new preforming arts center (right next to that wall):






 

the inside:






 



do you work at said arts venue, it is a beautiful looking concert hall and the cluster of spks apears to be meyer m1 or m2d's nice, looks great, love to see the rest of the PA

 


this is the one i work in, it is the best job and lots of fun, im quite lucky

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.20.2006 11:27 AM

I don't work there, but I've seen two performances in it. Its neat.

Style 05.20.2006 05:33 PM

It's pretty boring

http://www.elkgrovecity.org/

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.21.2006 12:36 AM

Are those pictures from Omaha? I might know the buildings you're talking about. Was this near a hospital?

Did you like Omaha?

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.21.2006 12:50 AM

Yeah, I think my aunt used to work in one of those buildings for some insurance company or something. The glass isn't THAT cool though.

I guess Omaha isn't much, but its home.

Пятхъдесят Шест 05.21.2006 01:00 AM

She doesn't work there anymore, and I think they moved from that area.

I rarely eat steak, and I've never gone cow-tipping. Cows galloping down my street has become a near monthly occurance though, they are ecscaping from the packing houses. It's quite funny. What isn't funny, is seeing them shot.

Where did you stay at, any place other than downtown is unacceptable.

o o o 05.21.2006 03:24 AM

where i live now:



 



where my parents live now:



 



where i grew up (well, i did not live in this neighbourhood):



 

alyasa 05.21.2006 03:26 AM

OMg, that looks like the 'Lost' island... Where is it?

Bertrand 05.21.2006 04:16 AM

We're less than 50 000 people in my town, 45 km from Paris, France.

The Seine runs through town, with a curve or a loop, creating an impression of void downtown.

The poor are apart, in high (French standards) buildings. A sad long enough bridge leads to that part of town. The mayor would like the population to stay where they are and keep them away from downtown. I went to school downtown 20 years ago. There were no black, no Arabs there ! From where I came (Nancy, a bigger town in the East, less than 150 kms from the German border I guess), it was shocking. Schools in the poor part, well, don't give much chances. Differents ethnies. Unemployment problems et al.

The mayor is Jean-François Copé, minister of budget in the government. He gave up his commitment as mayor to become full time minister, named his first counsellor Ange Anziani mayor & became first counsellor. As a result, they reexamined a few things together and decided that the first counsellor would earn as much as the mayor. Recently, while remaining a minister, Copé got his mayor seat back, and Anziani became first counsellor (with a high salary). More recently, Anziani got sacked from the first counsellor chair. Don't know who's the replacement, but he (or she) will earn less. Anziani got the boot cause he created an association to support Nicolas Sarkozy, minister of the interior. Sarkozy & Copé belong to the same political party, are members of the same government. Isn't it pretty?

Back to description :

Some trees in the center. One cinema, with 7 screens. One big theatre (600 seats - a play I wrote got played there). A smaller one (90 seats - where I spent 2 or 3 years). Lots of garages. No work, the young have to try to find a job at Disney (20 kms). A cathedral that ain't complete.

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/image/fr...x/m0401mea.JPG

There's an armory across the cathedral by the way (same thing in Saint-Brieuc where I'd like to move). One protestant temple that I like better (surrounded by a school, a butcher, a baker).

Local specificities : cheese (I don't like cheese) and mustard (an excellent one, perfect for tomato salad).

Aerial view Google Earth : 48°57'26.32"N 2°57'10.31"E, to be looked at at 498 ft.

o o o 05.23.2006 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa
OMg, that looks like the 'Lost' island... Where is it?


the second picture? it's the bay of Arcachon, in the South-West of France...

the picture is not taken from an island (although there is an island in the middle, the "Birds' Isle"), but from one side of the bay to the other - you can see on the other side what used to be the highest dune in Europe (until they apparently discovered there was a higher dune in Lithuania... if i remember correctly...)


 



 

o o o 05.23.2006 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bertrand
From where I came (Nancy, a bigger town in the East, less than 150 kms from the German border I guess)


j'ai vécu à Nancy pendant 17 ans... la troisième photo est en fait une photo dans le centre ville de Nancy, je me souviens plus du nom de cette place d'ailleurs, je m'en rends compte maintenant...

je n'y suis pas retourné depuis longtemps... enfin si, il y a quelques mois je suis passé à travers la ville en train à 7 heures du matin, et j'étais tout excité de revoir plusieurs endroits où je passais régulièrement auparavant... par exemple la Médiathèque de la Manufacture, qui m'a permis pour la première fois d'écouter Sonic Youth...

Voilà, une dernière phrase qui me permet pour une fois de ne pas être totalement hors sujet.

atari 2600 05.23.2006 05:53 PM

not all the places i've lived, but...
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Port Hueneme
 



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Gulfport
 


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Athens
 


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Charlottesville
 

atari 2600 05.23.2006 05:59 PM

more Charlottesville
 


 


 


 

Ranked #1 in Cities Ranked & Rated 2004
in the top 10 the last 2 years

atari 2600 05.23.2006 05:59 PM

Monticello



 

 

atari 2600 05.23.2006 06:05 PM

 


 


 


 

umjammer atomsk 05.23.2006 07:16 PM


 
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