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Show us your neighborhood. What give it its character? Why are you there?

Here's mine, a half abandoned man made island between Oakland and San Francisco-
This is the north side of the island, looking west:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0526.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0526.jpg)
The cool cove I used to be able to hang out in until they fenced it off:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0533.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0533.jpg)
The drainpipes on the north tip:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0536.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0536.jpg)
The Ninja who mows the lawns:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0539.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0539.jpg)
The old bridge with new bridge cranes (Only 20 years after the earthquake tossed a section! Lightening like construction...
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0547.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0547.jpg)
Abandoned Gas Station:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0554.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0554.jpg)
Abandoned Bowling Alley:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0570.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0570.jpg)
Mystery Ship (no markings, no one knows what it's for or who it belongs to)
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0578.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0578.jpg)
Scooner's Cove:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0580.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0580.jpg)
Fisherman in front of abandoned pier and Angel Island:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/th_IMG_0594.jpg (http://s480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/un_walrus/Treasure%20Island/?action=view&current=IMG_0594.jpg)

What's your neighborhood look like?

Not like this.

I can, however, see a cloud shrouded mountain from my room.

if it wasn't 2 in the morning, i'd show you :P
tomorrow

you have great views of the city and golden gate bridge there, CtoaN! but the area looks pretty run down...

Mud. Everywhere.












I love it.

Mud. Everywhere.












I love it.

LG, is that you?

if it wasn't 2 in the morning, i'd show you :P
tomorrow

you have great views of the city and golden gate bridge there, CtoaN! but the area looks pretty run down...
It's a former World's Fair ground turned into a former Navy base that's now low income housing. We get the best views in the Bay Area, all we have to do is not mind the cancer (no one is really sure what the Navy left behind). Most of the buildings are abandoned. I feel like we should be filming a zombie movie here.

Allston, Boston, MA, USA. More specifically, Lower Allston (which is actually
North of Allston Village, but is physically lower...as in, in a valley type area)

http://www.boston.com/ae/sidekick/blog/allston.jpg
Corner of Harvard Ave and Brighton Ave...on the right is the place I used to work.

http://www.ofb.net/~epstein/sl/0503/20050319-defend-allston.jpg
frequently seen sticker

http://www1.whdh.com/images/news_articles/389x205/080610_Allston_restaurant_fire.jpg
My favorite Greek diner burning down. It is now boarded up, and someone tagged "Greacian Yearning? More like Grecian Burning!" on it.

http://blogs.menupages.com/boston/Allston.jpg
Welcome sign/message board.

http://flashconcerts06.typepad.com/flash_concerts_06/images/img_1660.jpg
Paradise Rock Club. Seen many a show there.

http://www.blanchards.net/images/NightExterior.jpg

My old liquor store

http://www.awningsignsinc.com/images/clients/allston_food_spirits.gif
My new liquor store

http://gregcookland.com/journal/uploaded_images/picMrButch-738652.jpg
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/mrbutch.jpg

Mr. Butch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Butch)...formerly the unofficial "Mayor of Allston" before dieing in a Vespa accident. Several hundred people showed up to march in his memorial parade, which shut down much of Comm Ave, a major street in Boston.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2715562499_c3428e1311.jpg?v=0
Packard's Corner, former epicenter of the MA Automile Now where I sit there, waiting for the bus or T to come. It never does.

LG, is that you?

No. Just an affinity that we share, I suppose.

Mud. Everywhere.












I love it.

SOunds delightful. May I visit?

http://www.ofb.net/~epstein/sl/0503/20050319-defend-allston.jpg
frequently seen sticker
What are you supposed to defend it from?


http://www.awningsignsinc.com/images/clients/allston_food_spirits.gif
My new liquor store

Looks like they sell candy and balloons...oddly, I approve.

A few photos taken off the my balcony. Nothing terribly impressive but hardly what people imagine when they think of Toronto, and yes, I'm in the actual city and not some residential area; I'm just two buildings away from the main street.

And for those who are interested, what a snow storm looks like 8 storeys off the ground: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPoeomI5Dfg :D

http://www.weaselhut.net/neighbourhood%20%282%29.jpg

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Stately.

We're a brick and columns university.

A road, about 4 houses. Fields. That's about it.

What are you supposed to defend it from? The PRC (Peoples Republic of Cambridge), just across the river.


Looks like they sell candy and balloons...oddly, I approve.

They actually do. And beer. And some amazing sammiches.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4928/ronto.jpg

SOunds delightful. May I visit?

Sure! Plenty of room for another mud hut.

Mud. Everywhere.












I love it.

Zama City by chance?

We're a brick and columns university.
Mine was a trees and weed university.
The PRC (Peoples Republic of Cambridge), just across the river.
The bastards.




They actually do. And beer. And some amazing sammiches.

Sammiches are awesome.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SLe9qKJ7GgI/AAAAAAAAASY/T6J5G1XiUhU/s144/P1030687.JPG
Looking down the main street from my house

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SLe9qlN16wI/AAAAAAAAASg/7OL9jDFrNEY/s144/P1030688.JPG
Looking up

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SLe9uPkcbAI/AAAAAAAAATc/W3USJfSgMGg/s144/P1030835.JPG
Some of the rice fields (late summer, BTW)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SLe90XDXAEI/AAAAAAAAAVA/wZpKsxONP8k/s144/P1030848.JPG
Small shrine

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SLe9_EojfrI/AAAAAAAAAXw/48oJ2pdDCG0/s144/P1030874.JPG
Some of the apple groves

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SMom9wlnmOI/AAAAAAAAAog/Px4ddqc2atc/s144/P1030922.JPG
Upper fields

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nimQGVTlowc/SMonE9RCMSI/AAAAAAAAAqk/1A_SLDoLO0U/s144/P1040017.JPG
Our river

Mine was a trees and weed university.
You didn't have Papa TJ looking down over you from Deist heaven.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/elFqXw-6qamIBPlg8bWSmw?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Looking down the main street from my house

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Uo3RNIoejN9OaLclWworVQ?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Looking up

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Ko0qiD-YQcb2yEowVYoeAw?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Some of the rice fields (late summer, BTW)

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RTmeCONlheC6hv97agjCow?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Small shrine

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zyoLGzY3ZdF62Qdd9cc5jg?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Some of the apple groves

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Cqq9N2VQmnNxq27PfGhp5A?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Upper fields

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/AQ7pCYXyC6SbI88T5g0jsA?authkey=aKmRgTe0a-k&feat=directlink
Our river
Almost like where I grew up except no shrine...and we didn't drive on the goofy side of the road.
You didn't have Papa TJ looking down over you from Deist heaven.
Nope, just this content little fella:
http://www.nmr.ucsc.edu/Images/ZenSlug-50.gif

That old church looks new. On the whole it's almost disturbingly clean, like a living room you're afraid to enter much less sit in. Kinda cool.

*photos*

Those pictures remind me of Virtual Light. No wonder William Gibson picked your island. :p

*photos*

Jesus, is half of your country's population employed as street cleaners? Were these taken when a film was being shot? That's preternatural.

Those pictures remind me of Virtual Light. No wonder William Gibson picked your island. :p

I stopped reading Gibson around Difference Engine, I guess I should read a book that takes place where I live :p

Mine was a trees and weed university.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/110357587_bd52a59bea.jpg?v=0

Sammiches are awesome.

http://www.zoccolis.com/sitebuilder/images/PB290109-379x278.jpg

I stopped reading Gibson around Difference Engine, I guess I should read a book that takes place where I live :p

Your island is populated by scary mutant zombie-like guys. :p

Your island is populated by scary mutant zombie-like guys. :p

Naturally.

my neighborhood. the cottonwood forest (bosque) along the rio grande. the pic is from a weekend civil war re-enactment.


http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/ashmoria/cw1.jpg

civil war re-enactors

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/ashmoria/cw26.jpg

from the hills outside the bosque not too too far from my house

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/ashmoria/skull.jpg

a cat in a tree.

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/ashmoria/cattree.jpg

This is not really a pic of the "neighorhood", but of outside my in-laws house, which is only 5 minutes from us, so I guess it is in the neighborhood after all...

http://a504.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/117/l_9fa95ff1a113e90dd07c029bfb81657f.jpg

i need to get more photos of the area, and I shall post them when i get some.

I've never understood what a "neighborhood" is, so I'll just post pictures of my town. None of which did I take because I've been in town for about 4 months of the last 2 years.

http://www.cel.cmich.edu/images/campus-spring.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1148/929824171_0b49f86a83.jpg?v=0

http://www.cel.cmich.edu/images/campus-spring2.jpg

http://www.christmanco.com/admin/uploads/project_images/149_991574.jpg

http://www.cel.cmich.edu/images/CMU-campus.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2572212636_4cdddd66d8.jpg?v=0

They're basically all of "downtown", the casino. and the university because that's all that's worth seeing here, and that's a bit of a stretch.

This is not really a pic of the "neighorhood", but of outside my in-laws house, which is only 5 minutes from us, so I guess it is in the neighborhood after all...

http://a504.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/117/l_9fa95ff1a113e90dd07c029bfb81657f.jpg

i need to get more photos of the area, and I shall post them when i get some.

What the hell is that in the sky?

What the hell is that in the sky?
radioactive flying squirrel.

What the hell is that in the sky?

Flying hooker, of course.

What the hell is that in the sky?

this...

http://a364.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/39/l_1d4f0a4ee63f6645f6b43a8c74bad22b.jpg

fixed.


my wedding rocked.

this...

http://a364.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/39/l_1d4f0a4ee63f6645f6b43a8c74bad22b.jpg

fixed.


my wedding rocked.

Where the hell's the other half?

Where the hell's the other half?

garage.

And your wife is ok with that? LOL

And your wife is ok with that? LOL

'tis one of the many reasons I married her.

not a great distance from this fellow...
dannyboy (https://reg.istrations.com/tbevent_images/0000/0051/Desperate_Dan_Dundee_City_thumb_300.jpg)
you guys live in really nice places.

Where the hell's the other half?

garage.

It's actually on my ceiling. :D

Greenbelt and Pike's Peak from the back.

Killer view of the north part of Colorado Springs from the front, including a nice, if distant view of the Air Force Academy Chapel.

not a great distance from this fellow...
dannyboy (https://reg.istrations.com/tbevent_images/0000/0051/Desperate_Dan_Dundee_City_thumb_300.jpg)
Awesome.

Greenbelt and Pike's Peak from the back.

Killer view of the north part of Colorado Springs from the front, including a nice, if distant view of the Air Force Academy Chapel.
Do you ever go to the Pikes Peak Hill Climb? Do they still even do that?

Awesome.


Do you ever go to the Pikes Peak Hill Climb? Do they still even do that?

They still do it. I don't.

Oddly enough, I don't have to share any pics.
Fass just did it for me.
Same city.
I wonder if I might have bumped into him on the street sometime.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_IMG_0429.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=IMG_0429.jpg)

Balloons over my backyard.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC03288.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC03288.jpg)

The view from my front door.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC00891.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC00891.jpg)

My street.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC02641.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC02641.jpg)

My street, with lots of bushfire smoke.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_IMG_0467.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=IMG_0467.jpg)

A wattle on the way to the station.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC02645.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC02645.jpg)

High St, with lots of bushfire smoke.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC02648.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC02648.jpg)

Brunswick St, with lots of bushfire smoke.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC02651.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC02651.jpg)

Collins St.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC03978.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC03978.jpg)

Looking over the city.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/th_DSC02694.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g66/Boonytopia/?action=view&current=DSC02694.jpg)

The Yarra River.

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My street, with lots of bushfire smoke.
-snip-

Ah, it was a beautiful day back a few years when bushfire smoke came across the Tasman and cast a yellow/orange light on my Intermediate school.

Oh man I live on Smackhead Boulevard, so eh you'd not really want to see it :tongue:

Ah, it was a beautiful day back a few years when bushfire smoke came across the Tasman and cast a yellow/orange light on my Intermediate school.

Yeah, we had some massive bushfires 2 years ago. Touch wood, so far we've been lucky this year.

A few months ago guy was shot in the face on the sidewalk 2 blocks down from my apartment.

Lot's of guns, lot's of black people- just my kind of neighborhood. (And I'm not being sarcastic whatsoever)

Kirkland, Washington State.

http://http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/dynamic/Page970.aspx?PageMode=Hybrid (http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/dynamic/Page970.aspx?PageMode=Hybrid)

Well, here is my local movie theatre (http://www.happypenguin.org/images/2003_04_03_150737_shot.jpg). And this is the supermarket (http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/games/images/classic_pcpp/reviews/duke3d/duke1.jpg) a few block away. Bit of a mess there on aisle 7. And this the football field (http://www.pdatungsteno.com/wp-content/imagenes/duke3d_boss.jpg) down past my old high school. I'll get some real pictures tomorrow, it's kinda dark out. :p

Well, here is my local movie theatre (http://www.happypenguin.org/images/2003_04_03_150737_shot.jpg). And this is the supermarket (http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/games/images/classic_pcpp/reviews/duke3d/duke1.jpg) a few block away. Bit of a mess there on aisle 7. And this the football field (http://www.pdatungsteno.com/wp-content/imagenes/duke3d_boss.jpg) down past my old high school. I'll get some real pictures tomorrow, it's kinda dark out. :p

Your town seems to have a lot going on! :tongue:

Well, here is my local movie theatre (http://www.happypenguin.org/images/2003_04_03_150737_shot.jpg). And this is the supermarket (http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/games/images/classic_pcpp/reviews/duke3d/duke1.jpg) a few block away. Bit of a mess there on aisle 7. And this the football field (http://www.pdatungsteno.com/wp-content/imagenes/duke3d_boss.jpg) down past my old high school. I'll get some real pictures tomorrow, it's kinda dark out. :p

Where's the strip clubs? That's my favorite part of your town.

My corner of London:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/21/69/216952_f1d19424.jpg

My local park:
http://www.holiday-beds-direct.com/images/resorts/Regents%20Park.jpg

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/7963/makiki1cy9.jpg
Makiki.

It has been said that my neighbourhood looks pretty! :fluffle:

Right now it's just dark and below zero, so imagine being stuck in a freezer.

I have more!

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