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| Hello! I have completed another street for my layout this weekend: (URL) The street name came from a street in the Bronx that was affected considerably during the 1970's and 80's. This creation only uses the name, though. It does not represent the (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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| I really like admiring your building techniques. Wonderful. (hightlighted!) e (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Thanks! Jonathan (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) --SNIP-- (...) Hi Jonathan, The more I see of your city the better I like it and that's starting from a very high level of appreciation. The only suggestion I can make is that you should have a broken down washing machine in the junk-filled (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Thanks, very much! (...) You're right! Or, a cast iron bath tub or refridgerator (sp?). Here in NYC, the sanitation dept won't take the cast iron tubs and people tend to drop them off where ever (in open lots). I don't know how they lift them (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Good job! I like the patches of red brick on the grey building. I agree with Tim about the weeds and the washing machine (although I don't know anything regarding his statement about the latter). Keep it up! Jeffery Maceachern BS: (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks! I am always looking for new ideas for 'junk' for these abandoned lots and I love the idea. I just figured out how to make a washing machine too! (...) Always! Thanks again, Jonathan (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Wow. This is really impressive. The details are wonderful, rendered only by one who has had first hand experience of them. Major kudos to you, Jonathan. You are truly an "Ashcanner" as I fear that I am not. I have to say that your level of (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) JOHN (Ashcan Builder) Wow. Thank you. You've described me right on and that means I am heading in the right direction with my creations and getting across what I want to get across. Thank you again. I don't know if you're aware of how good you (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Excellent work! I especially like the various styles of your buildings, and it's great to see that the Fire Dept. still responds to calls in this district. If anything, maybe more tires are needed in the vacant lot. Where is the (URL) Urban (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Thank you! (...) Great comment. In my research for this project I discovered the unsettling term: "planned shrinkage" which refers to the withdrawral of basic services (fire, police, health care, garbage pick-up, etc) from the community with (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| "Jonathan Lopes" <juanito11217@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:IyLJyA.sy4@lugnet.com... (...) One of the coolest city scenes I've seen, but where is the grafitti? Surely a broken down neighborhood as this would have enough random hoodlums about to (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Thanks! That is a great point. I actually love grafitti as an art, myself. There are some really amazing murals through-out the city. The details and blends that people get with spray paint just astonish me. But, grafitti along with details on (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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