A scene from your neighborhood

[MrTrolleyguy]

We have members from every corner of the world, and some from far reaches around the globe.

So let's stitch them together with photos of street scenes that you particularly like of your street, Parrish, neighborhood, workplace etc.

In my neighborhood of Tacony in Philadelphia there are plenty of past their prime homes and storefronts. However what I particularly like are the murals. Dozens of them around me. I'd say 98% are but up by Philadelphia's Mural Art Program.

This on sits on a wall facing a Dunkin Donuts parking lots on Torresdale Avenue. Unusual in that it is a mural snap shot of the men and their children from the local Catholic Parrish. Good enough that you could recognize Joe the barber etc. It has been there for 20 years or more. I'd be mighty sad if it was defaced or covered over.



BTW Philadelphia has more murals than any other city in the US.

I'll post a few other scenes too.

Here is one I love! Anti gun folks not getting their way. A priest, a nun and Mr Magoo.






Last is a scene from 1996 of the place where I worked out of for 28 years as a streetcar motorman, bus driver then Street Supervisor. Those are Trackless Trolleys. Now you know where I got my username

 

[Qball]

From everywhere i look all i see is the factory. (papermill)

 

[Matt Hooper]

I live in the "Pioneer Valley" in Western MA along the Connecticut River. This is a view of the valley looking south at Amherst and the UMass Campus

 

[S&W Fan]

I don't know if it's a view I especially "like" but it's what's going on the Denver area now (I'm on the south end of the metro area). Starting snowing about 3 yesterday afternoon, I've got 10" on the lawn, shoveled three times so far. Not too bad really as we've had a pretty mild winter. Certainly nothing like what you good folks in the east have had to deal with.

 

[CO_Kid]

View from my front yard. I took that at sunset after a rain 2 summers ago.

 

[CO_Kid]

S&W Fan, looks like you got the snow that we were supposed to get down here. They were forecasting 1-2 feet over the weekend. So far we've had 1-2 inches.

 

[arjay]

We have about 10" on the west side with another 2-6" in the forecast.

 

[Aticus]

Qball You think they could've gotten the plant a little closer to the water? I did like the long shot of the town pretty area. I envy the Connecticut Valley though. All the pictures are interesting. I saw those trackless trolleys working in Shreveport when I was a kid.

 

[wilkoi]

Looking down on the Twin Lights light house of Rockport Ma. where I live. (in Rockport)

I took this picture standing in the gunners door of the B24 Liberator Witchcraft. The Collins Foundation was doing a show at the Beverly Ma. airfield and I paid a fee to fly in a piece of aviation history.

 

[Bill Bates]

We live at the bottom of this hill at the mouth of Payson Canyon. This is looking up the canyon where I hunt ruffed grouse in the fall and turkeys in the spring. We also have deer and elk in the neighborhood.

This is looking down the same canyon and taken about in the middle of the other photo at the cloud line. I took it last week. Most years you would need a snowmobile and snowshoes to get where this photo was taken. We could really use some of the snow falling back east.

Here is a little four point Mule Deer buck on the hill behind the house. BTW it is a color photo.

Momma on her bike riding up the canyon. It is open range and where the local's cattle spend the summer. I live in a town where spring the run cattle through town and up the canyon in the spring and gather them up and run'm down the canyon in the fall.

I took this 10 minutes up the canyon...momma was just out of the frame up the hills side. Yes, I do pack a .44 when hiking.

 

[walkinghorse]

Can't take any! ;(
Too damn cold!
Live in Amish country, neighbors on 3 sides are Amish, and honor their wishes about photographs. Other side is an asphalt 2 lane highway with a concrete bridge and concrete guardrails. Everyone knows what they look like!
Propwash from black helicopters overhead looking for right wing terrorists, hint to homeland security all the farmers are down south this time of year, makes the windchill really bad outside!

Boring time of year, at least daylight is getting longer, YEAH !!!!!

 

[mojave30cal]

This is the neck of the woods where I grew up in Hawaii on the
east shore ( windward side) of the island of Oahu. The large
valley in the middle is Kualoa ranch. Lots of movies were shot
there including Jurassic Park (including the new one coming
out this summer), Mighty Joe Young, Godzilla, 50 First Dates.
Even the television show Lost used it in some of their scenes.
We used to hike up in that valley and pick guavas, macadamia
nuts, and go swimming.

If you look to the far lower right part of the picture you'll
see a row of houses. I lived in the middle one. Less than a
block from the beach. We were always in the ocean either
swimming, surfing, diving, snorkeling or shore fishing. My
brother owns the house we grew up in, and when I go home
to visit family I always drive out to the country and visit him.
Lots of good memories growing up.

 

[Qball]

Qball You think they could've gotten the plant a little closer to the water?

Well, accuatly they are.
The plant is expanding like crazy right now, and alot of it is built on landfill.
The harbour part will be twice as long within the next 2 years.

As soon as the wether permits i'll take some pictures of the suroundings.
Just snow and ice for now.

 

[USAF385]

Here is my neighborhood. Well, I live in the woods, so this it it. Taken five minutes ago on this beautiful, balmy 32 degree Sunday.

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

Lookin' west of my back yard.

lookin' north up the road in front of my house (yawn)

 

[gregintenn]

 

[ditrina]

The faces changed .. but the neighborhood is the same

You try growing in Brooklyn and Joisey!!

 

[Peak53]

Here's my neighborhood of choice, near Tincup. Unfortunately in town for now.
View of Ice Mountain, with old gold dredge in the foreground from cabin front yard.


Cabin in Winter


Get's cold sometimes

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

 

[cowart]

Prior to going into the service in 1965, I lived in Pinner Village, England. A very old small town dating back to pre-Roman times.

"East End Farm Cottage, was built by Roger of Eastend head tenant owner 1450-1497 and is probably the oldest house in Pinner, and according to tradition was the home of the Arch-Bishop's Bailiff who had the care of the manor of Pinner. The cottage situated in Moss Lane was in the hands of generations of the Hedges family until 1935. The cottage is a two-story timber framed building, now three bays in length. The fourth demolished before the end of the 16th century. The ground floor was originally open to the roof and was heated by a centrally placed hearth, where the smoke found its way out through a hole or similar opening in the roof."