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Commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
This might be the spot over by Grand Central Market. There's a great doc on the history of the Red Car and the LA public transit system called "This Was Pacific Electric." Very enlightening and dispels some urban legends. A...
Commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
It was this show: http://www.history.com/content/citiesoftheunderworld...
Commented on Repository of Read-Along Adventure book-and-records
I'm a Mac user and really enjoyed the site. There aren't that many exe files. The only one I came across after downloading a dozen was Mary Poppins. Also here's a similar site I found: http://childrensrecordsandmore.blogspot.com/...
Commented on Repository of Read-Along Adventure book-and-records
@Cassette - Only some are EXE files. The best are the Flash files as with Haunted Mansion....
Commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
You nailed it, abe lugo!...
Commented on Man spent $7 million in bogus currency made with cheap inkjet printer
Frustrated, he began taking a detection pen everywhere he went, trying it on whatever paper he came across. He was about to give up when one day, sitting on the toilet, he found himself staring at the roll of tissue...
Commented on $25 baby incubator for premature newborns in poor places
I think this could really help me out at work. Now I stop my meatball sub from getting cold before I can eat it!...
Commented on When is it OK to eat moldy food?
Funny thing, I ate a moldy peach today. Zoiks. Gotta work on that will! The chart seems pretty obvious to me. Nothing extremist. People do get confused about cheese and ham. I know moldy strawberry sure can kill people, I...
Commented on It's not easy being a tamale street vendor in Los Angeles
Here's an LA Times a story about the vendor killed in February in MacArthur Park/West Lake: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/01/local/me-vendor1 And from a few years ago, a fantastic Los Angeles Magazine first person article about a female tamale vendor in the same neighborhood:...
Commented on Six-potato gatling gun
I've seen one of these and an alternate build in action. Pretty cool....
Commented on Holy Vending Machine
Coco's Variety store, which I know has some crossover with this site, has a saints vending machine....
Commented on Drew Friedman fine art print of The Three Stooges
Certainly a fun piece, but, yeah, I think you'd have to already some some 3 Stooges art with Curly in it to make this work. Then you could get one with Joe Besser, too...
Commented on Independent comic book artists draw Marvel's superheros
Finally! It's been over 2 years since this was announced and samples were put out: http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=117317 I was really hoping it would just come out as a collected TPB from the get go. This link has more examples....
Commented on Visualization of US consumer spending
That healthcare total looks like it's from another freakin' decade to me....
Commented on Man, our president is cool.
@#45 were you expecting Hugo Chavez?...
Commented on Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí's Destino film
The wikipedia article leaves out the bit that the storyboards were stolen (but I'm too loazy to add it). Here's a pretty good article about the whole project: http://daliplanet.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/disney-does-dali/...
Commented on In praise of Kitchen Aid's customer service -- UPDATED
Had a good experience with a 5 year old KA blender. They told me which local repair shop to go to and that the fee would only be $20 regardless. It was fixed while I waited. Works like new again....
Commented on Life with a 100 lb rodent that sounds like a Geiger counter when it's happy
I always found them more easily confused with coypus/nutrias ....
Commented on BB Video: "Ssshhh," by Hess is More, dir: m ss ng p eces (music video)
Good ol' Doggicam. Still kickin'12 years after that Taco Bell ad....
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
This has been the law pretty much since bald eagles became protected. Is this really news to Americans?...
Commented on Putumayo blog
@#2 KEITHIRWIN The "universal appeal of kids music"? Is this some sort of a joke? Most "kids music" is annoying and trite. For the benefit of their 2-year-old my brother and his wife started only listening to music for children...
Commented on Knife Throwers Just Want a Little Respect
Check out this surgeon-turned-knife thrower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeVaCPihyg8...
Commented on Roald Dahl on vaccinating your kids
2 things: A great This American Life episode about the San Diego measles outbreak a few years ago: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?sched=1275 I love Dahl's work and someone gave me a biography on him that I've never read...on purpose. I've heard he was...
Commented on Your photo on a shower curtain
rules on submitting photos: you must have the rights to reproduce the image you provide. Generally, if it is a photo you have taken, this will be the case. However, if it is a photo taken by a photographer or...
Commented on Itzbeen baby-timer remembers four important childcare facts
I like the L/R switch for the boob, but I wonder if you mark what side you just did or what side you need to to do next? Hmmm. Maybe the gizmo makes it more confusing......
Commented on RunPee: when you should leave the movie and have a wee?
I've always had excellent pee timing. There's inevitably a predictable moment in the movie where you know what's going to happen. It's been handy since my bladder is the size of an apricot....
Commented on Couple finds $10 mil in their bank account, take it and run
"Honey, our bailout money is finally here!"...
Commented on Old moonshiner and son busted for dope smuggling
@#6 It'd take a lot of 2 Buck Chuck to get you as drunk as a jar or moonshine could get you (you'd be looking at at least 150 proof)....
Commented on Pool rules at Florida condo complex
I was expectorating funnier comments on this post....
Commented on Walking Dead Compendium One
Mark (or anyone who owns it), Does it seem physically durable? I've had trouble with the binding on some really fat trade paperbacks in the past. It's no fun having pages fall out while you are cuddled up with your...

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weecyn commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
Thanks, GlenBank, for your commentary, which provides a much-needed alternative viewpoint. I read the paper you linked by Dr. Martha Bianco, though, and I am not convinced that it is without its own bias - one which may stem from semantics and misunderstanding. I agree that most people probably glorify the old mass transit systems, but I don't think those people are fundamentally wrong to believe that there was collusive intent on the part of auto manufacturers and related industries to supplant rail transit with motor transit. One error the article makes is in placing so much weight on the...
adamnvillani commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
I'm sure there is much more public transit infrastructure in L.A. than there was in the 1930s but compared to the growth of the freeway system (and the urban sprawl in general) it's been relatively stagnant, not to mention a confusing mess. That would have been true up through the 80s, but over the last 20 years the people of L.A. have finally figured things out and vastly improved the public transit here, opening three light rail lines, two heavy-rail subway lines, three dedicated busways, and the entire Metrolink system while greatly improving the bus system. No, it doesn't serve...
GlenBlank commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
Hell, you can't even take light rail all the way from Union Station to the freakin' airport. And why would you want to, when you can take the LAX Flyaway Bus? Using rail service means schlepping your own luggage on urban transit not designed for traveling with luggage, stopping to allow other passengers to embark/disembark every mile or so, transferring from subway to light rail to another light rail and finally to a shuttle bus. Even if the planned Green Line "Extension to LAX" is built (at a cost of nearly a billion dollars), all that will do is trim...
GlenBlank commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
Make no mistake, though: I'm not claiming that LA's mass transit system is comprehensive, convenient, fast, or easy to use. It's better than it used to be, and it's a great deal better than the PE Red Car system ever was, but LA's widespread sprawl is simply not suited to mass transit. Mass transit needs masses. Ironically, it was the PE Red Car system that created this situation. Henry Huntington's vision of "The City of Southern California" - "a city that grows outward, not upward" - is what virtually invented the phenomenon of the 'commuter suburb' - a place beyond...
BobZwol commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
I had the honor being on a tour of the Subway Terminal Station on the 30th anniversary of it’s closing back in June 1985. It was like going down into King Tut’s tomb. Friends and family told me how wonderful it was to take the Glendale/Burbank line to from the subway terminal to downtown Glendale to go shopping. Sadly, the greed of the politicians-of-the-day shuttered it for good a few months before I was born back in 1955. The areas surrounding the Subway terminal Building and Downtown Glendale fell into economic ruin immediately thereafter. The same happened to 6th and...

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