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Post by traveler63 on Jun 10, 2009 12:26:10 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jun 10, 2009 14:26:16 GMT
That is nice, and economical for something of that quality, as against a comparable hotel. Beautiful views.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 20:21:36 GMT
I'm bumping this just to remind myself that I have some more photos to post here one of these days.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 28, 2009 16:49:04 GMT
T63 - that's a very superior building. I'm impressed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2010 10:25:48 GMT
Looking at some of these photos again, I am amazed at how the streets have continued to evolve since last year... and still look the same anyway.
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Post by joanne28 on Jul 30, 2010 14:39:05 GMT
I'm really enjoying your photos and looking forward to more soon, K.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2010 19:39:18 GMT
Just a glimpse of a few of the African places in the area. I confess that most of the time, there are ferocious looking men standing outside and shooting the bull with each other in front of a lot of these places. So it's kind of hard to just point a camera at them. However, the other day, I found a solution -- it was cold and raining, and those wimps were not around!
[photobucket height=480 width=640]http://s450.photobucket.com/albums/qq228/kerouac2/marxnov/?action=view¤t=62ad82d9.pbw[/photobucket]
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Post by lagatta on Oct 26, 2010 19:48:40 GMT
All I see are photobucket indications. It doesn't load at all. Perhaps we should copy the link?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2010 19:55:15 GMT
It loads for me. Sometimes you have to wait about a minute for it to show up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2012 11:16:00 GMT
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Post by lola on Dec 18, 2012 23:15:52 GMT
Yum. When are market days?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2012 5:39:16 GMT
The covered market and the merchants on the street are open every day except Monday.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 17:57:29 GMT
Just to situate myself a bit, I thought I would pull up some Google maps of where I live. This first map shows where I am in relation to the centre of the city (little circle top right). And here I am in relation to Sacré Coeur, for example.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 2, 2013 0:26:19 GMT
Yes, I already pretty much knew where you lived.
I've alwas stated my (small) neighbourhood, but hesitate to pin it down any more. As it is, I am constantly getting ads for a luxury condo development in a nearby repurposed heritage building!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2014 21:58:37 GMT
Bumping this for no particular reason other than it pleases me to have found it again and also I plan to make some updates.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 11, 2014 1:47:14 GMT
Oh, please do so! The latest I recall were of the youth (and non-youth) hostel, library, café and public park. And the wine bar where they sell bouteilles en vrac (you can see my interests, intello and less so).
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Post by htmb on Jan 3, 2015 15:27:09 GMT
Perhaps you will eventually get around to updating this interesting thread. Just bumping it up as a reminder.
I'd read bits and pieces in the past, but never the whole thing until today.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 3, 2015 16:50:16 GMT
I always imagine this music video taking place not far from "where I live in Paris". Well, I know where the Pont Marcadet bus stop is (on the other side of the tracks), and the old man is walking down a street in the more scenic part of Montmartre...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 17:06:21 GMT
Among the bridges depicted in the video, there is of course the rue Caulaincourt bridge over the Montmartre cemetery and as for the railway bridges, I recognised the ones on boulevard de la Chapelle, rue Jean-François Lepine, rue de l'Aqueduc (with the big concrete diamond shapes). Oddly enough, in spite of the Pont Marcadet bus stop, Pont Marcadet itself (which is actually the rue Ordener bridge, since the name was changed in 1863) does not appear. There was actually a train station there from 1846 until 1977, but it was closed when the creation of the underground suburban station for Gare du Nord required all of the tracks to be modified in that area. There is no longer any trace that the station ever existed, and believe me, I have looked. www.cfpa.asso.fr/images/Gares/gare12885.jpg
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Post by lagatta on Jan 3, 2015 17:25:40 GMT
I've been on the bridge over the Montmartre cemetery (and beneath it, in the cemetery) but offhand didn't remember the street, of course it is rue Caulaincourt.
Where is the square where the teenager sits beside the (somewhat older) mother who is watching her little daughter play, after she has given up her baby?
Is the violinist at the beginning at that little rise in Barbès-Rochechouart, or somewhere else in the area?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 17:33:19 GMT
I did not recognise the square in front of the school, and also the ramp at the beginning is a mystery to me, even though I'm sure I must have seen it before.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 3, 2015 17:51:10 GMT
I looked at the beginning of the video again, and the ramp where the violinist is playing isn't the one in Barbès, but in Montmartre, as we see the old widower walking down the street in the background.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 3, 2015 18:23:01 GMT
I'm so glad you bumped this thread up again Kerouac! Because I have never seen it! I do have a little smile on my face when I see the subtle differences, and recognise a little of the area. Hope you find more of those old postcards...
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Post by lagatta on Jan 3, 2015 18:48:53 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jan 7, 2015 10:09:59 GMT
That's a great map Lagatta - I can find that very useful - thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 21:47:18 GMT
Here is the view from my kitchen window this evening, with a great moment of suspense since we will never be completely sure if the African woman decides to buy ankle socks or not.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2017 11:41:00 GMT
It's interesting that this old postcard gives the name of the street as "rue de l'Olive" because that has been its name only since 2011. Before that, the name was "rue l'Olive" because it was named after Charles Liénard de l'Olive who was responsible for colonising Guadeloupe and massacring the local native population. This is no longer acceptable for street names in Paris, so rue l'Olive was renamed rue de l'Olive because in any case boxed olive trees had been displayed along the street for years. Rue de la Guadeloupe intersects rue l'Olive...
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2017 15:52:59 GMT
Wow -- it really looks almost the same. You can see the right-hand tree at the end in its baby version in the first picture.
In the old picture, is that graffiti on the building (upper left of photo), or is it an official sign?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 22, 2017 6:19:24 GMT
That is old lettering. The first section says Hôtel de Lannion, followed by Boucherie.
It is still a hotel, but now it is called Hôtel de la Poste. The next part was still a butcher shop until about 3 years ago and then it was converted to a superette which recently went out of business. Waiting for the next incarnation!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 29, 2018 9:40:10 GMT
Le Kube Hôtel surprisingly arrived in my area 10 years ago, the only luxury hotel to dare such a location. Even though it is in the old building of the Brasserie La Meuse headquarters, it was remade into an ultra modern high tech place. The rooms have remained that way, but they recently decided to redo the common areas as a post apocalyptic refuge, except that in their storyline, the apocaplyse took place around 1949. Anyway, we locals were invited to inspect the result over the weekend.
If I am not mistaken, rates for rooms start at something like 450 euros a night.
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