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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2009 17:20:45 GMT
Oh, there are still plenty of art nouveau entrances -- only about half of them were destroyed. Also some new fake ones have been built in recent years, but you can't tell the difference from the originals.
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Post by bjd on Mar 8, 2009 17:50:51 GMT
How do I post an image on here? I see the [/img], but do I just type my file name between the two?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2009 18:10:02 GMT
Yes, or copy and paste. As long as it ends with .jpg or one of the other image endings, it should work. Click on 'reply' on the message ahead of yours rather than using the quick reply box because that gives you the preview option instead of just 'post reply'. (That is for images straight from the internet. If you have personal photos, you have to upload them first to a site like imageshack.us before you can post them.)
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Post by Kimby on Mar 8, 2009 22:03:36 GMT
If you can find the image online and right-click on it, then choose "Properties", you should get a window in which the URL of the photo is located. Copy and paste that name between [/img] and you're good to go. I think. (Unless the website you find the picture on moves or changes images around)
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Post by bjd on Mar 10, 2009 17:03:00 GMT
This is where I live when I'm in Paris. It's not my picture, but it's taken nearby.
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Post by bjd on Mar 10, 2009 17:12:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 17:57:31 GMT
Have you ever eaten at the little Kurdish restaurant in the little pedestrian alley near the Monoprix?
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Post by bjd on Mar 10, 2009 19:02:41 GMT
No, is it good?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 19:51:42 GMT
Actually, it is quite good, but unfortunately a musician often arrives in the middle of the meal and spoils the ambience (unless you love that sort of thing).
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 11, 2009 9:23:37 GMT
Actually, it is quite good, but unfortunately a musician often arrives in the middle of the meal and spoils the ambience (unless you love that sort of thing). ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 15:59:12 GMT
Here is a major nearby intersection. It appears that domes have gone out of fashion.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 16, 2009 16:42:08 GMT
City planning commission discussion:
di dum di dum di dum .... what shall we do?
Let's de-dome over there in the Boulevard Barbes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 18:08:16 GMT
For once, here are some streets where nearly everything has changed. They were in such a state of decay about 20 years ago that almost everything was torn down and replaced. Rue de la Charbonnière, Rue de la Goutte d'Or
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Post by lagatta on Mar 17, 2009 2:01:34 GMT
I remember rue de la Charbonnière as it was before - yes, it was very rundown, but I don't like the way it was renovated. The new middle building is sordid and it seems a pity to have lost the one at the right -
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 6:03:45 GMT
Yes, the right is now a sports ground for the schools -- tennis courts, basketball courts, etc.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 21, 2009 15:02:38 GMT
Well, they need that because there aren't a lot of places for play and games in that neighbourhood. You can't see that it is a little sports ground because of the cars in the foreground.
One of the late Queen Mother's observations was: "There are SO many cars".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 15:51:39 GMT
You can sort of see the green fences if you look hard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 16:07:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2009 17:57:21 GMT
In the last picture, looking at how the building on the far right was subsumed into its neighbor, it's hard not to think, "what where they thinking?"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 18:22:42 GMT
Well, schools need more practical architecture. I have been to the current 18th arrondissement town hall 2 metro stops away on numerous occasions. It is about 8 times bigger than this place was with a giant entry hall, immense municipal services rooms, as well as some grand reception rooms for weddings and such. And of course there are lots of little bitty offices. I presume that the old place had the same things on a smaller scale and therefore not really easy to turn into a school.
I agree that the architecture is dismal, and there are hundreds of these schools in exactly the same model all over Paris. And they will probably still be there in 100 years (unlike Detroit!).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 18:38:59 GMT
Here is rue Doudeauville. I walk up or down this street every day, because it is the street between my street and my mother's nursing home. At the moment and for the next 2 months, it is completely closed to traffic as it is being shrunk for motor traffic, expanded for pedestrians, and it will also receive trees on the right side of the street, something that it has never had before. I have been taking photos of the transformation, and I might have something worth showing when it is finally finished. (It is also the corner where the old town hall used to be.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2009 21:06:32 GMT
You must be pleased at the prospect of a leafy stroll in the future. Except for the lab, the street seems to have maintained all of its original beauty. I wonder what that laboratory was originally -- a pharmacy or grocery store? That's an excellent point about buildings being maintained because of continuously being used. This is not the place for a big exposition on this, but here's one tiny example from my home town: This is where my mother & uncle went to high school. It's been closed up as far back as I can remember. Here's the website on what's planned ..... planned to the tune of an enormous amount of money that wouldn't have had to be spent were it maintained all along.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 21:30:59 GMT
Here are a couple of photos of the work in progress. Last week This morning
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Post by lola on Mar 21, 2009 22:03:57 GMT
These are great, Kerouac. Thanks for posting.
I wonder whether the domes were difficult to keep waterproof, rather than just out of style.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 22:12:06 GMT
I think they were mostly a very big useless space and a financial burden for the upkeep.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2009 22:29:40 GMT
Re: the photos in #52 above ~~ all I could think was, Gee Kerouac -- you're not in Oaxaca! One week!!!
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Post by bjd on Mar 22, 2009 9:52:07 GMT
Those pics of yours are interesting, Kerouac. I tend to see the changes in Paris over the years, but with those pictures I realize how much has actually stayed the same. At least the basic layout and even many of the same buildings.
The building our apartment is in dates from the 18th century, from what I have been told. I think we have the original staircase!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2009 11:52:19 GMT
This is my local church, Saint Denys de la Chapelle. The first church at this location was built in 475 at the site of the grave of Saint Denis, and it is the presence of this church that created my neighborhood (La Chapelle), because it became a pilgrimage site. Unfortunately, King Dagobert had the sacred relics transferred to La Plaine Saint Denys, a few kilometers north, in 636. This caused the village of La Chapelle to decline somewhat for next several hundred years, other than being a stopover point along the original Roman road to Brussels and London. Anyway the current church was finally built in the 11th century and was completed in 1204. The style is called "primitive gothic" although you can't really see much from the outside. Joan of Arc lived in the village for a couple of weeks in September 1429 while unsucessfully trying to attack Paris to the south, occupied by the English. Up until the 19th century, La Chapelle remained an agricultural village with a population of 700, and then it was suddenly swallowed by Paris. You can see on the left of the church, there is now a second church bearing the name Basilique Sainte Jeanne d'Arc. The archbishop of Paris promised to build Joan of Arc a basilica if Paris was spared after the attack of German troops in September 1914. They didn't get around to begin construction until about 1935 and only the façade was built according to the original blueprints. In the meantime, the French had lost all interest in religion, and the damned thing wasn't even finished until 1964. I noticed on their website that the priest of the parish is Polish, and I have seen for myself that the congregation consists mostly of Africans and Indians, plus a few old white people.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2009 20:58:38 GMT
Rue Jean-François Lepine. The church at the end of the street is Saint Bernard de la Chapelle, which became famous in 1996 as a haven for more than 300 undocumented aliens. On August 23rd, the gendarmes came and broke down the door with axes to expel the occupants.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 22, 2009 23:46:36 GMT
I visited St-Bernard during the occupation. I remember that one of the leaders of the sans-papier movement (who was a computer whiz) went on to open up an internet café in the neighbourhood, with reasonable rates and a direct video link to Senegal (I believe) for families to see their relatives in Paris. Forget the name. Don't know if it is still operating.
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