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Post by sid on Jul 7, 2008 17:20:31 GMT
Yeah,it's always sad to see the place you've been born and grown slowly decaying...Genoa has begun to "give up" around the 90s,but the "death stroke" was in the years between 2000 and 2002...Geez,what it has become in such a short time Do you believe me if i say that now,in many areas of this town,you can't even go out at night without a weapon for your personal defence? It's seems the friggin' Bronx,if not worse! That last line makes me think of a classic 1981 Italian movie called Escape 2000. Okay, not classic, terrible. I've only suffered the whole thing through MST3K, but even then it's painful. It mostly makes me curious--is Bronx Genoa like the modern Bronx, or more like the Italian version of the Bronx in that movie? Either way, not pleasant. But now that I think about it--I believe that is the city where some Gypsy kids tried to rob a woman on our tour (ironically, perhaps, she was a New Yorker). I say tried, because of her traveling companions, the woman she was with (the two men stood in stunned cowardice) chased them down into an alley and beat the purse back out of them. I might be wrong about the city it was (it sounds right), but the spirit is the same. I never saw that movie...But,yes,either way my town is NOT pleasant now And then there is the "dinosaur toys" question...I mean,once this town was once of the most active places (commercially speaking) in ALL Europe,and now it's hard as all hell to find someone who sell dinosaur toys or any other dino-memorabilia for that matter
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Post by dinoboy on Jul 21, 2008 21:22:55 GMT
Um. I grew up in the Bronx. The Western side of the Bronx was wonderful only 45-50+ years ago. Today all the old empty lots (where I played soldier ads well as with my toy dinosaurs in the dirt) are built up with fifteen + story high rises. The East Bronx was hell then and it still is. Don't be com paring anywhere to the Bronx. Except for the fact that if you have enough room some places will be nice and others derelict.
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Post by sid on Jul 22, 2008 17:53:41 GMT
Um. I grew up in the Bronx. The Western side of the Bronx was wonderful only 45-50+ years ago. Today all the old empty lots (where I played soldier ads well as with my toy dinosaurs in the dirt) are built up with fifteen + story high rises. The East Bronx was hell then and it still is. Don't be com paring anywhere to the Bronx. Except for the fact that if you have enough room some places will be nice and others derelict. You're right...And sorry if i compared my town to the Bronx,it was just a statement fueled by the rage to see how decayed is the place where i was born...
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Post by dinoboy on Jul 22, 2008 20:52:02 GMT
I must say that parts of the Bronx were derelict then and worse now. Just the fact that you used THE Bronx as an exemplar made me feel good. Any publicity is good publicity and all that. You'd have to drag me in chains under the eyes of shotgun carrying Allosaurs to get me back there now.
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Post by ilcircopolare on May 6, 2009 13:32:56 GMT
Ciao Sid! Ma tu dove li compri i dinosauri? Perchè la maggior parte delle cose su e-bay viene dagli USA e le spese di spedizione non incoraggiano molto...Hai mai provato a bazzicare per fiere, mercatini delle pulci e cose del genere? Hai mai trovato qualcosa di buono? Sai se esiste qualche ritrovo per collezionisti in Italia? Ho un po' cercato su internet ma non ho trovato niente di interessante... Complimenti per la collezione, appena ho un po' di tempo faccio un po' di foto della mia (in realtà sono appasionato più che altro di modelli scrausi, cinesi e da quattro soldi, ma ho anche un paio di dinosauri di marca ; ) Ciao e grazie!
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