tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post1890944739183769210..comments2024-03-27T17:20:17.463-04:00Comments on The Gnostic World Of Candy Minx: Some Bits And Bobs...Candy Minxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-69649291152127123842011-08-06T12:07:49.193-04:002011-08-06T12:07:49.193-04:00Hi Greg, I will work on answering some of your wqu...Hi Greg, I will work on answering some of your wquestions in next coupke of posts. Off the top of my head...yes there are some nice parks. This area is really really pretty. I ammend this notion of evil I have portrayed in the post that I've been writing while you commented ha ha.<br /><br />This is a lovely lovely neighbourhood. With hideous driving designs...which I also explain in my new post.<br /><br />This suburb was originally a township...which grew out of Native American trails...then a railroad...which eventually people realized helped them get around. Appremntly no one used the train for months when it was first built!<br /><br />I have also posted about the "curvilinear streets as you and I were cross-posting here just now. These are one of the biggest problems about the suburbs and its current uses on an obsolete design. Explained in new post<br /><br /><br />:)Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-22708607686374544652011-08-06T11:31:43.390-04:002011-08-06T11:31:43.390-04:00Oh yeah, and what do they mean at the historical s...Oh yeah, and what do they mean at the historical society by "large expanses of public green space"? Do you have some nice parks there?Greg S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-40440275798894214632011-08-06T11:29:20.414-04:002011-08-06T11:29:20.414-04:00My family was never into the big freeze approach, ...My family was never into the big freeze approach, even though we lived in the burbs and did a large shopping every week. Here in Frankfurt we mix a big shop a week with the car with almost daily trips to the local grocer around the corner.<br /><br />I really liked the original concept of the "curvilinear streets", an attempt to superimpose a sylvan New England paradise on the meridian sectors that had all streets moving north-south or east-west in most places west of the Mississippi.<br /><br />Was the suburb always part of the city of Chicago or was it eventually annexed? Were parts of the neighborhood torn down to make way for broader streets, commercial use, etc. if and when the city took over?Greg S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-1156358375291119662011-08-06T09:48:14.189-04:002011-08-06T09:48:14.189-04:00Hi D. How ya doing? Hope to see you soon! Yes, I r...Hi D. How ya doing? Hope to see you soon! Yes, I realize that to current boundaries we are still in Chicago. But earlier in these posts about suburbs I wanted to articulate a difference between urban cores and suburbs...I may not have been clear in describing the difference. although zoning and "megacity" would include neighborhoods like Edison and Norwood Ppark as part of Chocago I define the difference by their use of space geography street layout and design. We can extend the term city to include these kinds of suburbs but we are creating a barrier between people with different expectations of services, needs and geography because traffic amd space create ways of looking and thinking about needs of residents in two completely different living situations. I will be posting a bit more about this in my next post. But basically... On a real physical level this area is a suburb it's not an urban core. Everything moves and works differently here than downtown.<br /><br />Mister Anchovy, I pick up fresh food everyday too. It's just hardwired into me now...it is quite a hassle and I will write more about this in the same post about travel times and design in my next post. I grew up with freezers too. These were highly orchestrated machines in my family right through my grandparents and my parents and their marriages etc etc. I basically use the fridge unit freezer to make ice for cocktails and that is basically all I freeze maybe soup stock ha ha.Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-56659889842894200472011-08-06T07:10:24.901-04:002011-08-06T07:10:24.901-04:00I often pick up fresh food on the way home from wo...I often pick up fresh food on the way home from work, although I no longer live in an urban core.<br /><br />My parents had a big chest freezer and they would look for sales on meat and other foods and freeze them so they could afford to have plenty of food for the family. I'm not big on freezing stuff. In fact our house came with a small chest freezer which we gave away to a charity. Some things freeze well, like pierogi for instance. On the other hand, I've never liked what happens to bread when it gets frozen and my experience with that as a kid has fostered in me a love of really fresh bread. <br /><br />The phenomenon of frozen food may be in part a suburban thing but I think in my family it also had to do with my parents both living through the Great Depression. They didn't ever want their family to not have food and so they stock-piled.mister anchovyhttp://27thstreet.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-69581498612087623922011-08-05T15:17:14.338-04:002011-08-05T15:17:14.338-04:00Hey Candy ... you're actually still in Chicago...Hey Candy ... you're actually still in Chicago. Edison, Oriole, Norwood Parks are all just neighborhoods within Chicago.<br /><br />A big reason you find so many cops & firemen in Norwood & Edison (on the NW-side) is that is the "furthest out" a Chicago Cop or Fireman can live to meet the residency requirement - and most don't wanna live where they work.<br /><br />Your nearest burbs are Harwood Hts., Norridge & Park Ridge.<br /><br />- DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com