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Post by bravomailer on Mar 26, 2020 23:44:09 GMT
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Post by millar70 on Mar 26, 2020 23:48:50 GMT
Can someone post the corner store from Taxi Driver where Travis shoots the robber?
Seemed like a nice place......
I love corner stores, we still got a few here and there where I live. It's nice to give them business when you can.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 27, 2020 11:26:35 GMT
Sean Penn again, this time from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 27, 2020 11:30:28 GMT
Can someone post the corner store from Taxi Driver where Travis shoots the robber? Seemed like a nice place...... I love corner stores, we still got a few here and there where I live. It's nice to give them business when you can.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 27, 2020 12:36:16 GMT
Not sure if this qualifies for you, London, but Mr. Gower's Drugstore in It's a Wonderful Life was a great hang-out place as well as a place to wish for a million dollars. Naw, it probably doesn't qualify, but after searching for pix, I guess I'll leave it anyway. When I was a kid I once lived in a tiny midwestern town (pop. 400) where the local bar/poolroom was the corner store. People used to come in for odds and ends, and gathered around the pot-bellied stove in the wintertime for chats. Another time when I was a kid I lived in a small town (pop. 5,000) and the "corner store" was the local pharmacy that also had a soda fountain. Wonderful place where so many people gathered just to drink sodas and talk. I miss those days.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 28, 2020 19:52:26 GMT
The Birds
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Post by london777 on Mar 28, 2020 21:10:01 GMT
When I was a kid I once lived in a tiny midwestern town (pop. 400) ...
This reminds me of Shane. I watched it aged 13, and being a restless brat was impatient for the action to start. Too much grown-up talking. Finally we learn someone is going "into town". At last, a bit of urban bustle! Of course, "town" turned out to be half a dozen more sizable buildings and a few wooden shacks. Very disappointing. No-one in England would call a place with 400 residents a "town". I used to work in Ripley (pop 2000) which used to boast it was the "first true village" encountered on the road out of London. Same applies with "city". Relatively small centers (say less than 50,000 pop) can be "cities" in the USA. Not in the UK (exceptions being a bishop's seat). I suppose that these different usages derive from the non-Anglo-Saxon origins of most US immigrants.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 28, 2020 22:06:59 GMT
When I was a kid I once lived in a tiny midwestern town (pop. 400) ...
No-one in England would call a place with 400 residents a "town". I used to work in Ripley (pop 2000) which used to boast it was the "first true village" encountered on the road out of London.
Just out of curiosity, what would a "town" that size in England be called, London? I would have thought "village," but maybe there's another word instead. Village is what they would be called in most of New England, I think. There are so many towns/villages in Vermont, for example, that have populations of only around 400 (the largest "city" in the whole state, Burlington, has a population of about 42,000). But for some reason in the midwestern and other parts of the US we still call them towns. I like the "village" idea myself. And the village life, too - though I confess I would prefer one that has at least a couple thousand people, if not more.
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Post by london777 on Mar 28, 2020 23:40:39 GMT
No-one in England would call a place with 400 residents a "town". I used to work in Ripley (pop 2000) which used to boast it was the "first true village" encountered on the road out of London.
Just out of curiosity, what would a "town" that size in England be called, London? I would have thought "village," but maybe there's another word instead. Village is what they would be called in most of New England, I think. There are so many towns/villages in Vermont, for example, that have populations of only around 400 (the largest "city" in the whole state, Burlington, has a population of about 42,000). But for some reason in the midwestern and other parts of the US we still call them towns. I like the "village" idea myself. And the village life, too - though I confess I would prefer one that has at least a couple thousand people, if not more.
Yes, a village. A "hamlet" is even smaller and would have nothing but private dwellings, whereas a village would typically (historically, anyway) have a pub (which serves as social center), a shop stocking everything (like the urban corner shop), a Church of England church or chapel, and a chapel for each flavor of nonconformism which might have taken root there. As the latter would be relatively recent arrivals (C17 or later) they would not be in the village center. A larger village might have a blacksmith. That was until recently. Now villages are going the route either of gentrification or of dereliction as bus routes are eliminated and people need cable.
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Post by london777 on Mar 29, 2020 2:51:28 GMT
Yes, a village. A "hamlet" is even smaller and would have nothing but private dwellings, whereas a village would typically (historically, anyway) have a pub (which serves as social center), a shop stocking everything (like the urban corner shop), a Church of England church or chapel, and a chapel for each flavor of nonconformism which might have taken root there. As the latter would be relatively recent arrivals (C17 or later) they would not be in the village center. A larger village might have a blacksmith. In many ways the community in which I live now reminds me of England in the immediate post-war years. The equivalent of the urban corner shop is the colmado, seen here, though this one seems more orderly and hygienic than usual. Here you can buy a single cigarette, a couple of loose aspirins, a scoop of loose sugar or rice, or a cupful of cooking oil, because a lot of people only ever have enough cash to live from day to day. Curiously you can also buy chips or minutes for cell-phones, as the population here, though much poorer than the UK, actually own more cell-phones per head of population. One activity you will not infrequently see in a neighbourhood shop is this. They all have music blaring away from open to close, so customers waiting for the painfully slow service might break into an impromptu bachata with their neighbours: Further out in the countryside, a tiny hamlet will, as standard, contain the following establishments: A colmado (or two) A used and new clothes store A bar (or two) A lottery ticket vendor A ladies hairdresser A nail bar/pedicurist
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