When my pal, Hooper, and I headed toward this beauty on 72nd Street in Maspeth, we thought perhaps the town had a new waterway that we hadn't heard about. This thing looks like a cruise ship from a distance.
Flanking it on its starboard and port sides are complementary tugs o'crap.
Double deckers with porthole windows.
Hey look, a flag atop the mast! They should replace Old Glory with a flag of Queens County.
Looking through our periscope, we thought we saw a submarine begin to surface in the distance...
And looking past the bow: Thar she craps!
The Lolly Crap and now-empty lot used to be bungalows.
20 comments:
I gotta get outta here!
The feature on top of the "cruise ship" looks like the architectural item known as the "widow's walk" or sometimes the "captain's walk". It will be great for the owners to stand on and observe the massive flooding when the 100 year hurricane arrives.
Wonderful selection there, but I think the first one kills the fish!
The last one is crap, yet they have nice flowers in the yard.
very entertaining post, crappy, and right on the money too. :)
Load starboard torpedo tubes #s 1 & 2......
and fire on my command!
Ya mein capitan !
Maybe there's a ship's hull concealed in the cellar level
in anticipation of the coming hurricane .
A Noah's ark.....sort of !
the building in the bottom photo is shaped like a miniature flatiron building. Wonder if women's skirts fly up in the air when walking past it?
Will have to investigate...
I think it would be great if they put a Comfort Inn on this block.
Wow. This is the "old crank/survival of the fittest" commenter here...
I have to say you guys might have a convert with this pic, LOL. Thats disgusting.
Watching women's skirts fly up? (The Maspeth "Ski-doo" Hotcha-hotcha!) Please be careful or Vallone will cuff you.
You got a point there. So I'd better call Vallone's office first (718) 274-4500 to see if he's there before heading over to maspeth to take in the sights.
If you look carefully at the house in the top picture, at the corners of the house you can see.... columns!
Talk about lipstick on a pig!
you're right about the columns. What a wacky house. Wonder who lives in it? The ghost and mrs muir?
"georgetheatheist said...
The feature on top of the "cruise ship" looks like the architectural item known as the "widow's walk" or sometimes the "captain's walk". It will be great for the owners to stand on and observe the massive flooding when the 100 year hurricane arrives."
VERY GOOD!!! Well said.
Continuing the nautical theme. At the very top of the "cruise ship" there seems to be 4 porthole-sized skylights. Who's the architect? [I'd pay money to take an inside tour of this structure!]
You know those cars that can be driven right into the water? This house can be disengaged from it's foundation and can sail away. The proto-type of future Queens building construction?. Floatable housing for when the hurricane comes! Just look at the size of cruise ships - condominiums on the water.
And it started right here, in our fair borough.
Two flags are on the top deck of "the cruise ship"...One's the American flag. What's the other?
That whole block looks like it came out of some kind of nightmare. Freaking butt ugly.
really liking this shirley temple song I dug up the lyrics and have posted 'em in the unlikely event that anybody else was interested. Feel free to sing along:
On the goo-oo-ood ship Lollypop
It's a swee-ee-eet trip to a candy shop
Where bon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay
Lemona-a-ade stands everywhere
'Cross the de-e-eck spans belly air
And there you are
Happy landing on a chocolate bar
See the sugar bowl do the Tootsie roll
With the big bad Bell's Fruit Cake
If you eat too much, ooh-ooh
You'll awake with a tummy ache
On the goo-oo-ood ship Lollypop
It's a ni-i-ice trip into bed you'll hop
And dream away
On the good ship lollypop
On the goo-oo-ood ship lollypop
It's a swee-ee-eet trip to a candy shop
Where bon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay
Lemona-a-ade stands everywhere
'Cross the de-e-eck spans belly air
And there you are
Happy landing on a chocolate bar
See the sugar bowl do the Tootsie roll
With the big bad Bell's Fruit Cake
If you eat too much, ooh-ooh
You'll awake with a tummy ache
On the goo-oo-ood ship lollypop
It's a ni-i-ice trip into bed you'll hop
And dream away (dream away)
On the good ship lollypop
You'll awake with a tummy ache
On the goo-oo-ood ship lollypop
It's a nice trip into bed you'll hop
And dream away on the good ship lollypop
This end of the "house" looks so narrow.....
do you have to squeeze by sideways
to get to the bathroom?
"squeeze by sideways," hee, hee.
maybe tenants might piss out the windows too.
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