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  • Whether they were grand structures like the Shea's Hippodrome or the less noteworthy neighbourhood movie houses (affectionately called "nabes") like the Bluebell, in 1940s Toronto theatres of all types experienced their heyday before the advent of television a decade later.

    blogTO 2010

  • Whether they were grand structures like the Shea's Hippodrome or the less noteworthy neighbourhood movie houses (affectionately called "nabes") like the Bluebell, in 1940s Toronto theatres of all types experienced their heyday before the advent of television a decade later.

    blogTO 2010

  • Dandridge and Specter pushed the idealistic notion that members of criminal gangs, if given proper encouragement and public funding, could rid inner city nabes of criminal gangs.

    Arlen Specter Zelig, America's Unsung Pulp Star 2009

  • Back in the day I hung my hat in several Jersey City nabes.

    Jersey City Dreaming: Bullets, Bribes, and Unreal Real Estate 2009

  • Mail artists could live in hot nabes or cold ones, in cities or suburbs, on farms or in trailer parks.

    Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera 2009

  • Inner city nabes in Albany have been hit hard by mortgage fraud.

    Obama Parts the Sea, Cuomo Heeds the Community, Cynics March on DC 2008

  • But that hasn't been a big problem in old nabes in cities like New York and Boston.

    15 Ways To Fix The Suburbs 2008

  • And though he often inveighed against predatory lenders, organized mortgage fraud rings working inner city nabes in the Capital Region did so under his nose.

    The Albany Show/See Bruno Go/Did Spitzer Know? 2008

  • I'd have to agree with most of their choices of nabes that still retain city grit and personalty, though I'd put Chinatown in the number one spot instead of number two.

    Soul Patrol Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • The views alone would attract tourists and New Yorkers to the otherwise over looked Brooklyn nabes.

    The Shameful Bus Called B61 Brooks of Sheffield 2007

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