Comments on: Searching for Francois Raymond in Puteaux…

By: Blog closed until further notice… « Mister Trippy

Blog closed until further notice… « Mister Trippy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:40:40 +0000

[...] 1958 prison escape with a subsequent two years on the run). That said, while I now know that Francois Raymond who exhibited photographs of my mother in 1967 is dead and I have contact details for his brother, [...]

By: Faurobert

Faurobert — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:03:15 +0000

I knew very well Francois Raymond that belongs to the groupe Tamrauc. He is dead a long time ago, may be 30 years. He was young when he died. You can find some details about him and Tamrauc on my web site. I could find adresses of his family if you need something.

By: Bob Dobbs

Bob Dobbs — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:23:53 +0000

Repent, quit your job, slack off!

By: fi

fi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:09:22 +0000

You are certainly getting your moneys worth out of your trip to Paris sweet!

By: The Real Tessie

The Real Tessie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:16:04 +0000

Putain is French for whore, so surely Puteaux translates as Whoresville… you can’t fool me buster, so now you’re really gonna catch it when you get home!

By: Paul Conneally

Paul Conneally — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:42:55 +0000

Stewart – the modern escalator (stepped) has big links to Paris and the 1900 exposition… wish you’d had the video going… it needs reconstructing…

Escalator = Scala Elevator

The escalator as we know it was designed by Charles Seeberger in 1897, who created the name ‘escalator’ from the word ‘scala’, which is Latin for steps and the word ‘elevator’, which had already been invented. … Read More

Charles Seeberger, together with the Otis Elevator Company produced the first commercial escalator in 1899 at the Otis factory in Yonkers, N.Y. The Seeberger-Otis wooden escalator won first prize at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle in France. Jesse Reno’s Coney Island ride success briefly made Jesse Reno into “the” escalator designer and he founded the Reno Electric Stairways and Conveyors company in 1902.

Charles Seeberger sold his patent rights for the escalator to the Otis Elevator Company in 1910, who also bought Jesse Reno’s escalator patent in 1911. Otis then came to dominate escalator production, and combined and improved the various designs of escalators.

By: Raymond Anderson

Raymond Anderson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:37:43 +0000

and they say storytelling is dead?

By: Scott MacLeod

Scott MacLeod — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:49 +0000

Someday a young Frenchman named Paul will wander the streets of Hackney looking for a blogger named Stuart Holmes who saved his pregnant mother from falling onto trains tracks. It was his father who’d pushed her. This Holmes fellow, described as sixty-ish, overweight with soft curly blond hair, was said to have fought the pusher to a bloody draw on… Read More the platform, allowing the pregnant woman to flee and give birth to Paul. Paul won’t find Mr. Holmes but will by his mere presence inadvertently discourage a pickpocket from heisting a Mrs. Percy’s wallet, thus averting a chain of events that would have eventually resulted in the collapse of an interstellar bank fraud scheme. Tant pis.

By: Paul Conneally

Paul Conneally — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:08:03 +0000

Escalators to be made safe after Home saves the day:

http://www.monputeaux.com/2009/10/escalators-tous-temps.html

By: Zen Mater K

Zen Mater K — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:59:55 +0000

This put the 70s punk tune “Escalator Hater” by Raped in my mind… and now I can’t stop it running around my brain!