future right they do like it or not kids today Shake fist to get off my lawn um and so there's this real sense that it's in our own self-interest to raise our children with these qualities raiseyour children with the qualities I don't have kids um and but there's also the notion that the world will be a better
promised now it was night no one would expect her to slip the screen out of her bedroom window and squirm onto the fresh lawn that wasn't the kind of thing Onida ever did she wouldn't getcaught the big orange moon hung low over Lincoln Elementary away from the street lights in the middle of the ravaged
egg rolling contest on the white house lawn it was a great thrill to see the white house and roll the eggs on the lawn would have been even better to see you i'm enclosing a self-addressed envelope and if you would let me have yourautograph for my album of great men i'd be most appreciative sincerely yours barry landau well
So this is a slightly different story of North Lawndale and Little Village, which is also referred to as South Lawndale, just not to confuse anyone. Lawndale where the numbers weren't going where it needed to be.
Tony: Stone on top of this moving platform built out of wood that they jury rigged and put on rails together like with a little putt putt lawnmower engine moving farmers from the rice paddies. We were post dinner and we might have beamed up a little bit.
a Honda lawn lawn mower engine in it and when the batteries would get low the lawnmower engine would come off and it would charge up the batteries and they drove it across countries and you know it that would you know was a hybrid car you know but it was they hadn't figured out how to package it and in the same
we were in bryant park and there was a bunch of posters along the big green there that basically talked about why lawns are good for the world and which by the way is highly suspect and we have no idea whether we know who the lawns are good for the world or bad in fact there's a lot of evidence that suggests maybe lawns are really bad um but what
29th and it's a really fun event we've done it now for eight years we had 700 people come last year and it's on our Great Lawn and basically uh chefs from around the Bay Area partner with a charity of their choice that's local and then they create a dish to pair with our um Cabernet so this year they'll be they'll be creating a dish using some of
of whether it's like at the beach or just on your couch or sitting outside on your lawn that sense of when your son son or daughter is tired and falls asleep on you and it's Saturday and nothing is scheduled and you are just
And the next thing I know, I was looking down the barrel of a tank and the military had taken over my neighborhood, and troops were walking on the lawns with rifles and bayonets and German shepherd dogs. And, you know, when you're looking, you look down the barrel of a tank, you never forget it. And they were very clear. Get off the streets and get in the house.
And it went from being in a ghost kitchen having a couple of people standing in line to having 500 people standing in line every single day, waiting with lawn chairs, with computers, with their children, sitting there supporting, not complaining. Not standing in line for iPhones.
This is what our house looked like when we moved in. Then you have less lawn .
And why are people having so much trouble doing it? we mow the lawn , we do the chores, we do the groceries.
But we were in Central Park, and there's no cell service in Central Park, so then we couldn't figure out what was going on. Go to the great lawn . There's like the biggest space.
And there stood two white gentlemen that I had never seen before. I cut the lawn mower off, and I said, can I help you? One of the gentleman said, yes, we are detectives from Birmingham Police Department.
Fortunately it had been wrapped up and wasn't destroyed. Took out lawn chairs, took apart a refrigerator. And all the while, the Carters sat out on this embankment in the heat.
Water your lawn less.
a a great lawn history that uh kind of never ended um
International Space Station so lawn 's got a pretty uh gutsy plan of trying to land these
house and the denuded lawn blasted by Cold Winters and the Perpetual dripping oil from my father's truck and she
on your lawn , yeah, to consciously cultivate an attitude of
Mow someone's lawn ? I hope you actually didn't say that.
And the pink plastic lawn flamingo.
She points across the lawn , and I leave her with the body hacking euro surfer.
This is the lawn at 23rd Street.
kind of lawn signs that you see that says Townhouses $400,000 and up?
Only this lawn sign said, Joe's Café, Job Fair, Cleared Personnel, TS/SCI, which means
design and build a lawn mower and you use it to mow lawns . A hammer hammers nails. A computer can become whatever you want it to become; and I think its epitomized best by
competitor in the lawn and garden space uh because they claim that our product on the right was more confusingly uh was
it was actually excuse me an electric vehicle and and it pulled a trailer with a Honda lawn lawn mower engine in it and when the batteries would get low the lawnmower engine would come off and it would charge up the batteries and they drove it across countries and you know
I always say that lawns are stupid, because they are.
And I would say, as Miriam, that the folks who helped create Mount Sinai Hospital and the Jewish community came to Chicago into North Lawndale for a better life, no different. My memories of North Lawndale was where we could go outside and play.
into North Lawndale for a better life, no different. My memories of North Lawndale was where we could go outside and play. We talk about Douglas Park, where you could go and sleep at night.
So this is a slightly different story of North Lawndale and Little Village, which is also referred to as South Lawndale, just not to confuse anyone. So North Lawndale is predominantly non-Hispanic black, and Little Village is actually much denser population-wise, and then also predominantly people
So this is a slightly different story of North Lawndale and Little Village, which is also referred to as South Lawndale, just not to confuse anyone. And so in North Lawndale, people talked about how it was a physical food desert.
And then when Lawnmower Man came out and all of that stuff, like the promise of like, yeah, we'll be in these weird suspended chairs and put on these things.
So I love the lawnmower tricycle. It's got a few safety concerns. I'll grant you that.
Bethune School in North Lawndale. It is now one of the teaching academies that I told you about. The principal there, Ms. Hightower, is co-chair of my campaign. In one year they've
If you don't mow the lawn , the weeds are gonna overrun the place.
This is what our house looked like when we moved in. Now we know we need lawn because it's a status symbol and we also need lawn to display our Halloween decorations.
This is what our house looked like when we moved in. We're going to shrink the lawn .
It's not just a couple of lawn chairs or something out there.
If you were out there fertilizing your lawn , you'd put in a big overlap, right?
I'm not mowing everyone's lawn because they can't afford a landscaper.
And I lay down on a lawn chair and go to sleep.
This results in him having the lawn mower in pieces on the living room carpet in the middle of winter, much to his mother's horror.
And it ended up on the front lawn of the house.
that's part of the deal let lawn he's got to make rockets go up and come down he's got that down he's have
Someone's out there walking on the lawn .
Think about cannonballs on a courthouse lawn .