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When we came down here to this pier, Pier 84 along the Hudson, we didn't know what we would find.
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As the use of the 35th Street pier for the disposal of material required that the mode of transportation should be by dump-wagons drawn by horses, the plant in use by the contractor during that period necessarily differed in many respects from what it was later, when Pier
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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Worthing, the stone causeway calld the Pier is about as high as Mr Williams's houses and perhaps 80 foot broad, but the waves at high water pelted us in by several times as we walkd round.
Letter 194 2009
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The two major places where we handle export coal are our Newport News, Virginia; what we call Pier IX and there we move around 12 million tones a year that's fully subscribed by a number of coal producers and all that capacity is subscribed and being utilized.
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The library where George Orwell researched his book The Road To Wigan Pier is to be restored.
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Devon Green's "The End of the Pier" is a gripping story, with a definite chill, and it is NOW included in the C&S August 2007 issue.
Archive 2007-07-29 Bill Crider 2007
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Devon Green's "The End of the Pier" is a gripping story, with a definite chill, and it is NOW included in the C&S August 2007 issue.
Story Added to This Issue of Crime and Suspense Bill Crider 2007
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One of the curiosities of the Venice Pier is that hardly anyone seems to bring coolers.
Fishing the Venice Beach Pier Jonathan Miles 2005
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For the most part, the Venice Pier is like that-laid-back, generous, grimy but good-hearted-though sometimes, after dark, and especially when it's crowded, things are not so mellow.
Fishing the Venice Beach Pier Jonathan Miles 2005
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For the most part, the Venice Pier is like that-laid-back, generous, grimy but good-hearted-though sometimes, after dark, and especially when it's crowded, things are not so mellow.
Fishing the Venice Beach Pier Jonathan Miles 2005
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