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Water Towers

Water Towers, Merry and Bright: Part 2

December 22, 2009

To make your season bright…part 2! Again in 2009 we’ve rounded up some fantastic festive towers decorated for the holiday season! (See Part 1 here or the 2008 collection here and here.) [...]

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Water Towers, Merry and Bright: Part 1

December 21, 2009

Water towers and Christmas lights are a natural combo so again in 2009 we’ve rounded up some fantastic festive towers decorated for the holiday season! (See the 2008 collection here [...]

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Another Reason I’m an Anglophile

November 13, 2009

Just when we think our crush on the country, culture and people of England was getting out of hand, along comes a note from Ferrers (aka The Pie Man) to [...]

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The Great Pumpkin, Water Storage Version

October 28, 2009

The folks from Circleville, Ohio, sure know how to whip up some soaring enthusiasm for their annual Pumpkin Show, first held in 1903. (While it sounds quaint, it has grown [...]

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The Biggest Balls Of Them All

October 21, 2009

Soccer Ball Water Tower, Mistlin Sports Park, Ripon, California (Thanks Adrian Mendoza, www.amenfoto.com) Basketball Water Tower, Hebron, Illinois (Thanks, dharder9475 on Flickr) Baseball Water Tower, Ellsworth, Illinois (Thanks, tlindenbaum on [...]

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This Real Estate Development is Tanking

September 8, 2009

Dan Reed from Just Up the Pike, an excellent Montgomery County, Maryland blog, profiles this available-now dream home. (Perhaps this what is meant by the phrase “wet dream?” No, don’t [...]

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No Dignity in Death for this Water Tower

August 11, 2009

Cut down like a tree! For those of us who dysfunctionally enjoy watching big things fall, here’s the last misty moments of the 75,000-gallon Huntertown, Indiana water tower. A Michigan [...]

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The Iconic New York City… Water Tower?

July 25, 2009

In that most sophisticated of cities, New York, New York, the wooden water tower still reigns supreme. www.amny.com has a fascinating story on the many wooden water towers that dot [...]

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We’re Laughing AT You, Not WITH You

June 23, 2009

From KSTP.com (really!) an incident that’s practically guaranteed to end up at juvie court: City Not Laughing at Virginia (Minnesota) Water Tower Prank What was likely intended as a prank, [...]

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