From the category archives:

Water Towers

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 Flickr)

Golf Ball [...]

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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, is not amusing [...]

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Your Towering English Country Estate

June 10, 2009

For less than the price of a slightly-fancy European automobile, you could own your very own European water tower! That’s the kind of status symbol that could completely deflate those [...]

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NIMBY Noisemakers Will Never Surrender

June 6, 2009

Bring on the new development–condos, apartments, retail, we’re all for it! But wait. That big hulking water tower rising over our breathtaking mountain ridge view? Well, we’re NOT for that! [...]

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Thrills! Chills! Big-Budget Water Tower Destruction

May 18, 2009

Self-promoting corporate multi-media at its best! Here’s what happens when high production values are applied to a water tower demolition.
Testa Corporation used a tried and true ‘old school’ method to [...]

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Bat Girl Arrested After Scaling Water Tower

April 29, 2009

Holy Bat-Stunt, this was a great day for the power-quad of water towers, middle-aged women, outlet shopping and Canada! From Rick Vanderline for barrieadvance.com in central Ontario, Canada, 
A woman dressed as Bat [...]

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Profits are Up for Ypsilanti Water Tower Photog

April 13, 2009

The unusual design of the Ypsilanti, Michigan Water Tower has sparked many a debate since it was erected (ha ha) in 1889. While the tower is a historic landmark, city [...]

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