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Water Towers

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Anything for a Good Cause. Well, Almost.

April 10, 2009

I’ve seen this twice, so that makes it a trend! For now, it seems centered in the UK, but it’s a matter of time before they’re descending giant water towers [...]

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Buzzards DID foretell water misery for Gladewater!

February 26, 2009

Earlier this week, did you laugh at our juvenile superstitions over buzzards roosting atop the Gladewater, Texas water tower? Did you scoff at our contention that this was an unsettling, [...]

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Town is abuzz about water tower buzzards

February 21, 2009

It appears as if a sequel to Hitchcock’s The Birds is shooting on location atop the Gladewater, Texas water supply! Of course, buzzards and vultures have been spooking mankind for eons; from Disney cartoons [...]

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Smiley, Facebook Cause Célèbre

January 30, 2009

UPDATE: Feb. 17, 2009, a sad day for Smiley. “After repeated stays of execution during the past two years, the Grand Forks City Council decided Tuesday to pull the switch [...]

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