From the category archives:

Water Towers

Who’s Smiling Now?

January 26, 2009

Grand Fork-ers (North Dakota) are ambivalent about the future of their two-sided smiling/winking water tower, despite the fact that it hasn’t held water in years. Now, city leaders are struggling [...]

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Flip this Tower

January 23, 2009

Another opportunity to quench your thirst for one-of-a-kind digs. For £100,000 (that’s about US$135,000) plus renovation expenses, you could turn this abandoned concrete tower into a 4-story monument to to [...]

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Water beautiful sight, happy tonight

December 26, 2008

More festive water towers pimped up for the Christmas season. Seen in Oxford, Mississippi by gasolinehorses on Flickr. A futuristic look in Malmo, Sweden, from Flickr and photographed by by Kristian [...]

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Water bright time, it’s the right time

December 22, 2008

Christmas lights and water towers seem such a natural combo it’s surprising we don’t see more of them. Perhaps they interfere with the increasingly prevalent cell antennas. Anyhow, here’s a [...]

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The ultimate in water container recycling

September 3, 2008

Low rates of recycling for water bottles? Time to think bigger. The Sugar City, Idaho water tower, out of service for nearly 60 years, is getting a $25,000 spiff-up for [...]

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Water tower superlatives

September 2, 2008

No matter what the profession or endeavor, somewhere, someone is honoring “the best.” Even if they’re just doing it to create a promotional opportunity. Such is the case of the “2007 [...]

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A water tower you can climb

August 27, 2008

Although Tank, Spaz and Tiddy might not be welcomed, this water tower in the Giant City State Park, near Carbondale, Illinois averts temptation with a design meant to climb. Constructed [...]

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Tank, Spaz, Tiddy & Melissa

August 26, 2008

  I’m sure a little summer fun is all they had in mind. Or maybe summer fun in their little minds. Four Manatee county, Florida teenagers went straight to jail [...]

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Bleak to Chic

August 25, 2008

This July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Pfister and Vogel water tower, from an old tannery building near the city’s park east corridor, was moved and placed it in its new location as [...]

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Someone’s getting fired for this.

August 15, 2008

A real good ol’ boy would impress his buddies by shooting beer cans off fence posts. Who couldn’t hit this target? From WYFF4.com, some idiot started the New Year with a bang. [...]

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