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Having a Ball in Tipton, Missouri

August 29, 2010
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I spotted this peculiar water tower on a road trip last weekend as we passed through tiny Tipton, Missouri (population 3,261 in 2000). The 8-ball design was painted in 1968 [...]

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We’re Crushed. Really, We Are.

August 18, 2010
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If you think your work day was a little wonky, just be grateful you weren’t in any way involved in this water tower meets residence fiasco! (Despite some quick and [...]

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Water Tower Graffiti: If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em

July 30, 2010
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Why can’t we all just get along? Rather than stir up conflict with naturally-rambunctious teens, perhaps more authorities should take a cue from Fallbrook, California. There, for more than three decades, the [...]

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Water Tower Typo Turns Heads

June 22, 2010
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We’ve all been embarrassed by a careless typo now and then, but rarely is the goof the talk of the town. As one commenter on this story noted, this job obviously went [...]

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An Ode to the Glorious Flagler Water Orb

June 2, 2010
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Stanley Drescher was a man with a dream and a vision. His vision was one in which Flagler Beach, Florida’s plain-Jane water tower proudly displayed the town’s moniker for townspeople [...]

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Save Ferris, But Trash the Tower

May 9, 2010
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Yes, it is time to mourn yet another iconic Eighties reference point. The Northbrook, Illinois water tower made famous in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is under threat of [...]

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Corbin, Kentucky’s Water Tower Sure is High!

April 5, 2010
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How high is Corbin’s water tower? Literally or figuratively? It seems that some of the town’s drug-crazed youth found that the town’s tower was a great place to cook up [...]

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Behold, The Fantastical Anti-Water Device

March 30, 2010

What if? What if there were a technology that repelled water, similar to magnets with like poles? And, what if there were a talented 3D animator who attempted to visualize [...]

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Barcelona Water Tower Brings On The Bling

January 30, 2010
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Attention civic boosters, if your town’s pride-and-joy water tower is decorated with a flat, plain-Jane painted logo or mascot, imagine how something like this could help you hit the big [...]

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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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