Water Tower Watch
It’s no secret that I love water towers.
As a young lad, I used to ride my bike across town and gaze up in awe at the base of this one:
[Photo by Neil Herzinger]
I’m embarrassed to say that I wrote a poem about it in high school. And I’ve written other things about water towers. I’ve described how the internal mechanisms work, and taken hundreds of photos of the water towers on the east coast.
I’ve seen water towers get make overs:
I’m fortunate in that I can see a giant War of the Worlds from my front door – it’s about 4 miles away. And, curiously, there are a pair of water towers standing to the south of my house, shown here:
Here they are last spring:
And here they are today:
So it’s with horrified fascination that I report the bigger of the two is being dismantled. I hope it’s merely a repair.
I intend to docment these proceedings in my flickr water tower set. More soon.
Tags: watertower
March 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Get it and reassemble it in the backyard! That big rusty hole is a beautiful photo.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
As a kid I was fascinated with the Egyptian Pyramids. It had nothing to do with the mythology or the anthropology behind them, it was simply the grandeur and geometric pureness of them. It’s cool that you’ve found something in modern society that most of us ignore, but has the same effect!
March 15th, 2009 at 10:50 am
These are such wonderful photos! They are beautiful monsters indeed.
March 6th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
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