They took mine apart with torches that cut through the 1" steel plates like butter. I may still have a piece. The city was afraid it would "elephant foot" in an earthquake. Decided soon after a 4.9 quake rattled Seattle. They replaced it with a robo-welded tank of slightly greater capacity, installed new pumps in an underground room to fill the tank, provide better water pressure to those of us at the same level or higher, along with an auto-start diesel generator to run the pumps when the electrical failed.
They asked me to document the progress of the destruction and construction, which I did with Ektachrome. What appeared in the local Seattle paper was a B&W night-time image of the torching the old tower. About one inch square. (but a credit line under it)! On Aug 8, 2011, at 21:40 , P. J. Alling wrote: > Water tower. > > On 8/9/2011 12:50 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >> Let's see. late 1800s to 1930s construction, similar to the Titanic. >> However, having lived across the street from a similar structure for 10 >> years that was filled with water (and didn't leak) I'd venture to say this >> is a heating oil or crude out storage tank that was never lined like the one >> in my life. Could be water, even, if that's rust. >> >> >> On Aug 8, 2011, at 16:47 , P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> B&W conversion, Green filter, Sepia tone. >>> >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20neversleeps.html It's not that life is too short, it's that you're dead for so long...... — Anon Joseph McAllister [email protected] http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
