Oak, and they're 4in cubes. Apparently they were installed in the early 20th century to quiet the streets (the clatter of horse hooves and metal-rimmed wagon wheels on cobblestones being rather loud), but proved not to be very durable. This street was restored in the 1990s. http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool...any idea how deep those 4x4's go into the ground or what kind of wood > they are? > > -p > > > On 7/16/2014 7:14 PM, Rick Womer wrote: >> >> The old part of Philly still has streets paved with wooden blocks, about 4 >> in (10cm) on a side. Here it gave way to cobblestones of uncertain age, with >> the help of some modern concrete: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17808395&size=lg >> >> (K-5, DA 16-45) >> >> Comments ever so welcome, >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
