Foo - Water Tower, Amigo?

So, where are the water towers in or near your town?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/3609071318_aab112c215.jpg?v=1244500473

Old Dunean Plant water tower in Greenville, South Carolina.

peach water tower,

Gaffney, South Carolina

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/2419537281_fd8c17781d.jpg

There's one right behind my apartment complex. The towers in Redmond are reasonably camoflaged: They hide them among a bunch of evergreen trees, and paint trees on the side of the tower (giant tank, really. not a tower) so it blends in.
It was pointed out to us during our tour of the property. Without that I might never have noticed it there.

Old water tower,

Chicago, IL.

http://www.gothereguide.com/Images/USA/Chicago/Old_Water_Tower.jpg

There's one right behind my apartment complex. The towers in Redmond are reasonably camoflaged: They hide them among a bunch of evergreen trees, and paint trees on the side of the tower (giant tank, really. not a tower) so it blends in.
It was pointed out to us during our tour of the property. Without that I might never have noticed it there.

There's no attempt to hide the hideousness in this part of the country. I think some counties revel in the ugliness they can impart.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hQ21TJEKhsk/R7493SNsgiI/AAAAAAAABTU/j1JXuV1DELo/s400/abc.JPG

There's no attempt to hide the hideousness in this part of the country. I think some counties revel in the ugliness they can impart.

She's beautiful....

http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney/smiley50.jpg

http://www.2dayblog.com/images/2008/march/houseincloud.jpg

http://wtfurls.com/daily/images/565.jpg

carolina mudcats water tower, zebulon nc.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/mudcats.jpg

Who doesn't love the brain-on-a-stick* in Rosemont, Illinois?

http://www.tnemec.com/resources/project/257/rosemont2.jpg


*errr.... long-stemmed rose, that is.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16369251.jpg

Used to see this. Aren't any really close, now. Three rivers, will do that. Paucity of towers.

Used to see this. Aren't any really close, now. Three rivers, will do that. Paucity of towers.

How flat is your area? Water towers usually are prevalent in flat areas to provide water without need for pumping it. That is, if the electricity or other power supply goes out, the water tower will still work to provide emergency H20 using good old fashioned gravity.

How flat is your area? Water towers usually are prevalent in flat areas to provide water without need for pumping it. That is, if the electricity or other power supply goes out, the water tower will still work to provide emergency H20 using good old fashioned gravity.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1012/1464941501_be16a0a91c_b.jpg

Flat? Hilly. Mountainous, to someone from Minneapolis, flat to someone from Denver. ;)

Flat? Hilly. Mountainous, to someone from Minneapolis, flat to someone from Denver. ;)
I'm in chicago and I thought Minneapolis was hilly :(

Flat? Hilly. Mountainous, to someone from Minneapolis, flat to someone from Denver. ;)

Steel town is pretty hilly. You want to store some emergency water? Just build a tank on top of a hill. No stilts needed in most cases, I would guess.

They could just paint the roof of the Civic Arena like an igloo and call it good. :)

According to a google image search:

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4929/kodsplit.jpg (http://img396.imageshack.us/i/kodsplit.jpg/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/3048616273_2c13aacce0.jpg?v=0
It used to have a 40 foot neon tower sign on top of it saying, "Monroe" but a tornado plucked it off and stuck it through the police station.

Old (original I think) water tower for Seattle.

http://www.historylink.org/db_images/Seattle_volunteer_park_water_tower2005.jpg



And an older pic of it in 1930.
http://www.nps.gov/history/Nr/travel/seattle/photos/watertwr.jpg


More information: http://www.nps.gov/history/Nr/travel/seattle/s5.htm

I have to give it to you, Airwick. You do come up with some pretty cool ideas for threads.

Here is one of the local water towers, but it is hard to see unless you are close.
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/cda6dd55-fcab-4644-8081-ac6ee2ae2628.JPG

Or this one in Groom
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXGROwatertower_brent.jpg

Grapevine
http://www.dfwandme.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cbr-water-tower.jpg

And a theatre in Addison called the Water Tower:
http://www.greenwayplaza.com/admin/_FileUpload/2WaterTowerTheatreTX.jpg

This water tower has generated a fair amount of brouhaha for being an eyesore. See, for example, this (http://www.knoxviews.com/node/6481).

It's the only nearby one that I can think of.

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/flory/Joshphotos/watertower.jpg

The Brooks Catsup Bottle water tower in Collinsville, Illinois:

http://www.catsupbottle.com/images/catsupinthecloudsthumb.jpg

Washington County, Virginia.

http://www.nvdaily.com/news/images/june09/tower.jpg

Edit: I'm being a jerk. Sorry.

This is our water "tower" though.

http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~maher/air/109-27v.jpg

http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney/smiley50.jpg

This one cracks me up. The little bow-tie is perfect

Heh, couldn't think of any.

The town where my MIL lived, it was basically the main attraction - right next to the feed mill (2000 people, rural area)

Then I suddenly remembered where Burlington's is. We ride past the place often - it is by a park on the escarpment, it just doesn't have stilts (it is almost level)
Google maps (http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.348393,-79.856787&spn=0.003893,0.006899&t=h&z=17)

And this is the one where I used to live
Umbogintwini, South Africa (http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=-30.013996,30.924073&spn=0.002318,0.003449&t=h&z=18) Top of the hill, and in the one corner you can see the square stilted water tower. Nice view of Durban airport from up there :)

I have to give it to you, Airwick. You do come up with some pretty cool ideas for threads.

thank you, KT.

I have fond memories of water towers,....

http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/petticoat.JPG

http://www.outsidetrains.com/MLS/WaterTower/42-10619.jpg

Round here we don't have water towers; we just put tanks on hills.

The Brooklyn Park tower posted above is a type of water tower that also is built to be able to have office and warehouse space in it, as opposed to just H20.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/143361200_8d87de21ed.jpg?v=0

Flying prior to GPS, there was nothing handier than water towers to regain "situational awareness" when lost at low altitude.

thank you, KT.

I have fond memories of water towers,....

http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/petticoat.JPG

http://www.outsidetrains.com/MLS/WaterTower/42-10619.jpg

ha....Petticoat Junction. :) used to watch that show too.

we have a ton around here
http://www.eureka4you.com/wtower-on-t/index.htm#Toronto

Flying prior to GPS, there was nothing handier than water towers to regain "situational awareness" when lost at low altitude.

forgotten heroes. :)


we have a ton around here
http://www.eureka4you.com/wtower-on-t/index.htm#Toronto

jackpot! awesome, AEO

http://www.eureka4you.com/wtower-on-t/ON-Toronto13.JPG

http://www.buzabunch.com/Oct_17_2003%20136.jpg

"Lot's of curves, you bet
and even more when you get
to the Junction"


Petticoat Junction water tower comes to life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9WJNy7B9s)

http://images.publicradio.org/content/2008/05/28/20080528_witchshat_33.jpg

http://images.publicradio.org/content/2008/05/28/20080528_witchshat_33.jpg

She's a beautiful,...

where?

Judging by the car in the foreground, I'd say it's located somewhere around 1937.

Also, interesting gender assignment for large, vaguely phallic structures.

She's a beautiful,...

where?

Near where I used to live on the West Bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park,_Minneapolis). Seems an eon, ago.

near a place I camped every year as a kid:
http://www.ohiobarns.com/othersites/watertowers/mn/23-13coffeepot.jpeg

Paul Bunyan's Fishing Bobber - Pequot Lakes, MN

http://www.ohiobarns.com/othersites/watertowers/mn/23-18fishingbobber2.jpeg


Rochester, MN
http://www.camera-crafts.com/RochesterCornTower.jpg

We keep ours next to the sewage treatment plant of course - where else?

Big ole water cylinder behind a Safeway. It's a "tower", but not on stilts.
http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/pimg/ZUMA_Press__Inc_142340/ZUMA_Press_Inc297063/2009/02/03/Sacramento_California_News_-_Feb-59774.largeslideshow.jpg

More boring towers
http://www.norcalblogs.com/commission/images/tower_scaffold1.jpg

And a big ugly one:
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles17239.jpg

http://vagf.org/forums/uploads/1158849029/med_gallery_5_33_446238.jpg

Selma, NC (pretty dang close to Clayton)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/WaterTowers/TrainWaterTower.jpg

Barton College - Wilson, NC
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/WaterTowers/BartonWaterTower.jpg

Judging by the car in the foreground, I'd say it's located somewhere around 1937.

Also, interesting gender assignment for large, vaguely phallic structures.

you sound like a hard core feminist.

Selma, NC (pretty dang close to Clayton)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/WaterTowers/TrainWaterTower.jpg

Barton College - Wilson, NC
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/WaterTowers/BartonWaterTower.jpg

Thats wilson one is really a UFO hidden in plain sight! ;)

Also, interesting gender assignment for large, vaguely phallic structures.

Sometimes, more than vaguely phallic...
http://www.emich.edu/walkingtour/images/watertower6.jpg

Selma, NC (pretty dang close to Clayton)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/WaterTowers/TrainWaterTower.jpg

Barton College - Wilson, NC
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/khgulledge/WaterTowers/BartonWaterTower.jpg

For some reason, I read that Selma one as LMAO Carolina.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/3703043296_79c3be4fc4.jpg?v=0