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- Passenger seat
- The two front doors
- You are correct Dave.
- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- Working all the live long day
- How do you stop slackers?
- It's [not] a Diamond T
- A Red Brown Truck
- Not Too Long a Long Walk
- What Tribe? Huh?
- Cheap labor
- No Mel Brooks fans?!?
- The real "Gandy"
- @louJudson
- Somethings not right
- Straining or laughing?
- Heavy!
- I don't like the look of that supervisor
- What tribe? Which rail location?
- How many do they need?
- Pursed lips
- Another lost street trade?
- Where Is The Carpet bag?
- Another great composition
- The Un-Coaler
- The Last Bickford's
- Re: And literally just around the corner
- Straight from Central Casting
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The Fall of Washington: 1935
Sept. 17, 1935. "These two 150-foot-tall brick smokestacks on the Mall in Washington, D.C., were considered an eyesore and ordered demolished. The closer stack fell shortly after the far one toppled. They were erected when a central heating plant occupied the site." Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
It's probably smoke
They may have used fire to bring them down.
Physics in action
Note the crack forming 1/3 way up the falling stack.
An interesting fact of physics is that all debris from a non-monolithic falling structure will land within a distance 2/3 of its height.
Must have been in a hurry
They didn't even wait for it to stop smoking.
Holy smoke!
Was there a fire in that far stack when they toppled it?
[My guess: dust being forced up the chimney by the force of its collapse? -tterrace]
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