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Aboriginal History of Wilcannia:
Wilcannia is located on the Darling River, about halfway between Bourke and Wentworth. The river is known as Barka by the local Aboriginal people or Barkandji, literally people belonging to the Barka, and it is surrounded on all sides by Barkandji speaking people. The people from along the Barka and varying distances either side from near Bourke down to Wentworth all recognised the Barkandji language as their primary language, but they were divided into subgroups with different dialects of this one language. The Barkandji language is very different from all the neighbouring languages including the adjoining Ngiyampaa/Ngemba to the east, the Kulin, and Murray River languages to the south, and the Yardli and Thura-Yura language groups to the west and north.
Barkandji have a unique culture and depended heavily on the grinding or pounding of seeds on large grinding dishes or mortars and pestles, such as grass, portulaca, and acacia seeds. In the riverine areas, there is a strong emphasis on aquatic plant food tubers and corms, and fish, yabbies, turtles, mussels, and shrimps as well as water birds and their eggs. Insect foods were also important, such as parti or witchetty grubs along the rivers and creeks, and termite larvae in the Mallee country. Large and small canoes were cut out, necessitating ground edge axes, and string manufacture for fish nets, hunting nets, bags, and belts was an important part of the culture. The Wilcannia area still shows tangible evidence of traditional life in the form of canoe trees, coolamon trees, middens, heat retainer ovens, ashy deposits, stone tool quarries and artefacts.
Thomas Mitchell led the first exploring party to reach Wilcannia and gave the Barkandji their first unpleasant taste of what was to come. Mitchell travelled via the Bogan to the Darling River near Bourke and then down the river to Wilcannia then Menindee, reaching it in July 1835. Mitchell was harassed by Barkandji as he did not understand that he had to properly negotiate permission for use of water, grass, land to camp on etc., and in addition his men were abusing women behind his back and breaking all the rules. He gave them names such as the Fire Eaters and the Spitting Tribe as they tried to warn him off. His comments show that the Barkandji groups he met occupied "different portions of the river", and that they owned the resources in their territories including the water in the river. The exclusive possession enjoyed by the Barkandji and the need to obtain permission before using any of their resources is demonstrated by the following comment about the "Spitting Tribe" from the river near Wilcannia:
"The Spitting Tribe desired our men to pour out the water from their buckets, as if it had belonged to them; digging, at the same time a hole in the ground to receive it when poured out; and I have more than once seen a river chief, on receiving a tomahawk, point to the stream and signify that we were then at liberty to take water from it, so strongly were they possessed with the notion that the water was their own"
A hill 15 kilometres north of Wilcannia was named Mount Murchison by Mitchell and this became the name of the very large original station that included the location that was to become Wilcannia township.
In 1862 the area northwest of Mount Murchison Station was still frontier country with continual conflict. Frederic Bonney was based at Mount Murchison homestead and then nearby Momba homestead from 1865 to 1881 and he bluntly states in his notebooks that in this period "natives killed by settlers - shot like dogs"
Bonney recorded extensive detail about the lives, language, culture, and personalities of the Aboriginal people at Mount Murchison/Momba and left us with extremely significant series of photos of Aboriginal people taken in this period. He does not elaborate about the way the station was set up except for his comment above. Frederic Bonney not only respected and looked after the local people but he sympathised with them, worked with them, and respected them. The Bonney papers and photographs are a treasure of information about the Aboriginal people living there between 1865 and 1881. Bonney published a paper in 1884 but long after he had returned to England to live he campaigned for the better treatment of the Aboriginal people, and he tried to educate the public about the complexity of Aboriginal culture.
Bonney names about 44 individual Aboriginal people living at Momba in this period, and one group photo from the same period shows a total of 38 people. Descendants of some of the people Bonney describes still live in Wilcannia and surrounding areas today.
Aboriginal people worked on Moomba and Mount Murchison Station, and from very early times fringe camps grew up around Wilcannia. The land straight across the River from the Wilcannia post office was gazetted as an Aboriginal Reserve, and this became the nucleus of a very large fringe camp that grew into a substantial settlement spaced out along the river bank in the 1930s to the 1970s. By 1953 the Aboriginal Welfare Board had built a series of 14 barrack-like and inappropriately designed houses in an enlarged reserve, now an attractive tree lined settlement known as the Mission (although never a mission it was beside a Catholic School and clinic, thus the name). Today Aboriginal people are the majority of the population of the vibrant, creative, and culturally active town of Wilcannia, and the main users of the post office facilities.
Wilcannia History:
The first secure pastoralists at Mount Murchison were the brothers Hugh and Bushby Jamieson of Mildura Station on the Murray, who in 1856 took up Tallandra and Moorabin blocks, later extended with other blocks and named Mount Murchison Station. Captain Cadell's paddlesteamer Albury was the first to travel up the Darling, landing flour and other stores for the Jamiesons at Mount Murchison in February 1859. The Albury then loaded 100 bales of wool from their woolshed and brought it down to Adelaide. At this time there were no other stations on the Darling between Mt Murchison and Fort Bourke. A little later:
"An enterprising attempt has just been made by Mr. Hugh Jamieson, of Mount Murchison, to bring fat sheep speedily to Adelaide. Mr. Jamieson having chartered Captain Cadell's steamer, Albury, that vessel was prepared, and received on board at Mildura 550 fine fat sheep. These were landed at Moorundee last Tuesday, after a rapid passage of two days, all the sheep being in splendid condition when put ashore"
Jamiesons sold in 1864 to Robert Barr Smith and Ross Reid from Adelaide. The brothers Edward and Frederic Bonney were leasing some adjacent blocks and possibly worked at Mount Murchison for these owners. In 1875 they bought the Mount Murchison/Momba complex, one of the largest stations in New South Wale. In 1865 it was known as Mount Murchison, in 1881 it was all known as Momba, later splitting into smaller stations. The original Mount Murchison Station homestead block was also known as Head Station or Karannia, the Barkandji name for the area just north of the town near where the Paroo River comes into the Barka. The original Mount Murchison woolshed was located on what is now Baker Park, Wilcannia, which is adjacent to the current Post Office.
The site of Wilcannia was selected on Mount Murchison Station in 1864 by John Chadwick Woore, who was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Albert District in 1863 and was based at Wilcannia. The town was proclaimed in 1866 and in the 1870s it became a coaching centre for prospectors exploiting the region's gold, copper, silver, and opal resources, and the administrative, service, and shipping centre for the pastoral industry. Wilcannia was incorporated as a municipality in 1881, and around this time it became New South Wales biggest inland port and Australia's third largest inland port (after Echuca Victoria and Morgan South Australia). 'The Queen of the River' or 'Queen City of the West'. At the height of its prosperity around 1880, the town boasted a population of 3,000. According to the Register of the National Estate, during 1887 alone, 222 steamers took on 26,550 tonnes of wool and other goods at Wilcannia wharves. The value of goods coming down the Darling River in 1884 was 1,359,786 pounds, and included over 30,000 bales of wool. The customs house, another Wilcannia stone building now demolished, located immediately between the Post office and the river bank and wharfs, took 17,544 pounds in customs duties in 1889. Paddlesteamers gradually declined, particularly after the 1920s, although a few continued to trade up and down the river into the 1940's, still remembered by elderly Wilcannia residents.
Wilcannia in the 1870s and into the 1900s was the centre of the pastoral and mining boom of the far west of New South Wales, and it was the centre of the paddlesteamer river trade from the Upper Darling to the Murray River and outlets such as Adelaide and Melbourne. The frequent dry seasons and lack of water in the river led to other methods of transporting goods being used, such as camel trains, but when the water came down the river trade always returned. The river trade built Wilcannia's fine buildings, but it was also its undoing, as the New South Wales government intervened to reduce the river trade because goods were moving to and from Adelaide and Melbourne, not Sydney.
Plans to improve navigation on the river were suggested in 1859 after Captain Cadell's first successful voyage up the Darling that was followed by other paddlesteamers. Cadell gave evidence at a New South Wales Select Committee that the Darling would be become reliable for boats if a system of locks were built at very reasonable cost that would hold back water during the drier seasons. The plans to build locks along the Darling River to make navigation more consistent were investigated again and again, but were not realised because the New South Wales government believed trade would benefit Victoria and South Australia.
After the opening of the Sydney to Bourke railway line in 1885, Wilcannia lost its status as the major commercial centre of the Darling River. The trade from the far North West New South Wales then tended to go to the railhead at Bourke and straight to Sydney. There were plans in the 1880s for the railway to be run from Cobar to Wilcannia, however this plan was continuously put off. Plans for a railway to Wilcannia continued to be made throughout the 1890's and early 1900's, and including a proposal from Cobar to Broken Hill then linking to South Australia as the Great Western Railway. In 1907 "a large petition was forwarded to Sydney from Wilcannia for presentation to the Premier urging immediate construction of the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway, and subsequent extension to Broken Hill".
The New South Wales government attempt to stop trade leaking out of the state resulted in their refusal to build a railway to Wilcannia (as goods tended to go to Wilcannia and down the river), or to extend the railway to South Australia for the same reasons. The bend in the river on the north side of town celebrates this government intransigence by its name "Iron Pole Bend", the iron pole said to have been placed at the surveyed location of the proposed railway bridge. New South Wales eventually built a railway through the low population Ivanhoe route to the south of Wilcannia reaching Broken Hill in 1927, and even then it stopped at Broken Hill and did not join the South Australian line until 1970. The link between Broken Hill and the South Australian railway was provided from 1884 to 1970 by the narrow gauge private railway 'the Silverton Tramway', which also took trade from Wilcannia.
The combination of missing out on the railway and locking of the river, the severe drought on 1900 - 1901, and the damage to the pastoral economy by drought, rabbits, and over grazing, led to a down turn in Wilcannia's prospects, leaving the fine stone buildings such as the post office languishing as tangible reminders of a time when Wilcannia was known as the "Queen City of the West" and was the largest inland port in New South Wales and the third largest inland port in Australia.
Post Office History:
During the 1850s, postal services became more regular, and the great colonial investment in postal infrastructure was underway. From the 1850s, each major rural centre had a postmaster of its own as the post office became a symbol of the presence of civilisation in many outback towns. Government architects built substantial post offices in provincial towns as statements of the authority and presence of the government. The original Wilcannia Post Office was established in 1860 under the name of Mount Murchison, the name was later officially changed to Wilcannia in 1868.
The Wilcannia Post Office and Post Master's Residence were designed by the Colonial Architect James Barnet, the signed plan being forwarded to Wilcannia in 1878. The Post Office and Residence were part of an official precinct in Wilcannia, with the courthouse (1880), gaol (1880), and police residence (1880) built across the road and one block south. In 1876 £1,500 was allocated to the post office project. Tenders were called in August 1878 and the builder D. Baillie accepted to erect the post office, and at the same time as the builder for the Court House, Lock-Up Gaol, and Police buildings.
A further £3,100 of consolidated revenue was allocated to the post office and £8,200 to the courthouse and watch house in 1879. By March 1979 the post office was "in course of erection". The complex was completed by 1880, succeeding the post office set up on Mount Murchison Station in 1860 and a second weatherboard building that was used from 1866.
James Johnstone Barnet (1827 - 1904) was made acting Colonial Architect in 1862 and appointed Colonial Architect from 1865 - 1890. He was born in Scotland and studied in London under Charles Richardson, RIBA and William Dyce, Professor of Fine Arts at King's College, London. He was strongly influenced by Charles Robert Cockerell, leading classical theorist at the time and by the fine arts, particularly works of painters Claude Lorrain and JRM Turner. He arrived in Sydney in 1854 and worked as a self-employed builder. He served as Edmund Blacket's clerk of works on the foundations of the Randwick (Destitute Childrens') Asylum. Blacket then appointed Barnet as clerk-of-works on the Great Hall at Sydney University. By 1859 he was appointed second clerk of works at the Colonial Architect's Office and in 1861 was Acting Colonial Architect. Thus began a long career. He dominated public architecture in New South Wales, as the longest-serving Colonial Architect in Australian history. Until he resigned in 1890 his office undertook some 12,000 works, Barnet himself designing almost 1000. They included those edifices so vital to promoting communication, the law and safe sea arrivals in colonial Australia. Altogether there were 169 post and telegraph offices, 130 courthouses, 155 police buildings, 110 lockups and 20 lighthouses, including the present Macquarie Lighthouse on South Head, which replaced the earlier one designed by Francis Greenway. Barnet's vision for Sydney is most clearly seen in the Customs House at Circular Quay, the General Post Office in Martin Place, and the Lands Department and Colonial Secretary's Office in Bridge Street. There he applied the classicism he had absorbed in London, with a theatricality which came from his knowledge of art.
The substantial two storey attached post office residence faces the main street and more than doubles the size of the complex. This is unusual as Barnet tended to have residences on the first floor of the main building or at the rear. It relates to the remoteness and government determination to make the job attractive to the right post master, a government representative who had to be an honest employee and trusted by this remote community. It consists of four rooms on the ground floor; parlour, sitting room, kitchen, and servant's bedroom, and three bedrooms upstairs, plus various storage rooms, and a central staircase.
The new post office became the focal point of town, located in the main street and immediately adjacent to the wharves and customs house. In 1896 the iron bridge with lift span over the Darling River was completed and the east-west highway re-routed to go over the bridge and directly past the post office, from then on located on the busy corner of the main street and the highway. Descriptions include:
"the post and telegraph offices, together with the master's residence", are "both a substantial and ornamental piece of architecture"; "the post office is a very neat building indeed" with "white stone which seems to finely glisten among the dark foliage of the river timber"; "The colonnade of the post office is the Exchange of the town, and here all the business men meet daily and discuss the news of the district. Mails do not come in every day but when Her Majesty's mail coach is seen in front of the post-office there may all the people be seen gathered together. The Sydney and Melbourne papers are four days old when they reach Wilcannia, as the town is from 24 to 30 hours coaching from any railway terminus".
In 1890 the tender from R. B. Spiers to erect a "verandah and balcony etc" at the Post Office and Telegraph office was accepted, referring to the two storey verandah and balcony at the post office residence and possibly the small verandah on the side of the post office as well. Drawings from 1881 and 1888 show the single storey verandah of the residence, but a photo from 1894 clearly shows the two storey verandah. The two-storey verandah was added in response to the extreme climate, the wooden lined ceilings on both levels are an attempt to prevent the heat from penetrating onto the verandah, north facing wall, and windows. The two storey verandah was probably also designed by Barnet as he held the position of government architect until 1890 and its detail is similar to the 1889 Bourke post office verandah.
This Post Office building was in continuous use until 1997 as a post office, telegraph, then telephone exchange, and post master's residence. The post office service was then moved and the complex was used as a residence only until 2002. It became the post office again from 2013 and provides both postal and banking services for the town and surrounding stations.
The remoteness of Wilcannia also meant that the central post office performed a range of significant peripheral services, such as posting up government edicts and community notices, weather measurements and warnings, flood warnings and river heights, timetables and pick-up and drop-down place for coaches, mail coaches, and later mail trucks and buses. The mail coaches/mail trucks left the post office for the remote outback laden with mail, newspapers, groceries, spare parts, school lessons for outback children, and travellers (workers, family and friends and even occasionally nurses and church people). Mail coaches/mail trucks played a unique role enabling people to exist in the outback that cannot be underestimated. Mail trucks still operate out of Wilcannia delivering mail and parcels to the remote outback stations.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register.
Standard Curb
Reclaimed standard curb from road improvement projects throughout New England. We always try to keep a good supply of first and second generation curb in stock.
Appearance:
First generation Curb. Late 1800’s – early 1900’s. All sides are split faced. Tops were dimpled or pointed for a more decorative look
Second Generation Curb. Tops were typically sawn. Undersides were still split faced. Typically more dimensional and better quality step material.
Size:
First Generation. The older style typically measures 7”-8” in thickness, 18” – 24” in depth and various lengths.
Second Generation. Usually has smaller measurements. Typically 6” in thickness and 16”-18” radius curb generally kept in stock.
Use:
Curbing/edging/retainers for driveways, patios, raised gardens, courtyards and parks.
• Semi formal step and cheek stone material (fillers)
• Paving material for driveways, aprons, walkways, patios and courtyards
• Building and wall veneer
• Stackable building material for walls and low retainers
• Bench material
• Foot bridges (radius pieces)
• Archway ensembles – straight post with one radius piece for archway
• Fire pit and surround material
Sold:
By the linear foot.
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Sengakuji is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist Temple located in a residential area of Minato. While certainly a nice temple complex, it is by far famed for being the final resting place of Asano Naganori and 47 of his retainers, led by Ōishi Yoshio, who embarked upon an epic tale of revenge known as the Ako Incident, the Chūshingura or simply the 47 Ronin. It is perhaps Japan's national story, encompassing ideals of honor, loyalty and sacrifice.
The story begins in Edo, where the young Lord of Akō, Asano Naganori embarked on his Sankin-kōtai, the periodic attendance of all lords at the court of the Tokugawa Shogunate. With Lord Kamei of the Tsuwano, Asano would be given instruction on court etiquette by Kira Yoshinaka, a master of ceremonies. According to legend, Kira was either insulted by the miserly gifts given to him by the two lords under his instruction,that he was downright corrupt and demanded a gift/bribe (a time honored tradition in Asia to this day), or that he was naturally rude and arrogant. In any event the stories have Kira in some way insult or mistreat the students. Kamei is enraged and attempts to kill Kira, but Kamei's retainers defuse the situation by secretly bribing the master of ceremonies, whereupon Kira immediately smooths things over with the Lord of Tsuwano and redoubles his insults on the Lord of Akō.
What is factual is that Asano finally loses his temper. On March 14, 1701, (supposedly in the legends after Kira calls him a country boor with no manners before the assembled representatives of the Shogun), Asano pulled out his short sword in the Great Pine Corridor of Edo Castle and attacked Kira, wounding the Master of Ceremonies in the face with the first strike. His second strike misses and hits a pillar. Guards then quickly separate the pair.
Both individuals are quickly condemned before their peers, Asano for his inept attack and Kira for his cowardice. but whereas Kira was effectively demoted, Asano had made a far greater offense; it was a crime to unsheathe a weapon in the home of the Shogun, a much greater crime to attempt murder within the grounds. Asano was quickly forced to commit seppuku and buried at Sengakuji, his Akō lands confiscated, his family ruined, his samurai declared leaderless Rōnin.
This did not sit well with Asano's chief retainer, Ōishi Yoshio, a man known to be honorable and loyal. However he surprised everyone when he quietly moved the Asano family away, gave up the Akō lands, and voluntarily went into exile. Though the Shogun had specifically prohibited acts of revenge associated with the Ako Incident, the laws of honor (bushido) dictated that the samurai should seek revenge, and indeed Kira immediately sought protection with guards within his fortified compound. However Ōishi instead petitioned the Shogunate to restore the Ako lands to Asano. When that failed, he dispersed Asano's 300 retainers to become tradesmen and farmers. Ōishi began to frequent taverns, geisha houses and brothels, disgraceful conduct for a samurai, and when confronted by his wife and children, publicly divorced his wife. One day, after drinking heavily, he tripped and fell on the street drunk. Passers-by laughed at him, and when a passing Satsuma samurai recognized Ōishi, he spat on the old ronin and kicked him in contempt of his behavior. Seeing how far the ronin had fallen, and running low on funds, Kira dismissed the bulk of his guards and let his guard down.
It was all a ruse. Before disbanding Asano's samurai, Ōishi had persuaded a core 46 followers to a secret pact to avenge their lord by killing Kira. Seeing that Kira was relaxing, the 47 ronin sprang their plan into action. On January 30, 1703, Ōishi reassembled the 47 ronin. Armed with homemade armor to not arouse suspicion and supposedly with a map of Kira's estate obtained after one of the ronin married the daughter of Kira's architect, the ronin set out on a snowstorm to attack. Coordinated by drumbeats, the party split into two, one led by Ōishi attacking the front gate of Kira's home, while the other led by his son Ōishi Chikara went in the back. A few individuals were left behind to knock on the doors of neighbors, telling them to not fear as this was a personal vendetta. While ten of Kira's retainers held off Ōishi's forces at the front gate, his Chikara's forces broke through. The two parties quickly joined up and dispatched the waking members of the Kira's guards moving up from the barracks. In a few minutes the fighting had ended. 16 of Kira's retainers had been killed, another 22 wounded, including Kira's grandson. However the former Master of Ceremonies himself was missing.
Finding that Kira's bed was still warm, the ronin searched and finally came across the entrance to a secret courtyard hidden behind a large scroll. Dispatching two more armed guards, the 47 ronin quickly found and disarmed an individual hiding in a woodshed. The scar on his face quickly revealed his identity: Kira Yoshinaka. Ōishi respectfully addressed him, stating that Asano's samurai were out for revenge, and that if Kira would commit honorable seppuku using Asano's dagger, Ōishi would act as his second. As Kira was frozen in fright, Ōishi finally decapitated him. It was over.
One of the ronin, Terasaka Kichiemon, leaves. The legends generally state that he was ordered to send the message of Kira's death to Ako, though other legends state that he fled or was ordered away as the youngest member. As the victorious 46 ronin marched through the streets of Edo carrying Kira's head, a large crowd gathered and praise of their act quickly spread. Finally marching to Sengakuji, the 46 Ronin washed Kira's head in a well still present nearby, and presented the head and dagger to the grave of Asano Naganori. The ronin then await their fate and were arrested. Later, some of Kira's friends came to collect the head for burial. A receipt of the exchange is still present at Sengakuji.
The Shogunate is left in a dilemma. On the one hand, the 47 Ronin had clearly violated the shogun's orders. On the other, they had preformed the expected vendetta expected of a samurai, and letters of praise and support for the ronin soon flooded in. Finally the shogun decided on a slight compromise; the ronin were sentenced to death, but allowed to commit seppuku instead of being executed like criminals. Furthermore, Ako was restored to the Asano, though only a small fraction of its original lands were returned. On March 20, 1703, each of the 46 killed themselves. They are buried in front of their master's grave, seen here. The last ronin, Terasaka was eventually found but pardoned by the shogun. He lives out his days, dying in 1747 and is buried with his comrades.
The tale of the 47 Ronin quickly captured the imagination of the Japanese public, which with the period of long peace and stability had saw the old laws of bushido slowly start to erode away. Now suddenly there had been a dramatic showing of loyalty to a dead master and death before dishonor expected for the highest morals of a samurai. It captured the national imagination and the 47 Ronin became heroes. A flood of kabuki and banraku plays, woodblock prints, then movies in ~1917, 1941, 1962, 1999 and 2013 are collectively known as the Chūshingura (Treasury of the Loyal Retainers).
An alternative viewpoint is also interesting. Even some contemporaries criticized the 47 Ronin as being too focused on success, using their complicated subterfuge to ensure that Kira dies. Indeed as famed scholar Yamamoto Tsunetomo, asked: "What if, nine months after Asano's death, Kira had died of an illness?" The proper response, he stated would have been to attack immediately-almost certainly leading to failure, but one that would lead to lasting honor. Instead, Ōishi had gambled his success over his honor.
The graves of the 47 ronin remain to this day and is a popular spot for veneration of the assailants and their dutiful actions. One of the first visitors to the gravesite was the Satsuma samurai who had spat on Ōishi for his disgraceful behavior. Apologizing for thinking wrongly, the samurai begged for forgiveness and committed seppuku in front of the graves; he was buried nearby.
Sengakuji, Tokyo, Japan
This decorative stone planter and stone retainer wall are designed to incorporate the home's natural stone exterior into the landscaping.
This salt-finish and stained concrete entry way creates a nice focal point toward the home's front entrance.
A sea wall to help retain the beach.
My very cool old Uncle Elmer died and I went to his funeral in south Jersey and when it was all over I drove around Barnegat, NJ for a bit and took a few photos with the Olympus E-P2. Here with the 45mm f/1.8 prime.
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Part of this whole 365/2010 Project for me was to also document some of the things that happen around the Tollison-Fox household. SO that is what today's pic is. Today we will all look back on January 09, 2010 as the day Benjamin got his retainer. Here's to hoping that we do not look back on January 10, as the day Benjamin lost his retainer. Check in tomorrow and find out.
Standard Curb
Reclaimed standard curb from road improvement projects throughout New England. We always try to keep a good supply of first and second generation curb in stock.
Appearance:
First generation Curb. Late 1800’s – early 1900’s. All sides are split faced. Tops were dimpled or pointed for a more decorative look
Second Generation Curb. Tops were typically sawn. Undersides were still split faced. Typically more dimensional and better quality step material.
Size:
First Generation. The older style typically measures 7”-8” in thickness, 18” – 24” in depth and various lengths.
Second Generation. Usually has smaller measurements. Typically 6” in thickness and 16”-18” radius curb generally kept in stock.
Use:
Curbing/edging/retainers for driveways, patios, raised gardens, courtyards and parks.
• Semi formal step and cheek stone material (fillers)
• Paving material for driveways, aprons, walkways, patios and courtyards
• Building and wall veneer
• Stackable building material for walls and low retainers
• Bench material
• Foot bridges (radius pieces)
• Archway ensembles – straight post with one radius piece for archway
• Fire pit and surround material
Sold:
By the linear foot.
Speed Cam Retainer
This holds everything down so the shutter will work. It's bayoneted in, and first you have to unlock it by rotating that little blocking device at 1:00.
This very old beech tree that stands in the corner of Shireoaks Park has lost another large branch this winter. A barn owl lives within its branches so I hope it is not in the one that has been lost. I visit this 'Old Retainer' from time to time. I know it is coming to the end of its life but it is holding tightly onto many buds waiting for spring to arrive. A Flickr post of mine from 2015 entitled 'Old Retainer' along with a poem is my highest ever viewed photo.
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got my new retainer on saturday, but didn't sleep with it until last night for the first time. dang my teeth hurt! it's amazing how much teeth can move in that short of time. when i went to get it on saturday, the orthodontist grabbed the drill and starts hacking away at my tooth claiming it was too long. i was not happy about that. i also had my contacts in with the glasses, so it was hard not to go cross-eyed.
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SlabTek is a structurally suspended foundation system in which a flat slab is poured on the ground and is then raised to a desired height by the patent-pending SlabTek lifting mechanisms. The slab is secured by several drilled concrete piers that reach the structurally stable soils beneath the surface soils.
Many thanks to my man Dave for commissioning this amazing bike. He has good style and allowed for us at Old World Bicycle to make some suggestions to give this machine is particular patina.
Dave works with CPS while they reinsert recess into the school day agenda. Dave we say thank you for educating Chicago's youth about the importance of being active and athletic. We are proud to have put this bike together for him & to do so to his specs with what we salvaged scraped, & gathered together to provide the most fashionable transport this city will allow. We hope to help inspire the good old fashion American spirit chalked full of hard work, elbow grease and a particular stubbornness that arose from our ancestors desire to build a better tomorrow at any cost. We were wrong a lot but kept growing, innovating, & evolving regardless of the obstacles that may arise. Because that is exactly what it took to bring this 40 + years old french road bike to its current state.
Details:
--Mid to early 1970's Motobecane road frame 54c
--700c mismatched fixed/flip flop Wheelset
--The frame was wire wheeled to bare metal and gun blued (gum bluing is a chemical process used to prevent corrosion on a variety of guns, mostly shot guns and rifles)
--Worn Brooks Saddle
--Aluminum stem and drop bars w/ signature OWB rubber tube wrap kept tight as the grips.
--exposed old chain Saddle retainer to ward petty thieves away from that beautiful saddle
This tough bicycle drips of cool and simply chuckles at the notion that it is anymore than what it is. Keep throwing challenges our way folks we put out great bikes over here and we thank you for the guidance.
Thanks to the crew.
Scottie “the out of work mechanic" for wire wheeling that ancient European paint off this well made and timeless hunk of high tensil steel. "Bubba" for hand sanding and applying the first two coats of Gun Blue. "Dick" for finalizing the gun bluing process and oiling the frame. I also want to say thanks to our neighbor bike shops for stocking what we need during our development stages.
With pleasure,
Skip Tooth
& the Old World Bicycle folks
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I got my retainers this morning. I hope this photo isn't too icky for anyone.
On the day I got my braces off, they made the molds of my mouth for them, and I got to pick out what designs I wanted. You see, since most people getting retainers are of a different generation than I, cutesie designs are available. Apparently the younguns like that stuff.
You wouldn't even believe all the designs you can get. Here's my top retainer- it has a flower design on a green background. For some reason, the bottom one came out plain black. I thought I was getting some cool flames!
I had an exhausting but pretty good weekend. We had the step-kiddos, which always wears me out. Saturday was the oldest's Tang Soo Do test (a kind of Karate). It was okay- I didn't have to talk to their mom, though she decided to introduce herself to my mother, for some reason. The test took forever! We finally got out of there at 8pm and I took Mom and the kids out to get burgers afterwards.
Yesterday we went to the Hot Sauce Festival, which was soooo much fun, hot and exhausting. Amazingly, we had a bit better weather than we had the day of the Ice Cream Festival. ONLY in the 90s instead of the above 100's!!! We definitely felt some breezes during the day. We were there with the two step-kids, one girlfriend of a step kid, and the girlfriend's little brother. So there were six of us! Quite a crew.
I now have a fridge full of new and exciting hot sauce flavors.
How was your weekend?
A 2315 Corner Guard with aluminum retainer and top and bottom caps in rigid vinyl with 3" wings to protect against corner damage. 135 degree angle. Color: Wallguard.com's Khaki Brown
After pulling the winding bar plate off, the retainer nut is a right-handed thread, removing counter-clockwise. I used regular retaining ring pliers to remove it, but be careful of slipping, there's nothing to keep you from scratching the cover.
One Specialty Owner, David Gaona, works with the crew on their first Slabtek engineered foundation partnering with Victor Myers Custom Homes on a home in Castle Hills in Lewisville, Texas.
Cap safe and sound and I don't have to hunt around for where I stashed it when I get ready to leave! ;-)
For use with our Hinge Style Frames. May be replaced by our 1-1/2" Hanging Retainer or our 2-1/2" Hanging Retainer upon request
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