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"College" used to be THE place to play in San Diego. Many generations of pool players grew up playing and gambling at this legendary spot. Now a shade of its past "glory" College is once again trying to woo players - this time 3 cushion (billiard) players. Owner Pedro Piedrabuena is dedicated to the sport and has held international 3 cushion tournaments at the place.
The road around the lake was named as Victoria Drive. But today that road is named as Sangaraja Mawatha. This signboard must be very old. And also this board shows the association in English, in German and in French.
Another of Bradford's delivery door ghost signs. On Mill Street, near Canal Road. This one has two layers, with the older one appearing to say: "Geo. MOHA*DSON Co. Ltd. Delivery Door."
I was returning to my car after photographing a passing train when I saw this off the roadway in a wooded area. There were a couple of trailers that looked to be from the 50s grown up with weeds. I thought the place had long beeen closed, but when I researched the name it still has an active permit from the IN Dept of Health. It was a creepy looking area though.
He's a great neon and plastic combo sign. An excellent design (even if his hand is backwards).
3790 West State Street
Boise, ID 83703
Marconi AntennaTower Sign, Binghamton NY . . (Photos from 07 September 2007)
Erected November 1913 by Guglielmo Marconi to test the possibility of transmitting telegraphic signals to the moving trains along the Lackawanna RR in Binghamton NY USA. This is the last one still in existence.
Location Binghamton, New York USA . . N 42.10342 W 75.90705 . . Uploaded 30 June 2012
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Included in Set "DL&W Depot and Marconi Tower"
Included in Set "Electronics, Amateur Radio, Antennas Pt 3"
Included in Set "Signs Pt 4"
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. . . compiled by Scott M. Phillips, Sr. Binghamton, NY 10/1/98 . . .
Marconi Tower Project Concept
Early 1913, when radio was still in it's infancy, it was unknown if radio transmissions could be sent to a fast moving object. Guglielmo Marconi wished to expand the use of the radio to include vehicles that moved on land as well as water and test the possibility of transmitting telegraphic signals to moving trains along the Lackawanna Railroad system in the Northeast United States. Two cities- Binghamton, NY and Scranton, PA were chosen as the two tower sites to be built by the Lackawanna Railroad using Marconi’s construction and design in early 1913.Each tower site consisted of two towers linked together with 4 aerial wires. Radio telegraph equipment was placed within the railroad stations and comprised of a 2 KW 500 cycle quenching transmitter made by the Marconi Company.
On November 27th 1913, the first "official" wireless transmission was transmitted from Scranton, PA towards the train traveling to Binghamton, NY at 60 miles per hour. In all, 350 words representing several pieces of news were clearly picked up by the operator aboard the train.
Location / General Information
The last remaining Marconi Tower is located in downtown Binghamton, New York at Lewis Street near the old Lackawanna Train Station (recently renamed Station Square). A beautiful new baseball stadium (Binghamton Mets) now sits proudly next to the tower, from the first base line the tower can be clearly seen. Constructed of open grid framed carbon steel and standing at 97 feet 4 inches tall, the tower has endured the weather year by year and is in somewhat remarkable condition considering the neglect and age. Presently there is no communication equipment installed on or near the tower. The second Binghamton Marconi tower, that was located near the Chenango Street viaduct, was dismantled in January 1925. The other two towers at the Scranton, PA tower site have long been taken down.
Marconi Transmitting / Receiving Technical Information
Radio / Telegraph equipment was placed within the railroad stations and comprised of a 2 KW 500 cycle quenching transmitter made by the Marconi Company with coupled circuit receiving tuner and crystal detector.
Power for the sending outfit was taken at 60 cycles, 3 phase from the station driving a Crocker-Wheeler motor generator giving 2 KW, single phase, 500 cycle current. Passing through the sending key circuit to a step-up transformer, the 500 cycle current charged a bank of six (6) leyden jars (.002uf each) in parallel. These jars discharged at each half cycle across a multiple plate quenching spark gap and through the primary of the oscillation transformer. The secondary was serially connected in the antenna to ground circuit. This oscillation transformer was made of two (2) flat spiral strip-copper windings coaxial related, having a variable self-inductance in both windings and variable coupling between the primary and secondary.
The motor of the motor-generator was wound for 30 volts DC and the 500 cycle current, after passing through the high tension transformer, charged a bank of three .002uf leyden jars in parallel. These jars were discharged at each half cycle.
The power boards located on the train were similar to the power board installed at the train stations, but rated at 1/2 the power. It was necessary to have an aerial 150 feet long, so four regular cars of the "Lackawanna Limited" had aerial wires strung on insulators, on posts about 16" high, around the roofs of each car.
A wave length of about 1,600 meters (187.4 kilocycles) was generally used with approximately a 2 ampere of radio frequency current set up in the antenna circuit. This is approximately 342.5 KC below the present low end AM kilocycle band of 540 KC.
The Radio - Telegraph equipment installed on board the train was located in the baggage car and comprised of a 1 KW 500 cycle transmitter directly run from a storage battery used on the line of the axle-driven car lighting system without seriously affecting the illuminating system.
. . . compiled by Scott M. Phillips, Sr. Binghamton, NY 10/1/98 . . .
A soon to be closing Jo-Ann Fabrics in Cromwell, Connecticut followed a few other stores in Torrington and Stratford to close up locations in 2007.
Zum sechsten Mal fand der „Tag der deutschen Zukunft“(TDDZ) statt, einem bundesweiten Neonazi-Event in Form einer Demonstration. Bisher wurde nur in Norddeutschland demonstriert. Im sechsten Jahr war die Stadt Dresden an der Reihe und auch hier konnten die Neonazis relativ ungestört mit weniger als 500 Teilnehmern laufen.
Nach vielen Reden auf der Abschlusskundgebung wurde angekündigt ,wo der TDDZ 2015 stattfinden wird: Neuruppin, Brandenburg.
Ein Brandenburger Bereitschaftsbeamte reagierte auf die Frage was er dazu sage, dass im kommenden Jahr die Neonazis durch sein Bereich marschieren wollen: „Na weit werden die nicht kommen!“
Gegendemonstranten versuchten zwar in das Aufmarschgebiet zu gelangen, doch bis auf etwa 80 Personen kam kaum einer durch, da die Polizei mit 2000 Beamten (Unterstützung kam aus folgenden Bundesländern: Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Brandenburg, Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen sowie der Bundespolizei) das Gebiet gut unter Kontrolle hatte.
Ebenfalls unter Kontrolle hatte die Polizei, durch Kräfte der BFE Niedersachsen und Sachsen, auch eine Gruppe von etwa 100-150 norddeutschen Antifaschisten, welche in einem spontanen Demonstrationszug in der Nähe der ursprünglichen Route durch die Straßen liefen.
Angereist waren Antifaschisten aus verschiedenen Gebieten Deutschlands, doch es waren deutlich weniger als sonst im Febraur.
Der wohlmöglich bald in Haft gehenden Neonazi, Dieter Riefling, konnte so den Tag als Erfolg feiern. Die Neonazis liefen ohne Probleme durch die „Freie Stadt Dresden“. Zwar waren es weniger als die erwarteten tausend, doch die Zahl der Neonazis beim TDDZ bleibt konstant im mittleren dreistelligen Bereich. Die Gegenprotestierenden feiern dies als Erfolg, doch es ist objektiv betrachtet eine Niederlage.
Die Antifaschisten konnten nichts ausrichten und bleiben, wie andern Orts, bei der Taktik „Bloß nicht in die Innenstadt“, da diese prestigträchtig sei. Stattdessen stört es die Organisatoren nicht spürbar, dass die Neonazis durch bewohntes Randgebiet gelaufen sind und zum Teil sogar Zuspruch aus den Häusern bekam. Lieber lobt man die „Kampagnenarbeit“ (die Mobilisierung fing erst wenige Wochen vorher ernsthaft an, obwohl der Termin und die Stadt seit einem Jahr bekannt war) und das die Innenstadt Nazifrei blieb. Die oft kritisierte Stadt hätte dies mit Menschen- und Lichterketten sicher nicht besser hinbekommen, doch brauch dieses nicht mehr, da offensichtlich die radikale Linke vor der Polizeitaktik kapituliert und sich auf städtische PR-Arbeit konzentriert.
Gleichzeitig versuchen sie ihren Misserfolg damit zu kaschieren, dass bei den Neonazis die Zahlen der Demonstranten „weiter rückläufig“ seien. Sowohl letztes Jahr in Wolfsburg, wie auch das Jahr davor in Hamburg waren es „nur“ etwa 500 Neonazis. Bei einer gleichbleibenden Tendenz an Teilnehmerzahlen zwischen 400-500 Personen seit drei Jahren, muss man von Konstanz sprechen und nicht beschönigend von „rückläufig“.
Wie üblich also keine Selbstkritik, kein Eingestehen der Niederlage, sondern ein hochjubeln und freuen – bloß den Anschein bewahren dass Dresden Nazifrei bleibt…
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Someday I may add descriptions to all of these, but flickr isn't really my thing. This is just for the lulz.
Kansas is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans." For thousands of years what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly, when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum, and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.
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Dunkin Donuts Sign Winter Snow February 2014 by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube.
On Rose Hill in Cofton Hackett.
I had a look down here for a way up to the Lickey Hills. Most of the footpaths were closed due to diseased trees recently discovered, although one open footpath looked a bit steep and muddy.
Directions sign
Cofton Common straight ahead on the B4096.
Birmingham to the left on the B4120 and Barnt Green to the right on the B4120.