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My town is known as being the birthplace of brick streets. I don't know if that's actually true or not, but that's the story anyway. My father loved bricks. Especially paving bricks. I'm not sure why, but he had a whole lot of them, and was always watching for a street that was being torn up so he could get more.
Having more wasn't necessarily his ultimate goal, though. Making sidewalks and patios and platforms for garbage cans to sit on and stuff like that... that was his ultimate goal. And to do that required that they be moved. First they would be moved from the bed of the pickup truck, to a pile placed somewhere near the house. Then, at a later date, they'd be moved closer to where he planned to place them. Then, at a later date, we'd dig out a place to put them, lay down a bed of sand, and start to put the bricks down to make whatever it was we were making. That's if things went well. They rarely did.
Usually, we'd move the bricks to where he thought he wanted them, and then he'd think about it for a while and change his mind. Then we'd eventually have to move them again, to the next place he thought they might go. That process could go on for a number of moves. Ultimately, he'd figure out where he really wanted them and we'd lay them out, there.
He had very little visualization ability. To visualize what something would look like after it was done, before he started it, was not his strong suit. So once we'd built it, or laid down the bricks, in this instance, then he'd actually be able to see what he had thought to build. This would lead to adjustments (hopefully) or full-scale tear down and redo, or even abandonment (rarely).
I was a piano player. I still am, actually. As such, I was rather sensitive about my hands. Needless to say, moving bricks was hard on them, at best. At worst, I'd have a smashed finger and be unable to play for a few days, or a couple of weeks. Add to that the sheer work of moving all those bricks that many times, and it's easy to understand how I, as a teenager, despised bricks. I loathed them. I wanted to blow up brick factories. I dreamed of a world with no bricks.
I never had my way. Eventually he lost interest in them, or perhaps just didn't have the energy to gather them up anymore, or maybe they ran out of streets made of bricks to tear up. At any rate, finally I had moved my last brick.
Now I live in a brick house. I think brick streets are quaint. I don't mind moving a few bricks every now and then, and I've learned how to do it without tearing up my hands, or complaining bitterly about it. He would probably laugh about it now, if he were alive to see it.
Most of all, I treasure the memory. The bricks are still in the sidewalk at the old house, where I grew up. He and I put them there. My hands survived.
Taken in Flint, Michigan.
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Paving bricks at the Greenville, Texas train depot. Coffeyville Vitrified Brick & Tile Company was based out of Kansas and was a major producer of brick and tile during the early part of the 20th century.
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Release: 2016
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In 1921 Walley & Alsop purchased the brick and tile works formerly run by John Nash Peake in Cemetery Road, Silverdale which were known as Rosemary Hill Tileries. T E Walley took sole control in 1926 and by 1937 the works was run by T E Walley Ltd. G.H. Downing & Co. Ltd. bought the business in 1975 but this only lasted until 1981 when the works was sold to Steetley and then closed, with production transferred to Knutton.
Release: January 2016
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Oh man, Mick Chan is gonna be a force to be reckoned with. Fairly new to the building scene (and certainly to the online community), he was nonetheless able to construct an incredibly detailed Shuttle launch pad. At his first 'Con, with (I think) his first major MOC, he managed to haul in the "Best Large Space" award, and deservedly so.
NOTE: Only the Sten Gun, U-Mag and Retro Raygun were received from GI Brick, The others were a gift from Will & Badger.
Well, My GI Brick order arrived today. Fast shipping to the UK as usual and I had the anxiety of wondering what proto I would receive. I was so happy when I saw a Sten & U-Mag in a little plastic baggie waiting for me. Also, I had a great Mystery Pack too, A GITD Retro Raygun.
Anyway in short, I just gathered all my GITD together for once and lit 'em up.
Thanks GI Brick, My Sten collection is slowly growing! :)
They must have made lots of different types, styles & brands of bricks here because we found many old bricks laying around of different types
Exploring the former streetcar / subway station at West Superior Avenue and West Huron Road in Cleveland, Ohio...
In Cleveland, Ohio sits an abandoned Subway tunnel that is only open to the public once a year. These photos were taken on the August 19th, 2017 tours of the tunnel and underdeck of the Detroit-Superior Bridge. The short stretch of subway (carrying streetcars) opened on Christmas Day in 1917 and was supposed to serve as a model for a Cleveland-wide Subway system. As streetcars were phased out, the line fell into disuse and service was discontinued on January 24, 1954. So, the last trains that went through these tunnels were over 63 years ago...
The subway line did lead to some rapid-transit train lines being built (RTA), which has one full metro line and a couple light-rail lines. Part of the current metro line is underground near Tower City and again near the Airport. The RTA has survived, though streetcar and commuter trains are long gone in the Cleveland Area.
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Displayed MOCs at Brick Fiesta 2013. All the MOCs were excellent, and there's a few that I didn't get pictures for; which is quite unfortunate.
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We are all human being, technically, we are all the same. Somehow there is always a but, an exception to certain people that makes them different than the others, or superior than the others because of the certain qualities or abilities that they possess.
There are some people who are so well recognized for the qualities that they possess such as their perfect academic results; their perfect socializing skills; or just their perfect charisma that makes everyone likes them.
These people seem to stand out in the crowd and some of them might think that they are superior than the others and thus they are on a "higher level". They might build a wall between people who are "less superior" and themselves because they feel the need to differentiate themselves from the less superior ones, to make them stand out a little bit more, to be more distinctive.
Do not forget that we are here with a reason, and we certainly possess some qualities that could help us achieve whatever we want to achieve. Perhaps some of us haven't found out what are the abilities that we have, please do believe that each of us is unique in some way and never feel intimidated by the superior ones.
And the superior people, please demolish the wall that you build and try to learn from the others no matter who they are 'cause you will discover certain qualities that they have which you do not posses, because I believe that no one is perfect.
Remember that after all, we are of the same species of Homo sapiens. And it is always a lifelong learning process in our everyday life.
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