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Two block long display of their bricks and talent. Another Chelsea tractor. They are becoming so common in America.
This is the facade from the bar next to my flat. I like the texture and the thin bricks overlapping.
The Gwent area used to have many different brickmakers, now all sadly lost. I hadn't encounteres this one before, but this brick was in the rubble next to the Cefn Ila walled garden, and was probably part of a now destroyed gardener's toolshed or something similar.
Yesterday I went with some friends to the OMSI to see The Art of the Brick. The displays were incredible and some mind-blowing. I wasn't even able to get pictures of all of the models! Most of them are done by the awesome Nathan Sawaya. This is a must-see attraction.
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Featured Photoist May 7th, 2010
There's always something interesting to see in this city. Recent street resurfacing on Spruce Street has uncovered not only large swaths of the underlying original brick road but also the original (possibly) subway-surface trolley lines, if not just surface lines that used to cover much of Philadelphia suburbs and the city.
If anyone could provide a cite-able date reference for when the roads were last created with bricks as well as when the trolley lines were initially covered up, that'd be great.
Update In trying to determine the age of these tracks, as late as this 1954 map (via www.phillytrolley.org/ ), east/west tracks were still present on Spruce Street as far as 60th to the west and Front St to the east.
In 1932, Spruce ran a continuous line from 60th, down and over the South St. Bridge to Front, back up Lombard, and returning back again over the South St. Bridge.
However, if you go farther back to 1923, starting from the western most turnaround @ 60th Street, it looks like the tracks came east on Spruce until 45th Street, then veered north to Chestnut, leaving an empty patch between 45th and 42nd.
So I'm guessing the line was changed sometime between '23 and '32, making the Route 42 one continuous line from 60th to Front via Spruce St., and removing the sidestep over to Chestnut. My guess was this was done to continue to offer a complete east/west trolley line available on Spruce alone and permitting more vehicular traffic to flow on Chestnut and Walnut where the trolleys only ran east on Chestnut and west on Walnut looping back around 9th St downtown??
That's without researching the history of the El, the automobile, and/or the impact of both on mass transit in Philadelphia.
Pay attention, kids! History can be fun!
I am currently involved with the renovation of the historic Round House in Camps Bay. It is such a thrill to put new life into the old buildings...
This piece of wall shows the various bricks used over the ages...
Unfortunately I only had my camera phone on me...
Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa