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A rather large tree is growing right out of a badly bulging brick wall on a building in oil City, Pa. Oil Creek flows right next to this Northside building.
There is magic in the Cambodian ruins...
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The scale of the detailed brickwork in the warehouses that front the Brisbane River at Teneriffe highlights the importance of the wool industry to Queensland in the early parts of the 20th Century. Ships would have lined the riverfront for the wool export trade.
Pile of bricks in the middle of a national park near bendigo. I don't know whey they're there either.
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American Bricks were invented by a Swedish engineer, Nils I. Paulson, who filed for patent June 1939, granted Nov 1941 (Patent number 2262199). The bricks were originally made of pressed wood, and manufactured by the Halsam Products Company of Chicago. (Thanks to my friend David for extracting this patent diagram.)
Here is the technical description of the full brick from the patent application:
"The full size member is provided on one face with a plurality of dowels, there being two parallel rows of such dowels with four dowels in each row. ... In its opposite face the full size member is provided with the same number of sockets as dowels, the respective sockets being in register with the dowels."
Before the Lincoln Memorial Bridge was built in 1933, another bridge one block north carried US 50 over the Wabash River. It connected to this brick road on the Illinois side.
Abraham Lincoln's family entered Illinois by ferry directly behind where I stood to take this photo.
What I really love about this shot is how the car and truck are parked on the old roadway. Beyond them is where the old bridge across the Wabash used to stand.
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Pompeii, Italy.
"Pompeii was an ancient city located near Naples. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was buried under 13 to 20 feet of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79."
Buildings were typically built of a combination of stone and brick and then dressed with plaster for a finished look. The plaster was often finished with frescoes on interior rooms. Many buildings in Pompeii had upper floors but those were supported by wooden beams and were collapsed during the volcanic destruction.
An upper class villa still has some interior plaster with murals.
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Brick Fair traveled to Birmingham, AL to show of all their blocky goodness. The dealer's section was not huge but slam pack full of goodies, both stock and custom.
Then we checked out the exhibits, which I took pictures of. SO MUCH to see.
A cathedral, still being built by its lego men. I love the monks skulking around in the catacombs.