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This rather washed out and faded sign was on a concrete post along the front of my garden. Although not used now as hydrants are on GPS, it needed a rub down and coat of paint to restore to its former glory.
The shot is for the group, hydrant whores.
I don't understand why the Canadian fire hydrant has to use the Swedish colours.
Portland, Oregon - The Portland Water Company, a privately owned business, installed Portland's first fire hydrant in 1864. There was no public water utility and the City's water was drawn from nearby creeks or pumped from the Willamette River. Few details concerning fire hydrants from this time period survive, but they were probably paid for by private businesses desiring increased fire protection. By the 1880s, Portland's fire hydrants (all 47 of them) were operated by The Portland Hydraulic Elevator Company under a contract with the City.
The Portland Water Board, predecessor to the modern Water Bureau, was formed in 1885. The Board's plan for a municipal water system called for purchasing all water rights for the Bull Run River to the East. The water would be conveyed to the city by means of a 27-mile long conduit. As part of the plan, a new system of 400 fire hydrants would protect the entire city center.
As part of another one of spokanes ancient fixtures from decades and decades (it used to be yellow) ago the hydrant is a symbol of salvation. I wanted to be directly under the hydrant but it was crowded with bushes/grass and all hydrants are covered in old dog pee so it isn't the angle I wanted (shadows hardly showed up.) The background trees and the yellow paint on the hydrant both promote a sense of age while the red is the dominant color on a backdrop of blue giving the whole scene a subconscious level of safety (supermans 3 colors are red yellow blue.)