From: frank theriault
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, "Lift" is a Russian word, meaning, well "Elevator". But then again
> "Elevator" is a Russian word too, meaning the storage for grains.
>
> Here it is, hope I confused you properly.
No, no confusion at all. In this part of the world a grain elevator
is just as you say it is. The West (where we grow most of our wheat)
used to have one in every town. Not so much any more due to the way
commodities are shipped and (not) warehoused. We also used to have
huge concrete ones in the major port cities, but they're obsolete now
- where they still exist, they're empty and unused.
Most of the time they're so massive and well-built that it's not worth
the cost to demolish them, so they sit there, reminding us of the
past.
The grain elevator is also one of the iconic images of the North
American prairie (the continent including Canada) - the grain elevator
against the big sky with the limitless landscape stretching beyond it.
It's one of those "ideas" where I'm still trying to create a photo good
enough to express it. I have the photo in my mind, I just haven't
captured it with my camera yet.
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