Re: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-31 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Certainly exist, existed in the USA, BRuce. Awful looking things... thouogh curious. ann On 1/29/2015 14:22, Bruce Walker wrote: Fascinating! I'd never heard of these structures. There's nothing like them in North America, afaik. They look positively steampunk. Thanks, Bob. On Thu, Jan 29, 2

RE: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread John Coyle
Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Friday, 30 January 2015 3:22 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: The Poetics of Gas Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066

Re: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread Alan C
I suppose it had to come. Imagine what the land is worth. They could lay out an Oval "B" CG. Alan C -Original Message- From: Bob W Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:21 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: The Poetics of Gas Nostalgia for our industrial

Re: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Jan 29, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bob W wrote: > >> Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066 >> >> There's a very good-looking one, built in 1886, close to where I live. It >> was once the largest

Re: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread John
There used to be. Most of them have been taken down. Nowadays they use fixed tanks. Plug this into Google Maps: 36.072551,-79.93539 Go to Street View and look south. Years ago, those were all expandable Gasometer tanks. They started replacing them with the fixed tanks in the mid to late 70s. On

Re: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W wrote: >Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here: > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066 > >There's a very good-looking one, built in 1886, close to where I live. It >was once the largest in the world: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Greenwich_Gas_Works

Re: The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread Bruce Walker
Fascinating! I'd never heard of these structures. There's nothing like them in North America, afaik. They look positively steampunk. Thanks, Bob. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Bob W wrote: > Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/m

The Poetics of Gas

2015-01-29 Thread Bob W
Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066 There's a very good-looking one, built in 1886, close to where I live. It was once the largest in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Greenwich_Gas_Works Nostalgia is all ve