Category: Access covers

Boston morning 

I found myself in Boston a couple of weeks ago and had a beautiful morning walk around the harbor area. 


There’s a lotta old infrastructure under those streets…


I ran across this interesting amalgam of stuff left out by the curb for free. At some point you just outgrow your “No Casino” sign and various other things, including a whole bag of CDs and videotapes. 


Whoever it was had good, eclectic taste in music, but I’m too streaming-happy to even try to suck all those songs into my phone. Even so, I lugged the whole bag home, and made a shipment to Decluttr. I’m about 25 bucks richer now…

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Indianapolis heavy metal

Iron and brass, anyway 

On my morning walk yesterday, I was impressed with the variety of access covers around downtown. 


And while Brattleboro opted for Pamrex, the Hoosiers went for Swiveloc…


This one has a little more history:


And they even have a steam system like Hartford!


I happened on a Starbucks and went in. Turned out to be in the lobby of the Art Deco masterpiece Circle Tower, with amazing marble walls and brass sculpted panels by Joseph Willenborg. 


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White River Junction 

Yesterday we drive an hour north to White River Junction, partly to see Vermont Salvage and its supposedly extensive collection of front doors (meh) and partly because it was a beautiful spring day. 

  

The town center is pretty sleepy, but we had an unexpectedly good lunch at the Tiptop Cafe, the knitting shop keeps busy, and I bagged an access cover I hadn’t seen before. 

  

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Et tu, Buncombe?

  
On a morning run in Asheville, I was impressed to see that the Buncombe County Municipal Sewerage District has a Latin motto, something the entire state of Vermont only got last year. 

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Pamrex 32″

  
This seemed like a pretty fancy manhole cover, with the hinges and all, and sho nuff it is. 

Best of all, the Pamrex web site gave me a term I’ve been looking for: access covers. I’d been resistive to the term “manhole”… but access covers captures the range of things I want to categorize and avoids any potential misunderstandings about just what kind of blog this is. 

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