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14 July 2023

Weekend Roundup

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1. Starts with "B"
2. A Favorite
3. BIG - chosen by Tom

Starts with B

FAVOURITE

Boulder City Museum

BIG

BUTTONS thimble measuring tape

19 February 2021

Weekend Roundup

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1. Starts with "H"
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Starts with "H"

Taking a road trip this round.

HOPE Arkansas

Hope began in 1873, when a railroad was built through the area. The town was named for Hope Loughborough, the daughter of a railroad executive.

FAVOURITE

HORSESHOE Casino Las Vegas NV

HEAVY HAY

South Dakota

Déjà Brew

A catchall for leftover beer, coffee and whatever catches my fancy!

11 January 2019

Weekend Roundup

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Skywatch Friday
ABC Wednesday

1. Starts with "B."
2. A Favorite
3. Blue

In the last round I used all things TTC, Toronto Transit Corporation.

This time I am going random!!!

Starts with "B"

Toronto has many decorated utility boxes. This one happens to be a blue birds birch box.

Favourite

Hat box found in Boulder City!

Blue

Blue shirt with bones, blue beret with a bird, box! Wonder if he is barking?

23 March 2015

Our World Tuesday

Our World Tuesday

January 2015 - Boulder City NV

Boulder City has many public works of art. I am posting just a few here today and will continue in later posts.

13 February 2015

January 2015 - Boulder City NV

We often go to Boulder City NV when we are in the Las Vegas area. It is a fun place to take visitors for lunch after a trip to the Hoover Dam.

I posted some other photos from the town, click on the links below.
2013 Boulder City Brewery

This was the first time we actually went into the hotel and explored the museum.

Click here for a great article about the people behind the dam.

The most common cause of death during the building of the dam was being hit by falling objects. The men began making improvised hard hats for themselves by coating cloth hats with coal tar. These "hard-boiled hats" were extremely effective. Several men were hit by falling rocks so hard that their jaws were broken by the impact, yet they did not receive skull fractures. Because of these "hard-boiled hats," men survived accidents which would otherwise have killed them. The Six Companies contracted for commercially made hard hats and issued them to every man on the project. The use of hard hats was encouraged, and deaths from falling objects were reduced.

06 February 2015

Saturday Snapshot

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January 2015 - Boulder City NV

Many tourists on their way to visit Hoover Dam will never make a stop in this wonderful depression era town. Known as the city that built the dam it remains a vibrant fun place to have lunch and spend some time wandering around.

The city has many pieces of public art. Most of my photos from from this year but I have also included some we took in the last couple of years.

Now that \I've looked through our photos from the last three years I will split this into several posts.

Here is a worker named “Alabam.” He is wearing a fedora and overalls, has a bandolier of toilet-paper rolls draped across his chest and has slung a straw broom with a few more rolls of toilet paper on the handle. By local sculptor Steven Liguori, it pays tribute to an essential worker who cleaned the outhouses at the dam construction site. A plaque states: “There were muckers who shoveled mud out of the tunnels, truck drivers who hauled rock up and down the river or, like the man you see here, those who swept the outhouses and kept them well supplied with paper.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/sam-mcmanis/article4275283.html#storylink=cpy