The post outside a popular club in New Orleans has had so many flyers stapled to it there's no room for any more
The post outside a popular club in New Orleans has had so many flyers stapled to it there's no room for any more
I love the picture of the post!
Back in the day, years before the internet, you tube, twitter, or texting, we used to advertise our band performances by stapling flyers to posts all over Boston. Of course, all the bands did this, and soon the posts began to look like that one!
I’d possibly call BS on some of these tree photos.
Yes, trees DO grow around things, but the question is at what rate? Not being a tree expert, I’d like to know what kinds they are and if it jibes with the items.
The gravestone, e.g., cannot be more than c. 120 years old, being basically granite which was not the overwhelming type until about 100 years ago. If this stone is that old, can the sapling that was next to it have grown to that extent? My biggest concern is that the stone is more c’40s.
The small bike? A glance implies it might be from the ‘50s, yet not only is it well ensconced in the tree (no split where it might have enveloped), but it is a few feet up.
A tree expert would be nice!
As a 30 year clean-room, chip-maker, all that worn 'stuff' wound up on my wafers/chips. We knew about wear, trust me.
Use magnets to hold up posters to that post.
I have toys from the 80s that are now dull in color and the plastic has taken on a brittle feel, and they haven’t been handled that much the past 30 years.
I think I know where that post is in New Orleans!
The same is true of the magnificent machine that is the human body.
Picture of “sandbags” turned into rock? Is it possible that those were bags of cement or concrete? Thats a common method of construction for many water projects anyway.
It’s funny - I saw the headline and the first thing I thought was “I ought to ping Mairdie”
As far as the things embedded in trees I can speak from personal experience. I have the remains of a horizontal piece of fence running right through one tree, another tree limb that grew completely around a large telephone cable and an iron hose hanger that was completely enveloped by the trunk of another tree.
In the case of both the phone cable and the hose hanger I would estimate it probably only took ten to fifteen years.
When the phone company finally got around to rescuing the cable they cut the limb on either side of the cable and left the cable with the piece of the limb still attached.
The picture of the path worn round the pole reminds me of a story. I don’t know if this is standard practice but the architects who built something like a college campus that required a large number of people to walk between buildings did not install any sidewalks, they planted wall to wall grass. Then they waited and came back the next year and put the sidewalks in where the grass was now a dirt path. Quite ingenious!
Wheat paste.
My favorite is the marble steps in union station in Chicago. The ones that were used in the baby carriage scene in the un touchable. There are 4 footprint in each step where people have gone up and down the stairs
Howdy. I just looked at a video that popped up on my Youtube sidebar and it had a lot of the images from the Daily Mail article that inspired this thread. The person who put this together did a real nice job so I thought I’d send you a link. Here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuJKH3gCN0
I then proceeded to follow their link to BoredPanda and found over 300 images in two articles, which I found out later was linked from the Daily Mail article. Good stuff.