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Original Hatteras Light Lens Found in Storage
WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) & AP ^
| September 19, 2002
| The Associated Press
Posted on 09/19/2002 12:59:18 PM PDT by Constitution Day
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:55:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: KC Burke
Great pictures... thanks!
To: StarfireIV
Interesting.
Don't beacons today flash at set intervals in the same way, though?
To: KC Burke
Thanks for posting that picture! it is beautiful
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posted on
09/19/2002 5:57:01 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: Constitution Day
COOL!!! Thanks for the ping, and a Brew-Thru bump to the top!
To: Jonah Hex
Ooh, don't get me started on the Brew-Thru.
I had just had my '55 Chevy wagon painted a month earlier when I took it on vacation.
Some moron (employee) opened the beer cooler door right on my car.
That was when I was 17, and my 12 year old sister and her friend, who were in the car, learned some new words that day.
To: TomB
Hatteras? That's the one on wheels, isn't it? I don't think it is anymore. Still, there is an interesting irony to the fact that lighthouses are to a ship the one constant in the world and yet this one moved a few years ago.
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posted on
09/19/2002 6:28:58 PM PDT
by
supercat
To: Constitution Day
detective work by videographer and author Kevin Duffus of Raleigh, Damn! A detective named "Duffus". I don't know who needs a name change more,him or NASCAR driver Dick Trickle.
To: sneakypete
I think "Dick Trickle" needs it more.
I used to laugh everytime they mentioned his name during a race.
To: Constitution Day
I think "Dick Trickle" needs it more. And you just KNOW they call his son,"Little Dick" Trickle.
To: Constitution Day
I like to find out the histories behind things and how they survived. You kinda figure something like that just gets taken, broken, lost, or sold for auction. It is a miracle that it did not end up in T.G.I.Friday's, Captain D's, or a Red Lobster restaurant as atmospheric ambiance. Now looking at Hooter's through the lens would be interesting, but I digress.
It makes one wonder how much other stuff is stored in warehouses across America that is just sitting there waiting to be found. Does the government catalog all this stuff in national data base? And if they do I wonder how hard it would be to access the lists?
To: Constitution Day
Bummer. I always enjoyed shocking my dry Southern Baptist relations by wearing a Brew-Thru t-shirt or hat on my return from the beach. Of course, I didn't tell them I only got soft drinks(!).
To: sneakypete
And you just KNOW they call his son,"Little Dick" Trickle.I'd rather change my name to Bill Clinton! (well, almost)
To: Captain Beyond
Now looking at Hooter's through the lens would be interesting, but I digress. ROFL!!!
But seriously, I hate that too.
Once an object is put on display in a place like that, with no documentaion or explanation, it loses its historical context.
As to the lists, I wouldn't even know how to go about finding out what is stored and where.
Obviously, given this story, the govt. doesn't even really know!
CD
To: Constitution Day
I don't think many of them do. I know that in the state in which I used to reside, the beacon was put out in the late 1940's. The fresnel for Barnegat Lighthouse, Long Beach Island NJ, is now in a museum about 5 blocks away from the light. There is also another First Order Fresnel (Each "order" was based on the internal diameter of the lens with 1st being around 6', 2nd was about 5', etc.) in the Franklin Museum in Philadelphia. That one is still on its bronze roller equipped turntable and can be moved with just the push of a finger.
To: LiteKeeper; Constitution Day
"I suspected there were some pharologists on FR!!" I always wanted to be a pharologist...MUD
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posted on
03/25/2003 7:59:21 AM PST
by
Mudboy Slim
("Soddom...Yer PaladinPalacePizza, PUNK!!!")
To: Constitution Day
You spelled "HOO" backwards, dude...MUD
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:01:01 AM PST
by
Mudboy Slim
("Soddom...Yer PaladinPalacePizza, PUNK!!!")
To: Mudboy Slim
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:06:27 AM PST
by
backhoe
("Time to kick the tires & light the fires-- Let's Roll!")
To: backhoe
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:14:22 AM PST
by
Mudboy Slim
("Soddom...Yer PaladinPalacePizza, PUNK!!!")
To: Mudboy Slim
Bookmarked the link- thanks. No, my family's scattered to the 4 winds now, but they were among the first settlers there. I am the last one of that line left, and since I can't have children it's up to some cousins to keep the name alive.
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:38:06 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: Constitution Day
Fantastic!
The Old Pharologist
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