Today's Friday Photo is of the water tower that supported the mushroom farm which used to be near 112th and Sheridan in Westminster, CO in the 1930's and 40's.
I took these photos in June 2006 - They had pulled the rusted and nearly erased water tower down to restore it as a historical mark for the area. This always makes me very happy to see this happen... I think even with the forward movement of development in the area that the history should still be preserved in some way.
Shortly after they brought the water tower down they had someone working on replacing all the metal work and then they began painting it.
The idea behind the water tower was to have it look like a can of mushrooms you would buy at a local market. Take a look at the rest of the photos to see how they restored it. I still have to go back at some point and get a picture of it after they put it back on the top of the tower... but for the sake of reference, here's a painting of how it turned out:
-Ian
Wow! It's really cool!! I didn't even know that was up there ;)
ReplyDeleteWow! Stunning photography on all those pictures and what an interesting subject! Very nice!
ReplyDeleteAnd we all know how much Christie LOVES a good mushroom farm. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe truth comes out... you secretly do like mushrooms!
ReplyDeleteThis photo underscores the fact that someone REALLY needs to do an updated history of Westminster--the most recent one I know of is at the Front Range library, and it was published in the late 70s or mid-80s, as I recall. The amount of development specifically that Westminster has gone through is really mindboggling, considering that the city's developed limits pretty much ended at 92nd around that time.
ReplyDeleteGrandma and Grandpa have told me about how Sheridan was a dirt road when they first moved here, and how our parents were taught to drive on Sheridan and 110th when it was in the same unfinished state. Considering the city doesn't really seem to have much of an identity anymore, it's surreal to look at things like our parent's old yearbooks or think back to when the mall first expanded in 1986, and see how de-centralized everything in Westminster is now. So it's nice to see at least some preservation of the city's past at work here.
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