@mattblaze@federate.social that’s very nice! I like that the corrugations below what I guess are the windows of the carriages make it look like it’s pulling the station along to the right in its wake.
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@mattblaze@federate.social thanks! I think I often go past that travelling between the airport and my partners place in northwest Philly. I remember seeing the power station but hadn’t paid any attention to the bridge. Sounds like the arsenal that gave the bridge its name got bulldozed in the early 60s.
@mattblaze@federate.social personally I think some should be kept as historical markers, neither celebratory nor commemorative, but simply to record.
Like you I lived through those times (but in the UK) and I’m still shocked by finding out new things about how close we came then. The latest thing I learned was about the US using depth charges in international waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis to get USSR sub B59 to surface, unaware of the almost apocalyptic argument they triggered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
@mattblaze@federate.social my late wife introduced me to that song in Australia and now I cannot get it out of my head whenever I’m going to/from SFO!