Random amusement on a Saturday morning

[brooksmoses]

The local police department's social-media person is fond of posting historic photos and asking if people can identify where they were taken. This morning they posted a 1960s photo of an accident involving a car and a telephone pole that I concluded was only a few blocks from me, and said, "tell us as much as you can about this photograph."

So I biked over and found the date nail recording the year the telephone pole was put up, and replied with a photo of it:


I'm not sure this exactly qualifies as being an armchair detective any more, though.

Comments

[zeborah]

Ooh, I haven't heard about date nails before; how cool!

[brooksmoses]

I knew about them from the crossties in railroad tracks -- when I was young, we bought a bunch of used crossties for landscaping, and one of the carpenters who was helping assemble them into retaining walls had a small collection the date nails.

I hadn't realized until today that they put them in telephone poles too!

[zeborah]

Am just now reading a page about them. :-)

[metaphortunate.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but it's pretty cool!

[cobalt-00.livejournal.com]

Depending on the bike, you could be a recumbent detective? :)