Water Tower

I remember being deathly scared of water towers when I was young. I thought I had gotten over it.

We don't have water towers like that in the UK. If we did, I could well imagine associating them with watch-towers or similar....

I don't know why, but this one looks rather creepy.

All the institutions I have worked at or visited have had water towers. The place I am at currently has two water towers, but there are still a large number of folks who live there.

I worked at a facility in Oklahoma about 15 years ago that was being downsized and closed, and they were doing a number of repairs and beautification projects on the entire campus as they closed it. I never could quite understand why, because after they shut it in 1993 or 1994 they have never used it since, so all the money spent on beautifying the even-then unused sections of campus went down the proverbial toilet. I could understand working on the inhabited areas of campus, but they were doing all sorts of work on the closed sections as well.

Anyways, one day I was working in one of the homes with some of the ladies and we received an overhead emergency page to one of the nearby campus parking lots. It turned out that one of the contract painters had neglected to secure his safety harness when painting on top of the water tower, and he fell many, many feet to his death. He left a wife and several small children, which was horrible enough, but the real tragedy to me was that the place was closing within a year or two and not only did the money get wasted on painting a water tower that would soon be obsolete, but there was a terrible, terrible irony that someone ended up dying in such a futile endeavor.

OK, so what other cheerful memories do you want me to bring up tonight? :-)

I never fail to be amazed by the incredible ways the Government find to waste money whch isn't theoretically even theirs in the first place.

I remember seeing this water tower in the movie,Session 9

Lynn, I love your comments, I enter this site every day for the beautiful pictures that just take my breath away, and I always hope that you have a comment or a storie to share with us, please don't ever stop.... thank you

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I constantly drive by this heading north on route 1 on the way to my friends house. You look over to the left and you can see it for miles on a good day. It is extremely creepy. Going up near there the dreaded feeling I get is weird. Thanks for the photos. Sad to say now when you look up you don't see the buildings anymore. I actually start to cry. Damn Avalon Bay. Thanks for the memories.

I once suggested at a staff meeting we sponsor bungee jumping from the water tower. It got me out of further staff meetings.

why?

The b&w and the weather make this picture look really old.

I was up there this weekend and the kirk is intact though it has a new roof and is missing many of the side wards/ wings. the guy climbing the water tower told me that it will be coming down in the nex two weeks so if you want to get out there now is the time. still a lot to see despite all that is demolished

did they get rid of the water tower

Yup Watertower all gone this spring I beleive.

I took a look at the Avalon Danvers web site and the Administration building and side wings look great, they did a great job restoring these buildings. It is too bad the rest of the buildings got demolished.

I remember this tower in Session 9.

It does look great.
Clean too

I think the fog & rain just make the observer feel like they are actually experiencing the sight you've captured!

MY AUNT SAID JUST 2 THE LEFT, THEY HAD STARES 2 WALK THE PATIENTS DOWN ITS VERY INTERESTING 2 HERE STORIES FROM OTHER PEOPLE

Nice pic. When I was in my teens many moons ago my friends and I used to climb the water tower in the town I lived in and drink beer for hours. The easy part was climbing up. The hard part was climbing down especially after a few six-packs. We obviously didn't have a lot to do.

its a funny, my mom and dad both worked at the dsh and growing up i was there alot. anyway i moved to maine , and when id come down to visit them in peabody, id be on 95 and when i'd see the old water tower i'd call them on my cell phone and say i'm home mom and dad, I can see the tower.