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At 10 lanes of traffic (plus tower space, emergency lanes, and pedestrian/bike path) this is apparently the widest bridge in the world. At least according to the plaque. #alwaysreadtheplaque
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Building plaque mounted on exterior brick wall HISTORIC NORTH LOOP LUTEFISK PROCESSING PLANT Built: 1914 The Kildall Fish Company billed itself as "the world's largest ludefisk producers." (Today, the word is more commonly spelled lutefisk.) Founded by a Norwegian immigrant, the company imported mass quantities of dried whitefish from the fjords of Norway, shipped them here by sea, lake, river and rail, then soaked them in large concrete tanks filled with artesian water to get them soft and plump again for church suppers and family holidays. The company also packed spiced herring in this plant. A newspaper reporter marveled in 1939 that Minnesotans could be eating these fish less than a month after they were hauled into a boat in Norway.
A multistory brick commercial building along a warehouse district sidewalk. Image taken with a wide angle lens setting. Current businesses shown include Floyd’s 99 Barbershop.
Today I learned, at 424 Washington Ave. N, Minneapolis
I’ve never been in the direct presence of lutefisk, to my knowledge. But I’ve run across Kildall Fish Co. ads in old newspapers here and there. #alwaysreadtheplaque
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A middle-aged woman with dark hair hangs from the base of a London gas lamp
Close up of lamp with flame lit
The plaque about the street lamp. It reads: the adjacent street light is the last remaining sewer gas destructor lamp in the City of Westchester. Installed in association with Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s revolutionary embankment sewer, which opened in 1870, this cast iron ornamental lantern continues to burn off residual biogas.
Made it to the sewage gas-powered lamp in London today #alwaysReadThePlaque
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Photo of a rock with a plaque on it. The plaque reads "under the base of this sun dial is a time capsule which is to be opened on the occasion of the bicentennial July first A.D. 2067". There is no sundial, but there are three shorn bolts on rock.
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I've walked past this on Elm St in @TweetWorcester dozens of times and never noticed it before. This is cool. #alwaysreadtheplaque
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I feel like we’re skipping a couple of steps here.
(#alwaysreadtheplaque, seen at Major‘s Hill Park, Ottawa)
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