Bedord, Indiana - Water Tower
N 38° 52.371 W 086° 29.099
16S E 544676 N 4302792
This was more colorful with graffiti years ago, but a new paint job and barbed wire makes it a Plain Jane.
Waymark Code: WM4C5H
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/04/2008
Views: 26
It may be a Plain Jane water tower these days, but it has a colorful history in my family. When I was way little, I recall my parents climbing this tower one warm summer night with my dad's brother. Years later, I wanted to be an official family member and "climb the water tower." My uncle was then 54, but we somehow managed to get to the tip-top where he told me stories about my dad (who had since passed away) and the brothers jumping the rail cars to Oolitic, giving the hobos a hard time and smoking corn silk cigarettes wrapped in newspaper! To this day, over thirty years later, my uncle gets tickled telling the story that I said for him to put his arm around me and act like sweeties when just as we hopped back over the fence, a police car came down the street! This water tower holds happy memories for me... and my dad was born in a house just one block away.
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