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Aside from the old piece of Americana in the form of an old diner left down on the old piers of the Brooklyn waterfront, there is this old anchor…

And it looks HUGE!

It also looks as though it is dancing with his shadow, very nice!

There are lots of tall buildings in NYC, which means that there are lots of water tanks on top all of those tall buildings, but this one building has the best water tower in Brooklyn that disguises the water tank.

This is the big post office down by the courthouses.

And it’s there behind that big arched opening that the water tank is hidden.

It certainly is a studly and stealthy place to keep a water tank.

I’ve seen the tower hundreds of times, and only recently did I notice the water tank hiding in there.

Seeing it barely sticking out over the opening makes it appear in my head as if it is really a man wearing an iron mask who is locked away from unknown reasons.

For months I’ve walked by a giant cement or stone looking structure that sits in the middle of the Cadman Plaza.  Since it is surrounded by a local park it always stuck out and I’ve wondered what that structure is.

I finally walked over to it and found out that it is the Brooklyn War Memorial, and it’s a relic of Robert Moses.

After World War II Moses wanted each borough to have one main war memorial, rather than loads of smaller memorials - which is what happened post World War I - and as it turns out, Brooklyn was the only borough to have built such a memorial.

The building itself operates as a Parks Department office, with the memorial having a giant Roman warrior on one corner…

And a giant Roman widow and fatherless child on another corner…

With this inscription on the side in between both giants…

“This memorial is dedicated
To the heroic men and women of the borough of Brooklyn
Who fought for Liberty in the second World War 1941-1945
And especially to those who suffered and died
May their sacrifice inspire future generations
And lead to universal peace”

And that’s about it…although I must say, I had thought and still wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this memorial was really built to hide the entrance to a giant underground bunker system - after all, it was built post WWII and it sits in the middle of a rather large urban park.

If you’ve ever walked along Court Street between the giant movie theater and Brooklyn’s Borough Hall you might have noticed a little place called Empire Bail Bonds, and their little doorway…

Empire Bail Bonds sits in an old building that has quirky and cool old detail to it…like this little guy writing…

He’s maybe six inches tall, and he’s facing down - which is just odd, and I’d really like to know why he’s facing down like that.

Check out this GIANT stump of a felled London Plane tree…

It was sitting out in the parking lot of Shea Stadium, all stumpy and such.

I really like this trick shot of the underbelly of the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge - and yes, that is a detour sign that fell and is hanging underneath the bridge.

Doesn’t it look like you’re on a tropical island, looking up through the jungle and seeing the bridge that leads to nowhere?

With Spring Training happily under way, it’s good to see that Citi Field is looking as if it is just about ready to go.

Just look at all of those empty green seats, and this!

Citi Field has the standard Willets Point Orange Foul Pole up, ready and in place!

Mets fans are ready to buy their single game tickets for the upcoming 2009 baseball season…

Citi Field is almost ready to accomodate them…they just need to take the shrink wrap off the booths and get people to the ticket windows.

Spring is almost here!

I came across this old Spice Girls lollipop wrapper…

And if you ever had one of these you’ll know that they were the tastiest lollipop to have ever been made!!!

And each tasty lollipop came with one of 24 collectible stickers!!!

I think that you can still find the lollipops sans Spice Girls wrappers in certain countries by way of Spain…oh to live in Spain….

At one point in my life I opted to go to a public high school to allow myself to not have to have a ridiculously crazy commute.

I ended up going to the school named on this pencil…

It was the home of the Yellowjackets!

I highly doubt either one was ever shouted at a pep rally.

Judi from Cincinnati writes…”We stopped in a little coffee shop before we headed to Columbus and it was called “Beehive”….so I took a couple of pictures”

How cool is that!!!

They even have Beehive Coffee mugs!!!

Thanks Judi! 

I’ve been cleaning up my place and I stumbled across an ancient relic from my high school days…

It’s a really old cigar (and now really dry) that wasn’t kept in a humidor.

My pals and I were the geeks who didn’t drink much and instead would go bowling and then smoke a cheap cigar in the park on Saturday nights when we were 15.