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Friday, February 28, 2014
While cold and blustery weather lingers, I'm dreaming and knowing this too will come, No. 2
Looking forward to still, sunny days so that this downtown fountain with the fitting name--the Car Wash Fountain--will be turned on for all to enjoy. I found this info about it online: "This uniquely shaped fountain never washed cars, but the name seems appropriate given its similarity to a car wash. As a precaution for passing pedestrians, a wind gauge shuts off the pumps if the wind speed exceeds 2 miles per hour." I'm here to tell you, though, that when it's cold, it's off. Who'd want to have the spray freezing on the brick sidewalk, right?
Location: SW 5th Avenue and Ankeny Street, erected 1977 by Carter, Hull, Nishita, McCulley & Baxter. Made of steel.
I took this photo on June 22, 2009, downtown Portland, at 7:22 a.m. Glorious sunshine, shirtsleeve weather. Come on back to us.
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3 comments:
A clever fountain and nice photo. If you had waited just 1.3 seconds longer, you would have had the couple lined up against the fountain spray. That would have made it even better.
It looks like an appealing fountain!
A very nice name for a fountain, I hope this kind of weather is not so far...
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