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Matthew McConaughey will not shut up with the stupid bongos. And Rusty Cureio was built like a muscular fire hydrant. You continue to drive, slow motion, in your red convertible. An old man wearing flip flops waters his lawn. A set of perfect white teeth sink into a glistening slice of watermelon. They look friendly, not standoffish or intimidating. A group of teenagers laugh together on a beach. A ruggedly handsome life guard, complete with white stripe of sunscreen, blows a whistle as he points to the horizon. He is playing a bongo drum in the passenger seat. Matthew McConaughey has convinced you that you can carry a couple of surf boards on the back of your red convertible. For a second it looks like that fight scene from The Godfather, but that moment passes. There are children playing in a broken fire hydrant. Dogs pant in the golden summer heat next to a boombox that only plays "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley. He blonde hair swirls in the salty air as she smiles at you in slow motion, freckles dancing across the bridge of her nose. By 1865, Philadelphia had installed cast iron hydrants that were very similar to those used today.Want more great deals? Sign up for our Daily Digest emails!Ī girl on roller skates swishes by you on the boardwalk. Philadelphia claimed to have 230 wooden hydrant pumps and 185 cast iron fire hydrants in 1811. children playing in fire hydrant spray - vintage fire hydrant stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Boys cool off on a hot summer day at a fire hydrant in the South End district, Boston, Massachusetts, 1970. These were inserted into wooden mains with a tapering joint. The following year, Graff introduced an improved version with the valve in the lower portion. As a result, Philadelphia was the first city in the nation to have a fire hydrant system. It had a combination hose/faucet outlet and was of “wet barrel” design with the valve in the top. The first “post type” hydrant is generally credited to Frederick Graff, chief engineer of the Water Works, around 1801. This is the basis of the term “fire plug,” a name that is often still applied to modern fire hydrants. The plug’s location was noted and marked before the pipe was covered over, so that it could possibly be used another time. After the fire was out, the hole in the pipe was sealed by driving a wooden plug into it. Water would fill the firemen’s excavation, forming a “wet well” to either get buckets of water from, or to serve as a pump reservoir.

When a fire occurred, the volunteer firefighters dug down, found a log pipe, and augered a hole through it. Vintage Japan Bulldog Peeing on Fire Hydrant Porcelain Figurine Ashtray Trinket Bowl (131) 35.00 10 Fire Hydrant 3D charms antique silver 20x7mm DB04840 (31k) 3. On January 27, 1801, water from the Schuylkill River was introduced from the Fairmount Water Works, distributed by hollow wooden pipes laid in the streets. Fire losses immediately declined once the HPFS system was operating, prompting the removal of extra insurance charges imposed on structures within the congested area between the Delaware River and Broad Street, from Race to Walnut Streets.Ī HPFS hydrant and two manhole covers, and an image of the HPFS system in use when it was new.

The first high-pressure pumping station was located on Columbus Boulevard by Race Street, the brick and terracotta building that is to become the Live Arts/Fringe Festival headquarters. These fire plugs could throw a two-inch stream 230 feet vertically at a moment’s notice. It delivered water via independent mains and special red fire hydrants located on sidewalks throughout downtown. The High Pressure Fire System is another Philadelphia “first,” and a much more recent one than most–the system started in 1903. In one hundred years, will any one remember that Philadelphia’s HPFS system was acknowledged as finest in the world for decades? Will anyone even know what those red plugs were for? Will any still exist? Perhaps someday they will be buried entirely. Actually, they’re not–rather, as sidewalks are resurfaced they are sometimes finished at a higher level than before. Cars run into them, new projects remove them, and then there are the ones that look like they are sinking. These industrial relics are quite common right now, but they won’t be forever. The city’s High Pressure Fire System was decommissioned in 2005, but its fire hydrants are still with us. A damaged hydrant at Fourth and Race Streets and a half-buried hydrant.