Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Industrial
Strength Dockware
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The
foot of Hertel, foot of Ferry
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September 02: People
talk about the foot of Hertel Avenue, or the foot of Ferry Street,
when talking about streets in Buffalo that go down to the river.
In past times, these streets were important avenues to travel
and food -- fish from the lake. The actual foot of Hertel is
fairly mundane, these days, and the bollards and other dockware
about are all the more interesting for that.
Marina
folk have painted this bollard a bright orange-red. |
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Just
upstream from the painted bollard, on the other side of
the street (Hertel, you know) is this much more traditionally
painted ship-sized cleat. |
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Dockware
large and small -- a light bulb-like bollard and the pivoting
lift bridge that connects the foot of Ferry Street with
Broderick Park on the other side of the tow path canal that
leads down to the Black Rock Lock. |
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This
pic is from a contributor, Brian, who has a
website about shipping in Buffalo. He writes,
"Hey, I like your web site. I'm still not sure why
you have photos of cleats and bollards on there but it's
interesting anyway. I attached a photo you may find interesting.
While waiting for the coal boat Richard Reiss
to transit the canal just North of the Ferry St. Bridge
I noticed a Bollard that someone had taped dead tree branches
to and gave it a set of antlers. I thought it was so strange
that I worked it into one of my photos." He
gets it, even if he isn't sure. |
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