Another guess: the breaker boxes fit between the studs, and it’s easier to expand vertically.
That seems like a good guess to me. But some of those very old-timey boxes didn’t have a lot of switches in them!
A tall circuit breaker box will fit in more locations as compared to a wide circuit breaker box. The common bus bars that the breakers hook onto are simple bars that run up and down the box. And the individual circuits which come out of the breakers just hook up to the other side of the breakers and run out of the box.
It would be possible to make a tall panel where the circuit breakers were vertical, but the interior bus bars would be more complex - costlier. And the wire routing would be more difficult.
Thanks everybody! Ignorance fought. 
… Well, most American cultures anyway …
And we have horizontal breaker boxes with horizontal (DIN) rails.
I wondered about that. Is it just in NYC that you can’t turn right on red?
For various reasons, I’d come to believe that right-on-red laws are more the exception than the rule, so when I moved from California to Oregon I wondered if I would have to drop the habit.
Wouldnt not being able to turn right on red just make traffic worse? I cant understand the logic behind that law.
Maybe it is important for pedestrian-dense areas, where turning right on a red increases the risk of running someone down.
That makes sense. I would like to see a study of the busiest LA streets and accident frequency.
Just agree with me. I say “never let facts or data get in the way of a good theory”
I agree!!
reminds me of a cartoon I saw:
Man: What is the secret to a happy life?
Wise sage: Never argue with fools - it is pointless.
Man: That’s a stupid way to go through life! It makes no sense!
Sage: I agree with you.
In downtown San Francisco, we have some pedestrian scrambles, where vehicular traffic is stopped in all directions to allow for pedestrians to cross. The Wikipedia article lists multiple pedestrian scrambles in L.A. County. Their purpose is to reduce pedestrian casualties, but drivers tend to dislike them.
You have an ex? I thought you got catfished!
Sorry for the joke almost a year later; didn’t see this thread the first time around, and I couldn’t resist.
AKA the Barnes Dance, after Henry Barnes, traffic engineer. When it was introduced in Baltimore, we peds loved it.
Dan
Seattle has one, at “The Junction” in West Seattle. The city did away with it in the 70s, but everyone protested and ever since it’s been “Walk All Ways” (like one of my beloved t-shirts says, in a design just like the Seattle Sounders logo).
That intersection (California and Alaska) is also home to the only record store that I’ve had breakfast at, out on the sidewalk.
It’s a long story. Not really.
My ex was so dumb… How dumb was he?
He didn’t know the lyrics to songs, but he’d make them up, sing them, and argue with you if you disagreed.
For instance, the Pink Floyd song Empty Spaces.
Correct lyric:
“What shall
We use
To fill
The empty spaces”
Ex’s version:
“Watch out”…trail away because what can you say after that?
Or Alan Parson’s Project song Eye In the Sky.
Correct lyric:
“Don’t let
Fire rush to your head”
Ex’s version:
“Don’t laugh
Fire a rush to your head” performed with pantomime of hitting a bong.
There are others. I can’t think of them at the moment, but let one of those songs come on the radio and I instantly remember Mr. Stupid’s version.
That could go into the YOUR misheard lyrics thread.
I often make up lyrics if I don’t know the words or just to be funny. (Funny in my head. I’ve never shared them.) Maybe there should be a thread for intentionally changed lyrics. Like…
On the road again
Ain’t had no chicken since I don’t know when
I found a farmhouse and I stole myself a hen
Hey, it’s good to be on the road again.
Not a Country music fan, so I never learned the song. As for intentionally changing lyrics I know, there’s Good Riddance by Green Day.
Another turnip truck, a pork chop in the road…
How about
We could have had it aaaaaalllllll!
Rolling with the sheeeeeep!
Together with its backing vocals
Rolling with the sheep
Never had many feet
Gee I’ve got to go
Rolling with the sheep
You’ll never look at that song the same again