Hell, the only way to see the belt itself with Google’s satellite view is to zoom in really tight.
Great. Now I’m afraid I’ll see that word again someday.
Atlas Obscura has some photos. The belt itself isn’t visible as it runs under the flat cover thing you see in the photos.
And as always, YouTube to the rescue. (4:35 if it isn’t cued up to the proper spot already.) The belt is clear in the video but doesn’t appear to be in operation at the time the video was filmed.
One of the suggested videos next to that is about whether an airplane on a moving conveyor belt would take off - a classic SDMB argument that raged for a year before being locked by the mods. My left eye started involuntarily twitching when I saw the video suggestion…
I was surprised to learn that the 5th most populated US city in 1920 (behind NY, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit) was Cleveland , with 800k population - rising to a high of 915k in 1950. Today it has 361k, and ranks 54th - and supports several pro sport teams.
1890 was the first decade it appeared on the top 10. Still #10 as late as 1970.
I’m betting that we’ll be back on the Top Ten list within 50 years. We have fresh water, and within a few decades, much of the country won’t.
And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
Well that guy sure got the problem wrong, I quit after 1/3rd of his bullshit. Now I have to search for the thread you spoke about to find out why the mods locked it, I hope I find it. I might have written something back then, there is a hazy memory… Anyway: be damned for awakening sleeping devils!
That is a statement worth ruminating about. Made me laugh, make of that what you want.
Most Americans can easily identify the three largest cities in the US. Can you name #4?
The top ten represent 6 states, with 2 states each accounting for 3 of the current ten most populous cities.
I love stewed rhubarb in the spring when we have it. Now that you’ve mentioned it I’ll be making rhubarb applesauce with rhubarb I have in the freezer!!
Thank you, Captain Spaulding.
Has to be California and Texas. LA, San Diego, San Jose, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
Without Googling, I would say Houston , unless it has passed Chicago to reach #3 (behind NY and LA)..
Yes, Houston is still behind Chicago, by about a Miami.
And Buffalo was in the top ten around 1900. The Great Lakes dominated American manufacturing. Even Rochester was in the top 25 as a Kodak company town.
Fun fact: Rochester was a founding member of both the NFL and NBA.
The North Coast, baby!
Well, you do if you can keep it from catching fire.
That’s what brings out the flavor.
Does Mr. Benny know about that?
Unfun fact: Rochester is better known as a 1940s radio character than as a major American city.
Fact: That was a great line.
While we’re on culinary matters.
Lobster was essentially considered slop — only fit for prisoners until east coast restaurants began serving it in the 1880s.
Or was it? This article doesn’t address that specifically but does cast doubt on some lobster lore.