Nope, since we moved a few times; into different 3-station markets, with the same thing.
When I was in the Villanova band in the late 90s, every year, we would pick a different whimsical uniform for pep band (which played at the basketball games, which, at Villanova, were often televised). One year, it was referee shirts. Apparently a whole band worth of people wearing black-and-white striped shirts all clumped together Moired something fierce on television.
IIRC, people appearing on-screen were warned not to wear stripes or check patterns for some such reason
I don’t remember if it was Johnny Carson or a guest on the Tonight Show who came out one time in a seersucker jacket. That was an optical nightmare. (And IIRC, it was not just a visual thing but would make the TV buzz as well.)
That’s what being in the band is all about. And that music thing too I guess.
I was told not to wear horizontal stripes as an extra in a movie in the 1980s because onscreen they can appear to wiggle.
Larger than the clock face chimbed by Big Ben, from 1962 until it was surpassed almost fifty years later the world’s largest four-faced clock was Milwaukee’s Allen-Bradley. Due to its location on the city’s south side, Milwaukeeans there are considered to have been “born under the Polish moon.”
The Anaconda Smelter Stack in Anaconda MT is the tallest all-brick structure ever built (discounting a concrete base). The Washington Monument could fit inside the stack.
That’s really cool. And brick.
Last year I spied a smokestack in the distance while driving around Sudbury, Ontario. Wow, that thing was tall. I looked it up and saw that it’s called the Inco Superstack. Not brick, but still impressive. Sadly, it is slated for demolition.
Last year I was driving to Butte and we passed by Anaconda, Montana. You could see the smokestack from miles away and it got bigger and bigger and we approached it. It’s hard to describe something man-made that is that tall.
When we got to Butte we visited the Berkeley Pit where a lot of the copper mining was done, and it’s as big any small lake I’ve ever been to. The scale of mining that was doing in that area is truly unbelievable. Fortunes were made, and many miners died in the process.
It’s also responsible for the land for miles to the east resembling the Desolation of Smaug.
My father (on whom be peace) was born&raised in Anaconda, and we visited a couple of times a year when I was growing up. I remember driving past vast arsenic-laden slag heaps coming into town.
This is correct. The mining industry used lots of toxic chemicals to extract the precious metals and those poisons leached into the soils in and around Butte and Anaconda. Fortunately, a lot of that soil has been removed, but some of it still remains and presents a long term danger to anyone who lives there. At one point I was thinking of moving to Butte, but when I learned about the town’s history I quickly struck it off my list.
I’d read that it was simply the unfiltered coal ash that vented out the stack, all the naturally toxic content of coal. Even if the coal itself is only parts per million bad stuff that still adds up when you burn millions of tons.
Part of it might be coal ash, though IIRC the smelter was mainly run on electricity. But that wasn’t the main culprit. Copper rarely — I’m tempted to say never — occurs by itself, and in the Butte area it was mainly combined with arsenic and quartz. Just as a WAG I’d guess they got five or ten pounds of arsenic waste for every pound of copper.
There was a story* of a man who spent years in the arsenic shop of the Anaconda smelter. He retired and moved to Arizona, and almost immediately fell ill. After several failed attempts at a diagnosis, one doctor reviewed his history and determined that he actually needed a certain amount of arsenic; when the man saw the price of the prescription he basically said the hell with this and went back to work.
* Given that it involves Anaconda, best taken with several pounds of salt.
It is true that you can get acclimated to arsenic and require a certain amount of it. In the 19th century there were people who deliberately ate arsenic.
This was used in one of Sharyn McCrumb’s mysteries (I think it’s If I’d Killed him when I Met Him) where an arsenic-eater is murdered by being given something that was NOT arsenic.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/439713
Also part of the solution to a Dorothy L Sayer mystery
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Where do they take it? That just poisons a new area, right? It’s not the arsenic-soil goes “Poof!” and disappears.
I think it’s all dumped into the Berkeley Pit where it can be contained. There’s a six foot chain-link fence around the pit to keep people out of the area.
The current WDC darts world champion, Luke Littler, cannot legally buy darts in the UK because he’s too young.
The town is sometimes called “the richest hill on Earth”, because the total value of the ores that came from there (mostly copper) is more than from anywhere else.
The town is also sometimes called various other things, by people who aren’t on the payroll of the mining company’s PR department.