Diamionds and squares

 

Cracked but in use

This cracked manhole cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The cover features a 47 x 47 pointy diamonds pattern.  It is surrounded by a 3 x 142 squares encirclement which itself is encircled by 28 bricks.  An altogether lovely layout.

 

 

Electric gansett

 

Now called by another name

This cross hatched manhole cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The company identity oval interrupts the orderly layout of the "=", "-", and "|" elements that are used in the design of this utility cover.  

 

Originally called the United Electric Power Company, the name was changed to that seen on the manhole cover on November 30, 1927.  This cover would have been produced some time after that. 

 

 

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The comment by anon at 12:37:00 intrigued me to look up that reference.  Hi Nabor is "your Home Grown Supermarket - since 1963" in Baton Rouge.  It has three locations.  In Google Street View, each store has a white vehicle standing in front of the store on the left side:

pickup truck

BRPD cruiser

sedan

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Solid center

12x12x6x6 with solid center

This emergence of this variant of the 12 x 12 x 6 x 6 segments per ring manhole cover has caused circular crackling in the street asphalt.  This was seen in the street beneath our feet.

Electric red

highlighted functionality

This double ring "ELECTRIC SERVICE" manhole cover features a 15 x 15 cross hatched rectangular diamonds central panel.  The outer ring consists of an alternating pattern of 30 "=" and 30 "|".  Red paint is used to highlight the function of this manhole cover.

The circular crackles around the cover enhance this scene in the street beneath our feet.

Colorful cobbles

 

Rain drain

This scene in the street beneath our feet has an 8 x 3 rectangular opening storm drain grate and a 9 by 9 square diamond manhole cover with 23 "teeth".  The somewhat symmetric cracks and colorful cobbles add to the scene.

 

Other examples of that style of manhole cover can be seen here and here.   

 

 

Cover relic

 

Is that an eye?

  

This "Time Warner Cable Of New York City" manhole cover was made the East Jordan Iron Works.  In 2016, Time Warner Cable was acquired by Charter Communications, which brands itself as "Spectrum".  Despite its re-branding, the parent company still has not made a complete logo consolidation of its acquisitions, leaving these relics in the street beneath our feet.

 

 

Ess see em

 

Perpendicular diamonds

This cast iron 15 x 15 cross diamond pattern utility cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.

 

This is a Model SCM-5 cover made by Fairfield Industries of Georgetown, South Carolina.  It is part of a spill containment manhole that contains any spills that may happen while filling underground storage tanks. 

 

Seen to the left is a 5 x 'lots of holes' cover for a rain drainage system.

 

 

 

Sidewalk circle

 

What were you used for?

It is not clear what this metal ring is for or from.  When the new sidewalk was put in, it was left in place.  Filling in the center makes makes it no longer usable; protruding out of the street makes it foot catching. 

 

Any comments on this scene in the street beneath our feet? 

 

Electric basket weave

 

LECT  C  cover

The 15 x 15 basket weave pattern of this ding-ed up and asphalted-over electric utility manhole cover is a scene in the street beneath our feet. 

 

 

 

Tiny diamonds

 

44x44 diamonds

This 44 x 44 diamond pattern manhole cover was seen in the street beneath our feet.  It shows that it was made by the LeBaron Foundry.  That foundry was founded in 1855; it was last located on East Union Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.  In 2008, it was bought by the East Jordan Iron Works (EJIW) of East Jordan, Michigan, and subsequently closed.

 

One hole cover

 

 

This old utility cover is a scene in the street beneath our feet.  Its original usage is now now known.  It may have been a gas shutoff, or a water shutoff, or maybe a fill for a below ground heating oil tank?  

 

 

A in the arrow

 

A is for arrow

 

  

This nicely patina-ed Bingham and Taylor GAS utility cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The cover is intended to be aligned so the arrow indicates the direction of the gas flow.

 

Hexy covers

Hexagon patterns on a manhole cover usually indicate that it is for a telecom or telephone utility.  Here are two:

 

 

Bell in hex

This cover features the bell symbol of a telephone company and various design elements - mostly hexagons - in circles of 12.

 

 

Six hexagon holes

This manhole cover features an outside ring of 12 "teeth" and six "erupting" hexagons, six free floating hexagons, six hexagons with aeration holes, and one central hexagon.

Both of these were seen in the street beneath our feet.

 

Square nines

 

9x9 square diamond with 23 teeth

This 9 x 9 square diamond manhole cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The rim features 23 normal sized "teeth" and a wide "tooth" in the upper left.

 

 

Yellow gas

 

Yellow gas cover

This yellow-painted PROV GAS CO gas utility cover is seen in the cracked sidewalk of the street beneath our feet.  

 

The Providence Gas Company was chartered in 1847 and began operations in 1848, making coal gas for lighting.  In the 2000s, it went through several corporate acquisitions; the original name is no longer used.

 

Two of its former buildings are listed in architecture guides of Providence:  the Providence Gas Company Purifier House (more here and here) on Allens Avenue and the Providence Gas Company Building (more here) on Weybosset Street. 

 

 

 

Five ringers

Two manhole covers, both with five segmented rings and a center, were seen in the street beneath our feet.

 

8x8x8x8x8 with raised center

That manhole cover has 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 segments per ring, label with a raised center, and with vent holes in the second ring. 

 

 

12x12x12x6x6 and depressed center

 

This manhole cover has 12 x 12 x 12 x 6 x 6 segments per ring and a depressed center. 

The five rings make them look similar, but counting the segments per ring shows them to be different.

 

Pointy diamonds

 

Very pointy

This very pointy diamond pattern manhole cover was a scene in the street beneath our feet.  The ring is a 98 x 52 diamond pattern.  The cover is a 49 x 43 diamond pattern.  The rust pattern shows the direction of the water flow. 

 

 

Naturally rusted

 

31x29 cover

 

The late afternoon sun enhances the colors of the yellow street striping and the 31 x 29 diamond pattern on this sewer cover that was seen in the street beneath our feet.  This labeled SEWER cover is located in a marked off section of a parking lot and gets very little foot or vehicle traffic.  That has allowed it to attain a natural "rusty orange" color.

 

Thistle last

 

 

This arrangement of L's, raised buttons, and a topping of five dots makes for a sidewalk crossing plate that will last and is durable.

 

This Duralast branded product sporting the EJ company logo was seen in the street beneath our feet.

Electric shadows

 

31x31 diamond

 

This 31 x 31 diamond pattern ELECTRIC manhole was seen in the street beneath out feet.  Shadows of the bars on a nearby fence contrast with the diamond tread pattern.