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.

Leaky rainbow

 

It is colorful, but it is not a rainbow

Passers-by were taken by surprise by the petroleum product drip "rainbow" that appeared in the parking lot beneath their 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.

 

 

 

Across the great divide

This seamy scene was seen in the street beneath our feet. 

 

Crack and seam

The sidewalk seam did not prevent the crack from spreading; it just moved over a bit and continued. 

 

Just relaxing

 

Lounging at the store

The sidewalk in front of a closed and shuttered 99 cent store is good place to stop for a rest on a hot and sunny day. 

Orange tiger moth

 

Fuzzy and scurry

 

A tiger moth caterpillar scurries across the street, looking for a place to overwinter.  There are many species of tiger moths (Arctiinae).  Some of their caterpillars are also called "woolly bear" caterpillars; we can call this a "yellow bear"?

 

Rain drain

 

Sixty one holes 

 

This multi-hole drain cover features the venerable 1 x 6 x 12 x 18 x 24 hole pattern, resulting in 61 holes to drain rain.  Set in the sidewalk and out of the path of foot traffic, it has acquired a rusty patina.

 

The more unusual 1 x 5 x 12 x 18 x 24 x 30 pattern can be seen here.  

 

Do you have '5' or '6' second ring drain covers?

 

 

 

 

Rocky drain

 

Poking out of the ground

A mound of river rocks and crushed stone surrounds the newly installed 1 x 12 x 20 round drain cover.  The drain cover is massive and thick, with huge openings, appropriate for the weight of the drainage rocks and the expected water flow.

Hole in the floor

 

Danger hole!

The message

 

DANGER

 ! ! ! ! ! !

  HOLE 

 

hand-written on the tape on the floor tells anyone strolling through an area under construction that they should be wary as there is an uncovered hole beneath that tape.

 

 

 

 

 

One water

 

Is there a No. 2 Water?

 

This "NO. 1 WATER" utility cover was seen in the street beneath our feet.  It has a horseshoe ("U") protecting the pentagon shaped bolt head, known as a "penta bolt" or "penta screw".  

 

 

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. 

 

 

 

Sidewalk circles

 

6 or 7 x 9 or 10 layout

These cast iron sidewalk panels are seen in the street beneath our feet.  The panels have many dings and damages and some edges are sealed with mastic tape.  There is no indication of their original use:  the cover of a sidewalk vault, a coal chute cover, a cover for a stairwell, or to provide a non-slip surface in front of the doorway.

 

 

A closer look reveals some of the details.

 

Screwed in to place

Each rondel is surrounded by six pointy ovals; those interlock with the ovals of the neighboring rondels.   The panels have alternating columns of 6 or 7 rondels and alternating rows of 9 or 10 rondels, the total being 123.   Screws along the edges hold the panels to the framework.

 

A mysterioso SB CL CO is inscribed in the concrete next to these panels.

 

 

 

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?