I seem to remember a 1970's Jimmy Breslin piece in which he used cobblestones
on the west side highway in New York as a metaphor for undercurrents in
society which refuse to remain covered up, no matter how high-tech the attempt
to bury them, i.e., with modern materials. Anyone who remembers driving that
highway before it was dismantled will recall what a bumpy trip it became
within a short time of every effort to pave over those cobblestones.
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From: Dan Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:35:01 -0400
Subject: Re: [BP] Cobblestone?
> In the early 1980s, when festival marketplaces were all the rage and just
> before I got to Raleigh, they had Cranston from Pittsburgh on the hook
> as the developer for the 1914 City Market building and environs. Bids
> came back to remove asphalt from the cobblestone streets, too high. So
> the Appearance Commission (a uniquely NC beast) coordinated a "Street
> Busting" community festival, and all the citizens came out on a
> Saturday with their garden tool pick axes and pulled up all the
> asphalt in a day to be slung into the city-provided front end loaders
> and hauled away.
>
> At the dedication, the Mayor described his joy at being able to drive down
> the streets going "bumpety-bump."
>
> Dan
>
> On 8/26/04 9:41 PM, "John Callan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Not sure. I have very little information, I'm just trying to be
> > helpful...like Ralph. I think it means that someone wants to make a
> > cobblestone street cobblestone again and is looking for folks who know
> > how to do it...ie, people who have already done it. I know I did a lot
> > of research and planning for a project like this back when I was a
> > public servant. But my memory vessel seems to have aborted some of
> > that information. When I try to recall the details all I get is that
> > old feeling that I've been here before...and I may have been lost then
> > too.
> >
> > -jc
> >
> >
> > On Aug 26, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
> >
> >> John Callan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anyone experience with restoration of historic cobblestone?
> >>>
> >>> -jc
> >>
> >> Interesting idea...
> >>
> >> do you mean cobblestone as in the street ballast square stones usually
> >> of granite?
> >> or cobblestone as in small boulders of glacial till as in Albion or
> >> Phelps, NY?
> >>
> >> sorry for so many questions...
> >> in either case, what do you mean be restoration?
> >> I may have experience and not know it.
> >>
> >> ][<
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