Yup – that’s the building! It’s called the Kingsbury, named after the run that the Van Sweringens used to lay track to downtown Cleveland from Shaker Heights.
Not in Shaker Square – about a mile and a half away and located across the street from City Hall and the Library.
I´ve seen one spooky hole in the road lately. The opening of the hole was just about tennis-ball-sized, but I could see that the cavity below it was much larger and so deep I couldn´t tell how low is the bottom (as it was quite dark inside). One scary hole. In an otherwise fine macadam road.
Czech republic. But I guess such hole could appear anywhere – seems that the ground below the road was carried away by subterranean water or something like that.
I recall a story I once read somewhere – arge part of the street caved in and a lady fell into it, found (dead, unfortunately) only few days later. Northern England it was…? I guess… Some time in the 60s. The reason was a long-lasting and quite strong leak from the city´s water supply system, undermining the road continously…
I see those fairly regularly here is suburban Florida. Starts as a little hole, then the area around it starts to sag before it finally caves in and they come out and repair it.
Yes, some of them can get scary. Like the comic, I’ve on occasion seen traffic cones placed down in the hole.
The potholes I hate are when traffic pounds the manhole covers down leaving an iron edge to the hole. Hit one of those and the rim will almost certainly be damaged.
Worse, on my Velomobile, the steering alignment can be affected.
Setting that up afterwards is a pain… 🙁
Nice houses in the background, does it look like that in shaker heights?
I’m not too far from there, but canr remember it. This is from a google image search of “Shaker Heights storefronts”:
http://x.lnimg.com/photo/thumb_144/4e876a04a93f4675ac515466287ad803.jpg
Looks like it.
Yup – that’s the building! It’s called the Kingsbury, named after the run that the Van Sweringens used to lay track to downtown Cleveland from Shaker Heights.
Not in Shaker Square – about a mile and a half away and located across the street from City Hall and the Library.
I´ve seen one spooky hole in the road lately. The opening of the hole was just about tennis-ball-sized, but I could see that the cavity below it was much larger and so deep I couldn´t tell how low is the bottom (as it was quite dark inside). One scary hole. In an otherwise fine macadam road.
From germany? What area? (Just to get sure this hole is on none of my ways 😉
Czech republic. But I guess such hole could appear anywhere – seems that the ground below the road was carried away by subterranean water or something like that.
I recall a story I once read somewhere – arge part of the street caved in and a lady fell into it, found (dead, unfortunately) only few days later. Northern England it was…? I guess… Some time in the 60s. The reason was a long-lasting and quite strong leak from the city´s water supply system, undermining the road continously…
I see those fairly regularly here is suburban Florida. Starts as a little hole, then the area around it starts to sag before it finally caves in and they come out and repair it.
Yes, some of them can get scary. Like the comic, I’ve on occasion seen traffic cones placed down in the hole.
The potholes I hate are when traffic pounds the manhole covers down leaving an iron edge to the hole. Hit one of those and the rim will almost certainly be damaged.
Worse, on my Velomobile, the steering alignment can be affected.
Setting that up afterwards is a pain… 🙁