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In 1947, Art Lacey purchased a B-17 bomber for $13,000 and flew it from Oklahoma to Troutdale. He then disassembled it, transported it covertly, and placed it atop his 48-pump gas station. Lacey also opened the Bomber Restaurant and motel. The gas station was closed in 1991; Lacey died in 2000.
He started the C.H. Evans Brewing Company [4] and bought the station. When Evans renovated the station, he insisted on retaining its industrial ambiance. Evans opened a brewpub and restaurant at the station in 1999, naming it the Albany Pump Station. [5] [6] The establishment became a popular spot due to its location just northeast of downtown.
High Pumping Station is a historic pumping station located in Jerome Park, Bronx, the Bronx, New York City. It was built between 1901 and 1906, and is a rectangular red brick building with a steeply pitched slate covered gable roof. It was built as part of the Jerome Park Reservoir complex. [2]
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Map showing all ground in Boston occupied by buildings in 1880. Columbia Point is in the center near bottom with two roads going out to the pumping station and calf pasture. From U.S. Census Bureau. In the 1880s, the calf pasture was used as a Boston sewer line and pumping station, known as the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex.
The new station, completed in 1891, housed five large steam pumps capable of delivering up to 54 million US gallons (200,000 m 3) a day. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1898, Brooklyn was absorbed into New York City, allowing the former access to the Croton Aqueduct system, and reducing demand for the Milburn supply.
The Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine (1894) is a historic steam engine located in the former Chestnut Hill High Service Pumping Station, in Boston, Massachusetts. It has been declared a historic mechanical engineering landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . [ 1 ]
Opened in 2007, the restaurant's structure incorporates a cantilevered truss extending 100 feet over the gas pumps and parking area in the forecourt. [3] The roadside sign is 66 feet tall [4] and weighs 4 tons. The height is a reference to the historic highway beside which it is situated.