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Photo of The Month – Dec 2011

Another Era Ends

Picture contributor: Don Bailey

Lying on cracked, weedy pavement of an old parking lot, the topless, caved-in drum of the water tower waits to be crushed and chewed up into scrap metal. One of its three stanchions angles upward. We see the old Baptist church in the background.
Another Era Ends

A photo of the entire tower, taken from a distance.

Cliffside had a number of water tanks over its century in the sun. We don’t know when this one was erected, probably in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s. But it served its purpose, and now it’s gone.

On or about October 21, it was pulled down. It hadn’t held useful water for 20 or 30 years.

The photo at left was taken only a few days prior to the tower being toppled.