Bowers Park on the eastern side of Tuscaloosa: tennis, swimming, a water tower |
4th Street tower above the Black Warrior |
the prestigious North River tower |
You can get up close and personal with this ground-level stand-pipe. It exemplifies the Tuscaloosa tower design: "Roll Tide" writ large and plenty of mildew. (Periodically the fire department hoses the mildew off. As any painter will tell you, there's no keeping mildew off of paint in Alabama. About elsewhere, I dunno.) This stand pipe was constructed in 1969. |
Tuscaloosa's Western Bypass and Fourth Bridge across the Black Warrior River |