Comments on: Airdrie’s Historic Water Tower

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:59:05 +0000

In reply to David Sommerfeld. Awesome!

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:58:45 +0000

In reply to Lynne Colborne. What an interesting repurposing.

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:58:09 +0000

In reply to Michael Williams. Change and growth in Airdrie is a constant. It was a little village when the tower was built and someone from that time would never recognize the place today. Recall the elevators and the scrapyard by the tracks.

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:57:43 +0000

In reply to Connie Biggart. Short and sweet!

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:57:30 +0000

In reply to Len Nickel. The crazy way the world is going, the law of gravity might be next to go!

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:56:58 +0000

In reply to Lynn Hetherington. Yes, and perhaps it even came from the same maker. They made these in many sizes, with the Airdrie one on the smaller side.

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:55:50 +0000

In reply to Aaron Eslinger. With the town's growth its capacity was soon outstripped. When built Airdrie had a population of some 400! Imagine that!

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:55:13 +0000

In reply to Mike Lowe. We love the back story even if most of our readers aren't in fact readers, but photo browsers and so don't take the time to read the entire post. But still we do it anyway. Haha!

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:53:54 +0000

In reply to Discovering ANTIQUES. When no longer needed, they're often demolished soon after.

By: Chris Doering

Chris Doering — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:53:31 +0000

In reply to Barry Davies. I know, what are the odds? It happens with grain elevators too! Funny stuff.

By: David Sommerfeld

David Sommerfeld — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:10:27 +0000

When we went out to the Beierle farm in the 70’s ( family ) that water tower was so bright from the sun. A great childhood memory as of many on the farm.

By: Lynne Colborne

Lynne Colborne — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:13:51 +0000

I like how in Lethbridge, someone turned the large water tower into a restaurant

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 04:14:16 +0000

Airdrie has changed alot. Spent a fair bit of time there in the 80’s. Tower lane mall, 7/11 downtown, Brandos the old bar, auto wrecker right behind the mall, home hardware downtown, the Met, moneys mushrooms plant right in town, bmx track and yep the grain elevators all long gone. And that is just to name a few. I believe there is a plaque located where the elevators were? I remember a humpback bridge by them I would jump my 4 x 4 Datsun over lol. Then there is the huge shopping area on the sw corner. Running south from yankee valley road behind the stores and parallel to the train tracks is a ghost road. It used to lead to my friends farm. His house was close to where the walmart is.

By: Connie Biggart

Connie Biggart — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 04:08:06 +0000

Nice!

By: Len Nickel

Len Nickel — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:04:43 +0000

One thing about a water tower it works during a power failure. I operated a small water system in a village with a tower that held about a 3 day supply and I tried to operate on the top 2 feet so there was a 2 day reserve and also fire fighting water. If nobody repealed the law of gravity you were good.

By: Lynn Hetherington

Lynn Hetherington — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:52:38 +0000

Like the Red Deer water tower.

By: Aaron Eslinger

Aaron Eslinger — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:23:32 +0000

I used to go to daycare there! Haha I didn’t know it wasn’t in use even then.

By: Mike Lowe

Mike Lowe — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:43:12 +0000

We always get the pictures, but seldom do we get any sort of write up. I would have expected nothing less from you guys. Thank you, as always.

By: Discovering ANTIQUES

Discovering ANTIQUES — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:40:07 +0000

I remember when Innisfail’s water tower was taken down, very quickly with little discussion. You can see this tower from Where on Earth Did You Get That? Antique Mall
– it’s only a few blocks north.

By: Barry Davies

Barry Davies — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:39:51 +0000

I notice there is a lot of towns named after their water towers.