• iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Me too. I went there when I was 10 or 11, and as a child all I noticed was how incongruous it was with everything. I wasn’t awed by it, and my parents seemed sort of put out with how I didn’t care for it compared to my sisters.

      I’d like to pretend that’s some kind of deep political sentiment, but really I think it’s just aesthetically displeasing if you don’t have a thing for monuments

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      3 months ago

      I remember one of the massive air compressors they had on display there better than the monument itself…

      Though I am a giant nerd for that sort of thing so it might just be me

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        Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!.. What kind of psi? You said massive, was it mobile? Did it have any mods?.. I need to know!

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          It was years ago so I don’t remember most details, I can’t remember anything about pressure, it was stationary, single cylinder, with a flywheel at least 6 feet tall and I don’t think it had any modifications made I would have loved to see it running but I don’t think it had been ran in at least a 70 years