Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
November 10, 1962 The Silverwater Bridge in Sydney, the capital city of Australia’s state of New South Wales (NSW), was officially opened. This structure, which spans the Parramatta River in Sydney’s suburb of Silverwater, was the first concrete box girder bridge built in NSW. Bob Heffron (1890-1978), who was the premier of NSW from 1959... Continue Reading →
November 9, 1871 A railway station in the village of Skollenborg in southeastern Norway was opened. At the time, the present-day Kingdom of Norway was part of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Skollenborg station had been designed by architect Georg Andreas Bull (1829-1917). The station was built as part of the Randsfjorden Line,... Continue Reading →
November 6, 1926 In Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, hundreds of people showed up for the official dedication of a still-incomplete vehicular tunnel in Pittsburgh. This tunnel serves as a link between Second Avenue at the South Tenth Street Bridge and – via a section underneath Duquesne University and the Steel City neighborhood known as the Bluff... Continue Reading →
November 5, 2009 An elevated infill station on Line 4 of the Chilean rapid transit system known as the Santiago Metro was opened to the public. This station, which is located at the intersection of Vicuña Mackenna Avenue and San José de la Estrella Street in the commune of La Florida in Chile’s capital city,... Continue Reading →
November 4, 1957 USS LSM-297, a U.S. Navy LSM-1-class medium landing ship, was decommissioned at the port city of Astoria, Oregon. Landing ships such as LSM-297 have been used by the navy to transport ground forces onto the shores of enemy territory during military campaigns. At the time of her formal retirement from active service,... Continue Reading →
November 3, 2024 Operations began for Aviation/Century station on the C and K lines of Metro Rail, the urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County. This elevated light rail station is located at the intersection of Aviation Boulevard and Century Boulevard in the Westchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles. Aviation/Century station features... Continue Reading →
November 2, 1985 In Czechoslovakia’s capital city, Karlovo náměstí station became part of the inaugural section of Line B of the rapid transit system known as the Prague Metro to be opened. This section covers three miles (4.9 kilometers) between Florenc and Smíchovské nádraží stations. At the time, Czechoslovakia was still under communist rule. That... Continue Reading →
October 30, 2013 A fireboat built by the Canadian boat manufacturer MetalCraft Marine was placed into service at the Port of St. Louis in Missouri. This vessel, which is owned by the St. Louis Fire Department (STFD) and operated by that department’s marine division, was named after local sports hero Stan Musial (1920-2013). The Pennsylvania-born... Continue Reading →
October 29, 1927 In the Canadian province of Ontario, about 15,000 people turned out for the opening of a bridge in the Greater Toronto Area. This bridge, crossing the Don River, was built to serve as a link between the town of Leaside and the township of East York. “The whole of the bridge is... Continue Reading →
October 28, 1945 In Colorado, an airport located 3.7 miles (six kilometers) southwest of the central business district of the city of Longmont was inaugurated. The public debut of this facility, which was originally called Longmont Municipal Airport, marked a milestone for aviation in that region of the Centennial State. The opening of this city-owned,... Continue Reading →
