Water Meter - Crescent _ New Orleans
by Kathleen K Parker
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Water Meter - Crescent _ New Orleans
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Kathleen K Parker
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Photograph - Photography
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A bit of history:from Nola.com.
In 1921, Edwin Ford of the Ford Meter Box Co. of Wabash, Indiana, paid a sales call to the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board. During that visit, board engineer George G. Earl bent Ford's ear about how the in-ground water meter boxes then in use were a poor fit for a city below sea level, a geographical quirk that, thanks to settling soil, often left the tops of water meters jutting several inches above ground. Ford listened, then sat down at an empty drafting table at the S&WB office and sketched out an idea for a better meter box, one that could be quickly adjusted to a new grade or sidewalk level. Local officials liked what they saw. They liked Ford's prototype even more and placed an initial order for 100 of them. The finished product, notably topped by a 9-and-a-half-pound iron cover about 10 inches in diameter and festooned with a distinctive Art Deco design incorporating stars and a crescent, have jazzed up New Orleans sidewalks ever since.
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