Showing posts with label river bank cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label river bank cars. Show all posts
Sunday, October 18, 2020

After hurricane Carol, they added rip rap erosion control to Misquamicut Beach

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6308#post-13006195
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

the Marines using 55 Chevies as rip rap in San Gabriel in 1969 when the river flooded

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Might be the Eaton Wash, Rubio Wash, or the Alhambra Wash... or the Rio Hondo https://authors.library.caltech.edu/25781/3/TR000...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

1939 rip rap on Willamette River, Salem, Oregon, USA west side of the river in Polk County

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I wonder how many good 32 3 window bodies were pulled out of that, or 32 Vickies. https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2018/10/14/n...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

1969 Charger used as river bank erosion control... damn, that's sad.

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It’s in Alaska, in a vacant old rail road easement on a cliff next to a river. https://www.facebook.com/groups/99604571051...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018

river bank erosion control cars that have almost disappeared as the rivers moved

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/617321618289389/permalink/1878385592182979/
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Thursday, February 02, 2017

the flood of the Blacksmith Fork and Logan rivers in 2011, resulted in 1 federal fund to fix the river bank, and they dug out 100 years of junk, and 50 cars

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In early 2012 — after the damage was done — the federal government approved $7 million in grant money to complete a major restoration pr...
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Along the Ohio River

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http://www.destressoutdoors.com/water/ohioriver/ohiorivermile528warsaw-519patriot/ohiorivermile528-519.html
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Friday, May 06, 2016

a car lined pond near Genoa, NE

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https://www.facebook.com/Kevins-Rust-in-Peace-1518931078411009/?fref=nf here is what it looks like from satellite view on Google...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Blake found a forest stream in Iowa on the Meskwaki settlement banked with junkyard cars in the 50s or 60s

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The govt tried to prison them on a res in Kansas, but they weren't going with that bullshit, and hid out in Iowa, eventually suing t...
Monday, January 18, 2016

This is just messed up, I can't tell if these are just buried in a stream, or parts tossed in a ditch

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Found on  https://www.facebook.com/ItRanWhenParked/  
Friday, November 13, 2015

lining rivers with junkyard cars to stop erosion, very common in the 50's and 60's

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Found on  https://www.facebook.com/Old-Cars-204098692935609/?fref=photo
Friday, July 24, 2015

Shoring river banks with wrecked cars

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found on h ttps://www.facebook.com/garageoldschool https://www.facebook.com/GHOST-TOWN-AUTO-698585106884276/?fref=photo
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Friday, July 04, 2014

Before the environment was considered, junkyard cars were sometimes used to shore up river shores and walls

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In Nebraska, this was done in the 60's to stop this area from washing out. Found on  http://www.carsinbarns.com/
Friday, June 21, 2013

very old vehicles that are decades into an infinite state of neglect

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above from  http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/image/52078012154 above from  http://sketchy-vans-and-other-vehicles.tumblr.com/pos...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Very unusual thing, a support wall of junkyard cars to brace an airfield boundary from runoff water corrosion

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the location is only told as Southern California, and that the airfield was used because the location is so remote.  http://www.th...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Sitting and Rusting thread on the HAMB

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Sitting for 35 years. the size of the tree trunk though this body indicates many decades of not being disturbed The above is ...
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