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4. What impresses me, I've climbed dozens of lighthouses. My grandkid like 'em. So we go climb.

Reply to nuxvomica (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 25, 2022, 10:14 AM

Dec 2022

Anyway, Figure 150 to 200 stairs in many of them.

And the early lighthouse keepers had to cary oil up the stairs every day. 30 gallons a day up 50 stairs in the lighthouse on the Hudson River. 30 gallons up 192 stairs in the Absecon, N.J. lighthouse. Every day.

And they also had to continuously polish the lens to remove the soot from the burnt oil.

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I remember seeing this, right before Alan Shepard became the first American in space... [View all] GReedDiamond Dec 2022 OP

Pretty good FX for that time. edbermac Dec 2022 #1

I know that they used to bring an actual TV into my elementary classroom so we could watch the space Rhiannon12866 Dec 2022 #2

The sergeant out of breath after the climb is a clever detail nuxvomica Dec 2022 #3

What impresses me, I've climbed dozens of lighthouses. My grandkid like 'em. So we go climb. 3Hotdogs Dec 2022 #4