An F.E. Myers & Bro. water pump
Day 898
Awesome mailbox #92
June 15th, 2014
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!
When I was a boy we had no electricity on our farm. Rain water running off our house roof was collected in a cellar cistern, which was merely a large stone room about an 8′ cube. This water was pumped from the cellar cistern up to the ground floor sink and used as dish water and for laundry purposes. The pump you are showing was a cistern pump used for that purpose. It was short as it was mounted on a counter beside the sink.