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August 20, 2007

Congratulations, I guess

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Rosemont is a weird city... Most of its residences are actually behind a gate. The town is run by the Stephens family, and every place in the town seems to be named after one of them. In my old job, I once had to visit the schools in Rosemont, only to turn into the gated area and get followed by the cops. In my eternal quest for a shortcut to get back to the office, I again found myself in the gated area and a target for Rosemont's finest.

So what I guess I'm saying is, it's high time Rosemont got a little recognition:

Rosemont's water tower is tops.

That's according to an annual competition held by a Missouri paint company. The suburb's water tower -- with its painted images of giant roses -- has been named "Tank of the Year."

Rosemont Public Works Director Michael Raimondi says the tank was repainted last year over about six months. The 135-foot-tall tank was first built in 1982 and holds 500,000 gallons.

Rosemont's flowery structure beat out 100 other tanks around the country, including about a dozen from the Chicago area.

However, my favorite water tower has to be the one located in Florence, Kentucky. The town just over the Ohio River from Cincinnati has one of the more straightforward towers out there: Florence, Y'all! It signified that you truly had arrived in the South, crossing that amorphous border from Southern Ohio wanna-be redneck to true, Kentucky-fried good-ol-boy.

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Posted by oz115 at August 20, 2007 12:15 PM

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