Douglas Water Tower - digital image
2023.10.95
Digital scan
Root Beer Barrel 1950-Douglas Water Tower
The tower once stood on the Douglas city property that is at the SW corner of Center and Ferry Street. In the 2010s, the site became the home of the restored Douglas Root Beer Barrel.
Utilities and public infrastructure
Winthers, Sally
Digital data in CatalogIt
These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023. The location of an original or printed version of these photos was unknown at the time of cataloging.
From the Sept. 2016 SDHC newsletter, "We have a story for the 2017 museum exhibition Cold War: Hot Towns of a motorcycle gang in the early 1960s taking over the land around the Douglas water tower for their campground, causing such a scare that neighborhood kids could no longer walk to the beach unaccompanied by an adult. Other stories tell of how the road to the Oval frequently became a motorcycle race track-day and night."
07/20/2023
11/18/2023