The Road To Hell
The road to hell is usually paved with good intentions. In our case, it's paved with around 250 Coffeyville bricks.
Of course our path isn't finished yet, so it will probably take at least that many more to connect the parking area to the front steps.
Somewhere in the Ur-days of this blog, I had a rather extensive post about these bricks. I'm too lazy to find the post so I can link to it, so let me make a brief recap and leave it at that. These bricks are very hard, solid, and heavy because they are made from fired slate. This is far superior to fired clay bricks. They were made in Coffeyville, Kansas, some time in the first couple decades of the 20th Century. They were used to enclose the Devil Queen's crawlspace and replaced a skirt of older, locally-made, clay bricks. And, when we were preparing to move the Devil Queen, every asshole in Russellville with a pickup truck tried to steal them.
Labels: bricks, Coffeyville, landscaping, paths
posted by John | 5:29 AM
3 Comments:
Those scavenging pick-up truck bastards! I hope you ran them off with a shot gun! :)
I didn't have that pleasure, but the manager of the business who owned the Queen ran them off.
My favorite one was the guy he'd caught with a truck full of bricks and foundation stones. He told them that they were trespassng and that he was going to stand there and watch them unload their truck, or he'd be calling the police with their license plate number and pressing charges. They emptied it.
Cool bricks - that makes a great addition!
They just bulldozed an old brick house a few blocks from us and I was soooo tempted to grab the truck and haul off the bricks. I was too chicken, thinking that they might be reusing them for something and not wanting to be a theif. But nope - I later saw them going into a dump truck.
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