This is what the infamous steam powered quaking brick may have looked like. As the story goes, in 1887, cement tycoon Cyrus Bruce had decided that buildings just weren't funny enough, so commissioned the design and fabrication of "quacking" bricks (steam powered, by all accounts). A five-story test building, consisting of one-quarter quacking bricks was erected in Squeedok Pennsylvania (on a block utilizing Bruce's synthetic banana peel pavement), to see if such a building would improve the "humorosity" of the surrounding community. The results will never be known because the very day the building was completed, a meteor completely flattened Squeedok (some say it was a comet, others a small asteroid, and still others say it was the wrath of God...). After that, Bruce abandoned the quacking brick idea and devoted his time to developing flavored sidewalks.****
Came across this critter on Madison st. outside a Radioshack
These pics where from Clyborne ave. on Wednesday afternoon.
These are from the Oak Park stop on the Blue Line rapid transit (from my mad journey to Berwyn IL)
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