Although a passionate group of community members attempted to preserve the smokestack, the Carlsbad Power Plant’s deconstruction has begun.
Carlsbad based artist Bryan Snyder reimagined how the smokestack could have been used if preserved as public art. Click to see his ideas.
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I always hated the power plant and was thankful it would be torn down – until I started reading posts about what a landmark it’s been for so many years. I began to waver – and when Bryan Snyder released his brilliant renderings of how the smokestack could have been used if preserved as public art I went over to the other side.
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Offers maintenance services for smokestacks and for there upkeep, by using the rappelling rope method to paint and service smokestacks. I live in Texas and I see smokestacks in our state as I travel in my beloved red state that I love. There is one smokestack in Brownwood, Texas that is by the highway overpasses that looks like the stack we got here in Carlsbad Texas, at the former McKnight state TB hospital, now the San Angelo state supported living center mental health/hospital facility. The stack in Brownwood, Texas has a handsome distinguished aged look and it is a freestanding smokestack. It needs a paint job, but even with it’s faded white paint, it gives it more of a aged historical look, which it is that. I hope your column stays, and smokestacks are unique and it makes me think of the people who worked to build them, and the people who worked there. They are a reminder of past generations who worked and labored in there time to provide for there families. The Carlsbad California column is a testimony of the labor and work and sacrifice they gave to Southern California. Whether it’s American cars, architecture, American Christian churches/buildings, U.S. battleships of WW 2, USA Space shuttle’s
1960s giant American Saturn V Rockets that took our American astronauts to the moon, Viking landers on Mars in 1970s, America must not lose or forget things done and built in the past. Your stack I hope it stays put.
Last thought on Cbad Ca smokestack
That giant stack could have many uses.
Maybe it could be turned into a lighthouse, since the mammoth Pacific Ocean is on the California coast.
Or build a large spiral stair case going around it and at the top is a flat deck where people can take in the great views and enjoy the vistas. That would be a good workout going up and then down on such a large spiral staircase. Plus a elevator could be put in someplace, so people with disabilities or those not wanting to use the spiral staircase can go up and enjoy the views and vistas from atop the huge stack. In Samara Iraq a large spiral goes skyward that people can walk up and it has been there for centuries and centuries. Or in Juarez Mexico across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas USA
(Rio Grande as called in USA/in Mexico it is called the Rio Bravo)
They fly a large Mexico flag that can be seen from the Texas/USA side. A large American flag could be flown from the stack that could be seen from along ways off.
I know such ideas are expensive and such ideas cost money. But there are people out in your vibrant city who have the savvy to raise funds for such concepts.
Your stack/column is worth saving.
JD
Carlsbad Texas – Sanatorium Texas
USA ??
My last entry disregard the two question marks that are to the right of USA that I just noticed at this time, as I read my second comment. I didn’t push the question mark buttons and I don’t know how they went on there. It could be a computer glitch and computer electronic malfunction.
God through Christ Bless the USA my/our nation that I love.
Keep the column/SS of your great vibrant city of Carlsbad upright.