Wayne Country Building in Detroit
Within the information on this thread there are so many discrepancies! The above image has the tower next to it (badly) disguised, yet it is known these towers existed. Detroit supposedly built 122 of these towers which were later sold to Austin and a few are still in use. So why hide it in the picture? The towers were 'built' in 1882 and used until about 1915.
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This article that was linked earlier in the thread speaks of these towers as a new technology developed to light these new cities. Supposedly was all over the midwest. But then the buildings got too tall and the light wasn't able to spread out so cities stopped using them.
Moonlight Towers: Light Pollution in the 1800s
From the article:
"What followed [an 1876 advancement in arc lighting] was a true boom of arc lighting. Hundreds of thousands of arc lights were installed, mainly on streets and squares but also on markets, in harbours, railway stations, public buildings, department stores, exhibition halls, hotels, theatres, office buildings, castles, monuments, museums and libraries.
Paris set the ball running in 1877, with 54 street lights on the Avenue de l’Opéra and 80 lamps in the Grand Magasins du Louvre. London and other European cities followed in 1878, and in 1879 the first arc lights were installed in the United States.
The US quickly became the leader of electric arc lighting. In 1884 there were already more than 90,000 arc lamps lighting the night sky in the US, and that number rose to 235,000 in 1890, when virtually every US city was using arc lighting, more than 400,000 in 1902 and almost 700,000 in 1907. But it was not just in numbers that the US outstripped Europe and Great Britain.
Moonlight towers
While European cities placed electric candles on posts, like we do today with street lights, the Americans had the idea of lighting entire cities and villages by means of a grid of towers that stood up to 300 feet (90 metres) tall."
And also:
" Detroit as a shining example
In most American cities the lighting tower infrastructure was combined with arc lamps placed on poles or hung at intersections, and complemented with gas or and oil lamps, or incandescents. Detroit was the only large city in the US (and in the world) lighted wholly and exclusively by the tower system.
Detroit placed 122 towers (see illustration at left and at right) with a height of 100 to 180 feet, lighting 21 square miles of the city. All towers were installed in the 1880s and remained in use up to the end of the 1910s.
The lighting infrastructure in Detroit was regarded as the future of street lighting, and stood as an example for the rest of the US. The following excerpts are taken from “Municipal lighting”, a practical guide for city lighting that was published in 1888:
“The press of the country has uniformly conceded Detroit to be the best-lighted city in the world. All its streets, yards, backyards and grounds are illuminated as effectually as by the full moon at the zenith. The blending of light from the mass of towers serves to prevent dense shadows.”
Again I ask - Why are they hiding that tower in the first picture of the OP if the towers were all over Detroit?
Here's a few possibilities:
1.) That first picture may have been taken before the Moonlight Towers Narrative cover story was developed within the USA around 1880 and implemented in Detroit in 1882. The streets are certainly wide open and muddy, with just a few people around. This would put the picture before 1880.
2.) This could have been one of the pictures used by the Resetters to recruit immigrants over in Europe. They would not have cared about the shoddy job retouching the photo when it was meant to be reprinted and would have less sharpness. This would also place the picture prior to 1880 when the Moonlight Tower Narrative cover story was developed.
3.) Whoever did the shoddy retouching and cut out the tower also harshly cut out all the sky. Perhaps there was an airship attached to the top of this tower or floating in the sky. This would place the picture before the ceation of the Moonlight Tower Narrative around 1880.
4.) The towers were actually built in 1882 for the stated use and this picture was retouched for aesthetics. Meaning an official picture of the building was needed for the city records (or equivalent), but they didn't want that pesky tower in the shot distracting from the symmetry of the building. This would place the picture after 1882.
5.) The picture could have been altered at the Library of Congress. Their team in charge of covering up the past saw it and covered it up. THEN learned of the cover story that allowed the tower to exist. But they were so busy at that time that they never corrected the problem by getting a replacement image. This would place the picture anytime before 1900, according to several other images in the OP that don't have the tower present.
I cannot choose just one of these. I believe that both 1.) and 2.) are correct.
(Tip of the hat to usselo for format.)
This specific 'Moonlight Tower' obviously became a problem for the City Fathers, probably because of someone altering this particular picture. So it was removed within 18 years of being 'built' to avoid the discrepancy and make later pictures consistant with this earlier picture.
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The LA streetlights are a different, more modern design. They don't have the wires connecting them to the ground for power. Which is why they needed their own power plant.
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So here's what I think is going on with these towers. I think many were pre-existing but the 'bulbs' were broken or the 'wiring' was faulty. Then more towers were built or fixed when the arc lighting revolution happened in 1876 and they could be used again. The wires that connect them diagonally to metal poles in the ground are not just to support them. The wires are a crucial part of the tower structure. They connect the tower to the ground and give energy a guidewire to move along.
I think that these towers are related to vereyas. Vereyas are the structures used for energy, rejuvination and healing by the ancient cultures of the area we are calling Tartaria (the Scythians, Pagan Rus, steppes peoples, Caucasus region). Vereyas came in many sizes, but were always the same basic cone shape, with a tall center post, slanted top and slanted or straight sides, usually made of iron (think gazebos and music pavilions). There were temporary vereyas set up for festvals that looked a lot like these towers, a tall pole with wires coming down on all sides connected to the ground. I think Maypoles are a cargo cult version of these portable vereyas.
This one is interesting. It clearly says "Ice Cold Water" which could be challenging on a hot summer day. Unless the fountain unit interacted with the energy focused in by the vereya to cool the water. Also, the words are in English, but the flag is purposefully obscured.
This one is just lovely. The vereya pavilion is surrounded by a larger open air vereya. The numerous glass hanging bulbs must glow at night. The palm trees are made of metal and are probably the energy collector for the outer open air vereya.
Many old Russian churches would have an iron vereya built into the structure, with the domes being the roofs.
I keep harping on the following story being VERY important. There is so much in it. And some good info in the comments too. It's also where the vereya pictures above are from.
The last of the Mohicans (by tech_dancer)
Here is the original story on tart-aria.info. Lots of other great articles, too.
The last of the Mohicans - tech_dancer - tart-aria.info
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These are the New Orleans moonlight towers, all lined up in a row. They line the streets where the streetcars are. They may be powering the
streetcar electrical grid as well as
casting light. Keep your eyes out regarding how those grids get powered in general. We may need a thread for them along with the
telegraph line thread proposed by the OP. The 'Moonlight Towers' may be powering all these functions, or powered them in the past when they functioned properly.
I found something else interesting in New Orleans while looking into Moonlight Towers.
These two images are the same plaza from two different angles. It is New Orleans at night. In the first picture you can see the steamships are on the river to the right, the church in front has a brilliant light shining from it's steeple, and beyond the church you can see the row of lighted Moonlight Towers lining Carondelet Street. This image is supposed to be 1883, so the church light would be an arc light.
The second image is dominated by the Moonlight Tower. You can see the steamships on the river in the background.
In the foreground of the second image is a little metal gazebo in the middle of the road.
Look closer at that little gazebo. The first thing that I thought was "There's a small vereya within the light of a large vereya, does that amplify the energies?" Then I saw the designs on the small vereya, specifically the roof.
There are spears projecting upwards at regular intervals with trefoil type heads, which is a shape we are learning is important to generating aetheric energy. There is a crescent on the peak, which is ancient symbology used on flags, frequently with a star and whatever weapon the locals used. The star itself may have represented energy weapons. The hammer and sickle symbol often used by Red countries is a clever way to incorporate the crescent crossed with a weapon.
But on this gazebo vereya the crescent is crossed with a tomahawk!!!! Which is a weapon developed by Native Americans. Which tells me that when that little iron gazebo vereya was built, the Native Americans were in power.
Here are two traditional tomahawks:
This vereya gets even more interesting if you look inside it. There is a bearded man wearing some kind of crown or turban with a central spike coming out of it.
There are no newspapers or articles for sale around him, so this vereya is not being represented as a sales kiosk. And there are no advertising posters on the outside of the structure, so this vereya is not being represented as an advertising kiosk. It's not big enough to house a band or music performance. So what is this random structure in the middle of the road? It has to have some purpose.
The artist would have had an understooding of it's purpose at the time they drew this picture. And the artist's choice was to draw a single person with pointed headgear sitting inside an open air gazebo where people walking by can see him and talk to him.
At first I believed that he was either an individual sitting there to receive the positive benefits from the vereya or that he was a fortuneteller. Passersby would perhaps pay him a few coins to see what information he could pull out of the aether to tell them. The headgear with the spike would increase the signals received, whether psychic, spirit or radio-type transmission.
Then as I was writing I received a deeper understanding of all vereyas...
They are ALL receiving stations.
These kiosks are the small local receiving stations. Just like churches are larger local receiving stations. And cathedrals were receivers and transmitters. People would go to vereyas and churches to receive blessings and rejuvenate their health, as well as bringing their 'iron objects' to get recharged. These people and objects were RECEIVING this energy being focused and enhanced by the shapes and patterns of the iron vereya.
I think this fellow sitting in the vereya was the news source and the postmaster of the neighborhood. Instead of paper mail or email, he would pick up mental mail. People could pay to pick up and send messages. Messages may have come from across the world. In the Old World these duties would have been handled by priests inside of churches. But here in the New World people were not as controlled by the Church and they could communicate however they chose. This Elder understood what this vereya could be used for, so he put on his special headgear and sat down to receive whatever energy or messages came his way. I will call him a 'wise Elder with special headgear sitting in an ornate vereya and delivering news and messages from the aether.' Local Elders probably took turns occupying the vereya 24/7 so they wouldn't miss any important incoming information. Let me repeat that these may have been psychic, spirit or radio-type transmissions (or perhaps the voice of our creator?)
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The natural progression of this would be the newspaper kiosk, supposedly invented in Barcelona in 1888. People would have been used to going to the vereya for their news. The vereya in the first picture below probably had contained a 'wise old man with special headgear sitting in an ornate vereya and delivering news and messages from the aether' and then was then changed into a newspaper seller with a cap sitting in the same structure selling the current false narrative in print from all over the world.
Since vereyas used to be where you would get your mental mail, it would make sense to use a similar shape and intricacy when switching to paper mail. Easier transition for the
sheeple general public to re-cognize where to put their letters.l
And the Fortune Teller Booth is the cargo cult version of 'wise Elder with special headgear sitting in an ornate vereya and delivering news and messages from the aether.'
To better understand what I am saying, I suggest reading Frostychud's excellent thread:
Temples and Churches as Radio Frequency Receivers
Keep a note of that tram wire pole in the middle.
This photograph is dated 1900 according to the website. Two years before the first photograph apparently but I can prove this is incorrect.
Again this is something nobody would have ever seen on the photograph unless they had a magnifying glass but now we can see it. What is it?
This photograph is dated 1905 and you can see the pole is in the same place as in the previous photograph this time it's been paved over as if nothing happened. There are now flag poles on the building which were not there before. You can't tell me they put the tower there, moved the tram pole and then took it back down again and moved the tram pole back. So the dates are inconsistent and these could potentially be older than the website tells us.
Whatever the real date is the other tower has disappeared by the time this photograph was taken. That's not all, I have yet another interesting photograph:
This is also from 1902 according to the website. I don't even need to zoom in for you to see that there is one of these towers standing in view but I will anyway:
It seems these towers were all over Detroit and I was wondering what on Earth they could be for.
Another one:
Even the Eiffel Tower:
They don't look bright enough to be of much use but we're told that they originally used carbon-arc lamps however I find that ludicrous considering the fact that they would need to be replaced almost every day. I don't believe somebody was climbing every tower every day to replace every lamp.
Where are the lights? It looks like one of them is just being used to hold a cable up. Look at all those telegraph lines too (I think telegraph lines will need their own thread soon).
Notice how the tower has a lamp on the bottom. Was the tower not bright enough then? Was it even working by the time this photograph was taken? I must say it is quite a contrast too with all these electric trams alongside horse and carts.
