Daily Delawhere [New Feature]
Recently, an online photographer was doing this project posting a photo from every state. For the life of me, I cannot find the link to it right now. But the photographer’s photograph for Delaware was a picture of driving through a highway tunnel not unlike the Harbor tunnels in Baltimore. Now, I was born in Delaware. I have lived in Delaware most of my life. I consider myself to be a native Delawarean who has the right and privilege to look down upon the rest of the 49 states. I have traveled up and down this state, and to each corner. And I have never driven through a highway tunnel here. And that is because there is no highway tunnel in the state of Delaware. There just isn’t. Not under the C&D Canal. Not under the Delaware River and/or Bay.
Anyway, that got me to looking at photos of Delaware online. And that got me to thinking about taking more pictures of Delaware myself. And then I thought it would be a good idea to start a daily feature of random photos from around Delaware and have you guys guess where the photo was taken and/or what the photo is of, not unlike Andrew Sullivan’s contest on his blog. I will take some of the photos myself, and welcome submissions from our readership that will require me to guess.
Here is today’s Daily Delawhere photo, and it’s easy:
If you have a photo you want to submit, email it to delawaredem@delawareliberal.com. Thanks.
“I have traveled up and down this state, and to each corner. ”
And then it was time for lunch.
Bethany Beach Totem Pole?
El Som wins. I told you it was easy. It will get harder as we go on.
bonus points if you know his name? the totem pole I mean
Totem Home Plenty Ice Cold Ballantine.
You don’t know where the tunnel is?
Any Sussex Countian knows that is Chief Little Owl.
I was looking around for Delaware tunnels, and came across this description of an under-river tunnel that was being seriously planned in the 1930s in the spot where the Delaware Memorial Bridge now stands.
I also found this 1936 newspaper mention of the tunnel in Google News archive. I love the serendipity of browsing old newspapers. Read the whole page.
On the same page there were stories of a debate on where to put the new arts center, an update on the building of the new tunnel, a mention of how Philadelphia got a WPA grant to clean the exterior of City Hall, and also got Federal money to build two new schools. What a different approach to a economic depression.
There was also a column about how employment was picking up and FDR would be turning toward cutting spending and balancing the budget. And wondering if a European war would damage our economic recovery.
Thank God they stained the “old” boy this year .Looks better .I have threatened to paint his nose white with sun block and add red lips .