#brick roads

[2022dirt]

Some asphalt roads were built over older brick streets that still exist underneath.

[hclib]

A Pile of Bricks

If you thought the city's potholes were bad this year, just be glad the roads are no longer covered in bricks (though you can see some of those bricks below the asphalt in the potholes on Hennepin Ave!). A heavy rainfall in June, 1935, turned many Minneapolis streets into a pile of bricks. Imagine navigating that mess in one of those cars, not to mention the work involved in repairing the road damage!

Photos from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

[believing-is-seeing]

Brick roads 🧱

Topeka, Kansas

October 2023

[justifiedgallivant]

Georgetown, Washington, DC 

[chinesemomlove]

Dutch Efficiency

Instant Brick Paved Road.How good is this machine? No end to man's ingenuity. 

Tiger-Stone is a Dutch paver laying machine that can produce brick roads. Paving bricks are dropped by front-end-loader onto the angled trough. Men help to spread them in the trough as they drop into the forming jig. As the electrically operated crawler moves forward along a pre laid sand base layer, all the stones are packed, gravity held together & descend the sloping ramp on to the road.   

[thebiglbowski]