Wisp broom update2/26/2024 Photos of the ceremony show sheepishly smiling faces.Įmbarrassing or not, the railway museum plans to re-enact the spike-bending event to celebrate its 100th anniversary next Nov. It’s like the bottle that refuses to break when someone christens a ship. We’ve all been there - hammering a nail but hitting a finger instead or buckling the nail with a glancing blow. Perhaps it was symbolic then that, as about 1,000 onlookers watched him drive home the final gold-plated spike with a sledge hammer, the spike bent. Spreckels, who owned the railroad, reportedly self-financed much of the $18 million project. It required 2.5 miles of bridges and 21 tunnels, many in the steep Carrizo Gorge area. It had been nicknamed “The Impossible Railroad” because the 12-year, 148-mile construction over treacherous terrain was plagued by landslides, wildfires, flooding, flu epidemics and even World War I. Ninety-nine years ago this month, Spreckels drove the final spike in the San Diego & Arizona Railway (SD&A) link to El Centro and the East. On track: The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum has a photo collection that captures forever a “most embarrassing moment” of millionaire entrepreneur John D. At last, she is getting her much-deserved niche in history. Ten of her Rancho Santa Fe buildings and one in La Jolla are on the National Register of Historic Places.Įarlier this year, Rice also won recognition on the national website “50 Pioneering Women of American Architecture,” created by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. The New York Times noted that Rice was the first woman to graduate from UC Berkeley’s architecture program in 1910 and the 10th woman to be licensed in California as an architect. She put her architectural stamp on Rancho Santa Fe, where she designed many of its Spanish Colonial Revival-style homes, the civic center and The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe. Rice, who died 80 years ago at the age of 49, was brought to life on its pages last week. Right now, Dobson simply takes pride in having re-invented the age-old dustpan and broom.Ī century late for #MeToo: The New York Times has added an “Overlooked” feature about remarkable people whose deaths went unreported by the venerable newspaper in earlier years when its obituaries were dominated by white men. Will he duplicate Joy Mangano’s success? Only time will tell. So the Wisp CEO entered into an agreement with her and expects his invention to debut on QVC any day now. She saw promise in his Wisp products, which include brooms of varying sizes, and offered to represent him on QVC and elsewhere. A minor miracle happened when Lori Greiner, the “Shark Tank” judge known as “the Queen of QVC,” contacted him. But soon he learned there is life after a “Shark Tank” dunking.
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