July 25th, 2017, Steam Clock
A badass steam clock in Canada. I never pictured Westminster Chimes as badass before. :confused:
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We've been there!
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Many years back I stayed with a friend in BC who worked nights in Gastown. I'd go with him, and for my own safety the bar he was a bouncer at decided I could just hang in the coat check, out of reach of rowdy customers. I saw the steam clock once or twice but never checked it out closely because missing the light-rail train back to his apartment after his shift meant a 4-hour wait through the only down time that transport system took on a daily basis...otherwise the SkyTrain, that was its name, ran every 15 minutes just like the clock "chimes".
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A neat idea, but I couldn't find in the link what is essential to a Westminster chime clock story. So here:
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There are a ton of videos showing the clock playing the four tone Westminster tune everyone should be familiar with, followed by one long toot and the number of short toots equal to the hour. However none show what it does on the 15 minute intervals in between the hours.
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It kind of amazes me that people used to like to get an entire little tune to them played every hour. But that's what you would want, if you didn't have any other way of telling time.
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and all y'all know how I misread the title....
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