[or-roots] "Buggy Bumpers"

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

LinLouVan at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/14/07 7:27:50 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> vveelle at molalla.net writes:
>
>     You can buy "buggy bumpers" searched on Google at the website
>     http://galleryspecialty.com/list2.php?SECTION=E&CATEGORY=BUGGYBUMPERS
>     <http://galleryspecialty.com/list2.php?SECTION=E&CATEGORY=BUGGYBUMPERS> but
>     I didn't find anything that told what they were.  The have
>     pictures of them though.
>
> I'm sure that is not what I was thinking of.

I think yopu can see these on the doors to your gocery store

> Here in Junction City, there are still two corners that have about 1 
> 1/2" angle iron bent
> to the radius of the curb and installed on the top edge, thus 
> deflecting the wheels of
> a wagon or buggy or whatever conveyance took the corner too close. I'm 
> sure they
> also knocked off a few hubcaps later on.

yes, unlike the items on "page 9", they laid horizontally in the top 
edge of the corner of the curbing. I am sure there are still some in the 
older sections of Portland, along with 'horse rings'.

Bill Strickland

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