Way back about 55 years ago, hippies were still cool, and weren't homeless... they were just ready to wing it and see how things would turn out (the universe will provide)
Well, some made driftwood shacks on the California beaches, and hell, probably everywhere else, but this image above was from RCA beach near Bolinas California, in 1970
They sure do look like it, but I don't think those are railroad tracks. How would they have cut them? Or attached them? I think somebody made an ordinary ladder and then added top steps to each when they discovered it hurt to walk up it. Or... Clark Kent was a hippie for a while
ReplyDeleteI'll start with how they attached them to the 8x8 looking piece of lumber... which coincidentally looks the same size as a railroad tie, just longer, and they really do have a lot of lengths based on what is needed in different places, like double wide tracks, and merging tracks... and I'll guess with railroad spikes. And they cut the rail, as I'm sticking with "if it looks like railroad rail, on a rail road tie, then by Occam's Razor, it probably is" as rail is normally cut - with an oxy acetylene torch. The 7th one down looks like a piece of rail that an engine spun the tires on. I posted about that before.
DeleteI'm just going to guess that since it was 1970, and so many railroad tracks were getting ripped up as the railroads were going out of business. probably this ladder was the result of someone getting free railroad junk nearby.
Makes sense to me!
Did you doubt the railroad track theory based on anything but the logistics of finding the materials like this?
They are 2x4s.
ReplyDeletethat probably is it, a pair, nearly the same length, but not exactly. Nailed together, then the 2 inch wide section of the bottom nailed to the big long piece of lumber? Makes sense.
DeleteBut dang... except for the 2nd and 3rd rung from the top. Those sure are not as easy to think look like sections of railroad track