Whoops, I nearly forgot to mention that the latest issue of Weird N.J. (#32) has a nice article on the World’s Tallest Water Sphere. Not only do they have wonderful color photos of the WTWS that you can carry conveniently on your next safari in Bostwana, you also get a colorful shot of the WTWS […]
I found these photos at the World’s Tallest Water Sphere Museum offices. Unfortunately I have no notes on who submitted them, when they were submitted, or the people who are in the photos. The first photo appears to be from the 1950s. A happy family gazes contemplatively upon a model of the World’s Tallest Water […]
For people who want to flash secret signs for the camera, here is how you finger spell “WTWS” using American Sign Language finger spelling. I think it would be great if some of the photo submissions for the site showed you and your friends flashing the “WTWS” for your viewers and friends. For those of […]
Water Sphere Phan Gina Signorella-Arlen has contributed another of her World’s Tallest Water Sphere artistic masterpieces, this one entitled “Sphere of Sauron.” She writes, “One sphere to rule them all, one sphere to find them…” and to that we respond, “one sphere to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.” Yes, the evil […]
These colorful World’s Tallest Water Sphere proposals are sent to us from Gina Signorella-Arlen, formerly of Roselle Park and self-professed WTWS groupie. Not only the photo-editing, but the titles of her works include the ironic humor that many Jerseyans share. I especially like the Zeppelin one, I am sure many Zeppelin album covers (e.g. Presence) […]
A few weeks ago we posted the Star Ledger Live story about the World’s Tallest Water Sphere and this site. In case you did not watch the video, there were 3 very creative proposals for a new paint scheme for the WTWS. I believe writer Brian Donahue mentioned that they are the creative works of […]
Reader Nina Dennis submits this beautiful view of Union’s wonder of the world from her neighborhood. Nina says, “I thought I would send you photos of the World’s Tallest Watersphere as seen from my house. I can see it clearly from my sunporch in the winter when the leaves are off the trees.” It’s a […]
Today the Star Ledger Live reporter Brian Donohue covers the World’s Tallest Water Sphere, this web site, and the WTWS Museum: Ledger Live: The World’s Tallest Water Sphere Click to watch Ledger Live episode on YouTube
The attached photo of the World’s Tallest Water Sphere was submitted by Gina (Signorella) Arlen, self-described WTWS groupie, formerly of Roselle Park. This is a very recent photo because the World’s Tallest Water Sphere now sports a flashing red beacon which makes it taller than last year’s World’s Tallest Water Sphere. I like the angle […]
Happy New Year for 2009! Featured at right is another wiggles animation of the World’s Tallest Water Sphere. (To see animation, your browser must support GIF file format and allow images to animate. For some browsers this is a configuration option.) The photo was taken on 2008-12-25 from the park near Kawameeh Lane. You can […]
Look up during winter’s short days, and you might be lucky enough to see the World’s Tallest Water Sphere. Of course you must be somewhere near Union, New Jersey, and you must be looking sometime during the shortened daylight hours. The current “ghost gray” paint scheme of the tower goes particularly well with the gray […]
This exciting video is frightening to watch. Here automobile driver Paulo Ordoveza traveling through Union has videoed the World’s Tallest Water Sphere chasing a car. It is tough to see, but through the rain and the trees you see the WTWS moving along the road side and matching the speed of the traveling automobile. Several […]
Here is a wonderful prototypical view of the World’s Tallest Water Sphere as many people see it speeding by on the highway. The sky is blue, the clouds are floating on high, the window is down, the sun is shining, and our view if dominated by a ghostly gray monster looming overhead, towering over us, […]
Steven F. Scharff, former Union resident, now of Henderson, Nevada, shares this portrait of self with illuminated tower taken by John R. Scharff on 2008/11/01. The World’s Tallest Water Sphere is gleaming white and certainly is the center of attention of this photograph. Your eyes cannot but help but be drawn to the giant spike […]
This photo of the World’s Tallest Water Sphere was taken in the fall of 1998 and shows a clear view of the Elizabethtown Water Company billboard, the ghost water pump logo, and the first cell antenna to gird the structure. Note that at this writing, the WTWS is still ghostly gray, but has 5 cell […]
As you are driving down the New Jersey highways, don’t forget to look up and see the shackled World’s Tallest Water Sphere. Good or Evil? Perhaps these cell phone antennae will save the tower. What is more important, communication or water? Would you rather have a cell phone call or a glass of municipal water? […]
Who has the claim to living closest to the World’s Tallest Water Sphere? Would it be some residents near Morris Avenue? Would it be some of the historic homes on Ingersoll Terrace or Boyd Avenue? Or would it be these residents on Kawameeh Lane? Here we see a photo taken on 2007-12-29 from Kawameeh Lane. […]
Sorry for those of you looking for a famous children’s band. When I say Wiggles, I am talking about a photographic technique in which two similar photos taken a few inches apart are animated. The result is a somewhat three dimensional looking image. If you have two similar cameras you can make a rig to […]
Shown is a view of the World’s Tallest Water Sphere as you speed eastward towards New York City along Route 22 East. You better hurry because the cars are traveling about 80 miles per hour and there are some tricky merges from Morris Avenue (Route 82), the Garden State Parkway, and Route 78 here. Notice […]
Here is the nearest neighbor to the World’s Tallest Water Sphere – the Kenilworth water tower. This squat water tower sits in Kenilworth, New Jersey just off of Route 22 between Springfield Road South and North Michigan Avenue. This quiet green spot of land is Black Brook Park near the Galloping Hill Golf Course that […]