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How did they get 300 beer bottles past security at the airport?
By Franklyn Gallup of WoodFloorist.com
As I was returning home from Ithaca, NY one of my layovers was at the Philadelphia International Airport. Due to thunderstorms flights were running a little behind schedule. My flight came in at the D terminal and my flight out for Charlotte, NC was at the A terminal which meant rushing from one end of the airport to the other. I was not the only one running and I overheard some people had missed their connection altogether. On route I took a few minutes to marvel at the beer bottle clock near terminal A. I've included some pictures of this "timely" piece of art. The clock is the creation of Rick Stanley and his son Vince. It is one of many unusual clocks they have created at their shop called the Stanley Clockworks located near Bloomsburg, PA. They say it's five o'clock somewhere .. it might as well be Philadelphia, PA. The clock uses 300 Yuengling Lager bottles. It took 5 months of work to make this clock. Part of that must have been having people drinking the contents to get enough bottles to make it. It was a tough job but somebody had to do it. I had to focus on getting pictures from several different positions and also keep in mind that I also had to catch my plane. As I later found out they had changed the gate that the plane was at but I made the connection just the same. I talked to someone on the flight from Charlotte to Seattle and mentioned the beer bottle clock. They had gone through Philadelphia airport too but hadn't seen it. I am beginning to feel perhaps I notice things that others don't. Fortunately, I still had the pictures on my camera so I could show him. I explained how I was going to write an article about the clock on Qondio. I found out he was a music teacher at a College and taught music theory. I am hoping Steve joins us here when he gets back home. I suggested a way to combine photography, art and music theory and hopefully it will be used to get college students interested in pursuing a career in music. I know getting through the security at the airport is a bit of a hassle these days and tried to imagine getting 300 empty beer bottles past security. D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the United States, established in 1829. It is one of the largest breweries by volume in the country, and is the second largest American-owned brewery after the Boston Beer Company, makers of Sam Adams beer. Its headquarters are in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. So I conclude that drinking is not a complete waste of time. The bottles can be recycled into clock parts.
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Beer Bottle Clock - Stanley Clockworks
      
It's always time for beer in Philadelphia
This reminds me of the exhibit at Corning Museum of Glass showing how they make beer bottles
The yellow dilal to the right is the second hand on the beer bottle clock
Looking at the clock from the end
This is enough to make you feel dizzy.
The blue hand is the minute hand and the red hand is the hour hand
The bottles are actually used as sprockets on the "gears" of the clock.
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Great job! Interesting, unusual intel. I was about to post "Man, those Chinese are taking over everywhere," so it's good that you mentioned that Yuengling are in fact a long-established all-American company. I assume this clock made quite a racket, is that correct?
 | | nick Aug 13, 2011 12:45 |  appreciated |
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Actually it was very quiet. Most of the bottles except for those on the second hand wheel which I think was metal gear driven move very slowly.
Thoroughly enjoyed your Intel. Good use of research and writing about what you see and like. Thanks for the ride!
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Thanks for reading. I just got back from the Loggers' Jubilee and it was fun to write about too.
Getting 300 bottles of beer through the airport would have been a shoe in if we had a liquor prohibition law on the books.This clock is it the precursor to the movie,"A Clockwork Orange?"I wonder,again,good Intel.
The clock looks much nicer (classier, elegant even) then I imagined before scrolling down to the pictures. Thanks for taking the time to stop and take pictures! Its a great thing to see things most people walk by without noticing.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
I took the TIME to stop and ponder the philosophical meaning of TIME in a bottle. It must have been 5 o'clock somewhere but it wasn't Philadelphia.
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