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The Philadelphia Pipe Bending Company, founded in 1880, is still in operation today. Here we see two workers standing inside some large coils with advertising signage. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.
from Futurama certainly would feel right at home here - Bender Bending Rodriguez.
Not only is the company still in business, but I think the structure in the photo is still there.
(Sorry, I couldn't find how to embed a Bing map.)
The long skinny coils remind me of brake shoe return springs, but on a much larger scale.
All sorts of ideas spring to mind when viewing this message. For example, “I hate spring cleaning. The darn things bounce all over the place.”
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