Cabarrus Time Savers is a non-profit organization that has set out to identify and restore important public time pieces in our community. We consider tower and street clocks to be an important part of our history, in Cabarrus County. For many decades, people planned their day to day lives around clocks in the public eye. We are dedicated to preserving, repairing, and restoring these clocks.
The purpose of this blog is to bring you history of our local horology, news of our current projects, and provide a means to communicate with the community when we need help with historical facts and locating clocks and missing parts for these clocks.
If you would like to donate to our restoration funds or have questions about fund raising, please contact us at: cabtimesavers@yahoo.com
If there is a clock in our community that you feel is important or that may even be missing, please reach out to us.
NOTE: The pictures on this site, unless otherwise stated, are the property of Cabarrus Time Savers and are not to be reused without written permission from Cabarrus Time Savers.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
346 Broadway - An E. Howard Clock Story
A topic I'll be posting quite a bit on is tower clocks and stories of tower clocks that have been restored or existing clocks that have escaped the clutches of a society that has been technologically evolving. One of the largest threats to horological history is the the advancement of technology in time keeping. This happens with any technology and has for centuries. An ongoing trend in Tower and street clocks is for them to fall victim to lack of maintenance, and instead of fixing what's there, they are often "modernized" or even completely replaced and sometimes even completely removed.
Below is an example of a wonderful E. Howard on 346 Broadway, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The clock Movement is an absolute masterpiece of time, construction, and technology.
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