{"id":230,"date":"2015-06-16T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:07:46","slug":"spooling-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Spooling Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">We acquired a lot of small spools in the courtyard, which led to the creation of large towers of spools in the courtyard.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">This was the creation of the initial stack of spools:<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">It didn&#8217;t fall!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Through the next day, people would knock the stack of spools down and rebuild them. Soon after, people started climbing up on the spools as they were stacked. It made a pretty fun game.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Climbers were on rope for when the tower toppled under them.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">As more and more people tried to stack the spools, it got harder and harder as the spools started to crack and warp. Eventually, only broken parts of spools remained in the courtyard.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We acquired a lot of small spools in the courtyard, which led to the creation of large towers of spools in the courtyard. This was the creation of the initial stack of spools: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It didn&#8217;t fall! Through the next day, people would knock the stack of spools down and rebuild them. 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