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Akron, Ohio - Mechanical Barbie and the Band of Many Kens We go to Luigi's so often I guess we kinda take the bandbox for granted. Recently we saw members of some mechanical music box group taking pictures of it so maybe others would enjoy it? The bandbox is just over the front door and features lead singer Barbie and the Orchestra of Many Kens dancing and playing instruments to whatever music is being blared on the jukebox. The drummer looks like he's humping his instrument.
The two side rooms have very lurid murals of quasi-Italian countryscapes and the room on the left of the main room has all sorts of mechanical sculptures hanging from the ceiling that whizz and whir. Luigi's has been around since the '40s and remains a favorite of locals (get anything with cheese). [Connie LaCook, 10/23/2001]
[RA: Sept. 2007: Based on this photo, snapped by Jennifer Deheer, there is a definite connection between Akron's doll mech band and the Big Band era one we saw at Iowa's House of Clocks.]Mechanical Barbie and the Band of Many Kens:
Address: Akron, OH
Directions: North Main Street, across a road and the train tracks from the rest of Main Street. Look for the exterminator building with the giant cockroach and hang a right, then a quick right onto Furnace, which is brick. You will see Luigi's right after the giant sculpture of the catfish!- Akron, Ohio - Inventors Hall of Fame No Perpetual Motion Machine
Inventors Hall of Fame: A story in the Beacon Journal confirms what we had suspected: the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Akron, Ohio, has wound down to full stop. Its web site skirts the issue by talking of "construction," but it’s the construction of the middle school that’s being built where the Hall of Fame used to be. [06/22/2008] Complete Story...
- Akron, Ohio - Indian Head The Indian Head has been in this spot since sometime in the early 1980s. There was a full sized one in Sand Run Metro Park for years, but some pranksters took a chainsaw to it and it was destroyed. I was a student at Fairlawn when the artist was working on it. The school has since been torn down and rebuilt and is now the Judith Resnick Learning Center. [Robyn, 06/12/2008]
- Akron, Ohio - Indian Head - Repaired by Peter Toth I saw the artist hacking great chunks out of the statue. The local paper reported that insects had done so much damage that special foam would be used as filler. I passed by the statue several times and it looked like most of the repairs were done to the back and bottom part. [Connie LaCook, 10/29/2003]
Akron, Ohio - Indian Head In Fairlawn,off of Interstate 77, a suburb of Akron, there
is a giant Indian Head, carved from wood, beautiful, at least 30' high. It
is located on the main rd. through that area, close to a Super k-mart. I think it may be in front of a University or
art school, can't miss it on main road. [shwabogy, 02/03/2002][RA: One of Pete Toth's indian head sculptures. Pete has erected at least one in every state, but his very first was in Sand Run Park in Akron. Here's a photo of the one in Paducah, Kentucky.]Indian Head:
Address: Akron, OH
Directions: Sand Run Park & Fairlawn Grade School. Exit 136 off I-77, head east(toward Akron) on Akron-Medina Rd (aka SR 18). You will pass a SuperKmart on your right. Follow SR 18 (aka West Market), past Summit Mall on your left, many stores on both sides of the road, over the railroad tracks. The elementary school with the ugly Indian head is a couple minutes further east on the left hand side of the road.
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