World's Largest Fork
Springfield, Missouri
The giant fork sculpture in Springfield is more impressive at night. A guard in a security vehicle idling nearby sensed we had no destructive intent for his silver. He let us be, at least until we placed a camera on the pavement for a long exposure -- then he was just interested in the digital camera (and the pixel resolution).
The fork angles up towards a 3-story building inhabited by Noble & Associates, a Springfield ad agency. Our own local associates tell us it once stood in front of a restaurant that failed on South Glenstone, in otherwise booming Springfield. The brick and glass building is the company's "Idea Center" -- Noble does a lot of work for the food service and retail industry, so the fork makes sense...
A plaque proclaims it as "The World's Largest Fork," which may be true. But it's not a Springfield boast. Here behind the ad agency the fork seems placed mostly for the benefit of employees and visiting clients, not immediately visible along the main thoroughfare. And international symbol signs on nearby highways would only result in misdirected traffic. Nothing to eat here, folks...
