Rapid City, South Dakota: America's Street Corner Presidents
Statues of every American President stand on the street corners of downtown Rapid City. Salute Eisenhower, brood with Nixon, and ask James K. Polk who thought he'd look presidential in front of Mr. Nifty Cleaners.
- Address:
- W. St. Joseph St., Rapid City, SD
- Directions:
- Downtown, at street corners along Main and St. Joseph Sts (which parallel each other) between 4th and 9th Sts. The Info Center -- where you can pick up a map -- is on the northwest corner of 7th and Main. Nixon is on the southwest corner of 5th and St. Joseph.
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- Worth a Detour
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Incongruous locations and poor likenesses abound among these statues, oddly slighly smaller than life size. Strange pairings too (Monroe across from Ford?). Worth wandering around downtown Rapid City for a while.
[Liz, 06/12/2010]
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