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Pasadena, California: Giant Fork

An 18-foot-tall rouge utensil, stuck into the ground under cover of darkness at a fork in a road.

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Giant Fork

The fork is back and has been for some time. It was a featured story on NPR and it should be known that the City of Pasadena gave it its blessing as a public work of art and point of culture.

[Thinkmilly, 07/07/2012]

Fork in the Road.

Giant Fork

The Giant Fork is back. It has been placed further back in the traffic median in a landscaped area, closer to Bellefontaine St.

[David Kamada, 01/19/2012]

Giant Fork

Address:
S. Pasadena Ave., Pasadena, CA
Directions:
At the fork in the road where S. St John Ave. merges with. S. Pasadena Ave. and Bellefontaine St. Six blocks south of the south end of the Long Beach Fwy, or three blocks north and three blocks west of the north end of the Pasadena Fwy.
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