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Berwyn, Illinois: Spindle - Cars on a Spike (Gone)

Memorable piece of public art seen in Wayne's World, and its fame has outlasted that of the movie's.

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Cars on a Spike

"Spindle," cars on a spike. Remember the great drive by in the movie "Wayne's World?" The shopping center the sculpture is located in has lots of weird sculpture. I have heard that the Berwyn police initiate new cops by sending them to investigate a report of a car smashed up against a wall at the shopping center. The recipient of the joke finds "Pinto Pelt" which is the outside of a Ford Pinto mounted on the wall outside the Walgreen's drug store.

The (Cermak shopping plaza is 1/2 a mile east of the cemetery containing the Circus Train Wreck memorial.

[Kirby A. Bartlett-Sloan, 08/26/1997]

Spindle - Cars on a Spike

Hours:
Torn down May 2008.
Status:
Gone

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