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Munster, Indiana: Man Sits on Giant Typewriter

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The Times

Address:
601 45th St., Munster, IN
Directions:
The Times. On the north side of 45th St., just west of Calumet Ave., and a half-mile east of the Indiana-Illinois state line.
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Man Sits on Giant Typewriter

The man -- a fedora-wearing, 1940s reporter -- sits on the keys of an 18-foot-high manual typewriter, notebook in hand.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [09/04/2019]

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Jounalist on typewriter.

Journalist on Typewriter Keys

Outside The Times, a local newspaper, there's a sculpture of a journalist sitting on giant typewriter keys. He looks like he is thinking about the next big story.

[Johanna Keohane, 03/30/2020]

The sculpture, by Zachary Oxman, is named "Inspiration." It was unveiled in 2006.


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