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The sculpture is in the midst of a safe, busy college downtown. I ended up parking 3 to 4 blocks east on Pugh St. Paid parking meters but if you have the ParkMobile app you'll be okay. Not far from a Starbucks on the same street.
[Vance Erwin, 12/03/2023]Downtown Eugene Brown:- Address:
- 108 E. Beaver Ave., State College, PA
- Directions:
- On the south side of PA-26/E. Beaver Ave., just east of its intersection with S. Allen St.
- Pasadena, California - The Famous Television House [1949-1958]
For a decade the go-to place to buy and repair Southern California's early televisions was in a building that looked like a TV set.
Roadsideamerica.com Report... [11/27/2023]
- Austin, Texas - Pancho Villa's Trigger Finger
We saw the trigger finger of Pancho Villa in Austin at the Museum of the Weird on November 22, 2023, in the bed of cotton and tin metal frame as seen in the pawn shop in El Paso.
[Mike, 11/27/2023]The Trigger Finger in Austin has been there since at least 2007, but the Trigger Finger in El Paso has been there for far longer. Perhaps the Austin finger is a loving tribute to the El Paso original -- or maybe Pancho Villa fired with both hands, providing posterity with two trigger fingers.
Trigger Finger of Pancho Villa:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- 216 S. El Paso St., El Paso, TX
- Directions:
- Dave's Pawn Shop. Downtown, one block east of S. Santa Fe St. On the east side of S. El Paso St. between E. Overland Ave. and E. San Antonio Ave.
- Hours:
- M-Sa 8:30-5:30 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 915-533-3334
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
Artist Edoardo Tresoldi's baroque architecture is made of wire, 54 feet high.
[Donald Burns, 11/27/2023]It took five years for Tresoldi's staff to build the original three-domed Etherea, 72 feet high, for the 2018 Coachella festival. The middle dome was moved here permanently the following year.
Etherea: Wire Cathedral:- Address:
- 51298 Harrison St., Coachella, CA
- Directions:
- Downtown, on the northeast corner of 6th and Harrison Sts.
- Hours:
- Lit by color-shifting LEDs at night. Local health policies may affect hours and access.
We created the World's Largest Pizza Cutter in Erie. The Wheel is five feet in diameter and made entirely of stainless steel at Gene Davis Sales and Service, and the handle is 8 feet in length and handcrafted in Erie at Schutte Woodworking. It is positioned as if cutting a pizza mural.
Perhaps we can have a friendly rivalry with the people in Casey, Illinois.
[Christina Vogel, 11/27/2023]Casey touts a "world's largest" pizza cutter of seemingly identical size. But yours seems to be an excellent candidate for adjustments and markings as a pizza cutter sun dial!
World's Largest Pizza Cutter:- Address:
- 4829 Buffalo Rd, Erie, PA
- Directions:
- East edge of the city. On the south side of US-20/Buffalo Rd just east of its intersection with Saltsman Rd.
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Brown, who is artist Gavin Gardner's grandfather, was the winning entry in a sculpture contest to convey "the changing nature of libraries." According to Gardner his grandpa embraced the digital world at age 94, which Gardner called "the welcoming of a new era." Gardner said that Brown, who is wearing headphones and reading from a tablet, depicts "fusion."