Main Street Garden is Better Than a B12 Shot

Posted on December 18th, 2009 2:19pm by Jason Heid
Filed under Local News

Sure it’s not all it will be yet. Still, not a bad view while you’re eating a sandwich on a sunny day. The Statler Hilton isn’t as ugly as I remembered.

main street 1

But.

main street 2 Aren’t gimmicks like this going to look dated pretty quickly? Is this a permanent installation?

5 comments

  1. Jason, somebody said that was an original sign from the days when there was a parking lot or a parking building on or near that site. So it seemed pretty clever to bring it back now and use it as an “art installation”–or whatever you’d call it–at the Main Street Garden park.

    @ 2:57 pm on December 18, 2009

  2. Glenn is right w/that info.

    @ 3:29 pm on December 18, 2009

  3. @Glenn — Got it, and it’s a clever re-purposing. But whimsy wears thin pretty quickly. A few years now, if it’s still there, it’ll just seem garish.

    @ 3:31 pm on December 18, 2009

  4. I will love that sign forever.

    @ 4:34 pm on December 18, 2009

  5. Why the hate for the Statler Hilton? I happen to think it is a great looking building. Moreover, I would live there (and overlook the park) if it were rebuilt!

    @ 9:23 am on December 19, 2009

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