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haha! he looks warm though...
Posted by: Rachel | January 14, 2008 at 04:38 PM
If I personalized it there would be a John Wilkes Booth statue behind him.
Posted by: Alberto | January 14, 2008 at 08:10 PM
Just in time for the temperature to drop into the teens this week.
Posted by: Fitzcarraldo | January 14, 2008 at 09:27 PM
What is the history of the Lincoln statue in Spokane?
Posted by: Bart Mihailovich | January 15, 2008 at 06:23 AM
Cute! I wonder how long that scarf will stay up there, bets anyone? I hear they do similar shenanigans with the Joan of Arc statue in Portland. Anyone have a pair of those over-sized toy sunglasses for summer?
Posted by: Mariah McKay | January 15, 2008 at 09:41 AM
I bet it's gone today.
Indeed I do have giant sunglasses, I will dig those out.
Let's do it!
Posted by: Bart Mihailovich | January 15, 2008 at 09:48 AM
I'm curious. Where does street art become vandalism? Lincoln's scarf, I like. The photocopied pastings I see increasingly all over town - I even like those. Maybe when it becomes semi-permanent, THEN it's vandalism? But then, the little elephants holding baloons appear painted on, and I even like those. Go figure.
I'm all for the big glasses. My kids would get a kick out that one.
Posted by: Silent Bahb | January 15, 2008 at 07:08 PM
What's interesting about the scarf and even the wheat pasties is that they don't last long. Perhaps that's what we find most appealing about them? In the end tho' everyone has a different tolerance with these things.
Posted by: METROSPOKANE | January 15, 2008 at 07:19 PM
I drove past it this evening and it looks like it blew around a little bit in the strong winds last night, but it is still there.
Maybe someone should tape a Bloomsday number on his back during Bloomsday, and tie a bunch of baloons around his hat on Spokane's birthday . . .
(When is that, BTW?)
Posted by: Mariah McKay | January 15, 2008 at 08:36 PM
i saw him this morning and did a double-take to see what the heck was around his neck. now i know is was just a scarf!
Posted by: sooki | January 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM
It's still up.
Posted by: Fitzcarraldo | January 20, 2008 at 06:22 PM
I'm thinking a MetroSpokane pool is in order for when it finally disappears. Of course, there's no way to ensure someone doesn't climb up and rip it off just to win. . .
Posted by: Silent Bahb | January 21, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Hello Spokane!
Manito Park was not designed by Olmstead Brothers but by Mr. Duncan whom Duncan Garden is named for.
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Posted by: Steve Gustafson | January 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Hmmm. How . . . off-topic, Steve.
Posted by: Silent Bahb | January 21, 2008 at 09:17 PM
Never wise to post your phone# on the internet.
Posted by: BWAB | January 22, 2008 at 02:59 PM
The story I heard is the Olmsted Brothers designed the overall park system for Spokane, including Manito Park's overall design. However, Mr. Duncan was the director of Spokane Parks, and lived near the current "Duncan Gardens" area. His son was playing over there and digging and building a fort. The son asked dad to come see their fort and he did, noticing that where the hole was dug, it was topsoil all the way down. Dad, had topsoil taken from that area and distributed to parks all over Spokane as needed.
That's how the "sunken" part of "sunken Duncan Gardens" came to be. I hope to go to a MAC class
about the Olmstead Brothers and see if I can learn more about who designed what part/parts of Manito Park. I do recall that the word/name manito...was not necessarily a local Spokane Tribe word (meaning Great Spirit)
(just as the Spokane tribe doesn't claim to have originated the name "children of the sun" ....and don't claim the
so called petroglyphs on Rutter Parkway on the Little Spokane River ...)
Posted by: cbryan | January 30, 2008 at 09:19 PM
The story I heard is the Olmsted Brothers designed the overall park system for Spokane, including Manito Park's overall design. However, Mr. Duncan was the director of Spokane Parks, and lived near the current "Duncan Gardens" area. His son was playing over there and digging and building a fort. The son asked dad to come see their fort and he did, noticing that where the hole was dug, it was topsoil all the way down. Dad, had topsoil taken from that area and distributed to parks all over Spokane as needed.
That's how the "sunken" part of "sunken Duncan Gardens" came to be. I hope to go to a MAC class
about the Olmstead Brothers and see if I can learn more about who designed what part/parts of Manito Park. I do recall that the word/name manito...was not necessarily a local Spokane Tribe word (meaning Great Spirit)
(just as the Spokane tribe doesn't claim to have originated the name "children of the sun" ....and don't claim the
so called petroglyphs on Rutter Parkway on the Little Spokane River ...)
Posted by: cbryan | January 30, 2008 at 09:25 PM