11/4/2023 0 Comments Guardians of traffic bookends“Therefore, we wanted a name that strongly represents the pride, resiliency and loyalty of Clevelanders. “Cleveland has and always will be the most important part of our identity,” team owner Paul Dolan said in a hilariously no-shit sentence in a press release. R5FnT4kv1I- Cleveland Indians July 23, 2021 The switch will take place this offseason Cleveland’s six games out of the Wild Card, so probably starting October 4. I report this history today because the baseball team currently known as the Cleveland Indians-they of the Chief Wahoo caricature-are changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians. My favorite Cleveland art is probably Claes Oldenburg’s giant FREE stamp, but these are No. You can see why! They are cool, unique Art Deco sculptures on a bridge, a place where you usually don’t see great art like that. By that year the Guardians of Traffic had become a real symbol for the city, used by artists and sports teams and cheap t-shirt sellers. Grabowski said in 2018 they are Cleveland’s only representational art of monumental size. “They built something of strength that would last, but also something of incredible beauty.” “They went beyond just building a bridge,” county engineer Thomas Neff told the Akron Beacon Journal in 1983, when it reopened. It also got a new name-Hope Memorial Bridge, which was named after Harry Hope, Bob’s father-and Cleveland got some new city icons. The Lorain-Carnegie Bridge got a renovation in the 1980s workers cleaned the statues with 4,000 pounds of black walnut shells. Porter-who was dealing with a scandal where he wrote an insulting letter, to a little girl, filled with misspellings that called residents of one neighborhood “moochers, scroungers, chiselers and parasites”-was voted out of office that year and later convicted of forcing his subordinates to kick back two percent of their salaries to him. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It turns out people thought there was something historic about them. We're not running a May Show here.” (The May Show is an annual art contest for Northeast Ohio artists.) “There is nothing particularly historic about any one of them. “Those columns are monstrosities and should be torn down and forgotten,” he said. About 50 years after they were built Cuyahoga county engineer Albert Porter called them an eyesore and planned to tear them down in order to widen the bridge. Either way, over the 40-plus years after the bridge was built they had become covered with soot from steel mills, sulfur from coal furnaces, and car emissions. They are often called the “Guardians of Transportation”-but they are officially named the Guardians of Traffic, Case Western Reserve professor John Grabowski said in 2018. The Lorain-Carnegie Bridge is no ordinary bridge: The pylons are carved into Art Deco masterpieces, the type of art you see on buildings from the 1930s. It wasn’t until the 1970s that it became a local cause célèbre. Felgate would just have the barricades removed keeping traffic off the bridge, which connects Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s west with Carnegie Avenue to the east. “No ceremony is planned,” a United Press report noted at the time. You can shop all our 1000+ listings by pushing the button that reads 'View All From Seller'.The Lorain–Carnegie Bridge opened on Decemwithout any fanfare. Your purchases will be extremely well packaged and we look forward to serving you (again). We have a passion for the unique, for quality, for stylish yet practical and for craftsmanship of years gone by. Maximum height x width x depth: 7.3 x 6.6 x 4.6 inches. Mind you, our price for this Arts & Crafts pair includes perfect packing and also worldwide delivery from our store to your door in just 4 days. Apart from stylish and meaningful, this unique pair is in superb condition and both have a wonderful patina. They are extra decorative and appropriate as bookends (or book-stops), because they are both pushing with all their might to keep your books upright. The sculptor perfectly captured them whilst they are giving their all in order to get the job done, whatever that job was. We believe this unique set is like an ode to the working man, who for centuries have been the backbone of many societies. These hand carved, hard working men sculptures make great decoration on a desk or bookshelf. If you or your friends have a house from the Arts & Crafts period than this unique pair could be the perfect gift. All handcrafted, solid wooden blue collar workers bookends.
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