The American? ANYONE?!

[RecycleMichael]

I think that tall monuments change a community. That D.C. monument probably leads to sex just like Seattle has the most heroin overdoses and has a symbol of a needle stuck in it's downtown.

[Rico]

Let's never forget the man whose brain came up with the plan for the "American"......



The State of Alabama has never been the same since the "Vulcan" statue was placed there....



Oh yes......It will do wonders for Tulsa ...


My thoughts on the "statue" can be summed up by "Swiggy" my small friend below......

[Johnboy976]

That cat acted like the driver I honked at for not stopping for the ambulance. Man, that was one ticked off old lady. WAIT!!! That was my grandmom!!!!

[dsjeffries]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

It is a private project.  One giant statue can draw people to look at it.  Tulsa already has a trove of wonderful pubic statutes, and few take notice.

But yes, they can be creepy.  But neat just the same.  Americans love over sized things.

Ah, the pubic statues of Tulsa... Now THAT would be a draw [][][]

[cannon_fodder]

[}:)]

Subliminally, I want pubic statues.

[PonderInc]

Hey, RM...I just realized what was missing from your list of giant (but not embarrassingly enormous) statues: Bob Wills.  He could be peeking over I-244 like "Kilroy," looking down on the Cain's Ballroom...

[flinthillsguy]

The American statue website is down.  It hasn't worked for sometime.   Apparently while on the trail to raise $35,000,000.  they couldn't afford the $10. to maintain a web address.  The good news, maybe the Osage Nation will pony up the cash.

[Gaspar]

Where is the money that they did raise?

[Renaissance]

Pretty sure they had money pledged, not raised.  It's still in the prospective donors' pockets I would imagine.

[MichaelBates]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder


4. They will get 100% financing commitment before breaking ground, so as not to leave Tulsa with a pair of giant bronze Indian legs.

The idea made me giggle, so I had to:

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert...."

[Gold]

quote:Originally posted by Floyd

Pretty sure they had money pledged, not raised.  It's still in the prospective donors' pockets I would imagine.

I have that much money pledged to myself. By me.

I've got some old third hand information on this; the money was never there.  I know a guy who was working the bid for the construction and if I remember right, a lot of their paperwork just didn't match up.  The closest this ever got to happening was the press conference -- I guess if you want some press in this town, you call the mayor's office (at least at the time of this story) and tell them you want to do something here instead of Oklahoma City.

[PonderInc]

The quote I heard from someone who should know about "The American" is: "I think you can safely say that project's dead."

I'm not normally one of those people who want things to fail...but in this case...I'm OK with it. []

[perspicuity85]

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc
I'm not normally one of those people who want things to fail...but in this case...I'm OK with it. []

I agree 100% with that statement.  The whole idea of a giant American Indian statue being a draw in and of itself didn't make sense to me.  Maybe if it was tied in to the planned American Indian Cultural Center it would be better.  The statue didn't really do much to promote American Indian culture or history.  If I had money to donate, I would much rather donate to the cultural center.

[sgrizzle]

FYI: this project is allegedly still alive:
http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A27438

[SXSW]

I still don't see this ever actually getting built.  Why not just scale it down to 4-5 stories?  21 stories is way too monolithic.