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Post Number: 282
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:34 pm: |    |
Several cities across the country have been creating statues of TV characters that were set in their cities. Chicago did Bob Newhart, Minneapolis did Mary Tyler Moore, Milwaukee is doing the Fonz. Who should Detroit do? Tim the Tool Man? |
Chitaku
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Post Number: 1804
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:36 pm: | |
That would seriously be amazing beyond all words. I vote yes on a toolman shrine! |
Neilr
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Username: Neilr
Post Number: 644
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:38 pm: | |
Soupy Sales and his crew |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1428
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:46 pm: | |
Tim Allen. |
Wood
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Username: Wood
Post Number: 12
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:50 pm: | |
bill from freaks and geeks. |
Ookpik
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Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 376
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:57 pm: | |
The Ghoul.
Ookpik |
Smogboy
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Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 6990
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:16 pm: | |
What about a Robocop in the middle of Jefferson?
(Now that'd be scary!) |
Melody
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Post Number: 100
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:26 pm: | |
Tim Allen!? What? Ew. I don't care what other cities do, we're not a TV town, we're a music town. So I say bronze statues of Motown artist, Kid Rock, Eminem and the White Stripes...all are ten times the talent of Tim Allen. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1429
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:34 pm: | |
"Tim Allen!? What? Ew. I don't care what other cities do, we're not a TV town, we're a music town. So I say bronze statues of Motown artist, Kid Rock, Eminem and the White Stripes...all are ten times the talent of Tim Allen."
He's the only one that had a actual Detroit Based series. I completely agree, a Motown statue would be better and Detroit is a Music town. |
Flanders_field
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Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 73
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:39 pm: | |
Jack White>>>>>>>>>>>>>Eminem/Kid Rock, neither of which were born or raised in the D.
None deserve a statue IMO.
Stevie Wonder or Diana Ross perhaps..
If I were to pick someone from the 'burbs. Madonna would be my choice over E or KR, and if it were Michigan, Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, Ted Nugent, or even Grand Funk made their mark in the music scene at one time or another.
(Message edited by Flanders_field on January 25, 2008) |
Goblue
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Post Number: 998
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:53 pm: | |
I'll second the Stevie Wonder motion! |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1430
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:57 pm: | |
Are there statues of the Big 3 founders (GM and Chrysler) around the city?
I'm pretty sure there already is, but it would seem like a more feasible idea of a statue to me before the rest of them. |
Homer
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Post Number: 257
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:28 pm: | |
George Perroit and Bill Kennedy
Statues on the Riverwalk |
Ed_golick
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Post Number: 912
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:42 pm: | |
I say we bronze Kwame's salami. |
Kid_dynamite
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Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 462
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:46 pm: | |
Here! Here! I'm with Ed_Golick |
Bigb23
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Post Number: 359
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:54 pm: | |
"I say we bronze Kwame's salami."
It already has more than 15 minutes of fame.
How about the "Peacemaker" in front of the RenCen?
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Lefty2
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Post Number: 984
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 10:40 pm: | |
Joe Louis smashing Cleveland's RnR hall of fame. |
Hybridy
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Post Number: 207
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 10:56 pm: | |
What about Insane Clown Posse? Aren't they from southwest? They had a side project called Zug Island. Yea Juggalos, if you're into that sorta thing. |
Hamtragedy
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Post Number: 63
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 1:18 am: | |
Don't forget the 'Martin Lawrence Building' on Jefferson. |
Gsgeorge
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Post Number: 567
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 3:06 am: | |
STEVIE! that'd be freaking AWESOME. |
Leoqueen
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Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1794
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:28 am: | |
Ernie Harwell!! |
Raggedclaws
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Post Number: 123
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 7:50 am: | |
Elizabeth Berkley. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 4767
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:11 am: | |
from that showgirls movie? |
Frankg
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Post Number: 165
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:50 am: | |
Sir Graves Ghastly |
Spitty
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Post Number: 662
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:56 am: | |
Leoqueen, there's already an Ernie Harwell statue in Comerica Park...
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Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4851
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:57 am: | |
Harry Morgan.
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Kslice
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Post Number: 271
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 9:06 am: | |
I didn't know Col. Potter was from Detroit! I'll have to remember that next time I'm watching TV Land.
The ICP would be cool, The group was formed in Delray. They do tell all their fans to drink Faygo. |
Harpernottingham
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Post Number: 323
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 9:15 am: | |
James Jamerson. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 7079
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 9:43 am: | |
What's this have to do with KING KWAME? |
Fury13
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Post Number: 3680
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:06 am: | |
Detroit is long overdue for a statue of the most famous bluesman to call this city home -- John Lee Hooker. |
Rb336
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Post Number: 4780
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:07 am: | |
why should it have anything to do with him?
I think we need to have an entire street of sculptures dedicated to Detroit's non-motown musical legacy
stooges with iggy stepping into the crowd
MC-5
John Lee Hooker
etc.
etc.
maybe a street dedicated to each genre - rock, blues, jazz, gospel |
Fmstack
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Post Number: 29
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:22 am: | |
Putting up a statue of Robocop would be seriously awesome, though. Like, legitimately cool, in the sense that the *shudder* "cool cities" initiative tries and fails to get. |
Fmstack
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Post Number: 30
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:26 am: | |
Putting up a statue of Robocop would be seriously awesome, though. Like, legitimately cool, in the sense that the *shudder* "cool cities" initiative tries and fails to get. |
Kjwick
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Post Number: 88
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
the metal sculpture on washington blvd near grand circus park reminds me of motown devas singing. |
Flanders_field
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Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 94
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:40 am: | |
A 30 foot statue of the original Crow movie character (Brandon Lee) so visitors see a fictional character whose movie allegedly set in the D, depicted the bleak rainy noir landscape and criminal activity the city is infamous for. |
Fmstack
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Post Number: 31
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:43 am: | |
And with regard to the idea of a Tim Allen statue, that would work better in Royal Oak than in Detroit itself. One, because, well, the show was set there, and two, because that particular style of Midwest kitsch (and I speak as someone who loves Midwest kitsch) fits in better in the satellite towns than in the city. Detroit itself doesn't need kitsch, it needs weird and badass. |
Beatsworking
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Post Number: 106
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:43 am: | |
How about a statue of S. Epatha Merkerson in front the PD. Lt. Van Buren wil scare all the scum off the streets! |
Johnlodge
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Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:49 am: | |
quote:And with regard to the idea of a Tim Allen statue, that would work better in Royal Oak than in Detroit itself. One, because, well, the show was set there
I believe it was set in West Bloomfield. |
Johnlodge
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Post Number: 4859
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:54 am: | |
After wasting time looking about, I don't think there is a definitive setting for Home Improvement, other than a fairly affluent Detroit suburb. |
Ramcharger
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Post Number: 516
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
Forget TV, let's remember the golden age of radio.
I vote for Brace Beamer the "Lone Ranger"
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Chitaku
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Post Number: 1817
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 3:02 pm: | |
Tim lives in Royal Oak aa the majority of businesses are called "Royal Oak...." |
Hpgrmln
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Post Number: 348
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:20 pm: | |
Hate ICP personally, they make me uncomfortable, but i read the article about them and they never lived in Delray. They were originally from Ferndale, then closer to Downtown before moving to Novi |
Detroitrise
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Post Number: 1457
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:24 pm: | |
"I believe it was set in West Bloomfield."
Sources say the name of the town was Keego Harbor Heights, and on the show, it's mentioned that they live 20 miles from DD and along Woodward. |
Gannon
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Post Number: 11428
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 7:00 pm: | |
I'd say the first rocker to get a statue should be Seger, and that right outside Cobo Arena...with a framed copy of the album Live Bullet.
He seriously represented Detroit when he was on Leno last year. Confessed his love of the town, and was midwest honest.
For Motown? I'd say we have all the artists sorta standing on Berry Gordy's head for eternity. Heh, I just checked the spelling of his name and discovered we share a birthday. |
Bigb23
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Post Number: 384
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:18 pm: | |
I'm 53 now and like Kid rock at least for his variety and sincerity.
I'm WAY over Seger and Led Zeppelin and hope they move on.
2+2 is on my mind).( bob - remember being from 71'in the cube van? Rochester.)
ICP are from the Motor City and could use a boost.
I am not up on the current Von Bondies or such, but I remember the Grande Ballroom,Palladiam and Eastown days.
Mountain,Doors,and Sweathog anybody?
How about Tea, Captain Fishhook and his all Night Crawlers?
or King Crimsom? or the original Emerson,Lake and
Palmer? |
Gistok
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Post Number: 6226
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:05 am: | |
Although not TV Characters per se... how about someone who was born here... Charles Lindberg!
Or (once the price of copper comes down)... a bronze statue of Aretha Franklin!
But if it's a TV star... how about Lilly Tomlin or Gilda Radnor. |
Johnlodge
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Post Number: 4866
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 8:55 am: | |
quote:They were originally from Ferndale
True, an acquaintance of mine went to high school with them there. |
Leoqueen
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Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1799
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 8:58 am: | |
Hey Spitty,thanks for telling me about the Ernie Harwell statue in Comerica Park. This should let you know that I have never been in Comerica Park! My bad! |
Leoqueen
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Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1800
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 9:02 am: | |
I say we bronze Diana Ross' wig |
Rb336
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Post Number: 4818
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 9:13 am: | |
Or (once the price of copper comes down)... a bronze statue of Aretha Franklin!
ain't enough bronze left for that |