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- From: pkemp@byron.u.washington.edu (Paul Kemp)
- Subject: Re: Your favorite public art
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.213515.3108@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov17.152538.11421@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov20.213038.2758@kopachuk.uucp>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:35:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.213038.2758@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.152538.11421@u.washington.edu> bobhurt@cac.washington.edu (Bob Hurt ) writes:
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- >>So, what's your favorite public art?
- >>
- >
- >The Asarco smelter stack, Ruston. Would cost countless tens of millions
- >to make a freestanding masonry tower 600 feet tall today. Amazing
- >piece of handiwork. Quite impressive up close with the huge arched
- >flues forty feet high at the base. It sits on a bluff all by iteslf now,
- >although much of the smelter still remains by the water. See it while
- >you still can. It *should* be cleaned up and have an observation deck
- >put on top. Soon to be blown up. I guess that makes it performance art.
- >
- To be performed on 17(?) Jan, 1993...a Sunday to accomodate the crowds.
- pk
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