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The award-winning Longfellow Bridge
By adamg on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 10:18am
Does anyone know why these trophies are under the underpass of Longfellow Bridge? @universalhub #Boston pic.twitter.com/ELCRL2G07g
— Vanessa Kuo (@NessYKuo) July 28, 2018
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Wild Guess
People get softball trophies at the Ebersol fields and don't want to carry them home and this has become the trophy cemetery.
Marble trophy bases. Microwave base.
Marble base of a trophy... useful. Save trophies' bases to raise the microwave. Save a marble trophy base for each side or for a little more height stack two each side to raise the microwave off the counter allowing air flow underneath, make it easier to see underneath and behind, easier to get something fallen behind the microwave.
Any other uses for trophy parts?...
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They're participation trophies, take one you earned it.
These have been there for months and months
These have been there for many many months. There seems to be more and more though...I see them every day when I ride my bike past them.
Don’t remove them! They’re
Don’t remove them! They’re structural.
structural support
for the new bridge deck
Want to know why kids tag? This is why.
It’s some kind of pathetic conceptual bullshit street art. We say this is thought provoking and it gets written up. Out of the other side of our mouths we condemn graffiti when both displays look equally trashy.
Straw man, straw man, joyful little straw man
Please provide a link to anybody declaring these statues "thought provoking." At best, they're whimsical. You're going to have to try harder to come up with another rationale for graffiti.
Meta link.
Goes to this thread. Thoughts...
Trophy cemetery.
Microwave lifts. (my favorite so far).
Structural. (Gawd, I hope not. Chinese cast metal.)
Elmer links to UH story.
On a hot day like what we've been having, this is what passes for heavy thought lifting.
Anon is dead wrong, though..."Out of the other side of our mouths we condemn graffiti when both displays look equally trashy."
One is art, the other is, um, depends. Zak thinks it's art, who are we to judge?
Jackson Pollack, noted painter and drunk:
"Pollock converted the barn into a studio. In that space, he perfected his big "drip" technique of working with paint, with which he would become permanently identified. When the couple found themselves free from work they enjoyed spending their time together cooking and baking, working on the house and garden, and entertaining friends.[24]" (wiki)
Considering I have a canvas or two that look like this, he probably had a lot of free time on his hands. I also work with alkyd enamels. Sometimes.
Infrastructure Support
There remains plenty of public infrastructure that needs support. This is a an example of proud Bostonians contributing symbols of their excellence to the noble task of keeping bridges standing.
Longfellow Trophy Collection Taken On Road During Construction
While the Longfellow Bridge was under construction, the curator of the trophy room took their collection on the road:
https://www.instagram.com/trophyroomproject/
Original story from 2014 on Universal Hub:
" Her Mother Must Be So Proud "
Each an addict gotten clean instead of a coin?
or a homeless person finding housing?
I am a trophy, small and
I am a trophy, small and strong
Giving out not too long
An achievement for anything
A run, or chore, or dance swing
But no one knows why I hang around
They are the guardians
that protect us from the Infernal Powers. It's because of them that the Longfellow isn't a hellmouth like the BU Bridge.
The Globe has the answer
The definitive article on the subject for all Uhubbers.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/01/the-old-trophies-under-long...