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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]There is a campaign to bring back to Birmingham the King Kong sculpture by Nicholas Monroe that you may remember from your youth. Back in 1974, the council sought to have it removed from Manzoni gardens (showing the usual tin ear for public opinion). It lived on Deritend for a bit, then moved to an outdoor market near Edinburgh. That market closed recently, and the current owner has said Birmingham can have it back if city councillors offers it a "firm markets pitch" (does that mean "permanent installation in the rag market" or " a lot of money"?). It's easy to picture city councillors muttering that Kong no longer has any social relevance, oblivious to the current international blockbuster, and passing up on the deal once again. Perhaps Bounder should run a BiNS home page campaign story? And where should the KK be situated if it does come back? I suggest on the side of Perrets Folly. It could be marketed as "Peter Jackson World".[/quote]
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This message was updated on 12/19/2005 2:48:27 PM by falsedog

King Kong
replied on: 12/19/2005 2:48:00 PM

There is a campaign to bring back to Birmingham the King Kong sculpture by Nicholas Monroe that you may remember from your youth. Back in 1974, the council sought to have it removed from Manzoni gardens (showing the usual tin ear for public opinion). It lived on Deritend for a bit, then moved to an outdoor market near Edinburgh. That market closed recently, and the current owner has said Birmingham can have it back if city councillors offers it a "firm markets pitch" (does that mean "permanent installation in the rag market" or " a lot of money"?). It's easy to picture city councillors muttering that Kong no longer has any social relevance, oblivious to the current international blockbuster, and passing up on the deal once again.

Perhaps Bounder should run a BiNS home page campaign story?

And where should the KK be situated if it does come back? I suggest on the side of Perrets Folly. It could be marketed as "Peter Jackson World".

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