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The City of Hammond will pay an engineering firm $27,500 to figure out whether an almost full-size, resin-covered foam replica of the Statue of Liberty is fit to make its new home on an island in Wolf Lake.
The statue, which stands at about 130 feet tall and weighs about 50,000 pounds, was built for the Indiana-based Beryl Martin printing company, who used it as a display item at a recent convention in St. Louis. It was then donated to Hammond, and the city’s mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. hopes to have it standing proud by next Fourth of July. This buoyant version of Lady Liberty will be able to be seen from the Indiana Toll Road.
"I have a feeling that this is going to be something that Hammond will be known for for a long time," McDermott said.
Um, isn’t New York City kind of already known for it? [WBBM, NWI]
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yah, just like Niles is "known" for their fake leaning tower of Pisa, ehhhhh? :]
Better a giant sponge in the middle of Wolf Lake than those creepy Baptists that insist I'm going to hell if I don't let them bus me to Hammond one Sunday for church.
"I have a feeling that this is going to be something that Hammond will be known for for a long time," McDermott said.
I just keep hearing him intone this like darth vader "It will be a day, long remembered..."
Beating up on Indiana is like kicking the slow kid.
Easy and kind of fun.
Excellent!
I wonder just how long it will take before the acid rain from the factories peel off large parts of the paint( and you know they won't have money for repairs) and the fine youths of Hammon come along and spray paint the rest with gang signs and the names of favorite heavy metal death bands!
"isn’t New York City kind of already known for it?"
Don't get me started on NY stealing all of Jersey's stuff!