come late & things change

A garden center outside Massillon has the cute name, the Lady Bug.  Here is a Volkswagon with a Missouri plate for 2005.   Some years before, it had to be really sharp.was painted in the beetle colors, but some of the red has flaked off, and blue is showing.

I knew of this house in Massillon. I saw fotos of it in pink. I did not know its address, twice i was within a block or two of it. If i did see then, it would have been moreover pink.

Massillon loves high school football. It has two high schools, but the one is famous. Washington Tigers. This was painted, or update for their 2023 championship. It is in a tire shop, which i drove by. Later, i found out of the existence of the mural. Saturday, i went to see it. The shop is closed on the weekends. This was snapped through the glass of the door. The glass was coated, and the background painting is white.

The old Lincoln Highway cuts through Massillon. It intersects with Route 21. A very short street next to off/on ramp is named on one side after Lillian Gish, and on the other Tommy Henrich. On both sides there is a pump house, one had Gish, and the other had Obie the Tiger. Both had murals. There was one with Lillian Gish, which included her role in the Scarlet Letter 1926.  Scot Phillips is the current town's muralist, he also paints in rival Canton. That (or those) buildings, was/is failing, and the city removed the murals. Again, i had driven on Lincoln without knowing.

Tommy Henrich is still up on the other side of the street. He played for the Yankees from 1937 to 1950, with World War II in between.

When i came by, the artist, Scot Phillips was scraping flakes off of Tommy.  He said it was holding up well, considering it catches the western sunlight. The building is moving, because the river moved. I spoke with him, and he really wants to paint Lillian Gish again in the city. He thinks that the city can be nudged with e-mails.

 

Heather Bullach. Red Grange turns Pro, 1925. Canton. 2019. 

Some art holds up better than others out in the weather. Over a span of a few years Canton placed eleven football artworks around the city. Heather Bullach was the artist for Red Grange, the first big "star" of the NFL. The Galloping Ghost came from the University of Illinois to play for the Chicago Bears in 1925. He was considered the best college footballer in history. August 2, 2019 was the public presentation. My foto from Saturday. See the next foto for how much red faded.

from https://artsinstark.com/public-art/the-eleven/    August 2019?

cropped from flickr account of scottamus (Ken) foto 30 April 2022

Tommy Morgan. Moment Ten. 2021. Canton.

My foto Saturday of the 54 metal panels of Pete Rozelle and the merger in 1966 of the AFL & NFL.

a peek into St. John Baptist Basilica Canton

The church was closed. I've been there three times, all closed. There is a gap between two of the doors.  It is an 1871 building, and here the doors do not close tightly. The parish began in 1823, and is the oldest in northeast Ohio.

 

one nation under *rump

Orange Caligula is having a birthday party for himself on the front lawn of the White House.  A crass show of brutal fighting, which he and his cronies will profit upon.  He has made the country a sh*t show.  It will almost be 250 years since the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence.  People call that holiday the 4th of July, that is a date in the year, but everyone knows what it refers to.  Orange Caligula has stolen that holiday for his birthday.

news service foto

Please let it RAIN. Thunder and lightning would be good.

octagon fighting stage in front of the temporary residence of Don the Con

 

Akron Zoo, with dinosaurs again

Akron Zoo has three baby dinosaur puppets. This one is Ducky, he is about to get a syringe of medicine. The group is performing for children.

? Kowalski, Rico & Sarge

Morris 

Birds are now considered a surviving branch of dinosaurs.

Outside the main entrance this year is a triceratops. 

2026 Miscellany #9

 

A Parma resident has security on his front porch.

Some new utility box decals in Parmaland.

Some kindness to passing doggies, Parma.

Another Jordan Wong mural. This one on St, Clair on the edge of Chinatown.

Several items of Chinese folklore are depicted. Red crowned cranes are symbols of long life & nobility.

Eights are the luckiest number $$$.   Chinese guardian lions, shishi.

St. Mary Lorain

Big Boy 4014 Lorain O.

Monday, 11.20 am, 8 June 2026

One of eight surviving of twenty-five largest locomotives made in Schenectady New York between 1941 and 1944 for the Union Pacific Railroad service to 1962. This one was assembled November 1941. All of these were for the Wasatch Range. In 2019 this one was made new again. It cruises at 80 mph.

Going to Philadelphia for Independence Day. Coming through Ohio again on return.

It was a pretty stretch of a train.

Marco Polo, the last car, was sometimes used by Franklin Roosevelt as governor and president to travel to Warm Springs Georgia.

2026 Miscellany #8

Howland Ohio, at least since 2009, no other information found.

Cleveland Railway. Cedar Avenue. Several derelict buildings to be demolished in the area.

Joy in Cleveland Heights

Mystic Knights MC. Cleveland. Miles Avenue.

backyard neighbours

Former Sacred Heart School, now scab. Cleveland.

Central part of glass of Sarah Dana Harmon, commissioned by her son 1876 for the family home.  Warren Library since 1971, previously in another library window.

 

Are 12' skeletons the new cement geese? Cleveland Heights. 

Warren O.

Women's Park commemorates the bicentennial of Ohio (1803).  Statue of young woman with a book held behind her.  At the time, some one objected on the radio that the statue had breasts.  Last year it fell over, its base was not firmly fixed.

Yearstone at City Hall, wonder if this was the original location of it.  I am guessing not, previously it was a private residence.  Perun investigated.

1890 war monument with three statues, here the war was called the Rebellion, it has different names on other towns' monuments.

Veterans Memorial Park started with one tall monument, and with further wars increased the number. Wonder if Trump's war(s) will get one.  As is common, the church closest to the town center is the original establishment's church.  In Warren it was Presbyterian.

The courthouse has two Lady Justice statues, one lost her scales, neither has a blind.

Bird statue next to the fountain in Courthouse Square.

David Grohl is a musician from Warren.  He was the drummer for Nirvana, and is the lead man for Foo Fighters.  The world's largest drumsticks were made from logs.  Grohl played drums with the Muppets (Animal).  He has been the most frequent musical guest on Saturday Night Live.  He and his mates fought foo on Colbert's late show.  Grohl was a favorite of Letterman's. The Foo Fighters were on the final telecast fighting foo.  Letterman produced Ed (teevee show), Foo Fighters' Next Year was the original theme.  Trump used the song My Hero in 2024, of course without permission as is his wont.

 

Opening the door of a Mexican restaurant next to Grohl's Alley, this is part of a painting seen. (glare made me crop the flowers on the left out)

Packard Goddess of Speed high atop Packard Museum

 Peter Pakalski. Paul Warfield. 2013. Warren Ohio.

Paul Warfield has a statue at his high school (Warren G. Harding), where he played halfback & defensive back.  Warfield was a three sport high schooler. He went to be a star in college for a Columbus school, where he earned praise from Woody Hayes.  Later he was great for the Cleveland Browns, and Miami Dolphins as a wide receiver.  He played one year in World Football League. 

 

I wonder how many statues are there for high school athletes. Duke Slater has one in Clinton Iowa. A kid, who died in a car crash, has one in Joshua Texas.  Paul Brown has one in nearby Massillon, but really that was for being a coach.