If you visit Real Living and Real Living HER (Real Living in Central Ohio formerly HER Realtors) at 77 E. Natiowide Blvd. in downtown Columbus Ohio you will see this statue in the hall. Or I did when I visited the last time.
Kinda corny
Chicago had cows, Denver had cows (Broncos are cows? like bucking broncos... OK), Cinci had pigs and Columbus had corn. Columbus is in the corn belt. I believe we are considered eastern edge of the corn belt. You don't have to go far from the neighborhoods of Central Ohio to be in a cornfield. The city of Columbus had corn statues one summer.
Real Living a real estate company based in Central Ohio (in Central Ohio it is Real Living HER) commissioned this corn statue which was at the then new Arena Grand Theater.
I am wondering where the other corn statues in Ohio are now.
On the Wikipedia (online encyclopedia ... kinda sorta anyway) an anonymous comment on the Talk Columbus page (where contributors argue about what needs to be edited) says:
"Ohio ranks 9th in population density within the nation, the largest part of that population in North Eastern Ohio, Greater Columbus is 1.6 million people surrounded by corn fields! Yes 10% of the states population lives in greater Columbus, 25% lives around Cleveland!"
Anonymous Clevelander? Or is it Clevelandite? Spell check prefers ite. People in Columbus are Columbusites.
I think it is great that Columbus, the biggest city in Ohio but merely the third biggest metro area in Ohio behind Cleveland and Cinci can embrace the corn.
And of course there's the field of corn in Dublin Ohio.... great statues. A monument to our history. Best seen up close and personal... get out of your car and read the markers.
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Hi Maureen... in Dallas we had Pegasuses (or is it Pegusi?). You can still find the decorated Pegasus statues at different venues around town. The Pegasus is the unofficial symbol of the City of Dallas since for many many years there has been a red neon rotating Pegasus atop the Magnolia Building in downtown. The Magnolia Building was the former home of the Magnolia Oil Company which became a part of Mobil Oil. The Magnolia name disappeared, but the pegasus symbol lives on, both as a brand logo for Mobil and atop the Magnolia Building in Dallas as a recognizable part of our city's skyline.
Maureen,
I grew up in DeKalb, IL and we had the "flying ear of corn." Corn with wings...makes me thing of being a kid. PNW corn just doesn't compare to the mid-west. I miss the annual corn boil that the city had.
Pegasus... I read this on my phone yesterday and thought Pegasus? Winged horse right?
Does the corn with wings represent a company that is called Dekalb based in Dekalb? Or is that a symbol for the city.... that is really corn country.
Hi Maureen. Yup! Pegasus is a winged horse in mythology. Tell her what she has won, Johnny....