By Mark | January 25, 2015
I uttered this sentence last night, and I thought that it should be recorded for posterity… Every year or two since 2003, when Cabinet magazine named Ypsilanti’s historic water tower the winner of it’s World’s Most Phallic Building contest, a website somewhere decides to post a story about the our beloved “brick dick.” Most recently, […]
Posted in History, Ideas, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1889, 1890, Appeal to Reason, bad ideas, brick dick, Cabinet, cocks, Kansas, limestone, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Matt Siegfried, phallic structures, phallic things, privatization, public utilities, Roadtrippers, water, water towers, William R. Coats, Ypsilanti water tower |
By Mark | September 26, 2010
My friend Eric sent me a huge photo of Ypsilanti’s infamous water tower yesterday. The image, which is beautiful, was taken in 1900, when women carried parasols, and Cross Street was still a dirt road scarred by wagon tracks. It’s an amazing photo. The structure was just ten years old at the time, having been […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Ypsilanti | Also tagged circumcision, Ed Heil, Eric Lagergren, gazebo, illegal photography, Kentwood, phallic structures, water, water towers, Ypsilanti water tower |