Eastsider LA<\/a> as \u201ca Christmas miracle.\u201d However, a rainstorm soon damaged Pinky\u2019s reinforced cloth wing and the bird was temporarily removed for repairs. It was around that time that Ford moved near Pillarhenge. One morning he went out back with his coffee and noticed something \u2026 pink. <\/p>\n\u201cI texted my neighbor and he responded immediately: \u2018Pinky\u2019s back! Oh, thank God, I didn\u2019t know what happened. I love that thing!\u2019 And I just went, So this is normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
During Pinky\u2019s broken-wing pit stop, my 10-year-old daughter Margaret Green and friends Ezra Cunningham and Meta Nalepa encountered the bird in a nearby driveway while delivering their neighborhood newspaper. Flod, a subscriber, acknowledged he was Pinky\u2019s creator. Margaret\u2019s article, \u201cPink Bird: Eagle Rock Artist Found,\u201d includes a rare photo of Pinky away from its pillar-top nest.<\/p>\n
In response to being discovered by the grade-school journalists, Flod is effusive: \u201cThat was a really cool part of [Pinky\u2019s] story. It definitely means a lot to me. That kind of stuff is the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, time is running out on the bird as the rising tide of concrete, scaffolding and rebar obscures Pinky from pedestrian view along the south side of Colorado Boulevard. Another few months and \u2026\u201cWell, you\u2019ll still be able to see Pinky from the freeway,\u201d says Valdez, who expects the construction work to finish in about two years.<\/p>\n
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Someone made an egg to accompany Pinky atop Pillarhenge. Flod promises it wasn\u2019t him. <\/p>\n
In Goodbye Pillarhenge Park, one member\u2019s recent comment betrays what many are perhaps not ready to admit: \u201cI will miss Pillarhenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recently, a giant egg appeared in a nest atop the pillar beside Pinky\u2019s. \u201cI had nothing to do with that!\u201d insists Flod. Rumors swirl as to what will emerge when the egg hatches: Life-size bronze? Historical landmark plaque? While not quite so grandiose, Valdez says discussions are ongoing regarding the bird\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Pillarhenge is completed and Pinky goes into the lobby or something, that\u2019s all right, I guess,\u201d Flod concedes. \u201cWe need more housing.\u201d Then the artist\u2019s acquiescence gives way to a defiant smirk: \u201cBut I want the bird to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pillarhenge is an eyesore. Since construction at the Eagle Rock site \u2014 so nicknamed after a decrepit colonnade…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":900536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[25236,1582,276,215598,9886,2385,21480,364715,364717,2961,71786,224,5337,16502,46750,364716,364714,39792,67335,1628],"class_list":["post-900535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bird","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-colorado-boulevard","tag-construction","tag-day","tag-eagle-rock","tag-flod","tag-goodbye-pillarhenge-park","tag-la","tag-local-artist","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-one","tag-owner","tag-pillarhenge","tag-pinky","tag-site","tag-valdez","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116832863206856588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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