Dinosaur Box - Ithaca, NY
Posted by: ripraff
N 42° 26.467 W 076° 29.754
18T E 376971 N 4699838
Ithaca has 21 painted utility boxes. This vibrant one is across from the Unitarian Church, by the Town Hall at Buffalo & Aurora.
Waymark Code: WMTAPB
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2016
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Near the dinosaur's mouth it says "eat Local". On the dinosaurs thigh it has a FLX sticker. Near the astronaut it says "Houston we have a problem".
Get a geocache too! Gimme Cache is very near.
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This painting has everything from dinosaurs and dragonflies, volcanos, skulls, to space ships and ufos. There are Central American buildings and Cornell buildings.
Article on Ithaca Utility Box project.
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"The latest public art to hit Ithaca may be the PAC’s greatest feat yet — sprucing up the plain, drab gray electrical boxes that can be found on many of downtown Ithaca’s street corners. Now, the electrical boxes owned by the City of Ithaca — 21 of them, hence the title of the PAC project “21 Boxes” — have been transformed into colorful, meaningful and artistic expressions for all to see."