# A Fork in the Road in Pasadena

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 26, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fork-in-the-road-in-pasadena/732545 "2015-09-26T08:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fork-in-the-road-in-pasadena/732545/1 "2015-09-26T08:18:00Z")

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[![](https://www.trippyfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/11-fork-in-the-road-04.jpg) ](https://www.trippyfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/11-fork-in-the-road-04.jpg)

Not sure if this is a Food thread or Art. 😃

It makes me hungry. I want to see a giant bowl of baked beans beside it. 😛 The fork is 18 ft tall, so the pot of beans, maybe 45 ft tall ( 2 1/2 forks tall)?

The Fork in the Road has been put to good use. [Charities hold food drives there.](http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20141114/food-drive-returns-to-the-fork-in-the-road-in-pasadena)

> **[Pasadena's Fork in the Road: Now a vibrant epicenter of altruism](https://laist.com/podcasts/off-ramp/pasadenas-fork-in-the-road-now-a-vibrant-epicenter-of-altruism)**
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> Right here in Pasadena, where Pasadena Avenue splits off into two streets there's a fork in the road. Literally. The guerilla art appeared at the intersection of Pasadena and St. John avenues in November of 2009. After being out of commission for...

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> The fork was a gift to mark the 75th birthday of Altadena business owner Bob Stane from his friend, Ken Marshall. The two had joked for years that a giant fork should be erected at the Pasadena intersection. Stane remembers telling Marshall, “To properly get us involved in the art situation we needed something spectacular like a fork in the road.”
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> Taking his words to heart, Marshall built an 18-foot tall wooden fork and rallied Stane’s other  
> friends to help him stick it in a Caltrans median.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fork-in-the-road-in-pasadena/732545/2 "2015-09-26T08:39:56Z")

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That’s forked up

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fork-in-the-road-in-pasadena/732545/3 "2015-09-26T08:45:00Z")

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Its sad Huell Howser is dead. He could have gotten a decent episode out of it.