Could be worse, they could put the godawful Monona Terror or the Overblown Center on it.
Or a brat. Or both.
Tulsa, Oklahoma would probably be represented by a representation of The Golden Driller, a surly-looking ochre colossus who looms over the Tulsa Fairgrounds with one hand on a derrick and the other hand holding his pants up.
Madison: It’s a toss up for me, either the sunprint chairs or a beer and a cigarette with a big X across it.
Dionne Warwick’s (or Burt Bacharach’s?) head floating over The Mystery House.
My hometown is Shenandoah, PA, home of Mrs. T’s Headquarters.
A pierogy on ours.
I almost feel bad, mine is so obvious.
East Lansing: A burning couch
Cleveland: the Cuyahoga River, on fire.
tripler, I think Charlie Russell’s skull would be very fitting for Great Falls.
So, aside from Great Falls, I have lived in:
Denver, CO: Sky line view (ugly cash register included) set in front of mountainous back ground.
Coeur d’ Alene, ID: The awesome beauty of the lake could not be recreated on a coin, but they should try.
Portland, OR: The convention center’s green spires with the Fremont bridge in the background.
Corvallis, OR: drizzle
I purposely avoided those because of the ugliness that would occur. The carpet in the Monona Terrace makes me dizzy whenever I look at it. What is it with convention centers and ugly carpets?
Gainesville: A gator. sigh
Schenectady: The giant GE sign. If it’s got to be noncommercial, then City Hall.
Albany: The State Capitol Building
Austin: An image of Leslie
Buffalo, NY: A buffalo*. We don’t even care that buffalo aren’t indigenous to Buffalo, everyone is pleased enough with the fact that our city’s name can be represented so accurately by a single image.
*Bison
New York City: I’m going to go with the A train. I think it represents the entire subway system well, and New Yorkers are united in their love and/or love to hate of the subway.
Meanwhile, the Lafayette coin would feature a view of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse.
There’ll have to be a committee meeting to discuss the design for Cleveland. I lived in that city’s suburbs from birth (1959) until moving to Indiana in 2001, and my first thought was this building. When my siblings and I were younger, our family would often head to the city, and the kids would compete to see who’d be the first to say “I see the Terminal Tower!” Perhaps the different generations and senses of pride/disdain could be accommodated by an anachronistic Downtown panorama that takes in the Tower, the Rock Hall, and the burning Cuyahoga…
I have never seen the carpeting inside the Monona Terror for I refuse to set foot in it. Ugly building blighting the shoreline, built only because it’s Frank Goddamn Lloyd Wright’s Last Unfinished Design or some shit (except it’s not because after, like, the third referendum to build the thing finally passed, suddenly plans for some damn boathouse that he designed to go with it appeared). The Overblown Center I have less choice about, because how else am I going to see Four Bitchin’ Babes and The Nylons when they’re booked in every frickin’ year?
Fredonia, NY: a natural gas well in front of a Grange House. In the background is the famous I.M.Pei architecture of SUNY Fredonia. (Use creative geography :))
The Wisconsin TAG grant program-thingy that I participated in when I was younger always held their conferences in the freaking Monona Terrace. The view over the lake is nice, but the carpeting is a terror. Think Aztecan nightmare, coupled with earth-toned primary color. Lots of red, hints of blue. OK, now take that image and put it on a record player and let it spin for a good while. Look like vomit? Good, you’ve discovered what the carpeting in the Monona Terrace is like.
I agree that the Cleveland quarter should prominently feature the Terminal Tower, and if it wouldn’t be too crowded, I’d include I.M. Pei’s distinctive Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, too: http://iatwm.com/200509/Cleveland/RockHall.jpg Or maybe a compressed version of the city skyline?
And enough with the burning river jokes, already! :mad:
Des Moines, IA: A State House, two rivers, and a mixmaster, surrounded by cheesy housing developments.