Wednesday, August 25th, 2004...10:26 pm
Sawyer Point’s Flying Pigs
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This is a detail that is missed by people who don’t look up. Flanking the entrance to the Sawyer Point park on the Ohio River are a set of steamboat stacks. At the top are four flying pigs, celebrating the city of Cincinnati’s one-thriving hog processing and packing industry. In the television program “WKRP In Cincinnati” newsman Les Nesman won a number of fictional “Silver Sow” awards. The pork industry has since moved to Iowa and the Carolinas, but locals still affectionately refer to Cincinnati as “Porkopolis.”
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October 17th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
Look up some history on these. I was an intern at Cincinnati Magazine in 1988 when these were installed. You would not BELIEVE the uproar–there were angry letters, protests, meetings; people were totally freaked out about them. And then the CAC (then still above the Walgreen’s) put up a humongo robot thingy on Main Street, and no one noticed!