The Standin’ on a Corner Park in Winslow, Ariz., which has seen all sorts of problems because fire destroyed a nearby building a couple of years ago, suffered another serious setback this week, reports the Winslow Mail.
The newspaper reported that a piece of cleanup machinery bumped and accidentally destroyed a portion of the foundation wall of the fire-gutted Rasco Building. This complicates the operation, and city officials fear the wall that adjoins the Standin’ on a Corner site could collapse.
Here’s a recent photo of the site, taken by Ace Jackalope at TheLope.com. The statue is at right, in front of a big mural on the side of the destroyed Rasco Building. Fearing for others’ safety, the statue often has been fenced off to keep visitors at a safe distance in case the wall collapses. The cleanup was supposed to help partly rectify this. Instead, it may have made the situation worse.
Standin’ on a Corner is situated on an eastbound leg of Route 66 in Winslow. It is a tribute to Jackson Browne‘s famous line in the song “Take It Easy”:
Well, I’m a standin’ on a corner
In Winslow, Arizona
And such a fine sight to see
It’s a girl, my Lord,
in a flatbed Ford
slowin’ down to take a look at me
The song became a big hit for The Eagles.
How sad! I hope they are able to get it fixed up right one of these days.
In the “funny but not” category…so my parents were in Joliet last Sunday and after they left part of the Rialto sign fell down. Now as near as I can tell, this article ran in the Winslow paper on Wednesday, so perhaps this incident happened on Tuesday? Yeah, my parents were in Winslow on Tuesday. They’re leaving destruction in their wake!