From: CaptGrumps@aol.com
Date: 6/21/2015 3:52:38 PM
Subject: Welcome to Cleveland Sign in Milwaukee
David--think he got a permit?
This guy is a legend. Just a God and hero among men. Mark
Gubin is an artist and photographer in Milwaukee and decades ago he realized
that his studio was along the flight path to the local airport. He had the
brilliant idea to paint on the roof of his studio in giant letters
"Welcome To Cleveland." Why? To mess with people mostly.
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Photo: Michael
Sears/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The sign is decades old, and is having new life today after
being passed around Twitter. For years the sign has caused passengers on planes
to freak out about going to the wrong place. There apparently was a Denver to
Cleveland flight that stopped over in Milwaukee and the sign caused all sorts
of confusion from passengers who thought the plane must have skipped the
layover.
Here's more according from an old Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel
article:
Gubin has kept a winking letter from then-Common Council
president Ben E. Johnson saying that the sign was causing "outrage and
panic" for some air passengers, but the city planned to take no action.
"I was in Cleveland not too long ago and I agree with Mr. Gubin that
anybody who wants Cleveland is welcome to it," Johnson wrote.
No one from the airport or airlines ever complained for
real about his humorous bit of misdirection, although he did hear that some of
his Bay View neighbors were embarrassed when the sign first went up. You have
to hope their sense of humor has since improved.
"It was all tongue-in-cheek, just for fun. Living in
the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it," Gubin,
62, told me.
How can you not love Mark Gubin?
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