Next stop for Alabama’s rest stop rocket: The Trash Pandas ballpark?
Don’t trash Alabama’s iconic roadside rocket. Give it to the Trash Pandas.
The NASA Saturn 1B rocket is a 44-year-old landmark, but the years have taken its toll and NASA has determined it needs to go. Ok, fine. Take it down. But it shouldn’t be trashed. It can be transformed into a dandy piece of public art.
Related: Iconic rocket at Alabama rest stop to be taken down, NASA says – al.com
Related: Does Alabama law protecting monuments apply to rest stop rocket? – al.com
Related: Roy S. Johnson: Replace our rusted NASA rocket with…. – al.com
What better home for the rocket than the Rocket City Trash Pandas ballpark? We can even incorporate a giant protective trash can into the design.
What should take the rocket’s place at the rest stop? My colleague Roy S. Johnson has an idea …
The rocket has served Alabama well, but now it’s falling apart. Let’s give it new life by turning it into art.
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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