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Roundabout Decorating

The roundabout at Guilford Avenue and 32nd Street has garnered some interesting embellishments.

 
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This set up was left on the roundabout at Guilford Avenue and 32nd Street .
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When the city installed a roundabout at 32nd Street and Guilford Avenue, the Department of Transportation probably couldn't foresee it becoming a target for guerrilla decorators.

But since the roundabout was installed about a year ago, it has been decorated with everything from a single potted plant to a toilet with champagne bottle inserted in it.

Initially, residents said they thought the deocorating of the roundabout was a way of voicing displeasure with the new traffic calming devices in the area.

But it appears the decorating has become a kind of ritual separate from its roots in protest, and the detail of the latest decoration makes it feel like the brain child of a fraternity.

Sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday ,someone added a brown love seat, pink arm chair and a night stand to the roundabout. The night stand was even adorned with an empty bottle of Gordon's London Dry Gin and worn paperback copy of James Dickey's Deliverance.

About this column: A collection of short tidbits about the people, places and events I run into around town. Related Topics: 32nd Street, Guilford Avenue, Roundabout, and traffic circle

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