Day 17: Remembering Marilyn

     For this next post, we'll need to fire up the time machine and go about a year into the past, because what we will be looking at today no longer is in the city.  In 2011, there was a statue installed in Pioneer Court depicting one of the more infamous scenes in cinematic history, specifically from the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch; this being the scene where Marilyn Monroe steps over a subway grate and has her skirt fly up.  Anyway, the statue was installed in 2011 and was almost immediately universally criticized.  (Though curiously, all of that negative press did nothing to stop the more-than-occasional tourist getting an under-skirt shot of Marilyn.)  Unfortunately, it was not meant to last forever, so in May of 2012 the statue was disassembled and shipped off to Palm Springs, California. Therefore, Californians and Chicagoans can now share their anguished admiration for this piece of odd art.