Toynbee or copycat?

Last month, I watched the Toynbee Tile documentary--Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. It sounded interesting, and unbeknownst to me, the little robot guys I photographed both on Michigan Ave. in Chicago and in a rest area on the Turnpike in Ohio are part of the Toynbee Tile mystery.

I'm not going to go into what the Toynbee tiles are. . . there's a feature length documentary after all:



But today, taking a break from work and headed to 33 E. Congress to see a few student gallery shows, I walked across either a Toynbee tile or the tile of a copycat that's paying pretty great homage. . .


For you Toynbee fans--Wabash Ave. in the lefthand turn lane just north of Harrison.

Go, Devil Brushhogs, indeed!