Administered by Seafirst Bank Administrative Services Division 800 5th Avenue, 20th Floor, P. O. Box 3977 Seattle Washington 98214
Located 2nd Avenue between Seneca & Spring Streets Seattle Washington
Date:
1990
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Washington survey, 1994.
Image on file.
(On stone marker, inscribed:) MONEY DOESN'T GROW ON TREES (On chair frame closest to Seneca Street, painted silver:) MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING BUT IT'S WAY AHEAD OF WHATEVER'S SECOND/BESSIE SMITH/MONEY CANNOT FILL OUR NEEDS/DOROTHY PARKER/SUBJECT TO A DISEASE THEY CALLED LACK OF MONEY/RABELAIS/FOR NOW IT MUST BE EVIDENT THAT MONEY IS NOT WEALTH/HENRY MILLER/MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND/MONEY DOES NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING, NEVER HAS, NEVER WILL/ALBERT JAY NOCK/PINK FLOYD/MONEY, ITS A GAS/A DILLAR, A DOLLAR, A TEN O'CLOCK SCHOLAR/MONEY BEGETS MONEY/JOHN RAY/ENDLESS MONEY FORMS THE SINEWS OF WAR/CICERO/HER VOICE IS FULL OF MONEY/ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD/BUY ART/ANNE GERBER/READY MONEY IS ALADIN'S LAMP/LORD BYRON/MONEY WON'T CHANGE YOU BUT TIME WILL TAKE YOU ON/JAMES BROWN/IS MONEY MONEY OR ISN'T MONEY MONEY?/GERTRUDE STEIN/MONEY DOESN'T TALK, IT SWEARS/BOB DYLAN/UP AND DOWN THE CITY ROAD, IN AND OUT THE EAGLE,/THAT'S THE WAY THE MONEY GOES - POP GOES THE WEASEL!/TAKE THE CASH, AND LET THE CREDIT GO/EDWARD FITZGERALD/A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS/JOHN HEYWOOD/MONEY DOESN'T CHANGE YOUR BIRTH/HORACE
(On chair frame closest to Spring Street, painted silver:) A GOOD REPUTATION IS MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY/PIBLILIUS SYRUS/CAN'T BUY ME LOVE/LENNON-MCCARTNEY/THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RICH AND OTHER PEOPLE IS THAT THE RICH HAVE MORE MONEY/HEMINGWAY/CAN ANYBODY REMEMBER WHEN THE TIMES WERE NOT HARD AND THE MONEY WAS NOT SCARCE?/EMERSON/I'LL BET MY MONEY ON THE BOBTAIL NAG/STEPHEN FOSTER/THE LOVE OF MONEY AND THE LOVE OF LEARNING RARELY MEET/GEORGE HERBERT/PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE/SHAKESPEARE/TIME IS MONEY/BENJAMIN FRANKLIN/THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTINGHOUSE COUNTING OUT HIS MONEY/MONEY IS TRASH/THOMAS DECKER/MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING/TOM GRAY/A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED/ITS ONLY MONEY/JACK MACKIE/MONEY: THERE'S NOTHING SO DEMORALIZING AS MONEY/SOPHOCLES/THE LOVE OF MONEY/IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL/I TIMOTHY/HEALTH IS A BLESSING MONEY CANNOT BUY/IZAAK WALTON/COCO CHANNEL/THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RICH/WILLIE LOWMAN NEVER MADE A LOT OF MONEY/ARTHUR MILLER/YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND TAKES YOUR CHOICE/PUNCH signed
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Summary:
Installation consisting of two abstract chair-like steel frames and a polished granite marker. Each of the frames is painted brown and is set in a tree grate, causing the frame to partially encircle a tree. The marker, a long, flat rectangular piece of black granite, is set flat into one side of a tree grate and lays flush with the sidewalk.