The Car Kebab made famous in ‘Wayne's World'? It's back — sort of
BERWYN, Ill. - Pisa's Romanesque marvel inspired the creation of the Leaning Tower of Niles. And now, Berwyn artist Pete Gamen has re-created one o...
BERWYN, Ill. - Pisa's Romanesque marvel inspired the creation of the Leaning Tower of Niles. And now, Berwyn artist Pete Gamen has re-created one of the Chicago region's great pieces of lost public art: Spindle, better known as "the Car Kebab." And like the Niles tower, it's about half as tall as the original — a spike impaling eight full-size cars that rose from a sea of tarmac in Berwyn's Cermak Plaza shopping center until it was torn down in 2008 to make way for a Walgreens. "Everyone loves a re-creation because it was gone and they want to remember it, whether they liked it when it was there or not," Gamen said this week, just a few days after the official unveiling, also in Berwyn.