Meanwhile, the couple has taken the spaceship off the rental market - just for the remaining season. In 1981, Jack Rosenbaum, founder of Southern Scrap Co. on north Palafox Street, commissioned Pensacola artist John Olsen to create a sculpture across the street from the scrap yard. My father was a lover of the arts. He always saw something valuable in scrap and saw the opportunity to present scrap in art form. The Bunyanesque piece still attracts constant attention, says Adam Gudelunas, operations manager at Southern Scrap.
People stop to take pictures all the time.
Sometimes, they stand right in the middle of the road, almost getting hit. Unless someone defaces it with obscene messages, we'll leave it alone. The City of Pensacola works with CSX Railroad, which owns the trestle, in keeping an eye on the graffiti messages and with painting the trestle when needed. We tried to control it but couldn't. As soon as we painted it, the next day it looked just like it did.