Linny Pacillo Parking Garage
Name
The garage is named after Carolyn "Linny" Pacillo (September 2, 1959 – November 17, 2006). Her family operated Courtney's Tudor Service on East Tudor Road, which was one of the last remaining independent gas stations in Anchorage. The Pacillo family sold the station in 2003, which has since gone out of business. Linny Pacillo, along with her sister Susan, became pop heroes in Anchorage (and later elsewhere) by donning tutus and plugging parking meters downtown to protest strict parking enforcement. They were The Parking Fairies. State Senator Johnny Ellis, a Democrat whose district includes downtown Anchorage, sponsored the bill naming the garage for Pacillo. The Anchorage Assembly approved the name in February 2007.
Art
The art in the garage, under the 1 Percent for Art Program, includes art inspired by Alaska flora and fauna on each garage level, a piece in the main elevator lobby that tells the Parking Fairies story, and a mural over the Seventh Avenue exit titled "Focus on Statehood" that features four men instrumental in Alaska's becoming a state: Bob Atwood, Bill Egan, Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening. The mural, by Dan DeRoux, is made up of 540 smaller images from every community in the state, flora, fauna and the members of the Constitutional Convention.
References
- ^ "Destination Downtown»Linny Pacillo Parking Garage". Destination Downtown. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
- ^ Reamer, David (January 5, 2020). "'The Anchorage parking fairies: How a $75 ticket started a movement". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
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