I Favor putting the PI Globe in a new public sculpture district along the seatte waterfront and incorporating the sam sculpture garden. Bounded by the wind bown umbrella at western and lenora on its south edge and marked by the traffic island at western and thomas this new public sculpture zone would have the sculpture garden ecactly in its center while having plenty of room for citizen and corporate displays. In deed the area has several corporate sculptures now, several plazas, obvious boundaries and a centrally placed unifier in the sculpture park. a series of changing temporary sculptures could unite the seattle center visually to the sculpture garden. keep the pi revolving along elliot bay.

Put it next to the Space Needle, on a slightly elevated pedestal. Echoing/recalling the Trylon and Perisphere of the 1939 New York World's Fair.

I'd like to see it back at its original location on the old P.I. headquarters at 6th and Wall. That's its historic home and it "fits" the landscape there. It's where all those World's Fair visitors saw it in 1962. Put it back where it belongs.

Put it back on the old P.I. building at 6th and Wall. That's what history is all about. That's where all those World's Fair visitors saw it in 1962. That's where it belongs.

I can't see it back on the old PI building. That building has been remodeled to the extent that the proportions of the facade that tied the globe into the building's total design have been lost. There are several iconic neon signs in and around Seattle, and there should be conservation plans for all of them. In addition to the Elephant Car Wash locations, one especially significant sign is the animated Bardahl sign in Ballard. If the Bardahl company ever decides they can no longer maintain it, some plan should be in place to preserve it.

After visiting the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles many years ago, I'm convinced that the Puget Sound area would benefit from a neon "sculpture garden" somewhere in the area. A place that could preserve and display these signs; preferably indoors where ambient lighting and climate could be controlled. Such a facility could also provide a venue for the exhibition of non-commercial illuminated artworks as well. Tacoma lost a beautiful animated Rainier sign in Nalley Valley when the Rainier Brewing Company moved to California (for the second time!). It would be a shame to lose other landmark neon pieces from disinterest or neglect, especially when they could be enjoyed by the public at a purpose-built facility and foster artists to produce other illumination-focused artworks for display alongside them.

The ideal place for the P.I. Globe is directly atop Frank Gehry's E.M.P. This site would contribute immensely to the growing eclecticism of Seattle Center, casting an ever-changing neon glow on high school football games at Memorial Stadium, complementing the Space Needle in a manner reminiscent of the Pylon and Perisphere of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and outshining the glass jungle that is the Chihuly Museum.
Perhaps it would even inspire different Seattle neighborhoods to contribute their own treasures. Georgetown's Hat 'n' Boots could revert to its original purpose, and replace the service station at Denny and Broad. Fremont's statue of Lenin might be resited among the fountains at Pacific Science Center, honoring the Cold War that made Minoro Yamasaki's building possible in the first place. The underused Coliseum/Key Arena could easily be retrofitted for its natural purpose: extreme skateboarding. A restored bubbleator could carry the boarders to the top, and from there everything is downhill, all the way to Myrtle Edwards Park.

Art Skolnik sends in his idea:

Saw your story on the PI Globe and want to repeat a suggestion I made years ago for the public consideration. It's not so much about the location as to what it should symbolize.

I believe that we have come to another pivotal point in human history, never to be repeated. That is, the end of printed media. Since the creation of paper by the Chinese, through the invention of the Gutenberg Press, up to the computer/digital age, human communication has been accomplished through the use of printed media. That period is/has ended. And, whether one misses it or not, this point in human history and evolution will be looked upon by our decedents as a most significant adaptation to the further evolution of the human race.

So, what would be more appropriate, but to use the P I Globe as the centerpiece of a printed media memorial/interpretive public space in a very prominent location in Seattle.

Since we can directly connect the evolution of our democratic nation with the print media, I suggest it be the centerpiece of the new public space across the street (West) of our City Hall. An appropriate connection and worthy of high visibility. And, a future backdrop for the practice of freedom of speech by using this public space as a "bughouse square" as practice in Chicago. Perhaps a bronze soapbox should accompany it, encouraging impromptu speeches appropriate to the subject.

I'd love to design that space for this installation and all the intrepretive display that can characterize how print media changed everything about our cultural advancements for thousands of years. But hat's not the focus of my recommendation.

Using the combination of Speech (the first evolutionary invention in communication among hominids) and the Printed media, this couldn't be more important to our citizenry and our future generations, who will look back on our period as antiquated and inefficient.
How wrong they would be!

The P-I Globe is more than an artifact of Seattle’s print newspaper history. Even when the P-I was extant, it was more than a sign. The globe was an icon, a talisman for Seattleites, a landmark for visitors, and it was almost spooky-cool for those of us who worked beneath that mammoth, glowing ball, particularly when it rotated above the main entrance of the old P-I at the corner of 6th and Wall, the building for which the globe was designed. At night, off deadline, I would often leave the newsroom just to stand on the sidewalk across the street and gaze up at that radiant presence. I felt proud to work there. Yeah, spooky-cool! And I think it would be most cool if now, in this sadly P-I-deficient world, the globe were returned, in perpetuity, to its original home.

Sculpture Park or the newly renovated Memorial Stadium would both equally be able to 'adopt' the P/I Globe.

Please return the globe to its original home at 6th and Wall. That's the context that gave it meaning. Hopefully, the old P.I. Building will eventually return to the handsome sandstone facade still lurking beneath the superficial fake stucco exterior that was added a few years ago by its latest owners, the Sabey Corporation. Whether or not that ever happens, the globe belongs in the place of honor from whence it came.

At least two good ideas (the Sculpture Park and atop the EMP) but one obvious choice is not mentioned: instead of investing in a new location why not negotiate to extend the lease at its present site? it's wonderfully visible, safe from vandals and it memorializes the (temporary) location of the late, lamented PI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer

provides the history of the Post Intelligencer, which became
a Hearst Paper in 1921. The global reach the globe was meant to signify with its design certainly is Hearstian, the man who contributed so much to starting the Spanish American war during which Puerto Rico and the Phillipines changed colonial masters and brought low wage Phillipine labor to Seattle.

I lived opposite the sign on Elliott Avenue during my first three months in Seattle in Summer 1994 and much liked looking at it from the hugely timbered mezzanined loft that I shared with probably the toughest l'il hippie ever to raise hell in Seattle, whom I had met, all cooled out, in a date palm forest in Mexico, on a trial run with a 5 ton truck, his elephant, with which he was planning to plough all the way to Patagonia, an imperialist of sorts too... and from Myrtle Edwards Park... I appreciated the Globe's incongruity, it
had a kind of fairy tale touch sitting there, an eagle that had
gobbled up too much and now sat there with the fruit of its vulture instincts.

I'd probably vote to keep it in place I say not being familiar with
its original home. The sculpture park? I would say no - those are all self-conscious pieces of art. The P.I. Globe is sort of accidental pop art - and a museum for them might be fitting. Perhaps on top of one of the three Cargill grain elevators? Although the Cargill corporation might be persuaded to design a piece of its own, Port Commisioners!, perhaps in honor of the geese that gobble the grain that
spills on the tracks there! The globe ought to have affixed to it on a very legible plaque the paper's history. As a paper, like all Hearst papers, the P.I. of course was never of much reknown except locally, and in that respect indicates an affinity with Rainier beer, the signs are superior to the signified.

Auction it off and let the market decide. Paul Allen or some other plutocrat would snap it up.

Put it in Jean Godden's backyard.

The globe needs to go home -- Sixth and Wall.