'Fork in the Road' to Return to the Streets in October

More than a year since it was taken down, an 18-foot piece of model cutlery known as the "fork in the road" will be making its triumphant return to a Pasadena intersection later this month.

The giant fork will be located in the median dividing St. John and Pasadena Avenues to become a permanent--and legal--installation on Oct. 21, according to Bob Stane of the .

Stane and the artist who made the fork, Ken Marshall, erected the fork in guerrilla art fashion in November 2009. The city ordered it taken down seven months later, but both residents and city officials loved the idea of the piece.

The fork was a gift to Stane for his 75th birthday. Back in mid-2010, when the removal order came, a company called Perry C. Thomas Construction in Monrovia offered to remove it, which they did with a forklift and transported it to David Smith Construction in Altadena.

Prior to the fork's reinstallation on Oct. 21, there will be a fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 15, to help pay the installation costs at David Smith Construction (2353 Kellogg Court).  Attendees will get a chance to party with the fork in style before it moves to its permanent home.

For more on the fork's history, .