Marble Run display in NYC

April 29, 2007 7:46 PM

NYC Transit users: Do you know where the Marble Run display is?

Ever since this question was posted, I've been trying to remember a marble run that I saw in February of 2005 somewhere in the Subway system. Maybe it was at a station that transfers to commuter rails? I can't remember and it's driving me pointlessly mad!

The marble run was lovely: lots of metal parts, and it was large (maybe 12' x 12' x 12'). It looked like a permanent display behind plexiglas. Is there any information online about this beautiful creature?

posted by dog food sugar to grab bag (10 comments total)

There is one in the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Photos.
posted by smackfu at 8:04 PM on April 29, 2007

Oh my gosh THANK YOU, smackfu! You are amazing.
posted by dog food sugar at 8:08 PM on April 29, 2007

Do you mean this clock in the Port Authority? It's by George Rhoads, there s'a blurb written about it here (scroll down to "MAGIC CLOCK — CERMAK").
posted by hooray at 8:09 PM on April 29, 2007

darn you, smackfu.
posted by hooray at 8:09 PM on April 29, 2007

hooray looks like yours is the same guy. Thanks both of you. Now I've got a new direction to google around in.
posted by dog food sugar at 8:15 PM on April 29, 2007

Wasn't this, or something like it, at the Ben Franklin Institute in Philadelphia? I vaguely remember as a pup seeing something like it there many years ago...
posted by ChasFile at 1:10 AM on April 30, 2007

Yes, there is. That sculpture, or one like it, was also on display in the baggage claim area of the Philadelphia airport when I flew through there a year ago.
posted by Johnny Assay at 5:33 AM on April 30, 2007

Not that theses don't necessarily use marbles. One uses pool balls and the other uses golf balls.
posted by smackfu at 9:48 AM on April 30, 2007

They used to have them in the check-in area of the Delta terminal at Boston's Logan airport as well, many years ago.
posted by logovisual at 11:05 AM on April 30, 2007

I actually saw the Port Authority one on Saturday. It's pretty depressing, just like the rest of the bus terminal. Lit by fluorescent lights and not working. Don't go out of your way to see it.
posted by smackfu at 9:46 AM on May 7, 2007