Berwyn Car Spindle, Berwyn, Illinois Theater Created in 1931

Created in 1931

Poster design by Pistchal

Photographed by Jack Delano in September of 1941 for the Farm Security Administration

Summary: Poster shows a Native American man starting a fire

and wispy veils of gas and dust

Berwyn Car Spindle, Berwyn, Illinois Theater Created in 1931Photographed by Carol Highsmith in August of 2007 as a digital file. Berwyn Car Spindle, was a sculpture created in 1989 by artist Dustin Shuler. It consisted of a 50 foot spike with eight cars impaled on it. From 1989 until its demolition on May 2, 2008, it was located in the parking lot of Cermak Plaza shopping center, at the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue (Illinois Route 43) in Berwyn, Illinois.