JULY/AUGUST 2020 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 139
This aluminum Fish Bike Rack by Bill Coleman, located
at Chef Walt Wickman’s Hog Island Fish Camp on the
north side of the restaurant’s parking lot at 900 Broadway
(Alternate 19) in Dunedin, was commissioned by the city
to replace an older steel one that had been destroyed by rust,
which had graced the front to Chef Walt’s Olde Bay Café and
Dunedin Fish Market at 51 Main St. at the Dunedin Marina.
Although the initial cost estimate for the design, construction and
shipping of metal bike racks ranged between $4,000 and $6,000 apiece, the
group budgeted $1,800 for each rack. They called upon local Dunedin metal
artist Bill Coleman and the artists at his Arc Angels Inc. Institute for Creative
Arts to create the racks, and upon community leaders and businesses to
help underwrite them through private and public partnerships.
This Locomotive Bike Rack, created by metal artist Bill
Coleman about 2016 for the city and Global Investments
Inc., to resemble a vintage train engine complete with
appropriate badges, a working light and a bell, is located
at 344 Main St. in front of Cafe Alfresco in downtown
Dunedin. The popular bike rack sits appropriately on the
Pinellas Trail, which was constructed on the site of the
original Orange Belt Railway tracks, and across the street
from the Dunedin History Museum, which is housed in
the city’s recently renovated vintage train station.
This Dragon Bike Rack was unveiled in 2015 by its creator Bill
Coleman and Pegoty Packman, president of the Taoist Tai Chi Society
of the United States of America at the society’s new International
Taoist Educational Center, located at 280 Locklie St. in Dunedin.
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