Milwaukee Artist Jokingly Painted ‘Welcome To Cleveland’ On His Roof

  • 9 years ago
Milwaukee artist and photographer Mark Gubin painted ‘Welcome to Cleveland’ on his studio roof in 1978 as a tongue-in-cheek joke, and it has been amusing and confusing the airline passengers who fly overhead since then.

An artist and photographer has been displaying his sense of humor on the outside his studio for decades. 
In 1978, when Mark Gubin realized his building was on a well-traveled flight path to and from Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he decided to play a joke on airplane passengers by painting his roof with the greeting, “Welcome to Cleveland.” 
The six-foot tall block letters he originally painted in white and has since f

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