Bill Gates
Aerosmith (Walk this way!)
Jimmie "JJ" Walker (dy-no-mite!)
John Updike(!)
Jethro Tull (greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes)9/26/06
About 30 miles down the interstate from the world's biggest stack of used oil cans lies yet another one of North Dakota's numerous eccentric roadside attractions: The Fargo Celebrity Walk of Fame. In 1989, Fargo printer Mike Stevens wanted to increase foot traffic past his downtown printshop and came up with a novel idea: a Fargo version of the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's actually more an homage to the signatures in concrete in front of Mann's Chinese Theater than the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but it still brings a bit of Hollywood glitz and glamour to this humble midwestern metropolis. More celebrities pass through Fargo than you might think (Bill Gates! John Updike! Jethro Tull?) and the Walk boasts more than 100 hand and footprints of the rich and famous. In 2000, the Walk was moved to its current site in front of the Fargo-Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau and its quite a site to see. A plaque honors Mike Stevens there for his civic-minded contribution. Way to go Mike!
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