Corn Palace Days 2014!

I just got back from a short, weekend visit to Mitchell. It was a whirlwind trip, but I did get to spend the better part of an hour on Sunday morning walking around the closed-down Corn Palace Days. I got a good group of pictures that you'll see below! Mitchell is just covered in Corn Palace.

They are redoing the Corn Palace!

They took off the domes, which makes the Palace look a little funny.

Corn Palace Days has lots of rides, games, and food vendors. This is probably my favorite Corn Palace ripoff I've ever seen!

You might not be able to see it, but there are a few domes painted over the words on this window.

This is what they put up before they add the corn to the murals!

And with the official Mitchell City Seal we are done! Look for another post soon. It'll be about something I bought at the Corn Palace gift shop!

Some more Corn Palace Pics from Around Mitchell.

I was in Mitchell last week so I took a bunch of pictures of different artistic renderings of the Corn Palace from around town.

That's all for now! There were several other pictures I wanted to take, but didn't get a chance to while I was there. I'll have to get them next time.

Do you have any Corn Palace related stuff you'd like to suggest or contribute? Send it to me and I'll put it up!

Where can I find these clips?

There are at least 2 clips from television that feature/mention the Corn Palace that I've been meaning to use on this blog since I started it but have not been able to find. I will link to a couple pages that mention them, but have searched many, many times for them and have not been able to find any clips or other evidence.

Road Rules:

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On the first season of Mtv's Road Rules they went to the Corn Palace. I remember watching the episode on TV in college when I lived in Mitchell. I can not find a clip and the only references I can find are in summaries of the previous episode 01/12 "Crash Up and Bang Up Time",

"Over the loudspeaker, the cast finds that the next mission will take them to Mitchell, South Dakota, where they will visit the Corn Palace."

The next episode 01/13 "Meeting the Stoned Presidents" is mentioned, but I can't even find a summary of the episode, let alone a clip.

If anyone can point me towards a clip or at least a summary, I'd appreciate it.

Teen Angel:

(image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Angel_%281997_TV_series%29)


This one is a mention and maybe an image. It's from when the Teen Angel guy is talking to God... or his head... or maybe his friend who he was sent back to help or something... I don't remember this show very well. I don't remember seeing this episode, but my wife told me about it and I looked it up. All I could find was a couple line on a message board somewhere:

Rod: "Quit doing that, or I'll send you there!
Mike: "Not The Mitchell Corn Palace in Mitchell South Dakota!?!"
Rod: "What?! No, the other there! I'm talking about Hell!)


That's the only reference I've been able to find! I would love to see this clip an post it! If you have it or know where I can find it, please let me know!


Love,


Sethifus

The Corn Palace on urbandictionary.com

There is a definition of "Corn Palace" on urbandictionary.com

Click on the link, if you are not easily offended.

Where's Margo? At the Corn Palace, of course...

Here's a video by Hank Green in which he plays a song he wrote about Margo Roth Spiegelman, a character from the book "Paper Towns", which was written by John Green, Hank's brother.

You see Margo at the Corn Palace at 3:32.

Hank and John are Nerdfighters and the Vlogbrothers. Look them up on youtube or google. They are made of awesome.

DFTBA!

Indecision 2012

Here's a link to an article on Comedy Centra'ls Indecision Blog about Mitchell, SD and... THE CORN PALACE!!!!!!!

Good Ear-ts!

Here's an episode of "Good Eats" with Alton Brown. At about 4:26-4:27 he mentions the Corn Palace and shows a postcard of the mighty palace. Good stuff...

A Prairie Home Corn-panion!

Today's Corny post is brought to you by fellow Corn Palace enthusiast Cody J. Schuler!

It seems that on May 7, 2005 A Prairie Home Companion did their show from the World's Only Corn Palace! It started off with a song about Mitchell and had many references to the Mighty Palace of Corn throughout the show, so it's well worth a listen. Click on any of these words to go to the site and hear it for yourself!

2011 Corn Trek!

Here's some of the pictures I took of the latest in-corn-ation of the Corn Palace on our Spring 2011 trek home.

We start with a pic of the front of the mighty palace itself, and the mascot of this year's trip: Stick Stickly.

Next, we see the seldom-photographed back of the Corn Palace

Here's the back corner. You can see the dome in the background.

This is a picture of the middle of the basketball court floor in the gut of the Corn Palace.


Here's a shot of the sticker, label things you see on all of the city vehicles.

You see these on the bottom of almost all of the streetlights downtown.

And finally my favorite picture of the bunch.

MST3K!!!!

Crow wants to be on display at the Corn Palace when he's dead.

The Simpsons!

This wonderful piece of Corn Palaceia is from The Simpsons Comic #69 (I scanned it from the "Jam-Packed Jamboree" trade paperback). It was near the end of the book and the strip's title is "How Marge Got Her Curtains Back". In it Homer somehow caught the corn cob print curtains above the kitchen sink in the garbage disposal. Marge made those herself. She was upset and ordered more corn cob print fabric. After two bolts of the wrong prints she got the little bueat seen in the picture above. She should be happy! I would love to have a mini Corn Palace for my kitsch-ian!

Impending Doom!

Here's my tribute to the Corny Palace from my weekly web comic "Impending Doom!". You can see it on the "Impending Doom!" web page here. You can check out more comics while you're there!

Official Websites

Here's the Official City of Mitchell Website!

And

Here's the Official Corn Palace Website!

Thought I should link to those!

Rifftrax

Here's a link to the Rifftrax riff of "The Phantom Menace": http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/star-wars-episode-i-phantom-menace


In it Kevin W. Murphy mentions Mitchell, SD several times. At least once mentioning the Corn Palace!

The rest of the riff is quite funny, too!

The World's Only Corn Palace!

This, my friends, is my Corn Palace blog! A collection of things related to the Mighty Palace of Corn in Mitchell South Dakota! It's marvelous, unique, and, yes, silly, but I like it! Here's a picture of from 2008:



I went to college in Mitchell, met my wife there, and graduated inside the Corn Palace.

Here's a pic of the inside. From a graduation, but not mine.



I will add posts about Corn Palace-related things as I find them. If you have any fun Corn Palace information, send it to me at pondercouch@gmail.com!