Merging and Purging

HELP!

I was a graphic artist during the 60's and 70's in Chicago before moving to the Gulf Coast of Alabama. During those 13 years I watched dozens of stunning old buildings crumbled into trash and hauled off to some landfill. Sometimes I was able to capture bits and pieces of Chicago's wonderful history to decorate my home and garden in Hammond, Indiana. Once upon a time I exited a cab at the corner of Michigan Ave. and Walton, where I encountered a huge dumpster being loaded with the debris from Playboy Enterprises Renovation project. A worker was attempting to throw an object into the dumpster. It hit the rim and landed right before me as he held it in his grip, a 2 ft X 2 ft gray piece of art deco beauty beaconed to me.
"If you can carry it you can have it!" was his reply when I asked: "Are you throwing it away?"
Days later after sliding it into the building and once at home, I poured stripper over the thick gray paint and a dull metal surface began to emerge, as the nickle-plated front cleaned up. At around 80lbs this strange beautiful cast iron icon has facinated me and friends for over 30 years, I since have created a series of casting molds and have shared the pieces with many fans of the art deco period. An achitect/developer in Nashville TN commissioned 12 deco icons to adorn the columns of a new commercial structure this summer, and I would love to show him where his art deco appliques had their origin. Others deco lovers have used them inside their homes as art and in the garden in water features or to decorate the end of a pool patio bar. I have sold them as far away as Los Angeles as well as Santa Barbara.
I have searched every historic archive source even approaching the current developers of the Palmolive Building's Renovation with no luck in finding photos of this icon in it's original location as the building's cornerstone. Surely there is someone out there that would love a cast stone replica from the original as a reward to investigate and show this icon on that wonderful deco structure. I returned to that same corner in 2005 on a dejavu trip to find the building again wrapped in scaffoling and being restored, and the marble corner panels at Michigan and Walton showed poc marks where I beleive the icon once rested. Now the location is coverd with a new decor.

Chicago, can anyone help?

Respectfully submitted;

Lloyd N. Pearcey
SAFE HARBOUR PUBLISHING
Foley, Al