The Wilson Barn (also known as the Ira Wilson Dairy Barn) is a barn located at the northeast corner of Middlebelt and W. Chicago Roads in Livonia, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973.[1][2] This was the beginning of the Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy Company, a now defunct company (which partnered for a time with Kroger and was ultimately acquired by Melody Farms in 1980). There were several large iconic cow's head sculptures,[3] which were fixtures in the Detroit metropolitan area.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ abCite error: The named reference state was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Giant cow head". Atlas Obscura.
^"Milking It". Dairy Field Magazine. Michael George, Stagnito Publishing. April 2001. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
^"A Tale of Two Cow heads". Detroitkidshow.com. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
^"Wilson's Dairy" (Photograph). Library of Congress. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
^Runyan, Robin (May 20, 2016). "Own the Landmark Dairy Building from 8 Mile for $79K: 'This opportunity comes once in a lifetime'". Retrieved January 4, 2018. The cow head had its fifteen minutes of fame when it appeared in the 2002 Eminem film 8 Mile. The film's producers pried the plywood off the long abandoned ice cream store's windows and gave both the building and the cow a fresh coat of paint. In the film, violent jay and his posse drive in front of the building and shoot the giant cow between the eyes with a pink paintball. The owner of the building at the time didn't want his cow defaced, so the paintball splat was created with computer graphics.
^"Obituary, Ira Wilson II". Desmond Funeral Home. February 9, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
^The dairy was located at 13041 Mack Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. "Ira Wilson Sons Dairy". Mapquest. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
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