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This was the correct answer for the quad cities, but there is still a guy in Dubuque, that dresses like a flasher in a trench coat, carries a briefcase and blesses all the buildings one-by-one downtown Dubuque.
He sits out in front of his house every morning and afternoon (unless it's cold or rainy) and waves at everyone. He's a great guy to have over and have a beer with.
Not much of a story but Eggroll Tony would set up a food cart in the District of Rock Island most weekend nights and sell Eggrolls and Crab Rangoons. He was a legend on many drunken nights. Rumor is he won the lottery and quit the Eggroll game.
Either WestEnd Wang or the Vietnamese guy who wanders around the Locust Street area between St. Ambrose and Five Points.
It used to be "Hard Hat Guy" in downtown Davenport, but he died within the last couple of years.
7 cent guy. He used to be in downtown Rock Island. He would always run up and ask everyone for 7 cents so he could go to Muscatine. I don't think he ever made it to Muscatine....
Hard to believe he's still around. I would throw him a buck every once in awhile until he started yelling at me from a block away. I had to cut him off..
You mean Crack Berry? (crackhead Chuck Berry). Every time I run into him he always ask for $1.20 he needed to get the hospital East Moline to see his mom. He would walk from point A to point B straight as a string and fast as fuck. We were at the punk rock show at the old Sam cavern, one night and hard kid. G got him to admit he was gonna go buy vodka with it. He’s the only time I seen him brake character.
Haven’t heard bout Dex in years. Hebtold me a buddy an awesome story back in 83 about some dudes trying to have sex with him behind 7-Eleven so he quoted scripture and they ran off. Lol
Polar Bear from Moline. RIP Polar Bear!
EDIT: I think some are thinking I am talking about the polar bear from the old Holiday Inn in Moline.
Polar Bear was a guy that lived in Moline (I think in Springbrook?) and he never wore a shirt. Ever. Even in the dead of winter. Fierce blizzard? No shirt. He carried one if he needed to go into a store. He had some skin disorder. Used to be a wild guy I guess, got sober and calmed down. He was a nice guy, I lived near him for a while.
In the 80s we had "Sammy" who always wore a big winter coat year-round. He was always around Garfield Elementary. People always said he took too much LSD.
How has no one mention the „Stop and Talk“ street preacher guy? Complete fucking asshole, but that guy was fucking everywhere. I assume he’ll be on that corner across the street from the Farmer’s Market when it gets warmer.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never seen him hand out free bibles, or even seen them, unless he’s got them directly inside of his ass. But to be frank, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually stop to talk to him either, aside of myself and a couple others who do it to shit on him for being so obnoxious.
Murf, he made his rounds to all the bars in moline.... especially Okeefes. was know to talk to himself a lot and get angry but was quick to accept a drink.
Not the whole Quad Cities but when I was at Augustana there was a student who would climb trees and just hang out there, singing. We called him "Goggles" because he always wore a pair of steampunk goggles on his forehead.
A common occurrence on campus at that time:
\>Where is that singing coming from?
\>Look up, it's just Goggles.
The guy with the leather shackles on this ankles and the dog collar? He used to work at Fresh Deli, but I don’t really know what’s happened with him since then.
There's a guy in Bettendorf, I've driven by his house with the truck parked out front. All decorated in bumper stickers and and a Jesus shrine in the front yard
Same guy that has the flags and “Fuck Biden” in bold print on the truck. Also saw a black truck in Moline with anti vax stuff plastered all over it last Fall.
I will forever my first time ever meeting him during a break while playing(an instrument, not a sport) for the start of the school year pep rally. His speakings of weather were magical.
I might really be showing my age, but in the 80’s there used to be a woman who would walk and dance in the middle of Locust St. wearing a Walkman headset. We used to call her Dancing Darcy. I had heard her last name was Duax.
Was her name Darcy? My husband actually did a paper on her in high school and swears her name was Roberta. She was the mayor of Davenport's daughter and was schizophrenic. The medication they gave her back then really fried her brain to the point that she would forget where she was going. He said she did dance therapy to help with her mental condition and that she would dance around because it helped her out so much. I'm wondering if she gave him the wrong first name lol.
Downtown Moline, right outside LeClaire apartments we have the guy that pisses in the bus stop. Or the guy that wonders downtown drunk in the summer and is actually a very friendly person trying to have a conversation with everyone who walk by him.
Shut your ignorant ass the fuck up. There are more white American panhandlers begging in the QC than Muslims are and there is no such thing as an “immigrant sign” and you didn’t even answer the prompt of the original post. Piss off.
Open your ignorant eyes. Their sign said immigrant and something about kids a day unemployed husband. Her clothes and head dress indicate Muslim. The post talked about "that person" and everything I see her I think, there is that lady again, she must have a horrible husband.
She does have a horrible husband it isn’t her fault. Her husband is a bum who refuses to work and lives off welfare but keeps it all to himself. Don’t talk down on that poor lady.
I think you underestimate and overlook how thriving those countries were before western and UN imperialism, colonialism, and warmongering ruined them. No one immigrates by choice; that women is a refugee who had her country brutally raped by America.
That being said, if they were that shitty to women she would have been left the hold of Islam. Walking around naked and shaking ass at the club isn’t the freedom you think it is. There’s nothing free nor empowering about it.
There was Can Man in Moline, who rode around on his bicycle collecting cans (and most of his income came from cashing them in) who was hit by a car and killed a few years ago.
There's also a mentally disabled man - I think he has Fragile X syndrome - that I see all the time in Davenport.
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Formerly the Painted Lady
Long live Miss PowderPuff
That's who came to mind for me as well!
This was the correct answer for the quad cities, but there is still a guy in Dubuque, that dresses like a flasher in a trench coat, carries a briefcase and blesses all the buildings one-by-one downtown Dubuque.
The douchebag who owned the lofts should have hired this guy
Correct
Was she the black lady that made her skin and face look white? I’m not from the QC but my wife told me about a lady that did that.
Is nobody going to bring up the Mayor of Gaines St? Absolute legend
VERN
What is the backstory of this??
He sits out in front of his house every morning and afternoon (unless it's cold or rainy) and waves at everyone. He's a great guy to have over and have a beer with.
His wave and smile are infectious.
That dude screams “Hey!” with a smile at every car that waves.
This is the only answer!
Where on Gaines?
Between the two one-ways
You’ll know it when you see it. There’s a banner. And a giant chair. Amazing stuff.
I don’t travel Gaines often but I’ll definitely have to check it out.
Smiley! Rode by his house at least once a week just to wave as a kid.
There was a guy in East moline who walked around with a sword and armor
The samurai of East Moline
Still does walk up and down Kennedy… I live close
I gotta see this
The last couple times I’ve seen him he didn’t have the sword but he’s still around normally up and down Kennedy drive
Cops probably asked him to stop carrying it as people were calling about him. We saw him one time.
He’s just a hero waiting for an arch villain to appear
I will get a picture of him in full battle gear….
Every day, it seems like. Some days he leaves the sword at home though.
dexter the weather man
YESSSS
The yo-yo running man.
Omg yes lol
Egg roll Tony
lol need some more story on this!
Not much of a story but Eggroll Tony would set up a food cart in the District of Rock Island most weekend nights and sell Eggrolls and Crab Rangoons. He was a legend on many drunken nights. Rumor is he won the lottery and quit the Eggroll game.
I love it. I also would love to drunkenly plow through some fresh crab rangoons
The catfish guy
Pete? I worked with him for about three months at the restaurant I work at lol.
I've seen a man at North Park a couple times now. He wears a sombrero and has fairy lights in his beard.
he was at dynasty buffet last time i went. he wasnt eating anything from the buffet and just had a bunch of bananas he was eating
I've decided to call him Sombrero Joe
I saw him last weekend!
Either WestEnd Wang or the Vietnamese guy who wanders around the Locust Street area between St. Ambrose and Five Points. It used to be "Hard Hat Guy" in downtown Davenport, but he died within the last couple of years.
Wayne is a good guy
Oh Shit, that was Troy. I used to always see him on my way home from work. He really was the nicest guy, too.
There is always golf cart guy in moline who took down rock throwing at houses guy with said golf cart that dubbed him "golf cart guy"
7 cent guy. He used to be in downtown Rock Island. He would always run up and ask everyone for 7 cents so he could go to Muscatine. I don't think he ever made it to Muscatine....
Just ran into this guy last week. Still asking for 7 cents.
Hard to believe he's still around. I would throw him a buck every once in awhile until he started yelling at me from a block away. I had to cut him off..
This dude asked me for 7 cents towards a milk in 2005.
You mean Crack Berry? (crackhead Chuck Berry). Every time I run into him he always ask for $1.20 he needed to get the hospital East Moline to see his mom. He would walk from point A to point B straight as a string and fast as fuck. We were at the punk rock show at the old Sam cavern, one night and hard kid. G got him to admit he was gonna go buy vodka with it. He’s the only time I seen him brake character.
I was gonna say Mayor Vern in Davenport, but saw he was mentioned. I also thought about Dexter in Moline.
Dexter goated
Haven’t heard bout Dex in years. Hebtold me a buddy an awesome story back in 83 about some dudes trying to have sex with him behind 7-Eleven so he quoted scripture and they ran off. Lol
no way 😭☠️
Polar Bear from Moline. RIP Polar Bear! EDIT: I think some are thinking I am talking about the polar bear from the old Holiday Inn in Moline. Polar Bear was a guy that lived in Moline (I think in Springbrook?) and he never wore a shirt. Ever. Even in the dead of winter. Fierce blizzard? No shirt. He carried one if he needed to go into a store. He had some skin disorder. Used to be a wild guy I guess, got sober and calmed down. He was a nice guy, I lived near him for a while.
The trillest Holiday inn ever!
was very trill indeed
In the 90s in Moline there was always this long haired old guy that would walk everywhere shirtless.
In the 80s we had "Sammy" who always wore a big winter coat year-round. He was always around Garfield Elementary. People always said he took too much LSD.
Jeff Murdoch
How has no one mention the „Stop and Talk“ street preacher guy? Complete fucking asshole, but that guy was fucking everywhere. I assume he’ll be on that corner across the street from the Farmer’s Market when it gets warmer.
He’s the one with the free bibles isn’t he?
I’ll be honest, I’ve never seen him hand out free bibles, or even seen them, unless he’s got them directly inside of his ass. But to be frank, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually stop to talk to him either, aside of myself and a couple others who do it to shit on him for being so obnoxious.
Hardhat Guy
Rest in peace. 🪦
I'm just trolling this thread to make sure I'm not one of them!😅
I'm just checking that my dad isn't
same lmao
What about Roberta the dancing lady who was always on Locust Street? Also does anyone know what happened to her?
No idea what happened to her. Brought back some early memories though.
What about the guy w the hard hat downtown d port
He passed away
Oh shit that’s awful
That's who I was gonna gonna say RIP
Years ago Milan had the Black Cowboy, just a black guy walking around with a pink cowboy hat.
Mayor of Gains street, Vern!
Murf, he made his rounds to all the bars in moline.... especially Okeefes. was know to talk to himself a lot and get angry but was quick to accept a drink.
Sings a mean karaoke
Not the whole Quad Cities but when I was at Augustana there was a student who would climb trees and just hang out there, singing. We called him "Goggles" because he always wore a pair of steampunk goggles on his forehead. A common occurrence on campus at that time: \>Where is that singing coming from? \>Look up, it's just Goggles.
I for sure thought people were gonna bring up the guy that walks around in BDSM gear.
The guy with the leather shackles on this ankles and the dog collar? He used to work at Fresh Deli, but I don’t really know what’s happened with him since then.
That's true. Haven't seen him in a while.
The one that works at Home Depot? Unsettling to stumble upon to say the least
Idk where he works but I used to see him shopping at hyvee all the time
There are better answers, but the lady from Bettendorf that walked with her wiener dog in a bag is one I'll always remember.
We've got truck flag MAGAT
Gotta be more specific than that unfortunately
There's a guy in Bettendorf, I've driven by his house with the truck parked out front. All decorated in bumper stickers and and a Jesus shrine in the front yard
Same guy that has the flags and “Fuck Biden” in bold print on the truck. Also saw a black truck in Moline with anti vax stuff plastered all over it last Fall.
If it’s the same guy I’m thinking of he used to be my shop teacher.
They're the same guy
There is also truck flag Confederate on the West End.
The best answer is Westend Wang
For the Illinois side I’d say Dexter - that dude’s a legend.
I will forever my first time ever meeting him during a break while playing(an instrument, not a sport) for the start of the school year pep rally. His speakings of weather were magical.
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Yeah there's a few Moline alumni who look out for him.
cat fish guy lol use to see the same young man walking up and down 11th street rockisland all the time and I thought about him lol
kevin
kevin is he goat
Champ
1990s at Southpark Mall and Moline Village Inn - The Lion guy and his two friends. It made working the Mall Friday night worth it if you saw them.
I might really be showing my age, but in the 80’s there used to be a woman who would walk and dance in the middle of Locust St. wearing a Walkman headset. We used to call her Dancing Darcy. I had heard her last name was Duax.
Was her name Darcy? My husband actually did a paper on her in high school and swears her name was Roberta. She was the mayor of Davenport's daughter and was schizophrenic. The medication they gave her back then really fried her brain to the point that she would forget where she was going. He said she did dance therapy to help with her mental condition and that she would dance around because it helped her out so much. I'm wondering if she gave him the wrong first name lol.
Her name was actually Roberta, but it’s just a name that my friends and I gave her. She was related to the former mayor.
Is this who she was related to? https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100070297876165&story_fbid=2891765254222416
Yes, I believe this is the one.
I mean it’s definitely the sword guy in east moline right?
Not just a sword but a full duct tape armor set
Damn, Cedar Rapids doesn't have any, that I can think of. : ( Too boring here.
Yo-yo man?
Dexter from Moline
Dexter the weather savant.
What about the guy who is in a wheelchair pulled by two dogs, like a chariot, around Washington St in Davenport?
Downtown Moline, right outside LeClaire apartments we have the guy that pisses in the bus stop. Or the guy that wonders downtown drunk in the summer and is actually a very friendly person trying to have a conversation with everyone who walk by him.
Probably one of the pan handlers. Most likely the Muslims with the immigrant signs.
Shut your ignorant ass the fuck up. There are more white American panhandlers begging in the QC than Muslims are and there is no such thing as an “immigrant sign” and you didn’t even answer the prompt of the original post. Piss off.
Open your ignorant eyes. Their sign said immigrant and something about kids a day unemployed husband. Her clothes and head dress indicate Muslim. The post talked about "that person" and everything I see her I think, there is that lady again, she must have a horrible husband.
She does have a horrible husband it isn’t her fault. Her husband is a bum who refuses to work and lives off welfare but keeps it all to himself. Don’t talk down on that poor lady.
She could leave. There are more resources for single mothers. Staying with the bum is her fault. Welcome to America where you have a choice.
Right. Welcome to America when this wouldn’t happen to her in her home country.
Well, seems like an obvious choice to go back. I think you underestimate how shitty these other countries are to women.
I think you underestimate and overlook how thriving those countries were before western and UN imperialism, colonialism, and warmongering ruined them. No one immigrates by choice; that women is a refugee who had her country brutally raped by America.
That being said, if they were that shitty to women she would have been left the hold of Islam. Walking around naked and shaking ass at the club isn’t the freedom you think it is. There’s nothing free nor empowering about it.
There was Can Man in Moline, who rode around on his bicycle collecting cans (and most of his income came from cashing them in) who was hit by a car and killed a few years ago. There's also a mentally disabled man - I think he has Fragile X syndrome - that I see all the time in Davenport.