# Do you have a fiberglass herd? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822 "2004-06-23T16:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/1 "2004-06-23T16:46:09Z")
It seemed to start innocently enough when Louisville, KY became the host of fiberglass horses placed throughout the city. Each of these horses are life-like, life-sized, and in various poses. Some even have jockeys. All of them have been painted by various artists, so that they appear as much as a work of art as they are a reminder that Louisville is the home of the most famous 2 minutes in (US) racing: The Kentucky Derby. I went on vacation recently to Hendersonville, NC, where Main Street (all 5 blocks or so of it) has large fiberglass _pigs_ posed and painted. As far as I know, Hendersonville is not known for anything swine-like. In fact, as you go east from Hendersonville, you hit apple orchards. This prompted Mrs. Vlad/Igor to wonder if perhaps this phenomenon is more wide-spread than we thought. Is the virgin urban landscape being threatened by creeping bucolicism? Does anyone else have similar fiberglass animals in their fair city? Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/2 "2004-06-23T17:16:10Z")
Well, Chicago did it in '99, and Green Bay is doing it _again_ this year. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/3 "2004-06-23T17:20:44Z")
[Knoxville, TN](http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/article.php/6916) apparently had bears back in 2002 - I didn’t move here until August, and they were gone by then. Except for a few, like the bumblebee bear that’s on the outside of the UT library. I actually saw/noticed it for the first time last weekend - I think it had been taken down for a while. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/4 "2004-06-23T17:25:47Z")
[Cows.](http://www.cowparade.org) Hundreds and hundreds of cows! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/5 "2004-06-23T17:29:26Z")
The Twin Cities is positively awash with [Peanuts](http://www.dot.state.mn.us/newsline/archive/01/may/23.html#1) characters. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/6 "2004-06-23T17:32:47Z")
Rhode Island has a bunch of [Mr. Potato Heads](http://gonewengland.about.com/library/blpotindex.htm) all over. (RI is the home of Hasbro, the makers of Mr Potato head.) ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/7 "2004-06-23T17:34:53Z")
Oklahoma City has the [buffalo](http://www.spiritofthebuffalo.org/). And Gainnesville, Florida did Gators (I can’t find a link). I think Palm Beach did alligators too but they were more realistic gators and not the mascot-y ones Gainesville used. ---
**Author:** ![malkabat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@malkabat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkabat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/8 "2004-06-23T17:38:56Z")
The Little Law School That Almost Could (my employer) was the recipent of a [Jerusalem Lion](http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/publish/htmlfiles/1616/results_pub_id=4235.html) ;j . I don’t know its name, but I call it the Salsa Lion because it has vegetables painted on its hide, and chili peppers on its mane. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/9 "2004-06-23T17:41:56Z")
Boston had a couple of cod a couple of years ago. Not sure how many there were, or if they’re still around. Didn’t this get started in Chicago with the cows? That’s the first one I remember seeing. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/10 "2004-06-23T17:47:55Z")
Last summer here in DC we had Donkeys and Elephants (except they gave the donkeys horse tails instead of donkey tails). This summer we have Pandas and everyone’s a critic: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41824-2004Jun14.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41824-2004Jun14.html) I liked the idea when it was originally done in Chicago, but now I find it cliched. Every city does it. I think if DC is going to do it again next year we should at least make a little more original, maybe statues of Sens. Delay and Daschle all over town, or statues of tourists standing on the left side of our metro escalators and keeping us from getting to work on time that we can paint. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/11 "2004-06-23T17:57:42Z")
Toledo, Ohio has/had [frogs](http://www.angelfire.com/me/vmeyer/Froglist.html). ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/12 "2004-06-23T18:01:47Z")
I guess you could say we have a fiberglass flock–swans. Every couple of street corners. Local artists have painted them in all sorts of interesting ways. One near a doctor’s office is painted black with white swan bones a la x-ray. The one out in front of the local Wachovia has their blue and green logo design. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/13 "2004-06-23T18:06:28Z")
Scranton has [Miles of Mules.](http://www.surfscranton.com/mules2.asp) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/14 "2004-06-23T18:35:10Z")
New York City (in the Wall Street area) had bulls and bears. Saratoga, NY, had horses. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/15 "2004-06-23T18:45:14Z")
Believe it or not, we have [Wild Salmon on Parade](http://www.anchorage.net/salmon/) here in Anchorage. These have been placed all over the downtown area. Some are amusing. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/16 "2004-06-23T18:47:25Z")
I think Lexington did the fiberglass horse thing before Louisville, actually. I guess it was the summer before we moved, so it would have been three years ago. My favorites were the blue buffalo and the Gerber daisy horse with the sunglasses. Most of them were taken down, but afaik there’s still a couple out on Versailles Road by Gaines Farm and Keeneland. As for the pigs, North Carolina is pork barbecue country, so pigs are the animal of choice for doing this sort of project around here. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/17 "2004-06-23T18:48:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Believe it or not, we have [Wild Salmon on Parade](http://www.anchorage.net/salmon/) here in Anchorage. These have been placed all over the downtown area. Some are amusing. [Here’s a virtual tour link.](http://www.anchorage.net/salmon/index.cfm?fuseaction=salmon.view_all) ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/18 "2004-06-23T18:59:25Z")
[Cows](http://members.shaw.ca/picscandlish/cow.htm) of course! ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/19 "2004-06-23T19:35:04Z")
Toronto had moose in 2001 when I visited in April. I saw the elephants and donkeys in DC in 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822/20 "2004-06-23T19:44:00Z")
Kokomo’s [Steers on the Square](http://www.kokomoperspective.com/new/article.asp?5930) :rolleyes: One was stolen in less than a day of being placed - now the herd is gathered outside the Police Station. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-fiberglass-herd/251822.md?page=2)