Going through there at night makes me think of the Vegas Strip. It’s so ugly it’s almost beautiful.
Almost.
Does Flynt still have a place in Ohio? I thought that he loaded up the truck and he moved to Beverly.
Hills, that is.
Nice!
Farine Five Roses/
Phare urbain de mes amours tourmentés/
Farine Five Roses/
Logo des mon égo ébloui et blessé.
No billboards in Vermont, so no real monstrosities either.
Just saw this in today’s paper…
At the normally very prim and proper San Francisco Ritz-Carlton, they have a 20-foot tall inflatable armadillo wearing a cowboy hat this week. It’s amazing what you can do when you buy out an entire hotel for a restaurant chain managers’ conference.
(Sorry, I haven’t found any pix of the actual armadillo on the hotel.)
This, a giant fiberglass cougar statue at Crossroads Lincoln Mercury. It used to sit on top of the dealership. In the 1980s, someone shot it with an arrow (which stuck out of the center of its neck) and the arrow stayed there for years. (Incidentally, the site which has that picture has a number of other animal-statue monstrosities).
The local Ralph’s Muffler shop has a hybrid Muffler Man looming over the parking lot, which is also featured in their print advertising. Not that Muffler Men are all that rare, I guess. Bedford Indiana also has a Muffler Man, this time painted up to look like an Indian and presented as a memorial/honor to once-local tribes.
We have the Black Bird (not my gallery). The store that it’s a mascot for decorates it seasonally:
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I don’t think he has a personal residence still, but he is still seen occasionally in the casinos over in Southeast Indiana. The store seems to do quite well though.
I’m 1.7 miles from a Muffler Man.
Which means I’m not too far from the Sausage Dancing Pig Sign (if it’s still standing).
I came to post Paul Bunyan, too. I don’t live near it, but frequently pass it. Around Christmas time, the business owners dress it in a giant red suit and white beard like Santa Claus!
We have a giant farmer next to an (as far as I can tell) identical man-sized farmer. this is the best picture I could find of them. They’re hideous.
The really creepy (to me) thing is the size- at first it looks like a giant man next to a giant child, but they’re juuuuust the wrong size and proportion.
then there’s the Syberg’s shark: here, which I wouldn’t call a monstrosity… I think it’s really cool. But a curiosity, I suppose.
None that I’m aware of here in North Florida; but I used to live in Charleston, SC where a local dairy had a huge cow (roughly 2-3 times larger than life) on their sign. Several times a year some drunken college kid would be arrested for climbing the sign, riding the cow, and then not being able to get back down.
Some of these are extraordinarily ugly. I feel sorry for the people that have to view them.
His name is Glenn Stone. Isn’t it?
There’s also the dinosaur at the Dinorsaur McDonald’s. I love it when, at Halloween, they throw a sheet over him with two eyeholes cut out, and he holds a sign that says, “Boo!” That cracks me up everytime.
When my wife was in Poland, the tour guide pointed out some spectacular piece of Soviet-era architorture. After disparaging the building for five minutes, the guide said that the fellow who lived there was the luckiest man in town, because he was the only one who didn’t have to look at it.
Is the Green Knight still in Destin?
Everybody loves the Giant Uniroyal Tire!
Me mate Bill’s shark on his house! Not really advertising. He also owned a couple of cinemas - one had huge can can legs sticking out the front of it, but they moved to Brighton (the legs did).
I live near the York Barbell Man. 8 feet of muscle-bound, flat-topped, iron-pumping, rotating Macho.