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International Fiberglass Giant Men Statues (page 2)

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Like the Paul Bunyan models, most of the Cowboys and other Giant Men wear shirts with open-necked collars. The seven statues below have buttoned-up collars with bow ties. There are only about 10 statues known-to-exist that have this feature.

Giant Man
Piedras Negras, Mexico
This Giant Man seems to have had a little cosmetic surgery done to his face. The statue is apparently owned by the El Terco Maderera 57 hardware store. These photos are from 2008. In 2009, his shirt was repainted green. By 2019, the statue was laying on his back behind the store. By 2021, he was back up in front of the store, elevated on a special platform. [map]

Giant Man
Hancock, MA
This Giant Man is located at Green Valley Equipment Company. This statue has been here since at least the 1990s. Previously, the statue was displayed at a nudist camp and held a pitchfork. The "Big Man" also wore a blue ball cap until around 2009. These photos are from 2011. The statue was removed in 2016. It was restored and reinstalled in 2017. For more, see this website. [map]

Giant Man
Fredericksburg, TX
This Giant Man is located at the Wine Garage. The statue was originally located at a Chevron gas station in Oakland, ME. The statue was sold around 1976 and put on display at Marden's Salvage and Surplus locations in Waterville, ME and Bangor, ME. After being in storage since the late 1990s, the statue was sold at auction to the Wine Garage in 2017.

The statue was restored by American Giants before being installed in 2018. During the restoration, the statue's original name of "Howard" was found on his shirt. He was originally named "Howard the Giant" after the first owner, Howard Swett. The name was reproduced during the restoration. The statue is one of the very rare bow tie models and wears a very rare hat. The Wine Garage logo was added to the front of the hat. A custom wine bottle and wrench were made by Mark Cline. The bottle turned out to be too big. American Giants then made a smaller one. In 2023, the business became the Fat Ass Ranch & Winery. The statue's hat was repainted and he now holds a can of beer and a mug of beer. For more, see this website. [map]

Giant Man [gone]
Los Angeles, CA
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2012:
2021:
This Giant Man was installed in front of Tony's Transmissions. He had been painted with a dark complexion and a pencil-thin mustache. Around 2010, Tony's Transmissions moved to a new location and the statue was moved with them. The car that he held was damaged. He was still there in 2019 but moved around 2020 to the new location. The statue was displayed in front of the shop. Around 2023, the statue was reportedly sold to someone in Lancaster, CA.

This statue and the former Hamburger Man in Malibu, CA were used to produce molds to create statues for Dennis Hopper. Those statues are now located in Dodge City, KS. They were on display in 2014 but then put in storage. In 2016, they were back on public display. For more, see this website.

Cowboy [gone]
Zephyrhills, FL
2003:
 2009:
This Cowboy statue was originally installed at a pawn shop in Seven Points, TX. Until at least 2001, the statue held a rifle. In 2004, Auto Air Muffler & Brake City bought the statue and restored it. The cowboy hat was replaced with a baseball cap. This statue was knocked over in 2017 during Hurricane Irma. It is now in a private collection in Ohio.

Auto Air is now known as Big Mechanic, named after these statues. The company has an International Fiberglass Paul Bunyan statue in Dade City, FL. It also had a a 14-foot-tall Giant Man in Tampa, FL which is gone now.

Giant Man
Salt Lake City, UT (now Hot Springs, AR)
The top half of this Giant Man in Salt Lake City was originally installed in the 1970s at a Mobil gas station in town. The top half was later displayed on the roof of the Rainbow Neon Sign Co. A customer brought the statue in for repairs in the mid-1980s and then never picked it up. The owner of the sign shop used the statue (top half and bottom half) in parades. When on the roof, he was dressed for various holidays. In this photo from 2022, he was sporting a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was remodeled as Spock from Star Trek in 2015 when Leonard Nimoy passed away. In 2023, the statue was removed (top and bottom) and will be displayed at Driven Towing in Hot Springs, AR after restoration. For more, see this website. [map]

Giant Man
North Platte, NE
This Giant Man in North Platte is located behind the gift shop at the Fort Cody Trading Post. The statue was originally installed at a gas station nearby. Around 1970, the Trading Post bought it and transformed it into an Indian which they called Chief Crazy Horse. The statue's bow tie feature has been mostly covered up but it is visible in the fourth photo above under the white paint. For more, see this website. [map]

More International Fiberglass Bow Tie Wearing Giant Men:
Kittanning, PA
Kingsport, TN
Panama City, Panama

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