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Hand with Football
Vining, MN |
Praying Hands
Webb City, MO |
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The Hand with Football sculpture was created by Ken Nyberg from scrap metal. It is located at Nyberg Park. [map]
These Praying Hands are 32 feet tall and weigh 110 tons. They are made of stucco over steel and located on a 40-foot-tall hillside. They were built between 1972-1974 as the Hands in Prayer, World in Peace Memorial. For more, see this website. [map]
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Hand with Diploma
Alamogordo, NM |
Hands
Glencoe, NM |
Hands Holding Rock
Rio Rancho, NM |
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This Hand with Diploma is installed in front of New Mexico State University. It is approximately about five feet tall. [map]
The Hands in Glencoe were created by Mark Cline around 2013. They are installed in front of the Fox Cave gift shop. These are either the same hands or copies of the ones that were displayed in Daleville, VA in 2011. Those hands were displayed next to a truck with a sign which read "Jack's Giant Killing Service" for an April Fool's Day prank. [map]
This Hands Holding Rock sculpture is located in Rainbow Park. [map]
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Hand
Santa Fe, NM |
Hand & Cell Phone [gone]
Brooklyn, NY |
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This Hand sculpture in Santa Fe supports a mailbox. It was produced in 1991. [map]
This Hand & Cell Phone advertised for Samsung and was installed at John F. Kennedy Airport. This photo is from 2009. By the end of the year, it was gone.
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Madame Tussauds Hands
New York, NY |
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The Madame Tussauds Hands are located at its Times Square wax museum which opened in 2000. The silver hand is near the street while the gold hand is installed on the roof. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]
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Hands [gone]
Zanesville, OH |
Hand's Auto Air Conditioning & Radiator
Columbus, OH |
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These Hands in Zanesville functioned as chairs outside B&D Sales, a gift shop and deli. This photo is from 2009. By 2012, the chairs had been repainted a reddish brown. They were still there in 2015 but gone by 2018. There is or was another pair of hands in town.
Hand's Auto Air Conditioning & Radiator had the same type of hands chairs as those in Zanesville. Those seem to be gone ow. I have not seen these chairs outside of Ohio. The hand on top of the sign is still there. [map]
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Hand with Butterfly
Stratford, OK |
Praying Hands
Tulsa, OK |
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This Hand with Butterfly sculpture is installed in at Lunsford Welding. The steel sculpture is about 30 feet tall and was built by Kevin Tyler and Robby Lunsford in 1992. For more, see this website. [map]
These Praying Hands are located at the entrance to Oral Roberts University. The 60-foot-tall hands were made in Mexico in 1980. They are the largest bronze sculpture in the world. The sculpture was originally known as the Healing Hands and was located at Oral Roberts' City of Faith medical center which went bankrupt in 1989. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]
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Arm
Austin, TX |
Thumb's Up
College Station, TX |
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This Arm is installed on the side of the building of the Hyde Park Gym. It was created by Dale Whistler and has been here since at least 2005. [map]
This Thumb's Up statue is located at Aggieland Outfitters which sells Texas A&M merchandise. The hand signal is specific to the university and is actually the Gig 'em hand sign. The statue was installed around 2015. It was modeled after the store owner's hand. [map]
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