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Size Does Matter!!
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Posted by: freebird

What do you do if you are a small town in North America or Australia, and hardly anybody stops to spend $$$, they just whiz by on the highway?

Well you build a BIG THING!!

Unlike Europe where there are magnificent 1,000 year old castles, palaces & cathedrals, here in North America or Australia sometimes there is not much to distinguish one town from the next.

So we build big gaudy, kitchy, statues so that people will stop and look. The only worse offenders than Americans are we Canucks!

Here is my thread for a tour of these landmarks.

Feel free to post a pic of some monstrosity in your local area. Only Criteria: It should be a super-size statue of some object, animal or figure, but not including natural features, architectural buildings. It should also be somewhere that you have actually been to. Also please note the city & state where its from.

The first is the "Big Nickle" in Sudbury, Ontario in Canada

Posted by: freebird

The Nickel was put up to symbolize the large nickel mines in the area, which supplied a large percentage of North Americas nickel.

More views...

Posted by: freebird

Here is the "Big Dinosaur" from Drumheller, Alberta. {Canada}

The town is in a river valley, they have excavated lots of dinosaur bones & other artifacts here.

Posted by: GoingToRussia

Yes I think they found a RandiMoparOsaurus there!

Posted by: Big wheel

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Originally Posted by freebird

Unlike Europe where there are magnificent 1,000 year old castles, palaces & cathedrals, here in North America or Australia sometimes there is not much to distinguish one town from the next.

So true....... BUT do they have

Posted by: Big wheel

OR........

Posted by: freebird

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Originally Posted by Big wheel

So true....... BUT do they have

Hey Big Wheel, GTR, living in Michigan you must have seen the "Big Tire" in Detroit?

Posted by: blucatz

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Originally Posted by freebird

Hey Big Wheel, GTR, living in Michigan you must have seen the "Big Tire" in Detroit?

I see the tire about every 2-3 days, its on I-94 around the M-39 (xit#206) exit on the south side of the road.

Posted by: GoingToRussia

Quote:

Originally Posted by freebird

Hey Big Wheel, GTR, living in Michigan you must have seen the "Big Tire" in Detroit?

I think they have a big Tire in Ohio too, maybe Akron or Toledo.

Posted by: blucatz

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Originally Posted by GoingToRussia

I think they have a big Tire in Ohio too, maybe Akron or Toledo.

They do, but its not as big and does not stand out like this one does.

Posted by: matt235

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Originally Posted by freebird

Hey Big Wheel, GTR, living in Michigan you must have seen the "Big Tire" in Detroit?

Hey, I have seen this thing too many times in my life!!! I used to fly into Detroit quite a bit for work and then travel

out of the city to the smallest towns Michigan has to offer. If I remember right this is on the west side of Detroit. I would head out that direction a lot, but not as much as going north to Saginaw and Bay City! I think I even have a picture of this one at home somewhere.

later,

Posted by: Big wheel

How could I forget about that

I grow up around Det metro airport and I still live in the area.

Posted by: freebird

Here is the "Big Crow" from Crowsnest Pass, on the B.C./Alberta border...

Posted by: freebird

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Posted by: Spakoyna

Too lazy ta find some pics now but don't forget about the KFC Big chicken in Marietta, Ga.!

Posted by: freebird

Here is the "Big Bison" near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada

Posted by: freebird

Another one from Ontario, the "Wawa Goose"

Posted by: Cheburashka

In Texas we have "CarHenge". It is a replica of Stonehenge made with cars.

Posted by: Legal

In Yekaterinburg

Posted by: Chillidog

Legal/Olga

does the above computer keyboard also have the corresponding cyrillic letters on it?

Posted by: blucatz

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Originally Posted by Cheburashka

In Texas we have "CarHenge". It is a replica of Stonehenge made with cars.

At least they found some useful purpose for AMC's Pacer....LOL

Posted by: vic2012

You dont need to build a BIG THING if your town is famous. And many towns have discovered something that, over the years, makes them really famous. And the more spectacular their discovery, the more famous they can become:
So step forward BUELLTON, HOME OF THE SPLIT PEA SOUP

I kid you not!!

Posted by: freebird

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Originally Posted by blucatz

At least they found some useful purpose for AMC's Pacer....LOL

Are you sure that is a Pacer? Not the AMC Gremlin?

{Another classic AMC product!}

Posted by: mistermopar

I lived about 2 1/2 hours from the Big Nickle and about 1 1/2 hours from the Big Buffalo near Kirkland Lake.

Randy

Posted by: mistermopar

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Originally Posted by GoingToRussia

Yes I think they found a RandiMoparOsaurus there!

LMAO.... good one!!

Randy

Posted by: GentleGiant

Could somebody remind me how to add photos, my brain is on the fritz.

Posted by: blucatz

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Originally Posted by freebird

Are you sure that is a Pacer? Not the AMC Gremlin?

{Another classic AMC product!}

Pacer, Gremlin, does it really matter, they were both butt ugly and didn't live very long on our highways (thank goodness). Sometimes when I look at it, it kinda looks like a Chevette, another american embarrassment....LOL.

Posted by: Big wheel

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Originally Posted by blucatz

But you do still see chevette on the road in everyday driving

Posted by: GoingToRussia

I bought a 1974 AMC Hornet, $2300 brand new!!!! It was a piece of XXXX!!! I ended up putting a manual choke on it because it would always flood and not start.

Posted by: blucatz

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Originally Posted by Big wheel

But you do still see chevette on the road in everyday driving

Once in a very blue moon I will see a chevette on the road, I think the last one I saw was about 6 months ago.