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Pig & Hog Statues (page 3)

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Pork and Beans
Peoria, IL		 Pigs
Natchez, MS
This pig in a can of Pork and Beans is installed on the George O. Pasquel Company building. It has been there since at least 2007. [map]

These Pigs are located at the Pig Out Inn. One of them has been there since at least 2008. The other one was installed around 2014. [map]

Flag-Holding Pig
Cincinnati, OH		 Lucky
Cincinnati, OH		 Pig
Sioux Falls, SD		 Hamingway
Lexington, KY
The Flag-Holding Pig is installed on the roof of the SpringDot Building next to I-75. The pig is dressed like Superman or Underdog. The statue was probably created in 2000 during the Big Pig Gig public art exhibit. Flying pigs are a symbol of Cincinnati which is nicknamed "Porkopolis." The statue remains but the flag is gone. For more, see this website. [map]

Lucky, short for Lucius Quintus Pigasus, is a tribute to the Roman soldier, Cincinnatus, for which Cincinnati was named. This pig was also created in 2000 as part of the Big Pig Gig. It is installed in Sawyer Point Park next to a statue of Cincinnatus. For more, see this website. [map]

This Pig in Sioux Falls was installed by 2016 at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant. It appears to be from the same mold as the Cincinnati statues and may have been installed there originally. [map]

This Hamingway tribute to Ernest Hemingway may have come from Cincinnati. It has been at its current location since at least 2022. [map]

Dancing Pigs
Davis, CA
This ceramic tile-covered Dancing Pigs sculpture was created by Donna Billick and was installed at The Marketplace shopping center in 1989. [map]

Blue Ridge Pig
Nellysford, VA		 Oink Joint [gone]
Birch Run, MI
The Blue Ridge Pig restaurant features this pig statue which is installed on a pole by the road. The pig was built by Mark Cline in 1985 for Dick's Barbeque in Stuarts Draft, VA. The restaurant closed and the pig disappeared. By 1992, the pig statue was installed at the Blue Ridge Pig. In 2015, a car hit the pole and the fiberglass pig was badly damaged. Cline restored the statue. [map]

The Oink Joint was a temporary transformation of the former Ken's Diner for the 2008 filming of the movie "Whip It". This foam pig was installed on the roof during the shooting. It was about 18 feet long and is probably made of fiberglass. After the filming, the place operated as the Oink Joint for a while. By 2011, the diner was housing El Indio de Tijuana and the pig statue was gone. [photos thanks Mark Comstock]

Greene's Bar-B-Q [gone]
Columbia, SC		 Poole's Bar-B-Q
East Ellijay, GA
The Greene's Bar-B-Q pig was a wood carving. These photos are from 2009. By 2014, the restaurant had closed and the statue was gone.

Poole's Bar-B-Q is as well known for its Pig Hill of Fame as its food. The restaurant started out as a roadside shack in 1989. This pig statue is located on the roof at the restaurant's entrance. [map]

Bar B Q Pit
Merced, CA
2014: 2025:
The Bar B Q Pit pig statue is a wood carving. The restaurant opened in the early 1970s. I don't know when the statue was created. By 2021, the statue had been repainted. Part of his spoon and kerchief have broken off. [map]

Piggly Wiggly
Andalusia, AL		 Piggly Wiggly
Erin, TN
Piggly Wiggly
Milton, FL
This Piggly Wiggly store in Andalusia closed in 2008. The building now houses the Fletchers Outdoors store but the statue remains. [map]

This Piggly Wiggly statue in Erin has been there since at least 2013. [map]

This Piggly Wiggly location in Milton opened around 2013. The statue was installed in 2019. [map]

Giant Pig
Dothan, AL

2010:
2020:
This Pig was built around 1967 by Larry and Ronald Godwin. The pig is 26 feet long by about 13 feet tall and made from scrap steel. The pig's head used to move from side to side. The sculpture was created for a feed mill. The sign originally read "Going Whole Hog for Bob's Feeds". Later, the sign read "Monument to the Hog". The pig is now owned by Schnitzer Southeast, a scrap metal recycling company. The "Save the Pig" sign was just a gimmick to draw attention to the business. In recent years, the statue is repainted in either Auburn University or the University of Alabama colors, depending on which team wins the Iron Bowl football game that year. For more, see this website. [map]

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