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| Statues of Women (page 4) |
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| Waitress [gone] Flint, MI |
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| This Giant Waitress, aka "The Big Girl", stands on top of the sign at the Colonial Coney Island and Family Restaurant. She had been there since 1978. The statue is 13 feet tall. It was repainted sometime between 2007 and 2009. The photos in the top row are from 2006. The bottom photos are from 2011. In 2014, the restaurant closed and the statue was removed. In 2018, the statue was restored. It is now in a private collection in Davison, MI. For more, see this website. |
| Mary Tyler Moore Minneapolis, MN |
Pioneer Woman St. Paul, MN |
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The life-sized bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore was installed downtown in 2002. It depicts Moore's portrayal of Mary Richards in 1970s sitcom known as the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The statue stood in nearly the exact spot where the actress threw her hat into the air during the show's opening sequence. In 2015, the statue was removed during construction. In 2017, it was reinstalled. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]
The Pioneer Woman stands at the Minnesota State Fair as a tribute to Minnesota women. It was created by Gordon Shumaker and installed here in 1959. For more, see this website. [map] |
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More Minnesota:
Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart (Hackensack) Virgin Mary (Millerville) |
| Goddess of Dawn Kansas City, MO |
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| The 11-foot-tall Goddess of Dawn sculpture was created by Jorgen Dreyer and installed inside the Hotel Phillips in 1931. For more, see this website. |
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More Missouri:
Muse of the Missouri (Kansas City) |
| Mammy's Cupboard Natchez, MS 2010: |
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Mammy's Cupboard was built as a restaurant in 1940. The 28-foot-tall black woman has a 20 foot wide skirt. The skirt was originally painted yellow and Mammy's skin tone was coal black. The restaurant was built as a tourist attraction addition to Henry Gaude's Shell gas station. There were originally pumps in front of the building. Gaude drew the sketch and built the structure out of wood and tin. The bricks and wood came from a torn down cotton gin. Mammy's eyes were illuminated with light bulbs and horseshoes were originally used as earrings.
In 1943, the restaurant closed and was used for storing hay. In 1947, it reopened as a drive-in with carhops. The gas pumps disappeared sometime after the late 1970s, although they had ceased operating long before that. In the 1990s, Mammy's paint was peeling badly and her arms had fallen off. She was restored after that. However, by 2019, the was missing her right arm and tray again. The restaurant is still open for lunch. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. [map] |
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New Jersey:
Rosie the Riveter (Wood-Ridge) [map] |
| Winnie the Witch St. James, NY |
Dolly Dimples Silver Creek, NY (now Dunkirk, NY) |
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Winnie the Witch stands behind Wick's Farm & Garden. She is 30 feet tall and has been here since 1976. There were at least three previously versions of her. She was built from wood, scrap metal, and weather-resistant canvas. There was once a fence around Winnie with some funny graves and a small pond to throw coins in to make wishes. These photos are from 2007. The business has been closed since around 2018 and the Witch had deteriorated badly. In 2023, the sculpture was restored. [map]
Dolly Dimples stood among the plaster statuary being sold in front of Valvo's Candies. She is about 16 feet tall. This giant waitress had been there since at least the mid-1970s. She is believed to have originally been installed nearby at Pat's Drive-in, a restaurant which is gone now. Either this statue was installed at the Danbury Fair at some point or there were two of these statues produced. In 2023, Valvo's closed and the statue was moved to Weird But True Antiques, Oddities, and Salvage in Dunkirk, NY. For more, see this website. [map] |
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More New York:
Lucille Ball (Jamestown) North Carolina:
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| Lady Desert Rhyolite, NV |
Afternoon Breeze Boulder City, NV |
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Lady Desert, officially entitled "Lady Desert: The Venus of Nevada", is a 25-foot-tall sculpture made of cinder blocks. It was created in 1992 by Dr. Hugo Heyrman. This nude woman was done in a pixelated style. For more, see this website. [map] This life-sized bronze statue entitled Afternoon Breeze was created by Roy W. Butler. The statue is a tribute to the women of Boulder City in the 1930s. It was installed around 2008. [map] |
| Bliss Dance San Francisco, CA (now Las Vegas, NV) 2014: |
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| This Bliss Dance sculpture was built by Marco Cochrane in 2010 for the Burning Man Festival. The dancing woman was 40 feet tall and made of stainless-steel mesh. At night, the sculpture was lit with slowly changing colored LED lights. It was installed at Treasure Island in San Francisco in 2011 and removed in 2015. In 2016, the sculpture was installed in Las Vegas. For more, see this website. [map] |
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More Nevada:
Blue Angel Motel (Las Vegas) |
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