Archive for April, 2008

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Uniroyal Gal Joins WV Colossi Party

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Collector-of-giants George Farnham has finally added a long sought prize to his assembly of fiberglass statues — a Uniroyal Gal. He and wife Pam emphasized their interest in that rare model of Muffler Man when we’d loitered around Casa Farnham in Unger, West Virginia in 2005. So we kept an eye out (in sort of [...]

Chiropractic Bigfoot Returns

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Back in 2001, Chiropractor Tom Payne had a 400 lb, eight-foot-tall Bigfoot, which he named “Sasquatch Sam,” carved out of a tree. It had bicycle-reflector eyes and acted as a signpost for the narrow driveway that led to Payne’s clinic in Federal Way, Washington. The town was stunned one morning in January 2006 to find [...]

Shutterbugs: Watch Where You Point That Thing

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

As reported in the Daily Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, the U.S. Government has become leery of people with cameras. Well, some types of people anyway. The story unfolds of man who thought that Picatinny Arsenal — a military installation — was a “tourist attraction.” After being turned away at the gate, the man [...]

Marx Toy Museum Closing: Boomers Mourn

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

A shocking story in the Erie Times-News on April 1 — which doesn’t appear to be a prank — relates that the Marx Toy Museum in Erie, Pennsylvania, will be closing its doors forever on April 13. Problems cited in the article include a lack of money from the city, and the rarified ages of [...]

Everyone Gets a Hall of Fame

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

We’ve touched on the trend before of ever-narrowing categories for Halls of Fame, sliced and diced by geography, industry, gender, race, religion, politics, and whatever. We were reminded of it again by a story in the Frisco, Texas, Courier-Gazette. A former post office supervisor named Andy Woolard wants to build a Christian Music Hall of [...]

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