 Muffler
Man
RA ID#: 5907
Type: Bunyan
Town: Cheshire
State: Connecticut
Muffler Man "Flagpole":Address: 540 W Johnson Ave, Cheshire, CT [ Show Map] Directions: House of Doors. West Johnson Ave off of Rt 10 (about 3 miles north of Police Station). From north, I-691 exit onto Rte 10, quick right onto Johnson Ave, one mile down road, right hand side. Phone: 203-271-3667
Arm position: std.
Accessories: American flag
The town of Cheshire enforces a law that no sign can be more than seven feet
high, and most signs in town seem cut from an identical mold with
knob-topped bedposts on either side and a Georgian sunburst "window" on top.
When the lumber business that is now the House of Doors put a 26-foot-tall
Paul Bunyan muffler man on their front lawn in the early 1980s
the town was up in arms, so the Sirois brothers who own the business
replaced the axe with an American flag. "You can build a flagpole as high as you want and the town can't do anything about
it," they told us.
The muffler man, they proudly claim, is now "an official landmark."
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Carpet-clutching Muffler Man
At first we thought Paul Bunyan was weeping. Or a custom beauty mark had been
added Then we realized it was some kind of nest clinging there! Hornets?
Wasps? We weren't going to stick around to find out..
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