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- Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Big Amish Statues
A big Amish man and woman flanked a circular "Wilkum" sign at the local Holiday Inn.
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- Directions:
- Lancaster Visitors Center Holiday Inn, east side of Lancaster, just north of Rt. 30 at the Greenfield Rd. exit.
- Hours:
- June 2010: Reported gone.
- Status:
- Gone
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Big Amish Statues
There is another sub-species of Amish giants in and around the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, including: an Amish couple at Roadside America in Shartlesville happily waving to traffic on I-78, Amos the famous talking Amish giant at Zinn's Diner off the Exit 21 of the Penna. Turnpike in Adamstown, the giant pie woman and child at a restaurant off I-81 in Frackville, another Amish couple standing in front of the Lancaster Holiday Inn happily waving to traffic on U.S. 30.
[Kevin Patrick, 02/03/1998] - Strasburg, Pennsylvania - Big Amos, Barefoot Amish Giant
Giant fiberglass Amish Man, formerly outside a diner, now outside a restaurant. The restaurant burned in January 2023, but Big Amos escaped unharmed.
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Hershey Farm Restaurant And Inn
- Address:
- 240 Hartman Bridge Rd/Hwy 896, Strasburg, PA
- Directions:
- 1.5 miles south of U.S. 30 on Hwy 896. At the Hershey Farm Restaurant And Inn.
- Phone:
- 717-687-8635
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
At an estate sale I found a color slide of barefoot Big Amos as he looked at Zinn's Diner in the mid-1970s.
[Ray Luce, 02/02/2019]Here is a recent picture of Amos, the barefoot Amish Man.
[Ed Steinerts, 05/17/2006]
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The Amish giant first appeared outside Zinn's in 1969. He's remained remarkably consistent over the years, just like flesh-and-blood Amish.