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California's last giant orange shaped hambuger stand: Real lemonade, fresh orange juice and orange juice shakes, and great "Alaska-Sized" hamburgers... all sold out of a 20-foot orange. Owned and operated by an actual Little Old Lady...
What more could you ask for?
Well, better hurry -- the California Department of Transportation wants to tear the place down. Local efforts are underway to have it moved up the road to the nearest offramp...
[sam gueydan, 05/15/2002]Mammoth Orange Stand:- Address:
- 19450 Ave. 21 1/2, Chowchilla, CA
- Directions:
- Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County. CA-99/Golden State Hwy exit 164. Drive west a half-mile, turn left at the stop sign, then right into the parking lot. The orange is on the back side of the parking lot.
- Phone:
- 559-288-1157
- Hayward, California - Wagon Ho Pioneer Giant
Fiberglass pioneer sat on the wagon building signature element in Birmingham, Alabama at the defunct Wagon Ho restaurant chain. In April 2018, he ventured west from Moody, AL to Hayward, CA.
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Bell Plastics
- Address:
- 2020 National Ave., Hayward, CA
- Directions:
- In an industrial park. I-880/Nimitz Fwy exit 28. Drive west on Winton Ave. for one mile. At the stoplight, turn left onto Clawiter Rd, then make first right onto National Ave. Drive a quarter-mile. You'll see a blue building on the left.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
This is one of the rare sitting versions of the Pioneer Giants whose standing cousins are mostly found in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Back in the '60s he lived at the Eastwood Mall in Birmingham, AL. He was seated on the covered wagon at a Wagon Ho restaurant, a short-lived fast food chain in the mid-1960s. He held a whip in one hand and reins in the other. After Wagon Ho shut down the business became Kelly's Hamburgers and he continued at his post until Kelly's closed down. Sometime after that he was moved to the country outside Moody, where he currently sits at the abandoned Cherry Construction company lot. He is missing his left hand.
There was also a Wagon Ho in Bradenton/ Sarasota area in FL with another sitting version of Pioneer Giant, I believe.
[Joel Baker, 10/18/2011]- Hayward, California - Kip's Burger Boy
Rare roadside statue for Kip's, a late 1950s Big Boy franchise in Kansas, where this burger boy was discovered orphaned in a field for decades. He's now in California.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...
Bell Plastics
- Address:
- 2020 National Ave., Hayward, CA
- Directions:
- In an industrial park. I-880/Nimitz Fwy exit 28. Drive west on Winton Ave. for one mile. At the stoplight, turn left onto Clawiter Rd, then make first right onto National Ave. Drive a quarter-mile. You'll see a blue building on the left.
- Lancaster, California - Musical Road - Singing Road
Following your trip on the musical highway with a lunch at Foxy's Landing, you gotta have the peanut butter hamburger. Sounds weird, but once you try it you'll crave another one forever.
[Annette Carter, 04/09/2010]The Musical Road:- Address:
- Avenue G, Lancaster, CA
- Directions:
- Take Highway 14 north from Lancaster and exit at Avenue G. The Musical Road is located on Avenue G between 30th and 40th Streets West in the left lane.
- Hours:
- Always audible. Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Admission:
- Free.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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The giant oranges still found in a few spots are the original Orange Julius stands built in the 1940s and '50s.