Jimmy Stewart Statue

Indiana, Pennsylvania

Jimmy Stewart was born and raised in this timber-and-coal town, which honored him with a life-size bronze statue on his 75th birthday. It really wasn't bronze, however. The bronze statue cost $100,000, and it wasn't ready in time for its 1983 dedication. So the town substituted a look-alike fiberglass statue, and no one noticed the difference -- not even Jimmy, who flew in from California for the dedication.

The real statue was eventually completed, and the fiberglass statue was moved next door as a display inside the Jimmy Stewart Museum, which opened in 1996. Both statues show Jimmy in his "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" suit, a string bean of a man wearing a fedora and gesturing casually.

Bronze Jimmy stands in front of the Indiana County Court House atop a concrete pedestal. His shoes, the only part of the statue that are accessible, do not appear to have been rubbed for luck.