Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Winston the Steakhouse Bull

Saw the recent post about Winston the Bull. The other bull, the one that stood in front of Staley's, is in private hands. The Winston-Salem Journal ran an article claiming that the bull in front of Fratellis was the same one that had been at Staley's. A few days later the private owner of Staley's bull -- Steve Newsom of Forsyth Rooter Service -- came forward, and they ran a piece about him.

The bull at Fratellis Italian Steakhouse was previously perched on poles outside a local butcher shop. It's now standing in for a missing bull statue (and its successors) that once stood outside the old Staley's Charcoal Steak House for the past sixty years or so. Glad to see this one's been repurposed, but I wonder what happened to the bull that used to be here.

There's another big cow in Winston at a butcher shop called Thrif-Way Meats. I don't know the history of this one. I don't remember seeing it when I lived in Winston in the '80s, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't there (And that's not a typo -- the business really is called Thrif-Way).

There's a couple of those steakhouse giant cow statues in Winston-Salem. One is on a trailer next to a place that actually used to be a vintage steakhouse. Staley's Charcoal Steak House was open from 1957 to 2003, and the cow was a regular fixture during that time. Several restaurants have been there since the closing of Staley's, but the current one, known as Old Staley's Grill & Ale, has retained the big cow. Glad to see it's still around.