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Chocowinity, North Carolina: Big Yogi Bear

A 1960s vintage Yogi from a Jellystone Campground now stands on a pole outside a storage facility with "Bear" in its name.

Bear Creek Mini Storage

Address:
2983 NC-33, Chocowinity, NC
Directions:
Bear Creek Mini Storage. On the south side of NC-33, three miles west of downtown Chocowinity.
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Big Yogi Bear

Looks like the business that Yogi's promoting has changed, and he has been given a paint job.

[Strange Carolinas, 06/27/2019]

Yogi now waves to passing motorists from atop a pole, and wears a fuchsia necktie.

Yogi Bear.

Big Yogi Bear

This Yogi Bear statue is about 15 feet high, and serves as an advertisement for an automobile dealership. It's about three miles west of Chocowinity, and would be nicer if it was not behind a fence with barbed wire.

[Kevin, 05/29/2015]

Yogi Bear.

Big Yogi Bear

A giant Yogi Bear stands at a car dealership outside of Chocowinity.

[Ric Carter, 04/09/2015]

This vintage Yogi would have originally stood at a Jellystone Campground. He arrived (apparently minus picnic basket) in March 2013.


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