New Castle, Indiana - Icehouse Man

The Ice-Man stands atop a stone platform in front of The Ice-House Tavern next to New Castle Public Library. You can see him if you park around the side of the building next to a small building in the parking lot of the library. He is "dressed" in blue and white. [Nelda Herrald, 04/20/2008]

[RA: There's another of the same mold in Montpelier, IN, holding a tiny ice cream cone. Has been seen as an Uncle Sam in other states, hence the lapel clenching.]

This statue is about twenty feet tall (not counting the pedestal), made entirely of fiberglass and is wearing a faded blue blazer and baseball cap, both emblazoned with Marathon logos, has a really pasty complexion and sports a jaunty set of sideburns to boot.

He lacks the classic 'right up/left down' hand positions, instead looking much more like a real estate agent or a preacher... your guess is as good as mine. He is placed in front of a seedy-looking bar/package store in a none-too-glamorous part of town. Still, you go where you have to, right?

I don't see any others on the tracking chart that look anything like him, but he would seem to be a close cousin to the Muffler men... or at least an eccentric uncle. [Jeanette Stout, 07/22/2002]

[RA: He's not a muffler man, though an interesting hybrid of the Uncle Sam body we've seen elsewhere in the Midwest. With that scary head added -- perhaps a current or previous owner of the establishment? -- it is a rare find!]