Strasburg, Pennsylvania: Big Amos, Barefoot Amish Giant
Giant fiberglass Amish Man, formerly outside a diner, now outside a restaurant. The restaurant burned in January 2023, but Big Amos escaped unharmed.
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The former Zinn's Diner has been sold again the second time in three months. According to an article in the Ephrata Review the current owners, Lyndon Diner of Denver, PA sold the landmark to a Greek/New Jersey native. Plans include major renovations. Amos the famous statue which stood in front of the diner, had been moved to the Heritage Center Museum in Lancaster, PA and not the Henry Ford Museum as previously reported.
[Craig, 12/15/2003]The barefooted, wise-cracking Amos the big Amish farmer statue will lose his home in Denver, Pennsylvania, when Zinn's Diner closes on August 17, 2003. Zinn's, an Amish country landmark since opening in 1950, suffered an increasingly familiar economic beating, and has been sold to Lyndon D....
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Big Amos, Barefoot Amish Giant
Hershey Farm Restaurant And Inn
- Address:
- 240 Hartman Bridge Rd/Hwy 896, Strasburg, PA
- Directions:
- 1.5 miles south of U.S. 30 on Hwy 896. At the Hershey Farm Restaurant And Inn.
- Phone:
- 717-687-8635
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- Worth a Detour
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According to Peter Seibert, president and CEO of the Heritage Center Museum: "Yup, the talking fiberglass Amishman is now owned by the Heritage Center Museum. I do not have him on exhibit as he is undergoing a face lift (or should I say "plastic surgery"). When he was removed from Zinn's, it was discovered that the steel structure supporting him had rotted out -- so we have been cleaning him up, repairing him and figuring out how to install him." The HCM is considering sites for him, including "in front of our new quilt and textile museum. However, until the weather breaks in the spring, I doubt we will make any decisions. He will need to be set into a supporting base that will require cement to support him."