Brainerd, Minnesota: Stick Your Head in the Lion Mouth
The Lions Club of Brainerd erected a drinking fountain next the sidewalk: a colorful lion statue usually found in kiddie water parks. Stick your head in its open mouth to take a drink.
- Address:
- S. 6th St., Brainerd, MN
- Directions:
- Downtown, on the southeast corner of Hwy 371/S. 6th St. and Hwy 210/Washington St. Next to the water tower.
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The Bunyan and Babe statues are long gone. But the Lion drinking fountain worked great! The Bunyan flashlight tower is on the site of the original Northern Pacific depot built in 1871 (now a law office).
[LamFam, 06/17/2017]This lion head is still there. It may have been temporarily removed for repairs, but it was there as of June 2016.
[DayTripper28, 06/06/2016]On 04/01/2016 the fountain was no longer here, just the sign of where it formally was.
[Rebecca Keeler, 04/02/2016]The Lion head is still on S. 6th Street, but may not be there much longer. The site is under construction for a new business, and the head had been disconnected from the water supply. It appeared that maybe the Lion was going to be removed from the site.
[E.W. Burdorff, 10/13/2014]
The Lions Club put up this water fountain in 1968. You stick your head into the lion's mouth to take a drink of water. It still works!
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We've seen these in F.A.S.T.'s fiberglass figures catalog, intended for kid parks, but it's more rare to spot one deployed in a downtown.