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Springville, Utah: Texaco Big Friend: Service Station Man (Gone)

Newly-minted Service Station Man, aka Texaco Big Friend, a variant of the Muffler Man. Arrived in August 2023; vanished less than two years later.

Art City Coffee

Directions:
Art City Coffee. The statue is on the south side of W 500 S, just east of its intersection with S 1750 W, next to the Ferris wheel.
Status:
Gone

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Texaco Big Friend: Service Station Man

Unfortunately, this guy is no longer in Springville. According to an employee at a nearby shop, he kept falling over and was removed around July 2025.

[Calli, 08/06/2025]
Texaco Big Friend: Service Station Man

I was there in July 2025. He's been taken down. I asked about him in the coffee shop there, and they said that maybe he had been moved to another location.

[Wayne Wacker, 07/25/2025]

Big Friend, 2023.

Texaco Big Friend: Service Station Man

A new giant has been placed outside Legends Motorcycles in Springville.

[douglass cole, 09/12/2023]

This is a freshly-minted Service Station Man, aka Texaco Big Friend, a cousin of the Muffler Man. Roughly 300 were produced in the mid-1960s but nearly all were destroyed. This modern variant has an original head, but most of the rest is a 3D printed approximation.


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