Day 6: Moving on to Missouri

I had so many plans for Missouri last year when my transmission starting acting up and I was able to limp on home early. So, with a new transmission on-board, it gave me a sense of joy and accomplishment to arrive and shoot in Branson where I left off. Branson has exploded with crazy giant stuff since I was there roughly 10 years ago. So, that also filled me with joy. I posted a number of those things over at Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/agilitynut/

But here are a few other photos. At the Bigfoot Fun Park’s mini golf:

These giant hands and camera are at Beyond the Lens! (The location in Pigeon Forge, TN has two of these):

This giant skate at the World’s Largest Toy Museum:

I knew it looked familiar and was able to identify it as the one I shot a few years ago in Wilburton, OK which disappeared around the same time that it showed up in Branson.

Another aha! moment. These fiberglass rooster and turkey statues in Cassville turned up at QC Supply after disappearing from Springdale, AR and later Lincoln, AR:

This giant Indian was looking for a home when the gift shop in Charlemont, MA decided to get rid of him for being racially insensitive. He is now installed in Vinita, OK at the Hi-Way Cafe (along with a new “Muffler Man” that was created by Bell Plastics and traveled Route 66 for Mobil 1):

The Cafe sign was recently restored:

OK — enough with the giant things. How about this vitrolite facade and glass block at the former Civic Theatre in Webb City:

There are a handful of surviving former Mid-West National Insurance Company buildings in the Midwest but I think this one in Springfield is the only survivor with the original plexiglass dome and revolving ball: