![]() ![]() ![]() Restaurants such as the Hilltop Steak House in Saugus, Massachusetts actually have corrals full of Hereford and black Angus statues on display. The steer became one of the most popular. He created almost as many types of animals as Noah took on board his ark. Soon the manufacture of animals became the primary focus of his business. In the 1950s, Bob Prewitt, a manufacturer of fiberglass trailers created life-sized fiberglass animals to prove the trailers were large enough to accommodate the real thing. Ironically, this statuary was not designed for use as symbology for restaurants. This was true roadside art which became a part of the fabric of Americana, albeit a kitschy tradition fading with the passage of time (which aptly describes many of the statues themselves).Īmong the most famous statuary art are life-sized fiberglass statues of stocky steers (corpulent cows and beefy bulls, if you prefer) which became the symbol of steakhouses along the motorways and byways. Neon lights festooned Route 66 while fiberglass and concrete statues became part-and-parcel of America’s highways and byways. Entrepreneurs competed with each other to create gawk-inspiring, curiosity motivating, must-see-to-believe attractions to snare the attention of motorists and motivate them to part with some of their money. The fatted cow lets you know you’ve arrivedĪmerica’s highway system expansion which began in the 1930s not only “shrank” America, it introduced the entertaining, educational–some might say bizarre–phenomenon of the roadside attraction. ![]()
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