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Subject: [Leica] Muffler Man Statue
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:56:17 +0530
References: <0977A074-27FC-4943-93C9-08CEF20D3316@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Nice and droll. A touch of Americana that I was never aware of.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:55 AM Christopher Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> Back in the 1960s, thousands of these giant creepy-looking fiberglass men
> were sold to businesses all over the USA. A lot of them are still around
> today, often repurposed by new businesses that have inherited them. They
> are known as "Muffler Men" because many originally stood outside muffler
> shops.
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> This one stands along I-69, a few miles west of Muncie, Indiana.
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