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RE: OKC - Cool Looking Statues around Downtown OKC - This is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Hey, great post about my hometown, are you from here? If so, I'd love to chat some time.
Hey, great post about my hometown, are you from here? If so, I'd love to chat some time.
No, I don't live there. I was there a couple of times for work, then I tele-commuted the rest of the time. I enjoyed the place.
I lived in Detroit at the time, where there were dozens of painted statues of cars, being the motor city. During one promotion / contest / fundraiser, the cars were purchased by organizations all over Detroit and painted by the organizations. There were cars painted like cars, companies and even a piano for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
When I saw these statues in Oklahoma City, I thought these were similar and I had to take a few pictures. Were there other statues around the city that I missed? Are these statues still downtown?
I think that these statues captured some of the character of Oklahoma City.
It started as a copycat of the cows in either Dallas or Austin, I can't recall, and they were all buffalo. but the casting wasn't done right and many of them deteriorated. They were all painted differently. I think there are about a dozen of them still around. There's a huge bronze installation now, along the East end of the riverwalk downtown, depicting the landrun in life size. We don't have a lot of public art in OKC, but it's getting better.
That's cool. Fort Wayne Indiana did the same thing with Mastadons. IPFW, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne University has a school mascot of a Mastadon. So, the city has a number of these Mastadons around town.