Photographs of the Wacky and Tacky

Oversized, gaudy, quirky, tacky, strange, out-of-place, wacky, weird and whimsical ...

(Second set)
(Third set)

All photos copyright Hilarie Orman, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Photos

Sinclair Dinosaur, Springville, Utah

Storefront, Innsbruck, Austria

Gloria Gigabyte, Innsbruck, Austria

Crab, over restaurant entrance, Paris

Modern art water sculpture, Pompidou Center, Paris

Field of paper poppies, advertising new perfume, Pompidou Center, Paris, 2001

Rich under a giant desklamp, Modern Art Museum, Pompidou Center, Paris

Beehive decoration, Paris

Giant hiking boot, San Francisco, CA

Very odd sculpture on a pole near the Bonneville Salt Flats; you cannot stop on highway to look at it

The Shoe Tree, Highway 50, Nevada

Rich examines a huge clog in Solvang

Giant chicken, somewhere northeast of Bakersfield in the Sierra

NBA store static hoop and ball, Manhattan

NBA store static hoop and ball, Manhattan

The Fox over a Pink's shirt shop in Paris

Perrier animated sign, Paris

Classic neon sign, Salt Lake City

Farm dragon, Salem, Utah

Fake rocket, Springville, Utah

Music mural, Minneapolis

People's Park commemorative mural, Berkeley, CA

Albuquerque's Paul Bunyan (alternate view)

Detail of the world's tackiest motel, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tattoo shop mural, Albuquerque, New Mexico

A mosaic arch with an embedded car, Albuquerque

Carnival float, Festival of Cultures, Essen, Germany, 2002

The Moulin Rouge, Paris

Costume supplies storefront, Paris

Pathetic situation, Xmas Tree Lane, Fresno, CA, 2002

Dinosaur, somewhere between Fresno and San Jose

World's ugliest store building, Provo, Utah

Glass sculpture, near Union Square, San Francisco, 2003

Interesting Chinese restaurant name, Chinatown, San Francisco

Yard decorations, Ragged Ass Rd., Yellowknife, NWT, Canada

Lone comfort station, near Nephi, UT

Polar bear balloon, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada

Vernal's pink dinosaur, Vernal, UT

Beer stein, Chicago

Giant parrot, car wash in San Jose

A forty-niner holding a clod of dirt, Coarsegold, California

Copper shaman deer, Woodland Hills, UT

Hare Krishna Temple, Spanish Fork, UT

Giant Indian, Roosevelt, UT

Super Grover balloon, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2003, Manhattan

Superman guards New York, October 2001

The classic New York coffee cup to-go, in situ, Central Park

Fresno's Paul Bunyan

Giant ricebowl, Chicago

Wine bottle, somewhere in Belgium, cf Tucson's Boondocks Chianti bottle

U of Arizona's biological sciences building. I really like this, but some people think the little scientists are freaky.

Suit of armor, Tucson

Tucson sunflower mural

Tucson mural

Golden escargot, Paris

Rich and the giant ice cream cone, Rue du Bac, Paris

Rich and another giant ice cream cone, Paris (note the golden escargot above his head); our goal is to find all the big ice cream cones in Paris

Tucson's Paul Bunyan

Large Chianti bottle, Tucson. This is my original tacky object, the beginning of the entire project

The big boot, Tucson

McDonald's dinosaur, Tucson

Wonder why this restaurant went out of business? Tucson

Swords into mailboxes, a bombshell lives a reformed life

Fire dept theme mailbox, Salem, UT

Carpeted car, Tucson, ca 1995

Cow and highway flashing sign, Payson, UT

Mural, dairy or meat packing plant, Tucson

Tucson's only shark

Even given that it is a pink rhinoceros, it's VERY tacky; Tucson

This buffalo gets moved around in Montana; never know where you'll see it next

The espresso grizzly, Montana, east of Glacier NP

A famous classic, Randy's Donuts, Los Angeles

Food for thought, Berkeley, CA; 2003

When I was a child I thought this was one of the wonders of the world; sic transit gloria; Fresno, CA; see next set for another and the Fresno Bee article about their history

Pioneer Day Parade, Spanish Fork, Utah

Fremont Troll, Seattle

Western sights, Kanab, UT

The "Film Buff", Kanab, UT

Your bassic mailbox, Payson, UT