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