More Photographs of the Wacky and Tacky

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

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All photos copyright Hilarie Orman, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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Heart left in San Fran

Brugge, Belgium

Brugge, one block away

Paris loves French fries!

Traveling exhibit between south Utah County auto parts stores

Pioneer Day float, Spanish Fork parade

The float in winter

Giant inflatable drink with cherry and lime wedge, Spanish Fork, UT

Rich in Krakow

Krakow's only shark

A Red Hand, Krakow

Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico

Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico, El Squid Roe

Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico, more seafood

Rich and a circuit egg, Palo Alto

Cinco de Mayo Chef, Oakland, CA

Our friends, Cafe Riace, Palo Alto

The Tower Theatre, Fresno; I grew up near this landmark. Tacky but beloved. The area around it is rebounding from urban blight, but I miss the old stores --- Hestbecks and Larre's and the Olive Tower diner and the real Lauck's Bakery.

More Utah County welding art, auto repair, Spanish Fork

Raffle items, dog in danger of being eaten by paisley shark, Ft. Duchense, Utah

Indian statue with pigeon on moccasin, Vernal, Utah

Missionary Balloon, Orem, Utah

Another bygone glory, the Crest Theater, Fresno, CA

Pipe company, Merced, California

Paris and Brugge, move over, Salt Lake City has double cones!
This did not end well. See next page.

Coff in Cambria

Another aging Fresno sign; this is in the Tower District; see Fresno Bee article about the history of these signs; another one

BART Art, Berkeley

South Dakota, it's a microwave tower, it's a soccer ball!

South Dakota, monster welding

South Dakota dishes

Wrenching art, South Dakota

Freaky little scientists do brain surgery, Rutgers University, New Jersey

An unexpected sundae, Catalina Island (I only had a low-resolution camera at hand)

And another unexpected cone, Catalina Island (we had Lapperts ice cream from the place around the corner)

The Las Cruces Paul Bunyan (this one has no arms!)

The Las Cruces bull. Irresistable.

Monument to the fast food obesity link, Port Angeles, Washington.

Ice cream totem, Port Angeles.

Rosie the fish person; an inverted mermaid (maidmer?)

Sometimes there's something that's just over the top in tacky. I'm speechless. Vancouver Island

A shoe tree! Not the one in Nevada. I'm not telling where.

This seemed much cuter before I realized that the frog statues permeate the town. Boise, Idaho.

Large key, Victoria, Vancouver Island.

Los Angeles, La Brea

Cancun, Mexico ... just like Cabo's lobster, above!

Paia, Maui; The Great LHA BAB Peace Stupa

Beef, Brigham City, Utah

Buckskin hero, Phoenicia, New York

Loose extremities, Provincetown, MA
Photo by Richard Howard

Dick and Jane tell all, Provincetown, MA
Photo by Richard Howard

Paul Bunyan joins up
Havre de Grace, MD (with thanks to the NAS and the ARL TAB for making this photo possible)

This is so sneaky because it is actually the real museum!
Havre de Grace, MD

Streetside sea creatures
Havre de Grace, MD

Another View of PB
Albuquerque, NM (alternate view)

Chainsaw man, self-portrait?
Albuquerque, NM

Large sandwich with compressor
Payson, UT

Permanent food
Collection of Victoria Hinchey

Campus fuzz car
MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

Hilltop's Cow
MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

The Citgo Sign
Boston, Mass.

Airport coffee
Logan AP, Massachusetts

Airport coffee cup
Colorado Springs AP, Colorado

Airport coffe shop IP
Colorado Springs AP, Colorado

Shakespeare
Colorado Springs AP, Colorado

Torso
Downtown St. Louis, MO

Broken head
Salt Lake City

Orpehum Theatre detail
Downtown St. Louis, MO

Rent a big phone

Imbibe knowledge (mainlining)

Those impish Belgians!

Belgian landlady and tourist

Mercator

Belgians love pork

Belgian artist does "science"

Belgian ice cream

Henry, the new ice cream guy

Rubiks car

Pacman car

Cow with coffee logo between horns

Cowboy

Someone has been peering into my building

Jurassic motel, Utah

Skeletal remains, transformed