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Paul Bunyan Land is an amusement park in Brainerd, Minnesota, founded in 1950, which is today located on This Old Farm. Its trademark is the 26-foot-tall (7.9 m) animated and talking statue of Paul Bunyan , weighing 5,000 pounds.
The Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum at Carson Park (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) has statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The Rumford, Maine visitor center is home to giant statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. In Stony Point, New York at local Scout Camp Bullowa, there is a 18 foot tall statue at the southern entrance. There is also a ...
The statues were designed by Lennord L. Pitney of Park Rapids, Minnesota. Paul was built by Carl Aldal (1897–1966), a local cement man. Babe was built by N. Edward Johnson (1902 - 1999) who owned the Bemidji Boat Factory.
The Bemidji statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox, appear in the Fargo television series. [35] His statue is also briefly shown in the film Fargo from 1996. The statue of Paul Bunyan located in Bangor, Maine is regularly mentioned in the novel It by Stephen King. [36] A 2024 advert for Apple Pay features a collection of commemorative plates.
Art Lee created the story that the folkloric figure Paul Bunyan came from the Northwoods. Tales about Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox led to public sculptures of them in the 1930s. [citation needed] According to Discover America, the Paul and Babe statues are "the second most photographed statues in America," surpassed only by Mount Rushmore. [14]
A fiberglass Paul Bunyan statue stood at 1471 Rocky Creek Road, just 10 minutes away from the giant cowboy at the Phillips 66 Gas Station on Hartley Bridge Road. ... Regardless of the what-ifs ...
The residents of Hackensack first described their town as the home of Paul Bunyan's sweetheart Lucette in the 1940s, when a sculpture depicting her was placed in City Park. [6] A seventeen-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture of Lucette replaced the original in 1991. [7] Statue of Lucette, Paul Bunyan's sweetheart
Sep. 22—PARK RAPIDS — The Trust for Public Land and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources recently announced the addition of 2,529 acres of land to the Paul Bunyan State Forest. TPL ...