WHEN STATUES ATTACK! A picture thread.

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Here's Mayor LaGuardia...making me his bitch.

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-02-22%2012.42.59%20-0800/Image-C0A473B5851011D9.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

hahaha too roffly!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

laguardia was a dick.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

great photo!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.bigstonegap.org/pictures/statue.jpg

uh-oh...

― thee music mole, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Him, I wouldn't take on.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

alex you are my hero, not only for that picture but also for that outfit.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

The camo pants look a bit more ridiculous than initially considered, I'm afraid.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

As for Fiorello LaG, he was one natty dresser!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

wasn't laguardia like 4'11" in real life? you coulda took him. it's like danny devito was nyc's mayor for 30 years.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

whoa that bells thing is cool! nice pics, tuomas!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

It's a monument for Jean Sibelius actually.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

no way! even better!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Great thread from the start!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Here's a better picture of it:

http://fotot.jarvenpaa.net/arkisto/web/0000000124.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

wow that looks so nice.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

oh wait I have one of these!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

http://rome.starstarstar.net/days/02/ADSC01240.JPG
me and baby hercules.

this one is better though, this is my husband (right before he proposed actually!):
http://rome.starstarstar.net/days/02/ADSC01254.JPG

oh man that's a bad picture though, please don't tell him about ilx.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.beans-around-the-world.com/photos/fre3.jpg

Lenin wants his muthafuckin' Frijoles Negros! (in my neighborhood here in Seattle)

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

http://rome.starstarstar.net/days/05/ADSC01287.JPG

"let me take a picture of the guys running after my hot fiancee"

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.beans-around-the-world.com/photos/fre2.jpg

Mr. Fries gets an offering.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.beans-around-the-world.com/photos/fre2.jpg

Mr. Fries gets an offering

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Lenin wants his muthafuckin' Frijoles Negros! (in my neighborhood here in Seattle)

You have a Lenin statue in Seattle??!!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Want to relay a message to him? I can walk over there in five minutes.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

I forgot about this:

http://www.geocities.com/r_gillanders/budapest.txt

my friend, fergie, receiving a kick in the pants, from a massive communist hero, in that shit park, outside of budapest.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Want to relay a message to him? I can walk over there in five minutes.

I'd love to hear the story behind it... I don't suppose Lenins are that common in the US.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.vrseattle.com/html/vrview.php?cat_id=11&vrs_id=vrs913

A brief history, and a 3D perspective of the statue area.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

And Roadside America's take on it:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WASEAlenin.html

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

There's also a Lenin in Dallas (albeit with "America Won" on it)
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==2286

Las Vegas has a "Lenin-ade" statue:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==6622

A headless Lenin in Arlington, VA:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==6282

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha.....RJG's picture is fantastic.

I've been to that Lenin-themed bar in Vegas (it's in Mandalay Bay). It's crap, of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

"Lenin-themed bar in Vegas"

My imagination will be sustained all week on this sentence fragment.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

SAMBAS!

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

My grandfather made this

http://www.mykreeve.net/london/highgate_cemetery/east_cemetery/east_karl_marx_tomb.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

When statues are attacked?

ihttp://crimespace.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/statue.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

a smaller version should work:

ihttp://crimespace.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/statue.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

crap. Well, anyway, look at it. It's one of the weirdest statues I've ever seen.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.electricwomen.com/NYC/images/21f-met-sculpture-glass-eye.jpg

(FWIW, that is not me in the picture.)

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Hey Alex, your picture's great, not least cos I can see my house (erm, apartment) behind you! (Washington Square village).

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

this thread needs less statues and more statues attacking

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Farg. Neither of my links work. Well, anyway, in Jersey City there's a Polish memorial that's basically a soldier with a bayonette through his back. Really grim.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

The links work for me. And yes, that is a pretty grim statue.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.swulinski.com/Images/USA/NJ/JerseyCity/JerseyCity02-big.jpg
God that's doubly depressing now.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.theleventhals.us/images/may03/050403_zoo_alyssa_monkeystatue_attack%20(Small).jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf8bkw2XCT1qbtx2io1_400.jpg

what the hell is this.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 23:07 (fourteen years ago)

It's in Oslo, in the Frogner Park of statues -- it's 'Man attacked by Genii'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigeland_Park

― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 09:09 (fourteen years ago)

Wow, I have a new favourite statue.

― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

Naked bloke punching and kicking babies, every major city needs one.

― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

This is the best statue ever. I found out about it last year and have been sort of obsessed with visiting it in person ever since.

― ‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

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