RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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Monday, August 3, 2020
Along 66, May 2020: Boy Scout Statues of Liberty Across America in the 1950s
MAY 20-- Statue of Liberty replicas have own history. They are 8 1/2 feet tall and were installed in 200 towns across the United States in the 1950s.
There is one in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 17th and Harvard Avenue which was unveiled in May 1950 and put there by the Boy Scouts of America as part of their "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign during the Cold War. The states on Missouri and Kansas got the most.
They were made of copper and weighed 290 pounds each. The scouts raised $612 for the project which went toward the stone base of the statue.
The one in Tulsa was restored in 1995 with a $5,000 grant from Bama Pie.
About 150 of these statues remain. The ones on Route 66, besides Tulsa, are in Springfield, Missouri; Miami, Oklahoma; Edmund, Oklahoma and Oklahoma City.
I must admit that I've never seen one of these, but will start looking for them.
--RoadDog
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