Horses on Parade
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
April 9, 2017 3:47pm CST
I don't remember when or why it started. I want to say it began it the 80's or early 90's. I believe it was once a fundraiser, and the horses were auctioned to raise money for something. However it started, to this day you'll see these random painted horses at various spots around town. I promised @judyev that I'd take a picture of one if I came across one. Today we brought our boys to the Museum of Science and Technology. Out front was this horse statue, and as promised I got a picture.
Does your town have any neat statues?
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@JudyEv (341752)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Apr 17
Thanks for posting this - and for the mention. It's a lovely statue. Is each one different? I'm presuming they are. With the cow statues in WA which were painted and auctioned, many were the same shape but with totally different paintings.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
10 Apr 17
Yes they're each painted differently, but they're mostly all the same style.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
10 Apr 17
I just happened to see another one today outside the doctor's office.
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@JudyEv (341752)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr 17
@katsmeow1213 It's a nice style anyway but the one outside the doctor's office is really nice too.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
9 Apr 17
@Happy2BeMe Do you know the purpose of the statues?
We have an old train station and there are statues of people there, waiting for a train. But they're not colorful statues, just vague, white statues.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
9 Apr 17
@katsmeow1213 no i am not sure. They were just created by a local artist a placed in various places throughout the city.
@horsesrule (1957)
• United States
6 Aug 17
I like the decorated horses. I wish we had them where I live but alas, we have statues of 1950's trucks all over town. They are small-ish, each is painted and decorated quite differently and they are cute as can be. I saw painted cow statues in a nearby town and they were okay too. But I really wish someone liked horses enough to have the painted horses in town!
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
6 Aug 17
The trucks sound pretty interesting! There aren't many of these horses around anymore. There used to be tons when I was a kid.
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
13 Apr 17
Saratoga is full of painted horses and Bennington in Vermont is full of painted deer. This summer I will get some photos ..... Love the sculpture.
@just4him (317249)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Apr 17
Beautiful picture. I think Green Bay is starting to do statues as part of their beautification project in the downtown area. I haven't been thrilled with what they came up with yet.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
11 Apr 17
Sorry you don't like them.. hopefully they'll come up with some better ideas!
@Courtlynn (67081)
• United States
9 Apr 17
Umm.. dont think so. I usually just daze while driving around lol
@reskyyandi (3608)
• Indonesia
13 Apr 17
There is some of statues in my town, most of them is hero's statues
