52-Year-Old Bullwinkle Statue Lifted Off the Strip - Hollywood, CA
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N 34° 05.860 W 118° 22.079
11S E 373810 N 3773829
Statue to be repaired...but where it will next be on display seems to be unknown.
Waymark Code: WMHM7X
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/22/2013
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On July 22, the Curbed LA website (
visit link) published the following story and video:
"52-Year-Old Bullwinkle Statue Lifted Off the Strip
Monday, July 22, 2013, by Adrian Glick Kudler
After nearly 52 years, the delightful Rocky & Bullwinkle statue across from the Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip is gone. It was carted off by a crane (
visit link) not too long ago--it had "a severe crack in the statue that was too expensive for the landlord to repair," according to a statement given to Vintage Los Angeles. Tiny Pottsylvanian baddie David Geffen and his sexy partner Steven Spielberg hatched the plan to steal away moose and squirrel--DreamWorks Studios, which bought the rights to Rocky & Bullwinkle last year, removed the statue and will make the repairs.
The statue first went up (with Jayne Mansfield in attendance) on September 24, 1961 in front of what was then Jay Ward Productions--home of R&B, Peabody and Sherman, Dudley Do-Right, and Cap'n Crunch. Originally, the sexily-posed Bullwinkle spun in circles in a goof on the Sahara Hotel billboard across the way, on which "a scantily clad mechanized showgirl" spun on a silver dollar, according to WeHoville (she drove Chateau Marmont guests crazy and appeared on the cover of Gore Vidal's Myra Breckenridge). The Sahara girl was replaced with the also-famous giant Marlboro Man in the mid-sixties, but Bullwinkle outlasted them all by decades. There's no word yet on where the refurbished statue will go, so tune in next time for Cracking Up or The Moose Hangs High!"