Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits, A Dala - Lindsborg, KS
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beagle39z
N 38° 34.317 W 097° 40.545
14S E 615359 N 4270108
In 2000, Lindsborg decided to cast the traditional Dala shape in large fiberglass forms – an idea patterned after Chicago’s cows on Michigan avenue. Local people and folks with Lindsborg connections sponsor each Wild Dala. Each is unconventionally decorated by one on the towns many local artists. Each new horse is feted in a public unveiling party complete with street theater and parody songs sung by the crowd.
Waymark Code: WMWPDE
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 09/26/2017
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Located at 201 S. MAIN
Here is a fierce-faced sporty Dala horse named Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits dedicated to Bethany College sports. This Dala horse definitely wears his game face. Bethany College’s colors match the Swedish flag and their mascot is the Bethany Swedes, Terrible Swedes, or Swedes. As of now it’s the only Dala wearing socks and sneakers. The socks even have a BC on them for Bethany College. The horse wears a helmet. As I said Viking helmets didn’t actually have horns and neither does this one. That is just the horse’s ears which should be protected with all the sports he plans on playing based on the equipment painted on him.
The name of the Dala horse comes from the cheer “two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar, all for the (name of team you’re rooting for) stand up and holler. To explain a bit you’ll have to access your basic math skills. Starting back in the colonial period a bit referred to one eighth of a dollar or 12 1/2 cents. Yes, that is a strange amount of money. The colonies used it to relate to the most common currency, the Spanish dollar. Our dollar equaled eight Spanish silver reales so a bit was worth one Spanish silver coin.
By 1794 we had no use for bits as a measurement but people still used the word. The quarter was called two bits. You probably know the old song a shave and a haircut, two bits or at least the knocking rhythm. You might think this existed far back in our history, nope. Up until the 1990s, the New York Stock Exchange listed stock prices in eighths of a dollar. It took us about 200 years to phase out the 1/8 dollar measurement. No wonder we gave up on the metric system. We would need at least a century to handle the change.
Physical Address:
201 S. MAIN
Lindsborg, KS USA
67456
Horses Name: Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits, A Dala
Web site: Not listed
Background Story: Not listed
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