Moose and Squirrel
The sad state of Jay Ward's Bullwinkle and Rocky statue on Sunset Blvd in 1980. It has since been restored to its appropriate luster.
Keth Scott's book The Moose That Roared tells us that the 14-foot-high statue was constructed by art director Bill Oberlin, and patterned after the Las Vegas Sahara Girl statuette that rotated atop a billboard across Sunset Blvd from Ward's offices (The Sahara Girl's pose was also aped by Raquel Welch in publicity for the much-reviled 1970 film Myra Breckinridge). Photos juxtaposing the two statues may be seen in Louis Chunovic's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book. The statue was unveiled on September 20, 1961 by Los Angeles County Sheriff Peter Pitchess and Jayne Mansfield as part of a Bullwinkle block party celebration.
The statue was built with a motor inside so that it too could rotate like the statue across the street (that is long gone). Following the lead of Grauman's Chinese Theater, with its courtyard of celebrity handprints in cement, this site features cement impressions of notables' elbows.
Moose and Squirrel
The sad state of Jay Ward's Bullwinkle and Rocky statue on Sunset Blvd in 1980. It has since been restored to its appropriate luster.
Keth Scott's book The Moose That Roared tells us that the 14-foot-high statue was constructed by art director Bill Oberlin, and patterned after the Las Vegas Sahara Girl statuette that rotated atop a billboard across Sunset Blvd from Ward's offices (The Sahara Girl's pose was also aped by Raquel Welch in publicity for the much-reviled 1970 film Myra Breckinridge). Photos juxtaposing the two statues may be seen in Louis Chunovic's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book. The statue was unveiled on September 20, 1961 by Los Angeles County Sheriff Peter Pitchess and Jayne Mansfield as part of a Bullwinkle block party celebration.
The statue was built with a motor inside so that it too could rotate like the statue across the street (that is long gone). Following the lead of Grauman's Chinese Theater, with its courtyard of celebrity handprints in cement, this site features cement impressions of notables' elbows.