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I Won't Be Seeing "Big Jim" On The Way To Work Anymore
He's for sale on eBay.
According to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article today:
.... Upon his retirement, the elder Mr. Krutz created "Big Jim" because he was passionate about the Old West — he loved reading books by Louis L'Amour — even though he had never been farther west than St. Louis.
With an artisan's attention to detail, it took him more than a year to craft the piece, which shows the cowboy with a cocked, long-barreled six-shooter in his right hand and a flintlock muzzle-loader along his left side.
His neckerchief is made of a yard-wide swath of steel, hand-formed to resemble folds of cloth and hand-cut fringe borders on his buckskin jacket and on his wide-brimmed 10-gallon hat with its turned up edges. Metal "rawhide" fastens the jacket in place of buttons.
The sculpture was put into place with a crane in 1978 amid much fanfare and publicity and it immediately turned into a head-turning landmark....
Bill Wade, Post-Gazette / Michelle Capozzi, with her children, Vienna, 7, and Vito, 10, up on "Big Jim," a 20-foot-tall steel statue her grandfather, James C. Krutz Sr., built in 1978, modeled after his son. The statue is up for sale on the Internet.
Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/22/07 08:34:06 AM
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